thinking about it...
Also, wenn mein Vermieter mir mitteilen wuerde, dass er gedenkt die freistehenden Wohnungen in dem Haus an kinderreiche Romas oder Junkies zu vermieten, dann gibt es wohl zwei Moeglichkeiten.
- Ist der Vermieter ein Hippie und ein Gutmensch, so hat er das vielleicht wirklich vor, ist aber so nett seine bisherigen Mieter zu informieren, weil es sie vielleicht stoeren koennte.
- Ist er jedoch ohnehin nur der allgemeinen Abzocke verdaechtig und,
damit wohl auch ein Oberspiesser, dann versucht er wohl nur, die Mieter zu erschrecken, auf dass sie von sich aus die Flucht ergreifen. Denn 1. wuerde ein eklig spiessiger Spekulant sein Haus eher nicht mit derlei Leuten fuellen und zweitens: Seit wann erzaehlt man denn den Mietern, wer demnaechst einziehen wird? Also in dem Fall kann das wohl einfach ignorieren.
as time goes by
Once upon a time in German politics there was something called the
"Blair Schroeder- Papier". The chancellor was burning for action and wanted to catch up with the drive of New Labour. Nowadays he's making friends with
the losers.
Killing Linux
Yes, it's easy. I do it once in a while. You only need
- an old machine (like a weide)
- an old Linux version, (still Debian Woody :-( )
- run at the same time emacs, MATLAB and Firefox under KDE.
Now I go for the reset button.
Secret sponsoring
This
adblock plugin for Mozilla Firefox, is really great. I hardly see
any commercial banners anymore. But it has one main disadvantage: I never did so many click-throughs, as I do since I installed it.
Sometimes you just want to click on some blank spot on a webpage in order to be able to scroll or so. But now, it often turns out, that it wasn't a blank spot at all.
Maybe companies should pay Mozilla a ground fee for secretly providing visitors to their pages.
moviestar
Our institute is becoming a movie star. There is a film set
once a month or so.
They occupy our nicest seminar room, called the "Ei" (egg) und keep you from passing where you want.
I hope the university gets some money out of this.
Although we here won't ever see a penny of it.
This time we were informed in advance for the first time.
Apparently it's
Oskar Roehler (a German director who made this very bad movie "die Unberuehrbare" ("the intouchable") a couple of years ago) making a movie of
Houllebecq's "elementary particles". Did you ever read the book? If not you are lucky.
It's very unpleasant. It's just some very bad
so called philosophical thougths mixed up with pornography. He got quite famous for this. It's probabely because nobody dares nowadays to say how bad it is, because he is afraid to be called a prude.
So the best thing in the movie is probabely going to be our egg.
Shaving Heisenberg with a lawnmower
Something you allways wanted to do?
If you try very hard you can see a face on the floor in one of the courts at our
institute. There is a rumor that it is actually Heisenbergs face.
Whoever it is,it certainly is not Einstein. That would be boring these days and you can't see the tongue, and in some minutes from now there won't be any hair anymore, because there is a gardener at the moment running with a lawnmower over it.
