Monsieur vous êtes dégoutant
Der
Schäuble ist ein echter Kotzbrocken. Warum stolpern grüne Politiker über Lufthansa Bonusmeilchen und treten zurück und der Kerl kann nach Lust und Laune an seinem Überwachungstaat basteln und nur ein paar Unentwegte regen sich ein bisschen auf? Tretet den Kerl in die Tonne. Dabei hat man immer gedacht, Schily wär schlimm genug.
Ein Schelm wer denkt, dass ein Verkehrsverbund...
...dazu da ist, den Nahverkehr uebersichtlich und preiswert zu gestalten.
Wenn man vom
VRR aus in den
VRS faehrt, dann gibt es ein Anschlussticket, das kostet 5 Euro irgendwas und mit Bahncard 50 2.85 Euro. (Zumindest von Solingen nach Koeln). Wenn man aber in Koeln ein Ticket zurueckloest, dann kostet das ploetzlich 6.30 Euro und Bahncard gilt schon mal ueberhaupt nicht. Was man also machen muss ist ein Ticket bis an den ersten Ziel Bahnhof im VRR loesen. In meinem Fall war das Koeln-Haan, dann ist das kein Verbund Ticket mehr, sondern eine normal Bahnkarte und man kriegt Bahncardermaessigung, das kostet dann nur noch 3.60 Euro.
Nicht dass der Bahnangestellte da selber draufkommen wuerde, der laesst nur mal vor Schreck seinen Computer abstuerzen. (Vielleicht sollte die DB auch auf Linux umsteigen, wie die italienischen Bahnen...)
Caminando
Some
more impressions
from the hiking week.
The first task was climbing up good old Passo Muretto in order to gain Italy.
The
Jürg Jenatsch one, where my father always claims that the path down on the Italian side is so big (compared to the Swiss side) because Mussolini wanted to carry up some canons.
But the star of the whole week was Monte Disgrazia.
what a name!
But since pics are boring, here is how it
sounds like down there.
mysterious sound problem on my thinkpad t40p
From the very beginning when I installed feisty, I had this nasty sound problem. Suddenly there was no sound output anymore. I never could track down on what it depended, it was like the system being muted, but it wasn't really.
I had no clue what was going on and I always believed it to be some stupidity-of-mine effect.
Only today I suspected that it had something to do with hibernation.
It's this
bug here which is apparantly present on a wide range of thinkpads running feisty (2.6.20 kernel).The work around given in the bug report
shutdown -h now
works fine, normal reboot is not enough.
So much for trying to automatically wake your laptop from hibernation in the morning, in order to get woken up by your
favourite morning show streamed from the web...
Puh, i don't like sweets...
I just love that
candy post over at cosmic variance. I have it with
Yvette, I just eat unsorted chocolate. Gummi bears and stuff are best thrown into a camp fire. Honestly, try it, it's fantastic!
"May the Lord protect us from the arrows of the Hungarians"
Half of the members of the particle theory group here at Wuppertal University are Hungarians. That is because one of the Professors, Zoltan Fodor, is from Hungary. In any case, being a rather small country, Hungary has a excellent record of very good lattice physicists. Two weeks ago, at the
lattice 2007 conference in Regensburg we were making jokes about the Hungarian mafia, and Anna Hasenfratz suggested that somewhere in Switzerland there is a monument or something where it is written
May the Lord protect us from the arrows of the Hungarians
That place turned out to be St. Gall. So last week, as I was close by, I went in search for it. I wanted to take a photograph. It was like a real Schnitzeljagd and I learned a lot about ancient St. Gall and where this scripture most probabely comes from:
Back in the middle ages around 900 a. C. a woman called
Wiborada lived as an inclusa in a church (
St. Mangen) in St. Gall. That means that she lived there in cell without door only with small windows to communicate with the outside world, such that nobody could enter into her room nor could she leave it. She did this out of here own free wish, because she somehow wanted to sacrifice her freedom of motion to god. Well that were the times full of crazy people....
One day she had a vision, namely that marauding hungarian troops would arrive and destroy the city. She warned the officials and and all people and all treasures of the monastery could be saved. She herself was killed, once the Hungarians arrived because she was brickheaded enough to remain in her personal prison. Later on she became the first female saint of the Catholic Church, because at that time the Hungarians were still pagans. And still later on the
library of St. Galls monastery became a UNESCO cultural heritage. Wiborada serves as the patron of books and libraries.
I turned the whole city upside down, but couldn't find it.
The only place where it really seems to appear is in an old prayer book stored somewhere in the Stiftsbibliothek.
There remains though the possibility that it is inside the church of St. Georgen, which was closed, where there is a Krypta dedicated to St. Wiborada, (St. Mangen itself belongs nowadays to the protestant church and is not suitable for a real saint...)
But you see, it's an old story from the
middle ages and it is made in St. Gall. Then if you search the web carefully you will find out:
It's all wrong! ;-)
