skiing is so cool

i had to go in town (which is a nuisance on saturdays, but i had to get my prescription for the pain-killers…) and ended up in a bookstore where they had a big sale, including a lot of dvd’s.
so i not only ended up with a prescription for medicaments, but also with two new dvd’s:
a deluxe 3 dvd edition of spiderman for 33 bucks (have you seen the trailer for spiderman2?) and
a amazing skiing movie: global storming for 20 bucks.

i peeked a bit at global storming, which makes me so much want to go and rent those skis and go skiing, but now i have to sit here and eat my pain killers, because skiing with broken ribs is such a no-go.

:-(

todays task left: none.

that’s what i wanted to do before i go to bed: here’s my updated cv.
if you find a typo or a bug, then send me a quick note please.

update; the cv was done in Microsoft’ Word, and i have to say that Word exports some f%ç&ed-up html code, i was cleaning the code up for about half an hour (i probably would have been faster writing the cv in html from scratch…)

friend of a friend

i have to admit, that i slowly start to get the whole thing behind FOAF, mostly because i started my journey through the foaf-space againg after reading B.’s post.
and i can say that plink (here’s my plink-page) is a good approach to it, i prefer it to the approach of the foaf-explorer, which makes it look a bit complicated and forces you to enter a foaf-file instead of just searching for names.

so, if you want to add me to your friend-space, then here’s my foaf-file (it’s been there since a while if you haven’t noticed…).

btw: if you don’t want to code a foaf.rdf yourself, then foaf-matic helps you with the start. so we can populate that space of friends a bit…

it was lovely, altough

yesterday i was snowboarding in sanenmöser, and it was really lovely, although i bailed really really hard, and now it looks like i just broke a rib (at least that’s what my doctor said on the phone, i’m gonna go and see later on today…)

update: the doctor found out that two of my ribs are broken (not all the way through, so it’s not a real problem, just a major pain in the ass.)
the only remedy is that i eat ponstan (or actually a generika called spiralgin) for about a month and a half…

new pictures are online

the pictures of max’s, chrigi’s and simi’s new-years-eve party at the eclipse-bar are online in the picture section.
go and have a look if slightly out-of-focus and sometimes overexposed party-pics are your thing :-)

btw: although my camera is still quite a perfect digicam, i started to think about getting a small supplement for it, just for those occasions where you want to make a quick snapshot with a better quality than with my mobile. and sigi knows what it means if i start to think about getting a gadget…

kill bill

that guy surely has a foot fetish!
i just returned from seeing “kill bill” in the most charming cinema in bern, the abc (so i can tick another task off my 2do list :-)
despite all the depicted brutality in the movie it’s got very high class – like most tarantino movies do – and is filmed in a very energizing way, mixing the timeline as almost all tarantino movies do, and mixing realfilm with a short anime-style episode. it surely leaves you with a deep urge to go see “kill bill, volume 2“, especially with that hook line at the end…
go and see it, if you haven’t already…

back on track

happy 04 everyone:

my 2do-list still looks like this:

prepare gifts, do not proceed until finished
go offline, turn computer off
stay offline until ’04
wish everyone a happy new year!
read a book
(naomi klein, no logo!, quite complicated, stanislav lem, transfer (an old favourite of mine), and about 3.5 backissues of the weltwoche)
go skiing (i’ll go to the lauchernalp tomorrow)
try out that bunch of recipes (i liked that one)
cuddle with nina
go see lotr3

go see herr lehmann
go see dogville
go see kill bill (nina and me wanted to go yesterday, but then ended watching cast away on the telly)
see mates & friends & family
conquer extralinephobia
do stuff that matters

see you next year!


ps: extralineophobia is a definition by pieceoplastic.
ps: i’ve already seen lotr3, but didn’t know when i scanned the pic above, so this one is already done :-)
ps: i told b. today that i’m gonna be offline until next year, and he asked my why.
i spend much too much time on the net, reading all the various pages, and rss-feeds that interest me, but for this holiday season i want to read books, want to watch one of my more than 50 unwatched dvd’s or just lie around without spending too much time sitting in front of that little 12” glooming rectangle.
that’s why
happy 04 everyone!

lotr3: the return of the king

sunday evening i went to see the return of the king, which was really good.
it’s amazing what the guys behind the computer achieved in that movie.
one of the scenes made the crowd in the cinema applause spontaneously: legolas takes down one of those gigantomaniac war-elephants in such an elegant way that leaves you absolutely breathless!
a wonderful, energetic wrapping of real-film with amazing cgi.
if you’ve seen the first two episodes, then the third is a must, if you haven’t you spend most of your time in bed, so it’s no big deal to you anyway :-)

btw: even the guys over at gearbits like the movie.

stealth marketing

take a look at this website for a too-good-to-be-true robot, the NS-5.
those of you that read or used to read Isaac Asimov novels will get it at the first look that this page must be in some kind related to him, because of that little saying in the bottom left corner: “3 laws safe”:
and when you perform a WHOIS-check on who registered the domain irobotnow.com then you see that the whole thing is probably a marketing campaign to make you want to see the upcoming film by 20th century fox, i robot.

i want to see it!

i’m a really big fan of asimovs stories, if you’ve never read one, then go and grab i, robot or the foundation trilogy or any other book of him. they’re quite good on the science-fiction part, but even better on the philosophical part.
he wrote a lot of stories turning around the three laws of robotics , which imply really interesting situations on how robots could interact with humans, hence the “3 laws safe” is quite a giveaway :-)

[original link via gizmodo]

update: macslash is covering another aspect of the NS-5 campaign.

todays fun link

it’s been a while since i posted a funny link, so here’s the one that also fits into holiday season: how far can you throw santa?
i managed to throw him 249.1m at the third try. give it a go, you have to click once to start the game, and another time to charge the slingshot. but don’t let go too early or too late :-)