habi

Working dad, born at 333 ppm. Generic geek and ex-messenger with a PhD in ultrahigh resolution tomography. I love the outdoors, my bikes, swimming, taking photos and much more.

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 :-)

windows vs. os x

take a look at these screenshots:

windows os x

why the hell did no–one tell me that my page looks shite with a windows-browser?
today i was at school and wanted to show someone a link i had posted somewhere here and then to my amazement habi.gna.ch lookes a bit like the “eyesore of the month” on a windows-machine.
well, it think there need to be tweaked quite a few bits and pieces in the css :-). and the sidebar (first set) looks quite ugly with these blue lines around the buttons, i think i should also change that, to prevent burnt retinas…
the funny thing is that the page looks nearly the same with safari, opera, camino and internet explorer on my machine, so who would have thought that it looks that different on windows.

bacteria and fungi remixing songs

want to listen to remixes of well known songs by bacteria and fungi?

have no idea what i’m talking about?
then give the molecular media project or nanosounds a visit and listen to samples of songs which were distorted by a layer of fungi, bacteria and other stuff on the surface of the cd’s.

the remix of pink floyds comfortably numb (750kb mp3) is especially mindbending! and also quite funny to watch are the psychedelic screenshots of a james brown DVD remixed by titanium dioxide.

[via sonntagszeitung] (the good old fashioned sunday morning breakfast-table paper version).

abba

you might or might not know that i also work as a bar-tender at the theater an der effingerstrasse. last friday we had the traditional x-mas diner with all the people involved there (these here plus some from the bar).
this year we were at a really excellent restaurant, the bachmühle (the mill at the brook) in niedermuhlern (which got 16 points from gault millau, which is quite remarkable).

this story starts really boring, but wait for the funny part: the chef de service (on the left) at the mill told us that – after finishing his apprenticeship to become a hairdresser – he used to be the butler of anni-frid lyngstad.
you: who the f… is that? that’s not funny at all! this story is boring!
me: she’s one of the abba-women! yes, ms. dancing queen1).

when he told that story, we first could not believe it all, but markus (one of the bosses of the theater) confirmed that story. and believe me, we nearly couldn’t stop shouting money, money, money1) or take a chance on me1) or mamma mia1) each time kjell entered the room.
that was an entertaining evening!

oh, and by the way, ueli and kjell are a couple, both together have an “i look gay-factor” of 216, ueli himself has a ilg-factor of 1, while kjell gets the remaining 215 points :-)
(from my heterosexual point of view, the only thing ueli could be called is metrosexual…)

1) ITMS links, they only work, if you got itunes on your machine (be it either a may or a pc)