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…)

if you can handle 1548 pictures of dingy people then cliff yablonskis site is for you
(i could only hardly resist the urge to call this the fun link of today)

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…

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(i cut my hair quite some time ago, but didn’t transfer the pictures to my computer up to now…)

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…

do you need a calendar for ’04?
do you have a strange sense of humor?
do you live in switzerland and are you able to laugh about the people governing you?

then this calendar is for you.
(there’s even a 4.6mb pdf-version if you want to put it on your fridge (which you probably won’t do…)).

[via piecoblog], one of my favourite blogs in town.

guess who is sxe :-)

btw: my ricardo-nickname comes from being straight-edge, but not calling me straight-edge and has nothing to do with sex, although that’s also quite fine (or in the links case, definitely not :-)
thanks for listening.
good night.

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…

what do you get if you put a bucket of paint, three guys and a shabby room together?
see for yourself in this time-lapse movie (656 kb) of us painting the messenger office.

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…

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

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!

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.

call my humor a bit depraved, but i think the movies on rathergood are rather good!

the kittens at the gaybar are funky!

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.

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 :-)

this cannot be true :-)
or have you ever seen a police-car with an USB-hub to plug in that USB-powered-police strobe?

[via slashdot] and following up these posts :-)

oh, and the usb-grill (aprils fool joke) or usb-razor (which reminds me of that mobile) are not bad, too.

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).

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)