2700m über meer, auf der medriger fluh.
wunderbar sonnig, kein feinstaub und trotz tiefem winter schön gemütlich warm.
picture of the week 04
the past saturday we wanted to go skiing. when we arrived in adelboden at 20 past 9 in the morning we were informed that the whole ski-region is closed because of the guggiföhn (a wind with velocities up to 246 km/h). we then waited for more informations, but around 10:30 it was evident that the chairlifts and cablecars won’t open for the day.
we then decided to switch to the engstligenalp, but it turned out that the föhn was blowing there, too.
before we drove to grindelwald we first called them, and indeed, they were closed, too. so after a short debate we decided to do something really silly, namely drive from frutigen to le bouveret into the aquaparc, without changing any clothes and leaving ski equipement for five persons in the car.
this explains why pesche stands in front of those toboggans with his snowboard clothes:
in the end it was also rather funny, but a skiing day would have been more welcome.
lhc panorama
do you want to take a look at the biggest microscope ever built? do you wonder how it sounds in the huge assembly hall of the two atlas magnets?
then you should take a look at this qtvr-panorama of peter mc cready. and you should also definitely check out the other panoramas he made. you can access them in through the navigational buttons in the lower pane.
sigi, bärni and herman, do you remember how we stood in those halls some years ago? (and seen some really weird stuff going on, like those photographers for …. :-)
[via boingboing]
picture of the week 03
i’ve been dog-sitting two big dogs [1] of a friend this weekend. while going for a nice long walk we felt a bit like being in an episode of lost, but also had a rather good time. the image below was taken on this bridge.
[1]: esta in front, and diavolo on the back, they’re much easier to care for than they look.
rocket powered bike
sometimes later in the afternoon at work i wish for something like this. a rocket bike with a rather impressive acceleration, from 0 to 96 km/h in five (!!!) seconds.
the bike where the rocket is bolted on looks a bit goofy, but i guess you could improve that easily…
now i just want to see a video of it in action!
[via makezine]
video.google.com for psp
google revamped their video service. you can now buy a big selection of videos. but the more important thing (for me, personally…) is, that you can download pretty much every video, readily formatted for your psp/ipod/big box on the floor.
now i really need tho fork out those 15 bucks for pspware, so i don’t get that nag-screen when synching my movies over to my new gadget.
oh, and google earth is now officially out of beta and available for the mac, too.
there goes my afternoon….
a big bunch of tickets
this weekend we’re again gonna go to gensingen, to take part in a masters competition of the ssv ingelheim. today i went to buy our tickets (three people; pesche and another guy from basel and me). as you can see in the image to the left, it was rather a big undertaking.
the problem is that we all have different schedules: i’m starting in bern, the two others are starting in basel. then we proceed all together to gensingen. on sunday we travel back home together, but only until karlsruhe. pesche and me are stopping there, to visit an old friend (rouge, you know him too, it’s mike bucko…). the third man is directly going home from there. pesche and me are having diner with mike and then pesche is gonna go home to be ready for his work-week. since i got two days off work, i’m gonna stay a bit longer and enjoy karlsruhe.
in the end it turns out, that we need 21 slips of paper for that journey. not too bad, aight? (yes, i know that you can only see 18 of ’em, three of them are stapled to three others).
calvin is just great!
[via c&h-feed]
abt. schlechte werbung
ein anhaenger, der bei unserem nachbarn im garten steht.
cute overload: a new blog in my feed-reader
Cute Overload, the name says it all. nothing but pictures of cute stuff, mostly animals and such. like mark frauenfelder said on boingboing, “Visiting it is like taking a happy pill”. you absolutely must look at the archives, there’s a lot of cuddly stuff there. really!
[via boingboing]
technorati tags: cute
indoor panorama
früecher ischmä ir pfadi umds lagerfüür umeghocket und het lieder usem rondo gsunge.
hüt hocketme vorem flachbildschirm-tv und spielt singstar, und es isch mindischtens genau so luschtig…
ds panorama ufem foti obe chasch entweder auf biudli aluege, oder hie aus quicktime-panorama (2.1 mb .mov)
english: ages ago we’ve been sitting around a fire and singing songs from the scout-song-book. today we sit around a flat-screen-tv and play singstar. kinda the same, innit?
picture of the week 52
after we had two performances in a row on saturday i drove all the way up to eywald to our new years eve-party. the conditions on the road were a bit tricky, so i arrived just in time for a toast to the new year.
the picture below shows me and nina with some sparkles. i really hope that we have a lot more of them in the new year!
the rest of the images i took are here.
the same procedure as every year
happy new year!
what we do at noon
yesterday – the last workday in 2005 – küde [1] made lunch for us. the perfect messenger-lunch with lots of carbohydrates (bread) and fat (cheeeeeese). fondue [2].
here are some impressions:
the table getting ready – simu cooking
andi readying the fondue, dewi having some wine – reto and simu digesting
hämme, nicola, andi – nicola finishing off, andi and hämme watching.
[1] actually his name is simu: see him in action here and hear his messenger-song here (4mb swiss german gölä-tribute .mp3). the song was the gift we/he made to our customers last year.
[2] the whole afternoon was rather unpleasant to ride, ’cause i had big cheeseblob in my belly…
best. blond. joke. ever. [2nd update]
i seldom post jokes here, but this blonde joke just made me ROTFLOL.
it really did.
i know, i have a kinda crooked humor, or maybe i just need to go to bed.
[via :elbewerk]
update: stefan (elbewerk) posted a followup: now the spiegel online (one of the bigger german newsmagazines) picked up the joke, too. even funnier :-)
2nd update: the joke propagated quite a bit now: see here for a rather thorough investigation with a node graph (or full 136kb .png-file here) of the link sphere. i’m node 91, btw. [via haslo.ch]
technorati tags: meme
*.blogug.ch is working
after some heated debates about opml-files and licensing problems (which i’ve not taken part in) there’s a new open swiss weblog directory, where every blogging person should add their feed. as far as i understand it, it’s supposed to become a complete repository of all swiss feeds, where people then can build services with it (aggregators and other tools).
jan has a short rundown, chregu has a more thorough post, also explaining the ping-service. i’ve added a blogug.ch-button to my sidebar (it used to be sub.scribe.to for some days…) and time will tell if it’s gonna kick in…
as far as i found out, MT-users can ping by going to their /mt.cgi, to general settings of the weblog in question (in the sidebar under settings) and then to “new entry defaults”. there you have to add “http://ping.blogug.ch” to “Publicity/Remote Interfaces”.
in ecto [1] just go to “weblog” > “edit settings” (ctrl+apple+s) and add “http://ping.blogug.ch” to Pings.
[1]: ecto is 20% cheaper around christmas, and IMHO an indispensable helper!
[via the swiss blogoshpere]
technorati tags: aggregators, blogug, feed, opml
santas on bikes
look who i just met on the way back home: two santas on bikes. (and i
thought there’s just one of them…)
santas on bikes
look who i just met on the way back home: two santas on bikes. (and i
thought there’s just one of them…)
the war of the worlds as comic
the war of the worlds ecomic has been loitering around in my netnewswire-tabs [1] for some months now. every now and then, the darkhorse-team has been releasing a few new pages of their adaptation of the novel by h. g. wells.
if you also dig comics a lot, then you might give it a go.
[1] there’s some other stuff waiting, too:
filewile auf bkanal.ch
dejot and andi/dustbowl [1] werden auf bkanal.ch interwiut.
wenn du wissen willst, woher die jungs kommen und was sie nebst filewile momentan am laufen haben – sie haben soeben wankdorf recordings gegründet – dann schau dir das ~30 minütige inti auf bkanal.ch/filewile an (s brucht e fetti leitig, gäu…). lustig fand ich, als bei etwa 27 minuten doch noch andis lieblingswort auftauchte :-)…
[1] dejot im jäggli, andi im tshi.
[via filewile-feed]