Mon, Nov 21, 2011 – 20:03
For about a month now I’ve been playing this ASCII game called Dwarf Fortress. I realize that I’m late to the game, and most people have already tired of playing it. The game takes me back to the days of playing Oregon Trail on the public library computers in the 90s. Except with a worse [...]
Thu, May 12, 2011 – 13:58
Things have been quiet around here while I look for a job. The weather hasn’t even been all that good for taking pictures. So I have some silly things for you. First off, the German news is apparently being silly again. Next, what I will now always think of when I see Cosmo in the [...]
Well, Germany may not reach Engrish on quite the scale that Asians do, but using English words left and right is so popular that there’s a song about it. The problem is that they usually use the words wrong, and either think they’re using the actual English word (as in the case of “handy” for [...]
Mon, Jan 24, 2011 – 21:42
Things have been quite busy lately, between preparing the annual report design project at work – which has been occupying whole days for me – and searching for a new flat before my current lease runs out. Due to this search I missed the end of the Midgard game on Tuesday, so I will have [...]
Sun, Nov 21, 2010 – 12:57
Yesterday I spent a good bit of the day wandering through the university quarter of Cologne, in search of Starbase 8, a “science fiction fan store” in hopes of finding out about some kind of nerd club where I could meet other people. The store was pretty awesome, mostly selling action figures for various scifi [...]
Mon, Sep 13, 2010 – 14:03
Monday morning I woke up at 4am to fly to Chicago, and 11 hours after my arrival, to fly on to Brussels. Waking up was a lot easier than I expected – I guess I was ready to get on the road! The day pass for the Admiral’s Club at O’Hare was definitely worth it. [...]
Wed, Jun 16, 2010 – 18:08
I keep getting hits for lyrics for die Prinzen’s song “Thema Nr. 1″ even though nowhere on the site do I actually have any such information. But I felt like making a couple of wallpapers and needed some text for them, so whoever it is that keeps coming to my site via that search phrase, [...]
Sun, Apr 18, 2010 – 09:56
In my latest attempt to be an internet creeper, I installed Google Analytics on the blog about a month ago. It’s fascinating to see where my readers are coming from. Have I mentioned that this tool totally makes me feel like a government all by myself? Visits from Mac and Windows, and from New York [...]
Sunday night was the closing ceremony of the 2010 Winter Olympics, which, with some persuasion, Nate, Ruth and I gathered to watch. By the end, it was EPIC, and totally worth watching. Evidently, there had been trouble lighting the torch at the opening ceremonies, so they made fun of themselves by having a mime with [...]
