My newest gadget: ClimatePrediction
I don't even exactly remember where I stepped over it, in question it was SpOn.
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A strange view on the world from a cow-addicted, music loving lady in the middle of Old Europe.
I don't even exactly remember where I stepped over it, in question it was SpOn.
Labels: Wetter
Geek Light You scored 32% geek! |
Tastes great, less filling. You're the kind of geek that can pass under the radar of polite society. You probably like your computer, and can't go without checking your email. You live alone, or with roommates, and you have one or two hobbies that are considered "geeky". |
My test tracked 1 variable How you compared to other people your age and gender:
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Link: The What's your Geek Level? Test written by dingus93 on Ok Cupid, home of the 32-Type Dating Test |
Spiegel.de finally noticed the protest against Yahoo concerning the company's policy in China, especially the The Free Shi Tao Pool on Flickr. Just a coincidence that I sent a letter to the editor concerning this topic yesterday?
One day after I did Spiegel.de is also recognizing the mess all over St. Pauli on account of the strike. But they're already getting the next clue: Seems like the next step in German job politics will not be to order private enterprises to clear the dust but to use the unemployed for 1 EUR the hour. Downgrading jobs in the fastest pace possible thanks to incredible bad workers' union strategies...
How many days does it need until the city stinks in winter, if the garbage collectors are on strike? That's a question not really solved till yesterday for Germany, as there has been no strike since I can remember. But now all public employees in Hamburg are on strike since tuesday, and we have the answer: 5 days.
They are on strike for keeping 38 hrs work per week. They now have contracts for 38.5 hrs which should be boosted to 40 hrs. The employers try to ridicule the claim by denouncing it as "only 18 minutes more per day". And of course they have a safe job as only a few people else, the work is paid steadily and always on the 1st of the month - but on the other hand public workers are having overtimes for some years and job conditions worsen as well. I think in the end it will all be like in Freiburg: Public jobs are gonna be outsorced, and then the dust is gone again.
... fits my mood perfectly:
How to make a Laetti |
Ingredients: 1 part jealousy 1 part arrogance 1 part energy |
Method: Stir together in a glass tumbler with a salted rim. Add a little emotion if desired! |
Outch! I took part - as always - just out of pure curiosity - and I'm flattered by the result, but not really sure what to think about it:
Sonja -- [noun]: A master blogger 'How will you be defined in the dictionary?' at QuizGalaxy.com |
Im KörberForum spricht am Donnerstag, 16.1. um 19 Uhr die ehemalige lettische Außenministerin Sandra Kalniete über
"Widerstreitende Erinnerungen" und fordert neue Sicht auf die europäische Geschichte. Das alles findet statt im KörberForum - Kehrwieder 12 (Hamburg).
Sandra Kalniete ist nicht in erster Linie wegen ihrer politischen Vergangenheit so interessant, sondern besonders wegen ihres Buches "Mit Tanzschuhen im sibirischen Schnee" über die Zeit der stalinistischen Verfolgung in Lettland.
Short in English: Sandra Kalniete is coming to Hamburg.
Du bist Death Metal. Mit dem Kopf durch die Wand ist deine Maxime, keine Kompromisse, der Tod ist die einzige Gewissheit. Du betrachtest dich als Individualist und zeigst das auch jedem, der es wissen will (und denen, die es nicht wissen wollen erst recht). Andere halten dich wohl einfach für einen ziemlich abgefuckten Freak, mit deinem Verhalten und deinen... ähh extravaganten Vorlieben gibst du ihnen durchaus berechtigten Anlass dazu. Aber es gäbe nichts was dir mehr am Arsch vorbeiginge... bleibt nur die Frage warum du es nötig hast Internet-Tests wie diesen zu machen. Dein etwas angepassterer Cousin ist Melodic Death Metal, dein hässlicher Bruder ist Grindcore.
Miss Piggy has even the right taste in computing:
(Well, Frank Oz has, but is there a difference?).
See more at the Muppet Wiki.
The artists are in the political ring again, liberal America has it's spine again and is standing up straight - and this has nothing to do with hypocrisy or hopping on a train which is already going - everyone of them has pushed this train, starting from the "Rock The Vote" campaign to the festival for New Orleans where Kanye West burned his tongue several times and - what exactly did he say? Don't remember. But he was honoured with three Grammys as well, well done.
Speaking about the musical side of the show, I was even more pleased: I like The Gorillaz and it was awesome how their digital images in 3D and Madonna fit together; Linkin Park and Jay-Z were great with Sir Paul McCartney - and proved a German comedian wrong who recently coined: "Yoko Ono kept John Lennon from becoming a sappy old fart like Paul McCartney is now". Green Day, Slipknot, The Black Eyed Peas, U2, Gorillaz, System Of A Down (Bring Your Own Bomb, please!!!), Chemical Brothers - all of them really deserve their Award very much, all of them are the legitimate laureates - for me there was no downer in the whole evening except of the German television who was editing moments like Slipknot out of it - here the ceremony was aired the same night (meaning almost the following morning) and tonight to a decent time, so that they had lots of occasions to edit and shorten. Nah, it was good though. Another good view is by the Newspaper, Asia.
Press statement (in German) on the page of the IMGM
Even the Jewish Council of Germany joins in and supports the German muslims after it's press conference.
(Maybe the latter is even more noteworthy!)
First of all - what are strange manners? This depends on where you live and where (or under which circumstances) you've grown up. As I am from Germany, where punctuality is considered one of the primary virtues, I of course have odd manners as I am the queen of last minute. And beyond. Which means - with giving in fiscal statements, anything just-in-time with a deadline I'm always there directly on the step on ten seconds to 12. Which isn't saving my nerves at all. I don't do it on purpose. Whenever I'm late on an appointment I always feel bad and hope for my appointment that he/she will be late themselves or have a good book with them. And - yes - I like to be in time and I am mostly in my holidays.
Next uncommon manner for a German which is connected to the first - I do have a certain kind of respect towards the government and it's issues - but I neither fear it nor let it be too much shocking to me. I've once seen a threat of punishment of half a million Deutsche Mark (now about 240.000 EUR) and survived it unhurt. So I'm unusual cold-blooded towards threats by government and issues like that. Which referes to No. one again - I'm the Queen of Last minute, and in issues like these without regret.
Three - Eating manners: I was never vegetarian, but especially when I just moved from the farm to the big city I avoided meat by animals I didn't learned to know before. I practise this meant that I brought a food parcel full of beef back from my parents each weekend. People who shared the meal with me weren't really keen on knowing that the steak I was just preparing once belonged to a bull called &Heinrich&... Bus this vanished as I found out there's decent butchers' in Hamburg as well.
Four: I am a girl, I am not prone to tears - but I can cry the same second when I am whitness to injustice or when injustice is happening to me. (Note: This is the direct opposite to Number two, but it's just the other side of the story).
When I was working as a journalist the following was viewed as a strange manner: I still prefare to write the sketches of my stories to paper, whether it's interviews, artist's bios or essays for university. It took me some time to develope a technique to at least write news directly on the keyboard. On the other hand it saved me several times when my dictaphone didn't manage to record and I could rely on my written notes.
Now was it really deviant behaviour? I don't know. I think I'll challenge Paracuda - and the other four please fill out themselves, ok? ;-)