Daylight, two days later. After the planet has revolved around itself for a little more than two times full circle, an e-mail from her plonks into one of his inboxes. Actually it’s not exactly from her, but triggered by her … Continue reading →
Being well sloshed—and succesfully having unnerved the bartender—they are parting at 2am. “I will google you,” she says as a good bye. “Finally,” he thinks while watching the taxi receding into the unknown city’s dim lights, “the information age has … Continue reading →
To my taste the most beautiful Christmas tree I ever saw, right in the centre of Munich at a quite romantic square. It is garnished with 8000 tiny cold-light LEDs by Osram. A sign beside it boasts that it is … Continue reading →
The ↑webcomic above is copyrighted by ↑David Malki ! and to be found at ↑wondermark.com … “Although he is an experienced artist and graphic designer, David does not draw the figures in Wondermark; rather, they are culled from a … Continue reading →
a sports-journalist’s biased commentary Last night 100-metres-men Olympic champion Merton Fuller was belatedly disqualified because of the results of a “doping test” done within the hour after his triumph. Inside one of the joints of his prosthetic augmentation a silicon-based … Continue reading →
the mystery of the broken bicycle tyre inflator The uncanny breaks into everyday-life spontaneously and unpredictably. Today it hit me for the third time. The first two instances were “The riddle of the vanished filling station attendant” and “The amazing … Continue reading →
Back in May I in here summed up a part of the ↵situation at my institute, especially describing the situation of the Lehrbeauftragte. Today I read oneman’s ↑“Living and Teaching in the Information Economy” which perfectly complements my experiences and … Continue reading →
After so many shiny weeks with brilliant steel-blue sky and burning sun in a row the heat finally is gone and an eternal seeming downpour has taken its place. But it’s sunday and I nevertheless undertook a lengthy stroll … Continue reading →
night of the living dead When hell is full the anthropologists will return to Earth—good gracious, we all look like straight out of “Doom III”. Amazing what some months of coursework can do to people … UPDATE: dusk till … Continue reading →
Just a little story on personal appropriation of mass-produced commodities. The stores around here carry a vast diversity of nearly identical products for everyday use in mass-consumption style, like e.g. shower gel and sun milk. Sometimes the contents are … Continue reading →