Yesterday the students of ‘my’ institute, the ↑Institute for Sociocultural Anthropology at the ↑Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München launched a weblog called ↑protest. The blog is meant to be a platform for the organisation of measures against the current state of teaching at … Continue reading →
Today a friend stopped by and gave me a late Christmas-present—a real surprise, see above. It is now hanging at a prominent place in my office. Thanks a lot ↑KerLeone! *wipes tear away*
Continue reading →Hotel Garni’s rooms are nothing special, but they are spacious, clean, and it’s perfectly quiet. The bed is good and I slept very well, although not too long. At the reception I ask where I could get a coffee and … Continue reading →
Tank filled to the brim again, equipped with a chocolate bar and a citymap of Brno I settle on the filling station’s parking lot and start to develope a strategy to get to my hotel. The congress organisers have put … Continue reading →
The things in my office seem to be sticky like glue. It’s always the same, whenever I enter the office, and even if it is just for fetching something, not wanting to spend more than one or two minutes there, … Continue reading →
For the first time ↵I was faster ↑than Industrial Technology & Witchcraft, but of course still ↑way slower than boingboing ↑and slashdot.
Continue reading →Sometimes when I walk home in the evening, crossing the river I stop midbridge and wonder at the moon. Then, for a few minutes, I try to really become conscious of the fact that exactly one dozen men already walked … Continue reading →
I am not sure what it is, ↑fquadr.at has put online [↑mirror 1 | ↑mirror 2 | ↑mirror 3], or what to make of it—but it is ingenious, surreal, and a great demonstration of ↑ragdoll physics—see the paper ↑Advanced … Continue reading →
One of the comps at my office is infected by a spambot—obviously this some time happened via IE, of course, and till now I haven’t found time to clean it up. Anyway from time to time windows pop up showing … Continue reading →
The folks at MIT are hosting ↑The Time Traveler Convention on May 7, 2005, 10:00pm EDT (08 May 2005 02:00:00 UTC) | (event starts at 8:00pm—feel free to come at either 8pm, 10pm, or anytime in between.) | East Campus … Continue reading →