October 2007
Please no becoming sick. Yum, Vitamin C. Hmm tea. It’s my own fault, I don’t dress appropriately (will not accept winter) and can’t drink water right.
“Where is ⌘+F in real life?”
Writing data on an external harddrive sounds the same as plastic hangers touching each other in light wind.
Adobe is not yet ready for Leopard? →
PDF showing that Adobe Acrobat and other programs are not supporting the new system. As Justin put it: “Adobe should’ve been ready for launch day. They take their time with everything, assholes.”
Today, the Chinese guy was standing in the hallway...
When I asked him why, he said his doorbell did not work and he had to wait for the electrician to come and fix it. He did not think of making a sign, calling him, asking a neighbor, or at least taking a computer or book downstairs to the building door. I still don’t get it.
My Portfolio v1.1 is going to be awesome.
(currently in the hands of a programmer from Berlin)
“A single Google search request needs as much power as an illuminated 11W bulb in...”
– Tagesschau (German)
Nov 9, the iPhone will be sold in Germany.
with T-Mobile only. The rates were made public just *now*. I only know one (1) person who wants to buy it, other than myself. I bet most people are trying to be anti-hype, but they really want it. Mind the exchange rate.
“So, what do these things do?”
– guy, pointing at our stobes. He had been standing around for at least five mintues, watching Stefan and me work with the lights, shooting.
Canon Virtual Lens Plant →
I am sitting here mouth open. Apparently, my lenses looked like silicone implants at the end of the so-called “material processing process”. The voice-over sounds like Reggie Watts in his “introduction to sex”
We are slowly approaching more VOSs
As I heard, today, shopping was possible in Düsseldorf, and there will be two more Sundays this year. Supposedly, the city was packed. I am desperately waiting for it to become a normal thing in conservative Germany. (VOS = verkaufsoffener Sonntag)
“Dubai is a cross between NYC and Las Vegas on steroids.”
– someone on a business trip, in an email to me.
About ordering the new Apple keyboard
Justin Ouellette: oooh nice
Justin Ouellette: I love the new keyboards
Justin Ouellette: I type noticeably faster
Mareen Fischinger: I bought it because it is always awkward when people on the phone hear me type while they talk
Justin Ouellette: Yeah, totally
Justin Ouellette: "Are you typing???" "..uh"
I have discovered a (to me) convenient slip in...
and I hope to remain the only one.
“Constant multi-tasking craziness”
– CMC (can’t find a link which fits well enough)
Just ordered Leopard. Love being able to get the educational discount at Apple. Gives me the feeling of them being fair friends.
Fuck, now I am confused with the time.
My alarm clock told me it was an hour earlier than my other clock did and I thought I accidentally had set my phone to another city again (2 days ago it was set to +4:30 Kabul and noone knows why) and changed it sometime during the night to match my other clock. Now my computer clock, which knew we switched to daylight savings, has the answer. Hopefully. And I don’t have to feel bad for...
There are new neighbors. First they fight in an Asian language, and then they sing Asian sounding songs. Sorry for not being able to tell apart Chinese and Japanese through the walls.
The conversation is over at my end as soon as...
when I am talking to someone, and tell them about something to which they answer “that’s good to hear”, “I’m sure we’ll manage that” or the like, even though it is not at all suitable at that point and simply a hollow phrase. Really, there is nothing worse than someone who does not listen to what you say, or just has standardized answers. As soon as I...
“The European Commission is in the process of revising summer/winter time...”
– (Which are standardized for Europe, and were invented in Germany in 1980. High costs and no economic value are being criticized.) Tagesschau
“The contents of my fridge is not going to change for the better unless I buy...”
– I might soon get an assistant to do that for me, too. (Leaving this as it is might be a better idea.)
If we recorded EVERYTHING in the world, that would...
All images, sounds, smells, dimensions, touch & thoughts. OMG who would store all this? (I already have a problem with just the comparable tiny amount of still images I record.)