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Geek in styling hell.

Since the hair on my head gets longer again, the need for some "styling" becomes more apparent: Without any help of gel, wax, spray, foam or similar products, my hair is just a mess. Thus I found myself in the "styling department" of a supermarket wondering

WTO 2060

What is it about

WTO 2060 is a Cyberpunk-like roleplaying setting. Currently, it's being designed for a future play-by-post roleplaying campaign. As you could see by the first background notes, the setting tends towards "dark and gritty". The player characters will struggle for survival, living mostly outside the established system.

WTO 2060

World Setting Part 1

First Look at the setting: We're looking at the year 2060. While nations still exist on paper, most of civilisation is effectively governed by laws and "recommendations" of the WTO. The interests of companies and their shareholders are more important than those of so-called "sovereign

testing

There it is: My Mocker

Laughter and nasty comments can roll in now. Compliments are welcome also of course :). It's an interesting tidbit that it took the thing longer to get from the UPS storage in Hamburg to me, than from Seattle, Washington to Hamburg, Germany. That's globalisation for you. Now

finding

get perpendicular!

Marketing the fun way - by Hitachi.

testing

Good news for me

I just received your order and it is ready for our shipper to pick up. It should leave this afternoon. What this would be? My very own Mocker, Heather-Grey, no beer-gut-cut. Girlfriend has already declared war on me, in case I'll ever wear it. Hah! (symbol picture, courtesy

playing

Social Intelligence?

I'm a pen and paper roleplayer, been it for nearly 20 years now, and I love it. As most of those who are into this hobby, I'm playing with friends. Friends who are usually friends first, and fellow gamers later. Not necessarily in the temporal sense

testing

New iGoogle

http://www.google.com/ig points to the new and improved iGoogle startpage now. It's basically the same as before in most ways, except that you can make your own gadgets now. Alas, there seems to be some issues with this still. While making my own one was

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My Nerdfactor

All hail the monstrous nerd.  I am by far the SUPREME NERD GOD!!!

playing

Optimus Mini Three Status

After the woes of getting the Optimus Mini Three to me, then having gotten a noisy unit (which got replaced very fast and nicely), I've now had some time to thoroughly test the thing: While it does lack any killer-feature, it's useful enough. I let it

thinking

Social PowerPoint Hacking

Guy Kewney comments on how bad PowerPoint can be for presentations, and his key argument is that it takes the attention away from the speaker. I can see what he means, so I've pieced together something that I'll try out the next time I need to

playing

Work in Progress

There. Won't take that long anymore, then we can put nice fishes into this even nicer fishtank. A full meter long, 240 liters volume. Now we just have to cross our fingers that the fishies we've been promised live long enough.

playing

I am...

Dr. DOOM! Blessed with smarts and power but burdened by vanity.

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xkcd

Love this idea. Check out http://xkcd.com/ for more!

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Light at the end of the Tunnel

It appears that the german customs office confiscated my Optimus Mini Three. Did they put some drugs into the packaging? Well, I've been promised there'll be a new shipment soon.

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Optimus woes

Grrr.... Now ArtLebedev has a christmas sale. Not that my months-ago-ordered Optimus Mini Three has arrived so far. Instead, it's still MIA somewhere between here and Hongkong. My inquiring emails are replied in a very friendly tone, and they are very apologetic. Still in the end, not very

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Damn j00, Baltar!

shakes fist at Gaius Baltar Damn j00, for having two cylon hotties in bed now, instead of getting further tortured. Still, quite a good episode that was. This show is getting more and more interesting I'd say.

playing

Crapula!

My Optimus Mini Three apparantly has been lost somewhere between the Hong Kong Post Office and DHL. Bah, should've ordered via ThinkGeek instead of directly from ArtLebedev. These at least have experience in shipping.

playing

Satanic gym?

Not everyone knows, but for a few weeks now, I'm training at a gym. Nothing big, just getting some resemblance of fitness into this geekettes wet dream of a body. Everytime I'm there, I top the training off with half an hour of running on some

Politics

Bashing on an Intendante

Over the last days, the public got wind of the fact that the opera "Idomeneo" got cancelled, because there was the fear that radical islamists might take offence and thus do something stupid, like, bombing the place. Disregarding the question if it is really necessary to alter the

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Renovating

After having threatened with the notion for a few years, she made real of it last weekend: Renovating the bathroom, and finally getting a new lamp for the hallway! So, here's a short photostory made with my brand new cameraphone: That's how things looked for a

finding

Piracy vs. TV

During a discussion among the german Pirate Party, I've been made aware of a very insightful article by Mark Pesce: How Battlestar Galactica killed Broadcast TV. Go and read it. Now.

playing

I must be mad

I've just ordered the Optimus min three v1.5. Yes, I've got a veritable fetish when it comes to input devices. But how could I resist here? It's cute, it can be programmed, it can show webcam pictures, it's just overall neat

thinking

odd feeling

I'm by now well past thirty, still unmarried (not single though), still living in a rented flat, still childless. I got a job with steady income though, go me! Still, I'm still a kid at heart. So I thought. Only that I've recently started

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Car Keys

The ZZ Top Hot Rod keys, Excalibur of the 80ies. And I'm continously amazed at how strange the fashion was that time.