Date:	2009-11-24 17:03
Subject:	Blargh!
Security:	Public
Mood:	angry

I can't hear it any longer. If there's one thing I dislike, then it is sanctimony. This time it's about Robert Enke, again. I wonder what makes the difference between a football player and a "normal civilian" who commited suicide? Can anyone tell me? There's no need to discuss the tragedy - of anyone committing suicide. What's the reason for this media-set-up-drama? Is it about he being... - sorry - about that he was some kind of an idol? It is about the popularity of football or is it a "we must do it because many people knew him and it will make them feel at unease"-thingie? It's just outrageous. There are many hard fates out in the world. Some are that unbearable that people see the only way out of their agony in spilling their blood all over the ground. So what about other people who lost the fight and committed suicide?

And THAT'S exactly the point. Does anyone care - in the media - about the poor train operator guy who will probably never in his lifetime forget the noise of his train crushing bones? I bet that's also something that can bring one pretty close to edge of suicide. Haunting dreams. Night. By. Night.

All the media does is to convert the tragedy into a cash cow. With large and bloody red letters on the front page.

Date:	2009-11-23 16:32
Subject:	EF16 Kickoff meeting
Security:	Public
Mood:	creative
Music:	Loreena McKennitt - Cé Hé Mise Le Ulaingt? (The Two Trees)

Phew, challenges ahead... lots of. But not a single one we're not able to master.

My tour to Madgeburg started with the struggle to head to mafundi just in time. The first Bus was too soon, the next one was missing and the third one ended up stucking in a traffic jam. Beeing nearly 30 minutes too late, I was glad to find that I was not the only person beeing too late. After another hour (or so) of waiting we hit the road. Magdeburg seems to be just another part of Berlin. Those few kilometers on the highway don't count.

They say that the first impression is the most important. Our first impression was a laugh, a look to each other and a "oh dear...". But after some hours sitting in the Foyer the huge hotel lost its overwhelming atmosphere piece by piece. Yes, its huge, especially the event spaces, but it also offers the same huge amount of possibility. It's the perfect playground for creative people. Like us :)

Also the hotels personal is really friendy. I mean it. I think they're not only playing friendly but have real fun doing the job. Social communication between the hotels staff seems also to be no problem. I'm looking forward to it and I bet we will just rock this place like the last one. I imagined several times what the place will look like when crowded by somewhat arround 1000 Furs. It made me grin broadly. Every time.

The meeting went smooth and we gathered nearly every information we needed and had a large discussion table afterwards. Productive and creative. I guess every team has it's visions by now.

What else to say? Oh! Yes! The food and the bar. Murr! Excellent. I picked up the salad plate from the menue. It was a lovely composition of raw and stewed vegetables with a spicy souce.

I was a bit sad to already leave on late saturday evening. The well known EF-Micocosmos feeling was already building up. Well, I'm looking forward to next EF with a lot of curiosity and motivation.

Point here :)

( Lots of more visual impressions (photos) behind this cut )

I got another preview from nimrais for the "Contact" commie. The quality is beyond good and evil. Looking at the technical parts on the image from arround half a meter away from the screen makes no difference to a real photograph. To quote dear Ellie: "No words..."

Byebye sleep *bounce* :)

This week is kinda strange. In a good way. Yesterday I hammered the whole theory about how semiconductors work into my trainees. In only 5 Hours. I checked how much they are able to recall about it today and was satisfied with the result. Today, we did the whole theory about Diodes (voltages, currents, temperatue dependencies, power loss, junction layer capacity and so on) in also about 5 hours. I guess what I like to say is that I really enjoy beeing at work at the moment. Also some social issues seem to change to the better. I'm still sceptical but I try to not think about it too much but enjoy it.

I had a strange dream today. I was running arround in huge... I mean it.. really *huge* hotel and it's kittchen. Setting up large dinner for a amount of guests I can't estimate. The task keept me running with panic because every item I needed was located at a different place. And everytime things weren't located where they were supposed to be. Time went by and I grew more and more frantic. Another problem was that nearly every door and gate was locked and as a result I often had to get the keys first. The keys were, of course, always located on the opposite side of the complex. At some time I was standing in a bathroom to wash my face. When I looked up I saw teh face of Mr. Kanig. At this time I woke up. What the...? After that I needed at midnight snack.. and was glad to find that my kittchen was still the same.

Maybe it caused by my misplaced calendar entry. On monday I just noticed that the EF-Meeting will be held this weekend, not the next one. Drat. This screws up my weekend timetable pretty much. Speaking of screwed up timetables: I just got the notification that I have to teach the horror group of mechanics something about electrical safety in electric systems. Wah! I don't want to because I remember how the last colleage was freak out after giving this group lessons.

Anyway, I looking forward to something really cool. My boss came in: "There are event scheduled for the 04.12, 14.12 and 18.12 in the new event space". Wait, what event spa... ohhhh, he means that storage bulding that still looks like storage space and where the lighting system is not likely to be delivered before next years January or Feburauy and in that no single electric system is installed yet :D

I told him that this will not work out and all he said was, that he need some sockets and light. Light. Theheheheheheh. Muahahaha. He wants a solution and, well, I solve problems. So I checked what material is available and told him the idea. This is going to be a lot of fun. We're going to assemble two long chains of lights. Out of fluorescent lamps. It goes like this: lamp-EVG-lamp-lamp-EVG-lamp-lamp-EVG-lamp... On a thick rope of Nylon. Each 15 Meters long. You don't want to know more details. Half of the day I had that foxy grin on my face. The face that tells everyone I'm up to something.

And all by boss said was: "OK, sounds fine" :D

Date:	2009-11-16 08:47
Subject:	e-wastex!
Security:	Public
Mood:	amused

My dreams come true!!!

( Mooooooommmmmy, I want to have THIS for Christmas!! )

Date:	2009-11-06 16:30
Subject:	Statement!
Security:	Public
Mood:	content
Music:	Yanni - Live at the Acropolis

Something I decided today:

I don't mind if someone is a freak^*. Even if the person is not quit capable of hiding it. Most times it fun to have those people arround.

But I don't like people who pretend to be a freak because they think is something cool to be. It's just annoying.

*) A person with a distinc passion for something

Date:	2009-11-04 12:38
Subject:	Do you have your Easter eggs already?
Security:	Public
Mood:	working

Listening to music in a nearly dark workshop can cause loosing track of time pretty fast. I went home after 18:00.

At home I finally found time to dig through all those boxes of spare parts. Most of it's content is sorted by now. It felt like time traveling because all those parts once belonged to someone else's life. It feels trange to touch those dusty parts and wonder what the deceased person once planed to build with them. I could imagine someone sitting in a warm hobby room in the basement, looking at them on some cold winter evening. I'm going melancholic, do I?

Anyway, after sorting the huge amount of parts I went out for a small walk at midnight. I felt for it. Believe it or not. The first trees are decorated with fairy lights. Oh wait! I still don't have my cholocate easter eggs for Easter! Better to buy some today after work immediate before they're sold old.

Another thing I've noticed is the strong smell of snow in the air. It's lingering in the air since week or so. But never that strong. Today morning it was raining. Now hail mixes up with the rain. I'm curious if there will be snow tomorrow morning. There's no snow but I'm all bouncy about the thought of it.

( Photos and a 'lil bit more about the spare parts )

In some minutes I'm off to HerbstCon.

Which means:

- I will not read Mails until Monday.
- I will not show up on IRC, ICQ and so on.
- Do not call me if it's not urgend. Elsewise I'm going to step on you tail with high heels (really, I need that break) :)

I'm looking forward to see all of you who will attend :)

Date:	2009-10-25 21:50
Subject:	Adobe Acrobat Trouble
Security:	Public
Mood:	pissed off

I give up. Yesterday Adobe Acrobat stopped working between one and another computer session (send the machine to hibernation). It freezes while showing the splash screen. The Distiller also stopped working. I tried a lot of things. Nothing worked out.

So I digged through the pile of CDs and - luckily - found the Adobe 7 Pro CD. Reading PFDs works but creating documents still fails.

What is this about? Some software update without notification? API communication failure?

In annoys me with no end. If you need something, it will just break.

Anyway, bedtime.

Date:	2009-10-23 06:36
Subject:	Loyality and Spares
Security:	Public
Mood:	bouncy
Music:	Mr. Mister - Broken Wings

*bounce*

There was a parcel in the mailbox yesterday. United States. Hmm. Could it be? Unlikely... after only four days? But maybe... YAY!

RFTigermode offered donation skeches last spring and I slipped him a few bucks. Unfortunately, because we both were occupied, communication was slow and it took us long to get the originals to my place. But finally they're here.

( *klick* RFTigermode - Spares & Loyality )

And there are two more positiv things to report about:

First: I got a Mail from nimrais. Preview Picture. That one im totaly nuts about. I will not tell what it is about, but the title will be "Contact" :)

Second: I also got a mail from my tailor.

( One day, someone has to show me how to clean up pencil drawings with photoshop the right way. I hate removing noisy paper background from pencil drawings... :/ )

Date:	2009-10-22 15:45
Subject:	Lovely Stories
Security:	Public
Mood:	content

I'm done with "New Fables 2009". Overall, it's not that good like the last collection. On the other hand it contains two stories that really did it to me:

1) M.C.A. Hogarth - The Perfect Totem: It was simply fun to read and the end made me smile a lot. I like how it developes, how it shows that some people tend to never be satisfied about what they have but to finally ending up with something that "simple" they never thought about.

2) Kyell Gold - Race To The Moon: What I like about this piece it that none of both opponents will be embarrassed due losing their reputation but that both see each other as some kind of equal and that they have their fun with daring each other again and again. Doing it together, caring about each other and not trying to embarrass the other one.

But also, there is one story that seems to be completely misplaced in this collection. It's the story "Flavian Mark Lupidi - How 'Bout Them Dawgs". Maybe I lack of the ability to reflect this story. I don't see the reason to call it ac fable and anything related to it. It's just a story (and even not a good one in my opinion). If I had to find some fable-like philosophy about it I could take it as some analogy about some groups in our socitey. So I wonder myself for what reasons it was added to this collection. The only way I can think of this story is "hae?!".

Date:	2009-10-20 12:07
Subject:	Something's dead down there, I guess
Security:	Public
Mood:	annoyed

Half of the workshop, especially the place arround my desktop, smells of decay. Somewhat like a mixture of something you forgot for a long time in the fridge and wet basement. I guess there's a dead mouse or rat in the cable duct that runs behind my desktop under the floor.

It's somewhat annoying because it's not strong enough to detect where it comes from but still strong enough to make my nose wrinkle. We tried nearly two hours to find it. Well, it should grow more detectable over the next few days. Urks. Additionally, the only workshop where it can be smelled is my one. Just because - sigh - behind my desktop a large bunch of cables leave the duct throug a hole next to the wall.

Date:	2009-10-19 21:47
Subject:	My... I'm that old?
Security:	Public
Mood:	relaxed

I just browsed through a Furbase thread... randomly... the title catched my eyes.

Out of three pages, I only recognised four nicknames. I wonder when I lost track of the inrush of newbies. Well, anyway.

Date:	2009-10-19 16:20
Subject:	Anonther weekend report
Security:	Public
Mood:	tired

I'll keep it short 'cuz I'm about to head off to the project evening :)

On Friday I tried 5 hours long to make my programmer talk with a AtTiny2313 µC. It's the follow-up of the At90S2313. The CRC-Check faild, the µC was not programmed or the program did nothing. I ended up trying to get a simple LED to blink. In the end it was because of an outdated µC-faily-definition-file and an also outdated Firmware on the programmer.

On saturday Phelan and I installed the Network in evangelic commune hall. There's noting to say about. Easy job.

MafunDi showed up some hours later and back home we ended up in front of the TV, eating some tasty pasta. We were all too lazy and spend 5 hour in front of the telly. Watching "Golden Eye" and a really bad action movie afterwards. Believe it or not, we managed to finish the livingroom anyway.

Sunday, well a lot of sleep and a lot of mails. Nothing more. ToDo for this week: answering all still open mails. ARGH!

Date:	2009-10-12 10:52
Subject:	Serviceman's Log - New Issue
Security:	Public
Mood:	amused

I'm really glad to have this Abo. It always makes me kicking my legs under the table. Even after a worse start in the day. Even if the text don't, the illustrations do.

( Best of Serviceman's Log illustrations )

Date:	2009-10-02 18:25
Subject:	The taking of Pelham 123
Security:	Public
Mood:	okay

Yesterday after work I had nearly an hour left to meet with the others and because of that I decided to have some broccoli pizza - with double broccoli and double feta-cheese. Surprinsingly, it had a large - positive - affect on my mood.

I think we all enjoyed the movie. We were watching it in english. The film started with using the F-Word six times within 4 seconds or so. Okay, John Travolta acts in it, so that's a must have in this movie. I guess after ten minutes I lost track of counting the F-Words any longer.

I think I don't want to spoil the movie and will keep it short: It's a good action movie with well designed chracters, a good portion of decent humor and some parodys. What I really enjoyed was watching the mimics of Mr. Washington. I love the way how he acts when he plays such rolls where he has to deal with trouble not the violent but the emotional way.

Afterwards we went to a cocktail bar called Cancun and spend some time chatting. In the end it was 02:20 when I got home. Far too late. If it weren't for a technical faul on the rail track I could have been home nearly forty minutes earlier. I ended up proceeding some station by feet. In the end I didn't mind it because it was a lovely night with clear sky and nearly full moon.

Anyway, in some minutes I'm of to our monthly BYCE.

Date:	2009-09-30 10:03
Subject:	Be careful, the ga....... nevermind
Security:	Public
Mood:	content

I suspected the weather to be grey and wet today. Instead, the sky was blue and the sun painted the landscape once more in golden shaded over and over.

Anyway, if your're in Berlin and your intercity connection was late or missing, those two guys are the reason for it.

A) Oh, be careful, the gate is comming down!
B) Nah, it's slow - we have plenty of time left.
A) Dude...
B) Don't panic!
A) Dudeeeee!
B) I can make it, really, I can!
A) Dud--- *crash*
B) Damnit!

( A) Told ya! )

Date:	2009-09-25 19:12
Subject:	Business Fox
Security:	Public
Mood:	bouncy
Music:	DJ Sakin - Dragonfly

... is going to make serious contracts with you.

klick!

(dedicated to some privat website project)

Date:	2009-09-24 15:05
Subject:	Fake or not?
Security:	Public
Mood:	curious

Technical question...

I just found out that they sell REALLY cheap grid tie inverter on the US market. Like this one.

You know, I'm really curious and sceptical alike. Just because grid-tie inverters are really complex devices that cost a s mall fortune. And now they are available for arround 200USD? Unlikely

Does somebody know more about those grid-tie-inverters?

I suspect them to be doing ugly things to pretend power conversion to the grid.

Date:	2009-09-21 11:30
Subject:	Awwww! Cooooool!
Security:	Public
Mood:	content

Positive feedback is always a good motivation for new projects.

( But see yourself :) )