why would anyone stop cleaning his feet and instead forcing fungi to grow between his toes? for science? nah, for traffic: the stinkyfeet project (the stinkymeat project's successor).
back from savo province – the finland compilation: other than most of the central europeans i had some very sunny and warm days on keskisaari island in maaninka. it was a long trip (made easier by listening to the schmoove latin sound of the brazilophiles cd arfco3000 gave to me) but definitely worth it.
because there are still a lot of lappi people hunting around, we certainly were hunting, too: for woolen caps with a little woolen antenna, wooden breakfast plates with an egg hole and ferry dish trays with a sea map – but claudia probably wants to tell more about that... :)
after two days i did not miss a computer mouse, a keyboard or blogger at all (and who would really miss a monitor, that dumb photon cannon?) – well, there was a possibility to get online at the local library, but thinking of going there i soon became very lazy. instead, i read the first harry potter book (a gift i suprisingly got from heike just short before my departure) and t. c. boyle's "water music", ate tons of fazer dumle (the sweetest drug), mämmi (dark rye porridge), kalakukko (hollowed bread filled with fish and bacon), liha- and karelja pirakka (rye pastries filled with meat or rice) and korvapuusti (sticky buns) and listened to danny's rockabilly songs from 3 decades (claudia bought a cd).
writing so many times about finnish tango, here is a finnish tango track to listen to (thank you, martin): "ich mit meiner braut im parlamentspark" by m. a. numminen (2.8 mb almost confirming all prejudices about finnish people being always drunk and generally crazy and that some estonians rightfully are calling them "our four legged friends").
although it is not the national beverage, i bought a bottle of bombay sapphire gin on the ferry. bottle and design are very beautiful.
in a report by tex rubinowitz printed in some austrian travel magazine i have read that since nokia (which is – besides the name of the rubber boots company that became famous for its mobile phones – a city in the tampere region) brought globalization to finland there is quite a new tram line in helsinki. the first one where people are sitting vis-à-vis to other passengers which is "a big problem for the average finnish person being introverted by suppressed passion".
at 9 pm i am leaving vienna with the night train to jena. for about two and a half weeks i will be on a trip that leads me to hannover, finland and back to south-germany. i will meet arfco3000 in zeiss-city. i will see some parts of expo2000 (well, maybe). i will have incredible long days because in maaninka there is almost no sunset at the time. and finally i will meet my lovely parents (don't click on this link, it's not workin – i just love the url...).
i did not know that tango is so great in suomi. maybe we will dare a little dance when the weather is alright...
my contributions to this site will even be more decreasing for the time i am off. it's not that there would not be a chance to get internet access. it's merely that i probably will feel very good being offline. at least for some days... best regards to the lovely ones. you all know best who you are.
the pacifism of bertrand russell.
"the whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts." – bertrand russell
"ça plane pour moi" – plastic bertrand
uglypeople.com: "we love to hear from you, even though we think you are twisted and are probably going to hell. but we love you anyway".
mr langreiter is setting up his intranet: lab-uno.synerge-internal, that is. i hope it's fun for you, christian! he promised to use vanilla there and he is keeping his promise. very well done. i could not convince the company i work for to use such a great tool, yet. what raises the question whether i am not convincing at all or the company is not too smart...
the next big feature being integrated into userland's manila is localization. finally catching up with blogger. watch out for frontier's nightly updates...
christine zmölnig: "copyright or the right to copy? – alternatives to intellectual property protection online".
it seems (and not surprisingly) that every effort of mankind to enlighten the human spirit sooner or later ends in its exact opposite. originally, copyright was established to protect the authors from a monopoly of the publishers. today it's the publishers who scream for copyright protection. naturally, this raises the old question about whether both the "good" and the "bad" side of being human are immanent in such efforts already from their beginning as a tiny mind eruption. this is the tragedy of humanity and humanities and of me not being a philosopher (at least i would not call myself one).
to-do list for today:
- write e-mail to pimi
- implement calendar on partykeller
- eat spare ribs at barnabitenkeller
to-do list for the next weeks: