today was a very good day.
just for the record aka private mumbo-jumbo.
and it started at 21:00 on thursday(!) night. i met the fabulous mr hofegger at the release party of the wonderful magazine peng. if you should need a fine one-man graphic design company he is your man.
yesterday mr burg visited the office and by chance (the boss was busy due to an accidental collision of appointments) i attended a talk about the coming weblog event. could become exciting.
but the very best was the presentation of my current project. although it's very technical it was understood quite well by non-techies, too. and that's what i'd like to call impact. i think it will make bloggers happy and writers shake their booties. let's see.
finally, i had a greek theme night together with z.: souflaki, retsina and ouzo first, then the devastatingly funny movie "my big fat greek wedding". and here comes the saturday, saturday, saturday. hoppa!
voice-of-wine.com. sponsored by apple?
microsoft muzak.
randy a. riddle: "brian eno and 'the microsoft sound'".
my baking and brewing i will do today the queen's son tomorrow i will take away no wise man can show the queen where to begin, for my name, to be sure, is rumplestiltskin.
"i've seen the future i can't afford it tell you the truth sir someone just bought it." – abc, "how to be a millionaire".
"es ist leicht, nicht käuflich zu sein, wenn einen keiner kaufen will." – dr. seltsam, salbader nr. 31.
"wenn ich jetzt sterben müsste, würde ich sagen: das war alles? und: ich habe es nicht so richtig verstanden. und: es war ein bisschen laut." – kurt tucholsky.
this quote was hanging on the toilet door of a former flat i was living in. my flat-mate put it there. and i almost forgot about it. so here it is again for some nostalgic reason.
holistic it, baby!
capital i, capital t, that is. from here it's not far to places full of radiophony, bytes for all and cyber activism. in the epicenter you might find a person called arun mehta.
eric schlosser: “fast food nation” – the right successor after moore's "stupid white men" (or vice versa).
and look, it was recommended to me by fm4. so who do you believe?
salon interview with eric schlosser.
stop shitty eating living.
"i've always looked at the sea as a laboratory for the making of a new world order." – elisabeth mann-borgese.
mrs mann-borgese founded the international ocean institute. she became famous as the "ambassador of the sea" and "mother of the oceans" and considered the sea as a mirror of the human soul – and therefor as the future of mankind.
elisabeth mann-borgese died in februrary at the age of 83. a short biography is available at the opec fund website: in memoriam elisabeth mann-borgese.
"in deutschland weiß eigentlich niemand, dass es mich gibt."