Tracking coffee consumption

Are you consuming a way too much coffee and have reached the junkie level like me? Maybe coffeestats.org [http://coffeestats.org] can help out and visualize your coffee usage.…

Search picture(s)

Today we where packing back our holiday decorations into boxes. We also had a music box to put away. Do you see the defect in the picture? ;) No? Okay ... some years ago my oldest daughter broke it into some pieces and a friend of us (Hi muempf! ;) did glue all…

Brainfucked intellectual property rights

This issue is about a bit specific situation in Germany and it's (mainly tax-financed [http://service.rundfunkbeitrag.de/service/]) public service broadcasting [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96ffentlich-rechtlicher_Rundfunk] . If you think you are not interested, please skip this entry. :) Just beginning from scratch... In Germany we have (like…

Roast Goose

This year it turned out that we had to care the first time for ourself about Christmas dinner. So we decided to try a roast goose [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roast_goose#European]. Obtaining the goose is a different story and will maybe told later. The second challenge was…

(new and old) culture

After visiting [http://www.flickr.com/photos/95546688@N00/sets/72157627049888216/with/5872524240/] the great [http://youtu.be/TqaZ2iedlcU] Deadmau5 [http://www.deadmau5.com/] concert of his Europe Tour in Berlin 7 weeks ago, I'm involved into a traditional cultural event on the technical side on the next weekend. We…

Alone at home

Sometime it happens, that there are school holidays. As my lovely girl used to be a teacher, she has some time off at that period. So she left me with our kids yesterday to visit the grandparents. It was two hours after leaving, when I was really surprised that I…

Still in heaven

Dear Gerhard, one week after you have left us after your long fight and we payed one's last respects to you today, you hopefully may find your peace! Thanks for all the things you have done for your family.…