Thu, 19 Jan 2006
Random stuff
Posted at: 15:13 in /english/misc
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On laundromats Not owning a washing machine of your own does funny things to you. When I moved here, I knew that being without one I would have to cycle to the laundromat every time, carrying a huge backpack, wash my stuff, cycle back home with the wet cloths and hang them in the drying room in the basement. Compared to the hassle that it would be to get a washing machine, and considering I am only going to live here for half a year this seemed sensible. There are however a few things I did not know/consider:
- The afore mentioned half year is from September to March. Most of the time it's f***ing cold!
- A trecking backpack full of cloths is not too heavy, but a trecking backpack full of wet cloths is another matter.
- Wet cloths get awfully cold when being transported in winter and they are able to preserve that low temperature for a surprisingly long time (usually until the last sock is hung up).
- Hanging up two loads of super-freezy laundry does painful things to the tips of my fingers.
- The ability of my fingers to preserve cold temperature is in no way inferior to that of my laundry.
- The laundromat is not heated very well (maybe not at all).
- It is a very good idea, to sort your laundry before going to the laundromat. (Use backpack's separable compartments for that!) I am not overly bashfull, but there's nothing like a big funny looking guy interestedly watching you sorting through your underware
- In order to put off the afore mentioned inconveniences as long as possible I am totally willing to disregard any sense of style, fashion or non-idiocy I may have left (cloths-wise that is).
Posted at: 15:11 in /english/misc
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Web stuff I've never been much of a web stuff person, I don't like pointless
Look, I am online!web pages and never felt the urge to have one myself. Though, over time, I kinda slipped into it as well. First there was my student homepage, then the blog, and a number of other machines I have accounts/stuff on ... A few months ago I finally got fed up with this patchwork structure and decided to get everything together on one machine and under one domain. This is still work in progress, since most things are done in the evenings after work and my current occupation is one of that kind where you get home in the evening and feel like doing braindead things or crawling straight into bed. But, relocation is advancing step by step and as a first result I can now proudly present a domain of my own :) It's still hosted on someone else's machine (Thanks aba! :)) and there's not much there yet, but it's going to grow slowly ... Also, this time I tried to do it right from the start and make the pages as simple and accessible (without looking too 1992) as possible. I didn't know much about these things when I designed my student homepage and the blog, so another task on my todo list is to properly redo them and also put them there.
Posted at: 15:11 in /english/meta
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Hardware shopping After finally setting up my old PC (Does PC still mean
personal computeror has it completely mutated into
politically correctyet?) I noticed that its mainboard was broken. (Well, actually I didn't. I thought that stuff on the capacitors was just some kind of dust or so. Alex kindly informed me that it was infact their content ... which somewhat impairs their functional capability.) The machine still booted up alright and worked without problems, but every now and then it suddenly went out without any sign of warning. Very annoying. This resulted in the machine serving as an occasional table for another few weeks. Until last weekend, when I finally went and got some new hardware for it. It now has a new mainboard (my first one with DDR RAM, welcome in the new millennium!) and a silent CPU cooler. The good: The computer is now finally usable and I cannot hear the CPU fan anymore. The bad: I now know that the fan of my PSU is just as loud, as are the hard discs ...
Thus another hardware shopping expedition is in order!
... as soon as my finances recovered from that last one ...
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