Wed, 14 Mar 2007
You know what's creepy?
Traveling to a country you've never been to before, walking into a random cafe and being recognised by someone.
Something like that happened to me when I was in Barcelona. We didn't have much time to look at things when we were there, since we were mostly either in the meeting or at the hotel. So, when we had a few free hours left before getting on our flight back, we decided to take a little walk around the city. However, shortly after we had left it started raining cats and dogs, so we took refuge into a nearby starbucks.
When I was ordering my hot chocolate, a girl walked up to me and
asked me
"Do you by any chance study in Hildesheim?"
"Yes ..."
"IIM?"
"Yes ..."
"You're Meike, right?"
"Yes ..."
Turns out, she was an IIM student as well and recognised me from a seminar. I must confess, I didn't recognise her. Shame on me! I was also totally surprised though. Who would have expected ... :)
Posted at: 23:52 in /english/travel
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Tue, 13 Mar 2007
More on pneumatics
Maks: You're welcome! This is not actually my current playlist or top 10 (or top 11) though. It's really just the songs that put most strain on said pneumatic thingy by having a rhythm that is on the one hand catchy enough to make me bounce along and on the other hand slow enough to be "doinged" with an office chair. (NOFX's Don't call me white is a good example for a totally undoingable song. The classic punk rhythm generally is just way too fast to be rendered on an office chair without stopping to type. Thinking about it, I guess Ska sucks by Propaghandi roughly marks the line between doingability and undoingability)
The word creations in this post are especially dedicated to Clint. A surreal salute!
Posted at: 02:23 in /english/misc
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Mon, 12 Mar 2007
What kills my office chair's pneumatic thingy
- Blues Brothers: Ghost Riders in the Sky
- Irie Revoltes: Ska
- Dan Tyminski, Harley Allen, and Pat Enright: Man of constant sorrow
- Nancy McCallion: On we go
- The Coasters: Down in Mexico
- Nancy Sinatra: These boots are made for walking
- Aretha Franklin: Think
- Golden Earring: Radar love
- War: Low Rider
- Juanes: Camisa Negra
- Steve Miller Band: Magic Carpet Ride
*doing* *doing* *doing* *doing*
Posted at: 19:25 in /english/misc
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Sun, 11 Mar 2007
Back from CLT 2007
Here's, finally, the conclusion of my report from this year's CLT. It's a bit belated since when I got home from Chemnitz I only had a few hours to sleep and repack until I had to leave for Barcelona. ("Business trip", no blog material. It went well, though.) Anyway, I am back now and finally have the time to finish this and upload my slides and pictures.
The social event was great fun, there was again a really nice buffet and we sat together with some people from team(ix). There was a quiz again, this time the task was to find as many linux commands in a text as possible. We even found a few more than the organisers had expected! :) Everyone got a little chocolate Marx bust as a prize and the first three places got an Uli Stein chocolate keyboard. (Pictures in the gallery)
I spent the biggest part of Sunday at the Debian booth or wandering through the exhibition area. It was a bit more quiet than on Saturday, probably also because of the social event and the Linux-Night that took place at the same time.
The slides for my two talks are now on my talks page, the pictures I took are in the gallery and more pictures can be found at the event's pictures collection.
PS: Dear fli4l guys, your picture is here!
PPS: Thank you, Noel!
Posted at: 23:32 in /english/debian/events
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Sat, 03 Mar 2007
Saturday at CLT almost over
Hi from Chemnitz! As expected it's great here. As usual. :) My two talks went really well. They were mostly freely improvised since I was kind of slack regarding their preperation, but I got very positive feedback on both and plan to expand them for future events.
There's still a lot of visitors walking around. The debian booth is well visited with questions in all ranges, babelbox is running merily on the demo machine in rotation with bb, which never ceases to fascinate people. ;)
My saturday was really busy. I walked over here around 8:30, had breakfast and gave my first talk. After a two hour break I gave the other one and ever since then I've been switching from one conversation to the next without pauses. Most of these conversations were with "strangers" who visited my talks and wanted to tell me about projects and ideas of their own, their personal experiences with Linux and Free Software or give further suggestions for my talks. I've really enjoyed these conversations, though they got a bit tiring after a while since for some reason people always catch me when walking somewhere, and so most of these long conversations were held standing and my legs are pudding now.
In a few minutes (hopefully) the social will start and I hope it will be as good as last year. I plan to take things a bit easier tomorrow, visit other peoples booths, take some pictures and maybe even visit a talk or two. The rest of this day will hopefully be spend having some more inspiring conversations, enjoying good food and drink and continuing to try to coax Noel into relinquishing to me his old Debian shirt, that he grew out of. (Small Debian shirts are such a rare and precious good!)
Posted at: 19:29 in /english/debian/events
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Fri, 02 Mar 2007
Off to Chemnitz
In about half an hour I'll leave for Chemnitz in order to attend the Chemnitzer Linux-Tage 2007. I am very much looking forward to going there. Ever since the LinuxTag left Karlsruhe, the CLT are my favourite Linux event within Germany. Because of this I registered even two talks this year, one in the beginners section and of course the inevitable social talk. ;-)
They're both new, so this CLT will feature two premieres. Giving new talks basically means that anything is possible. Very high rock and roll factor! New talks always have the highest risc for "accidents" but also they're usually most fun, because there's still some room (or need) for improvisation left. This is probably also why I tend to lose interest in a talk once I've given it a few times. Though, the BOFH one is of course a golden oldie!
PS: Tolimar is a copycat!
Posted at: 16:17 in /english/debian/events
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