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This is the weblog of Meike Reichle aka alphascorpii. This blog mainly deals with my Debian activities, university life and general "life these days" musings.

The blog's name originates from the song "Rusty Cage". Take your pick between the Soundgarden and the Johnny Cash version. I like them both.

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Tue, 15 Apr 2008

Blatant Advertising

No news in this post, just a little advertising. I just came across geekspeakr.com and think it's a really great idea. From the site:

Many organisers of technical conferences, meetups, and dinners want to have more gender-balance in their lineups, but they don't know where to find technical women speakers.

Enter geekspeakr.com, a simple directory and connections system to help technical women speakers and event organisers to find each other.

I guess this could also be interesting for a some of my fellow Debian Women.


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Fri, 18 Jan 2008

My current favourite debian package

... and the reason I get nothing done. Please meet cuyo. Fun, addictive, drives you nuts!


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Mon, 21 May 2007

The barbecue season has now officially begun!

a plate with the remains of a barbecue on it


1 Pack of mixed BBQ meat:  5,90
1 Bottle of 2005 Montepulciano d'Abruzzo:  1,99
1 Throw away grill:  3,50

The fun that is an indoor BBQ party:  Priceless!

With the weather being so great and everyone having nice barbecues, we wanted to have one too. Unfortunatelly we don't have a balcony or a (nice) garden. (We do have a grassy patch in front of our house but it's not exactly a place you want to sit at and have dinner.) Also do not have a proper barbecue to take somewhere nice and somehow when we travel to friends we always bring bad weather with us.

This weekend however, we decided to go for it. We got ourselfs one of those disposable grills, put it on the largest window sill, strategically placed a fan and a bucket of water and declared the indoor barbecue season officially opened.


Our experiences in short

Good:
Bad:

PS: How do you extinguish a throw away grill once you're done?

PPS: Shower!

PPPS: Kids, do not try this at home!


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Sun, 06 May 2007

Guys!

Learn to bake!

A delicious looking braided yeast bun

Chicks dig it!

On popular demand: The (German) recipe. Special hints from the baker: don't make the milk too hot, that'll kill the yeast. Also put the yeast-milk-flour mixture in a sufficiently large dish to avoid extra cleaning work. (A regular coffee cup is too small!)


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Sat, 14 Apr 2007

Spring

Chucks in a shelf


After wearing heavy shoes and army boots all winter, the first day wearing regular chucks again feels like walking barefoot.

It's spring! :)


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Fri, 13 Apr 2007

Sugar Eggs

Tolimar: It's okay! Some else took care of it! :D

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package full of sweets

Thanks, aba!


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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!


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Mon, 12 Mar 2007

What kills my office chair's pneumatic thingy

*doing* *doing* *doing* *doing*


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Wed, 28 Feb 2007

Deutsche Post - when fact beats fiction

Sometimes it happens, that items that are handeled by the German Mail (Deutsche Post) get damaged by their technical installations. When this happens, the item is put into a transparent plastic bag, together with a letter excusing the accident and telling the recipient how to file a request for investigation. So far so good. Unfortunately the envelope that got ripped in that case included two pendants that fell out and got lost.

I didn't expect this to be much of a problem, but when I tried to file my request at the mail office it turned out, that there is no form for that kind of incident. The regular form used for requests for investigation assumes that the whole shipment got lost. There is no way to indicate, that it is not an envelope that is missing but merely its content. Trying to exlpain that to the lady there also wasn't successful. Except for repeatedly telling me that I had no right to claim compensation when posting things via regular mail (I know!!) she wasn't of much help. In the end I filled out the form as good as possiblei, gave comments where necessary and the lady promised me I would at least get a confirmation from the service centre.

So today, after waiting for more then two weeks I finally got a letter from the service centre. Guess what it said:

"Dear Mister(!) Reichle.
The investigation can not be carried out at the moment, since the information you provided is not complete. Please complete and correct the information according the missing item ..."
And now, guess how I got it. Ripped, in a transparent plastic bag.


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Thu, 19 Jan 2006

Random stuff

Not much happening at the moment, thus just a few random musings ...


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