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2007-09-05
The link to this web-comic site, xkcd, is already in my links section, but I have to mention it again, cause this strip will crack you up. "I laughed so hard I peed a little" (for all you Scrubs-fanboys). Actually, I snorted when I started laughing ... on my keyboard. D'oh!
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2007-09-04
Guess, where I am! ... back online :D
I know, most of you guys have now the WTF-twinkle in their eyes, so let me explain: Since I'm currently moving from one place to another in Munich (by the way: damn, I still have to update the "impressum" - memo to me!) I had the chance to switch to another ISP as well. I'm happy to get rid of my old provider, because they were really dickheads to veteran-customers while sucking off new ones! They get triple the speed for half of what I was paying lately >_<
... anyway, because of this switch I was off for four and a half day. Sounds like not much? It was for me! Pure AGONY! It was like missing half of your brain (the half that can remember stuff, that is). I really hadn't thought before, that I was that hooked on online-nonsense. But now I'm back! Surprisingly, me hands were not shaking for lack of fresh bytes - but if they were, they would slowely stop now ;)
This whole moving-business makes me feel funny. Well yeah, it may be missing the net, but I think this is something else. Feels like, the guy I was for the last five or six years is about to fade and be replaced be a new me. Old, lengthy thought chains suddenly stop, because the right tracks are suddenly missing (to stay in the metaphor). New thoughts pop up - thoughts that alienate me a little. I'm not sure, if I'm headed to one of the deepest emotional abysses ever or something completely different. We'll see.
So, what's the cause? There shouldn't be much disturbing: Well, yeah, my private time may shrink in the new apartment - but the together-private-time will be increased ;) Perhaps, it's realizing, that now I'm not one of the young ones any more. Living together, the close closure of my study, being more thirty than twenty, school-friends who sport grey hair, ... Where did the time go.
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2007-08-21
Just got back from the "SummerBreeze"-Festival yesterday. Ahhhh, and I am relaxed right now ... yeah, yeah, I have lots and lots to do - but somehow, I don't do all that and I am still relaxed :) I just need that once a year: Camping with several good friends in the summer, drinking way to much ethanol, listening to and chanting songs - and completely neglecting your manners. Oh wait, bands were there, too, and they did a good job justifying the festivals admission charge and completing this unique festival feeling. See you next year, guys, und lasst Wundwasser fließen!
By the way, the site I build for my mother is now online in its own domain www.petra-schicker.de. It's still not finished, but I'm rather proud of it - mainly, because I used some new stuff and learned a lot ;)
And to brag a little: The page is now a simple, but nearly complete, content-management-system. You don't have to know html or anything but still can add and change any content ... now, I'm considering doing the same with this site, that is, making it interactively changable (at least for me) ... Oh, I know me: Don't expect any new content before this update is done >_<
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2007-08-09
I'm sure all of you guys have already seen the The Simpsons-Movie - and probably loved it as I did. And, as common with nowadays films, there is a sophisticated website dedicated to the movie, too - and you just have to see it. Among other wicked-cool stuff, there's a "make yourself a simpson"-prog similar to the famous Mii-constructor from Nintendo that transformed (without the "help" of Michael Bay) virtually anyone I know to a chubby cone-person. Well, that's me in the Simpsons-verse ^^ ==>
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2007-08-09
Little time for updates at the moment.
I'm currently working on a page for my mother for her birthday - which was already a week ago ... actually, I'm just fulfilling a coupon she got from my sister and me years ago. My mother is an artist, so this site is supposed to be somewhat colorful and stuff, but to me it just looks dull like randomly chosen colors - I just don't seem to get the stylesheet right :( Also, my mother is not supposed to learn html to maintain her page, of course, so there is a lot of php still to be written. Check out the current state of the page at it's temorary place.
And now something, all you guys already knew: Moving to a new place is expensive! Especially in my case, since my current flat was stuffed with furniture when I moved in; the new flat is absolutely empty. Turns out, one relly needs kitchens, bedrooms, tables, and stuff! Honestly, I'm shocked!
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2007-07-27
Whooot, after lots and lots of hustle we have our new flat. And with the experiences I made the last few days - I could fill books: Real estate agents not calling although we would get the visited apartment, real estate agents not calling although promised to call, unsuspensible decisions rescheduled, reapparing ads for flats promised to us, misunderstandings, balaahbalub. Well, it was worth it! My new home is huge and right in the city :) I can't wait to move there.
Because of that, I'm really swarmed right now, so don't expect big updates soon!
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2007-07-26
Weird stuff is happening: I thought, finding an apartment would be a problem - and suddenly all the estate agents are calling, telling me I would get the flat. WTF? During the inspections of the flats they are all like ".. dozens of candidates ... very popular building ... " and so on. And now, they are telling me, I would have given them the best application. hmmm. In short: I'm suspicious. They are just creating virtual competition to bill us more money than the apartments are actually worth - and the good part: They make us grateful for it!
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2007-07-25
Still looking for a new flat for my girlfriend and me. Doesn't look too good at the moment: There are always lots of candidates for the good apartments... But on the other side: We have just been looking for two days now; the first time I was looking for a home in Munich, I was there three times for several days and would have been happy with anything!
However, I realized one thing by now: I'm living crappy at the moment ;)
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2007-07-18
The lnx page is done! That is to say, the php scripts are running and most of my most valuable links are stored there. However, this site is intended to change heavily, when I find new valuable sites. But well, unless you habe exactly the same interests as me, Google will most likely work better for you!
I went to visit a flat in Munich today for the first time for years. And it sucked. Not the flat as such, although it wasn't that nice, but all the stumbling through streets, not finding the right building, and hesitating to build up the courage to walk into foreign realms. Nah, will be more fun when my girlfriend and I do it together next week.
