8 posts tagged “life”

Sometimes I have those early as hell Saturday's when I get up and get shit done.

So for example today, thanks to jetlaggyness I was up from 2 AM and decided to not go to sleep when I got tired around 7. So I went out, had breakfast, then bought an adapter to charge my cam, met someone for a short meeting in Friedrichshain. After the meeting I went for a short photo walk in the rain (more of that later). Thanks to my new jacket I am not wet at all! Yay.

I also tried to call some friends in between, but except for Alex who had been twittering since 6 or so in the morning, no one was up.

So anyway, since it has been raining all day, I noticed that my wiper blades were all messed up, and unfortunately I am a lazy bastard about those things. So I went for a stop at a car shop and replaced them myself, which is of course not really hard, but it was my first time doing so and whatever I can do on the car without paying someone makes me a bit proud. It's always good to get your hands dirty.

In the process I also learned that wind blades have little indicators which turn from black to yellow when you need to replace them. On my old ones, the indicators were fading out from yellow into white. 

So far for today, for the rest of this fine Saturday my project is to build a bed. Yep, build, not buy. I will document and let you know how it turns out. I have a rough idea which revolves around a new mattress and building a frame. It will be bigger than my current and of course better.

So I actually did watch a couple movies lately - Die Hard 4.0, The Simpsons, Shooter, The Contractor, The Number 23, Rise of the Silver Surfer, Zodiac, Spiderman 3, Pirates of the Carribean - At World's End, Fracture, Transformers, Ocean's 13, Hot Fuzz, 27 Weeks Later, Deathproof and Lucky Number Sleven.

Most of them were from the alright-category, yet some were from strikingly bad, but two really came out - outstanding: Deathproof (Grindhouse) and Lucky Number Slevin.

Deathproof is probably the best movie released in 2007. And the best movie I had seen in a while even though I liked Simpson's and Die Hard 4.0. I don't need to say more, if you like Quentin Tarantino you should not miss Deathproof. It's a great movie, much better than the Kill Bill's.

And Lucky Number Slevin was totally new to me. I think I never read a review, never saw a trailer. It was already released in 2006, and I just watched it the other day. And it's one of those movies which I really want to see at the movies if it's ever on again and I feel bad that I missed it. Very cool. The plot, the actors, pictures - everything. In my opinion it's one of the better movies Bruce Willis did. And Josh Hartnett, I guess he's one hell of an actor now and Lucy Liu - I think this is the best where I ever saw her yet.

Not to forget that Morgan Freeman and Bill Kingsley starring in it as well.

So if you haven't seen those two, make sure to check them out.

Deathproof
Lucky Number Slevin

Aua. Ich hatte gerade einen Oha-Moment.
Ich bin ein Erfüllungsgehilfe und fühle mich schlecht nicht sonderlich gut dabei.
Mehr will darf ich dazu nicht sagen.

Says: "I don't need sex. Life fucks me every day."

Is very busy lately.

I have nothing to add here. Sometimes I think that I live at the office currently because the current relaunch eats so much time. It's hot stuff too and we are a bit short on project management perspective, but we are getting there. And we all know.

The rest of my free time I currently either sleep or pretty much spent it all on the Metroblog and a few smaller projects. So there. Now you know.

Then shit always happens when you least need it to happen. So for example my Airport Extreme died last week. It's one of two Apple products in my apartment. One is the Extreme and the other one is an iPod. While I like the iPod, I am so not happy with the Extreme.

A note of advice...

1. All In 99% of all cases, Apple products have a limit where there should be none. For example, my Airport Extreme only allows 12 clients to connect. Some might say, "WTF? 12 - that is a lot!", but it really isn't because I've used it in circumstances where far more people needed access.
2. The Airport Extreme does not like downloads. So for example, you download the latest FreeBSD ISO over night - you might need to reboot the Airport in the morning because it froze half way through.
3. The Airport Extreme reserves the right to freeze for whatever reason and whenever.
4. For all changes you apply, the Airport issues a reboot - reminds you of Windows?

So even though Marc is nice enough to get it repaird through Apple press people, I've really had it. I am not sure what I'll do with it when it comes back. In the meantime I purchased another FON router (my 2nd) because it cost only 35 EUR, because I like the FON-idea and because if I stop liking it, I can also install OpenWRTG on it. And little did I know but when you order the router, it has an estimated shipping time of three days, but it shipped in 3!

Once again I also tried to catch up with my feedreader tonight and failed. I did read a few blogs websites, and sometimes, this stuff can crack me up indeed. There are people, who I know - some in person. All they do on there is really write a bunch of bullshit.

Yeah. Bullshit.

Nothing of it is true or sometimes only very little is. For example they claim to do something but they really don't and never did. Funny, ain't it? A lot of it is seasoned with very business-like talk to make them look all knowledgable and interesting. One man, a company. But they should be cooking on the simmer instead.

Most interesting to me is that this kind of insight always comes when you talk to people about it. Like it never occured to me before. But today I just had a conversation about the very same topic with an ex-colleague. Citizen journalism at its best. The best example why blogs are not to be trusted in the corporate world. Because many people lie.

So this means, unless your company is Web 2.0 and/or revolves around blogging in general - it's hard to build a relationship of trust.

In the end this kind of stuff should not really crack one me up. I know. It's evil to enjoy other people's mishaps. Maybe not evil. But what goes around, comes around. But I just had to laugh when I opened the article and read through it. In the end it's actually pretty sad to lie like that and publish it.

Anyway, I unsubscribed.

Finally time to move on with real life. 2007 is looking great!