tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-74435362012-02-16T13:20:33.098+01:00+++The past is past, the future unformed. There is only the moment, and that is where he prefers to be. William Gibson+++All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath. F.Scott Fitzgerald+++The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience. Frank Herbert+++Roboclerkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18299683592097764376noreply@blogger.comBlogger5581100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7443536.post-8879282281589455452011-06-22T00:23:00.000+02:002011-06-22T00:23:44.031+02:00

The last couple of year I took the time to attend some festivals and I have become somewhat of a regular at the Hurricane festival in Scheeßel. I was there every year from 2008 until 2011. My favorite year so far was 2009 with Nine Inch Nails, Kraftwerk and The Pixies playing. This year the line up was kind of generic. Headliners being Foo Fighters, Incubus and Arcade Fire. But that is not why I

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It is a widely known fact that I am great fan of the Sandman Mystery Theater series by Matt Wagner. Sadly Vertigo has cut back on completing the run as they have not released a paperback this year. It would really be a shame if I would not be able to get the full series. It would only be about to more collections to fill up the run of 70 issues. I have the odd single issue from the original

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So yeah one more post for the time being. The arm has healed up nicely, if it's only feeling a little strange now and then. I've been on my usual reading round lately, picking up some German stuff even and some more John Brunner. After having first read "Stand on Zanzibar" during my time down under, I became very fascinated with his way of writing and how it's all encompassing. "The sheep look

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So yeah, I am back as usual, some pretty interesting stuff happened in the meantime, and the broken arm was not even the worse thing. Let me just allude to the fact, that I had the distinct pleasure of being treated in an American ER. While much better stocked and staffed, it was ridiculously prized. But I am well insured and now have a more permanent souvenir of the Big Easy. But let's get back

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So I have finally managed to break one of my bones. It took it's time and quite  some accidents to finally break something. The incident was quite mundane, in fact I did not realize at the time that I broken my arm. I was doing my regular round around the lake when 3/4 through to the end I trip over some roots buried in a sandy patch of the way. Threw me off the velo and on the ground. Tore on of

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So it happened that I survived yet another festival. This year's hurricane was in fact my third, and man it was the most tiring so far. But in general it was less problematic then the previous year. Some of my friends had their stuff stolen, same shit that happened in 2008. I can not over emphasis the importance of keeping your stuff on your body at all times, and how important it is to remain

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Ok before we continue with the main narrative a little sideline. After some of the events that remain to be chronicled later, with the input of a friend, I decided to go Rock im Park 2010. The line up was just to good to pass on. The sister festival "Rock am Ring" was the first festival with camping I went to in 2006. So this we had a much smaller crew, just a friend and his brother. We drove

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Gee there is an immense amount of dust accumulated on these pages. Two years without an update, so let's blow off the dust and get right back at it again. I think an update is in order, so from the point where we left off. Turns out the relationship that got me away from blogging did not work out exactly, we called it quits after about eight months. We had nice trip to Los Angeles though. But

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Ok there, I have returned from yet a another amazing trip to the Southland, and I've come to realize that it is finally time to bring this blog to an end. I have just outgrown this, so without much of a bang the story ends here.The End !!!

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The time has finally come, after some fours years, I am actually beginning to lose more and more interest in the project that has become " A canticle for virusgras". This is not to say that I don't want to publish my stuff anymore or that I am off blogging just that I can't see myself writing this particular blog anymore.I think I just to go onto my more literal  blog "BioCarbon Amalgamate".

Roboclerkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18299683592097764376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7443536.post-92078402720318203792008-06-29T18:22:00.003+02:002008-06-29T18:40:48.521+02:00

I just haven't forgotten about my blog yet, I was just busy doing other stuff.First of all I went to this years Hurricane Festival in northern Germany, and enjoyed it tremendously, even more so as I managed not get a bad sunburn this time. The bands were great and the atmosphere was very relaxed and no nearly as aggressive as with "Rock am Ring", I think this is going to be my festival of choice

Roboclerkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18299683592097764376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7443536.post-24389715650882986322008-06-12T20:13:00.002+02:002008-06-12T20:21:26.775+02:00

So it does happen and it can happen, even to me.I can't really believe it yet myself, but I am not alone anymore. Let me just put it this way this is on the one hand the most spontaneous thing I've done since I can remember and then also the most orderly thing. It's beautifully weird.  This was really some deus ex machina in the 11th hour.Happiness within her and me. 

Roboclerkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18299683592097764376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7443536.post-87507063906451029502008-06-06T18:11:00.002+02:002008-06-06T18:24:34.301+02:00

Whow that was close yesterday at 2200 hours I had a major malfunction in my external hard drive, where I usually store my MP3 and all the other stuff that has amassed over the year. Incidentally this is even my back up storage.So what went wrong? From the first look of it the disk would not spin up. So I flipped the power switch and nothing happened, the power adapter was suspiciously cold, so I

Roboclerkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18299683592097764376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7443536.post-80926024258867122432008-05-31T14:27:00.003+02:002008-05-31T15:09:54.635+02:00

Yesterday night I indulged myself with the latest movie in the Indiana Jones movie. Being the big geek that I am especially for everything from George Lucas's mind, I was really looking forward to it. I even went so far to actively avoid spoilers, which is something I usually don't even care about. Too bad tough I couldn't see it back in Britain last week, as I really wanted to get some of the

Roboclerkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18299683592097764376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7443536.post-86981336233227949282008-05-28T22:59:00.003+02:002008-05-28T23:37:23.945+02:00

So I am back then, that is back in the daily grinder already. But I am a hell of a lot better then before.As usual things went quite different, but what the hell. It worked out even better.The first thing my hosts provided was a plan, that we marginally sticked to, but that was so lovely British. I guess there couldn't have been any better hosts, as the teacher couple I stayed with provided more

Roboclerkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18299683592097764376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7443536.post-36690934822219842102008-05-20T22:30:00.002+02:002008-05-20T22:52:03.627+02:00

So in about 14 hours I am on my way to Britannia to visit some friends of the family. But mostly I admit I do this on my own selfish terms, as I just needed a change in wallpaper before I went crazy. The day trip to Amsterdam was nice, but this thing is going to be a small dosage of the much needed salvation. So I am looking forward to a week without phone-calls, without net access( I made a 

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So it what the right time indeed to gather on the river banks in the ex capital to party into  someone's birthday. As usual for me I underestimated the weather and ended freezing my arse off. Still it was a very nice evening, early morning kind a thing. We only had one major casualty as the host of the soiree tripped over very unhappily with a bottle in his hand, which shattered and cut his hand

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So it happened I was finally awarded with a German flag, the irony being that it was included in a pack of toilet paper. I guess this tells you how much we Germans appreciate our own flag and what it stands for. Matter of fact, most people don't even know why the colors are Black,Red and Gold. Remember the last one, as it is important not to call it yellow.Now what I don't like about it is that

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As usually when I hit a hole in my plans, a strain not planed for, I developer some way to come clear of it. This time around I finally managed to channel this energy into writing, as I have begun to properly tackle on my little writing exercise. I am almost done with the first volume by now, as I write through the night.Even by adopting something from one media to another I still fell like I am

Roboclerkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18299683592097764376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7443536.post-16536540846201636042008-05-03T14:20:00.005+02:002008-05-03T14:44:49.973+02:00

In a semi spontaneous fit it was decided by the committee for applied "THOUGHT CRIME",that a little trip was in order just for a change in the routine. The western countries were in the discussion after a little consideration between Brussels and Amsterdam, the later won, mostly because of curiosity. Never been there before.Actually I don't want so much to write about the trip, which would kind

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Quite a week, work wise and personal. But not bad at all.I've managed to finished the latest Gibson much faster then I had anticipated. It left me with a strange feeling thou. As there was not much of a plot to begin with, the ending left me largely unsatisfied. Do I smell a sequel there? Spook country was more a novel of scenes and social commentary and satire. That was brilliant about it as

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Being the "famous" patron of the arts that I am, well I decided to get down to some ART exibition in the Big City. Haven't been there during the day or outside of work in a longer while. So yeah some was long over due here. One of our clients does the light there, so had an inside connection and a rather nice discount on the price. After the technicalities were taken care off, I only had the

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It's that time of the year again, when Vertigo/DC publishes it's annual TPB edition of Sandman Mystery Theater. At this rate of publishing, they'll finish the series about 2013. I wished they would speed up the process a bit, as the original run of this series finished in 1999. That was in the g-ddamn 20th century!Anyways, the series is as good as ever, after the some enigmatic story arc "The

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Well the day of the anticipated party arrived, we drove there across the land, across the night, against the storm& rain, which was particularly heavy that night.We even had our own little mystery in the hand luggage when we found the car with the side door wide open after we supposedly locked it. Strange thing.So we arrived in the northern metropolis that is Munster, a town as boring as can be.

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Whow, I am amazed by the eloquence and pure imaginative beauty that bleeds from the pages of the latest volume of "The league of extraordinary gentlemen". This begins even before the story begins by the haptic experience of the book, which is bound in fake leather, and even inside there are several different sorts of paper used. There is even a Tijuana Bible insert and a cloth bookmark. Pure geek

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Survived the weekend, survived indeed.Enjoyed it tremendously.Nothing major for the first days of the holidays, except a little travel sickness towards New Zealand, where I spend last Easter.On of my closer friends turned 21. today, so we had a little party yesterday night, that lasted into the small hours of the morning, which I really enjoyed. Almost all of the people I enjoy were there. Some I

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----------------Now playing on iTunes: Kaiser Chiefs - The Angry MobOk, usually I don't drag my private life into the public, at least not in a way that might backfire on me.But today I did something, that might need some frame of reference. I ditched somebody.After being ditched myself a couple of times, I decided today after long considerations to spare myself the emotional conundrum by doing a

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... is already here but not widely distributed yet.Fuck, the man, and I mean the man, William Gibson was in town and I missed his lecture. This really sucked, why is it that you always learn of such perfect occasions after they are history?I still of to read his last novel, but I am lacking the time and motivations lately to read much. After a hard day in the office, I usually like some media

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Haven't posted any new stuff in a while. Been busy and a more then a little lazy lately. I am also finding there is more and more stuff I just like to keep to myself, and there are some serious developments I also don't want to share prematurely.I have a writing gig going on also, but this at a very very early phase right now, and I am due for a little trip to the English Midlands this May. That

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Ok I am a bit calmer and resolved at the moment, which is a miracle on it's own considering that I have had to work during the whole weekend incl. Sunday. But such is the call of the insured.Now that the bureaucratic nightmare that is Germany has reached new heights, it's come to the point were a simple single contract has reached the 100 printed pages part. This is just a fucking waste of 

Roboclerkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18299683592097764376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7443536.post-34260846719933200862008-01-10T21:56:00.000+01:002008-01-10T22:20:03.811+01:00

So it's new year, and it's another birthday past.I am back from my little vacation in my alpine retreat. I found my snowboarding skills have improved considerably which is amazing considering that I did not practice one bit in that direction. I just went to Berchtesgaden, strapped the board on and down the hill I went.Other then this and a trip to Salzburg, Berchtesgaden was not particular

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I've been busy lately, more then I had expected for the month of December, but even with the car campaign  gone for the year, work shows now signs of slowing down. So what is the typical geek supposed to do when there just not the time to indulge in Literature? Right he switches over to film, as this is usually less time consuming.My cinematic menu of the last couple of weekends and weekdays

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A while ago, OK a longer time ago actually a friend asked me to list some things I like. It is a well known and established fact that I am book lover and prolific reader in general, so I though I might as well being with a little Top five of my favorite libraries and book stores around the world.So here we go:1 Kinokunya Books SydneyOK this one is easy considering how much time I spend there.

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As you can clearly see out there on your screen I've once again reformed my blog, this has become something semi-annual for me. I just can't stand stagnation for long. So I searched the infinite vistas of the web to come up with this classically geeky mac-ish design. The last thing maybe not, but the geek chic is there. Hellraiser is a decent enough movie, although I've to admit I've never the

Roboclerkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18299683592097764376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7443536.post-52125214627910740042007-11-24T20:51:00.000+01:002007-11-24T20:58:42.852+01:00

src="http://personaldna.com/h/?k=ClIVCRoBrGIHBfR-CA-ACDCA-ecc1&t=Reserved+Experiencer">Can't really keep up with blogging as my schedule is so full at the moment, it's mostly get up - go to work- come back - sleep- rinse and repeat.Come December this may change.Lot of things happening at the moment, can really inform you on any of them right now, but I 'll come back to that.Coming up next a nice

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Another week survived and still three weekend to go in the great motor insurance offensive of 2007. This really drains me, especial that for about 10 applications I take in there is a major fuck up on the corporate side, and I've got to fix it, which uses up me already sparse time. Fuck the companies for not establishing a standard that brokers can use to send in the applications electronically. 

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First of all the "Foo Fighters" gig really kicked ass, the only thing that seriously dragged the whole experience down was the traffic jam, which caused me to become stationary in the fucking car park of the arena Oberhausen for almost an hour.Other then this highlight in these bleak days of working my arse off, I didn't do anything in particular besides work, which took me all over the country

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As usual lately it has been a while since my last post, but it has become increasingly hard to maintain a regular pace of posts. My job really eats my time,and my time is already rather thin.So with this more irregular posting schedule, there are bound to happen things of erratic importance.I still haven't had enough clear time and space of of mind to recompile and comb my memory for beautiful

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Recently, the night before yesterday I had a rather intense midnight conversation with one of my oldest mates, and as usual he looked behind the gauntlet, my personal smokes and mirrors. Something is really going wrong with me and the direction I am taking. I am so fucking passive, I've become a consumer buried in the books, of books, behind which I have to hide...So we have come to point the

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One of the stranger days today, work was very mixed, I appear to have lost my business mojo at the momoment. Feeling very burned out but then when I come home, I am happy as can be again? Suspect something is broken.The CDs I so manually prepared during the weekend, carefully drafted from my collection all turned out to broken in some strange way, so on each disk after the third track there is

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Finally an opportunity to escape the vise of the work week , and to have a good time out in the big city. So yesterday we gathered in one of the my mate's pad and had not plan at all how we should spend the reminder of the night. Those are the situations when you turn old school and have a look at the event section of local newspaper, dead tree edition, turn out the joint were we usually hang

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It was about time to do something geeky for me again. So I decided to overhaul my little network here at home, which consistes at of my MacMini, my old G3 iBook, which I still love, and which has never failed me on my travels around the globe save for the blown power adapter in Vancouver. A lovely little fellow, so I decided to give a fresh new install of Mac OS, after the last reinstall was in

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So today is what we German have to offer under the heading "National Holiday", it's reunion day, the 17th ever, and it still sucks.Beaten and bruised as Germany has become over the centuries concerning it's territorial space, by it's own stupidity with two wholly unnecessary  world wars, has only one day to look up to in recent history, and that's the day we took the communists back. I've nothing

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I've come to think of the minuscule impact an ordinary human life has on the world.I mean what kind of traces does a human being leave behind, if he or she is not extraordinary?What of the untold millions who lived a life truly unremarkable? Who did not perish for a cause at all? Who were born,breed,brought up, and buried without leaving so much as a dent on history?As much as I don't like to

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"... if your gods are your blankets to protect you from the dark complexity of real life, it's time that we carpet bomb them out of their beds. Forced enlightenment if you will. This might be the last chance the human race ever is going to get."Engaged the Major to the captured fanatic, before putting him to dead like thousands who would follow in the years to come on this crusade for the

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Had a good one day, even got some freebies which is always nice. Turns out I participated in this "Bourne whateverthenamewas contest", can't even remember halfway when I actually did this. So in today's mail I received two free DVDs for being a winner in this competition. Now that is sweet, winning something you don't even remember anymore. Not great movies but for free even luck laster

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Whow, finally some time to rest, and yet strangely I am already a bit bored. I've really been going in the fast lane these last couple of weeks. Traveling the country, negotiating with insurers and clients. Been to Frankfurt last week, going north next. When do I get my own private corporate jet? :-) Maybe I need to talk to the exec, oh wait that's me. Silly me, me being silly, to much work and

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Today is the official beginning of autumn in the northern hemisphere. After being in Australia is the second beginning of autumn for me this year. This is looking so much grimmer and bleaker then the one I had in the land down under before.It appears that the technical problems, which plagued my new company network right from the beginning, are finally ironed out. I can't waited to pick up our

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After a strenuous week and the usual over time, I indulged myself with some live music.Tegan & Sara, a nice Canadian indie band, were in the Big City, and I really like their sound. Actually I consider discovering their music one of the few lasting benefits of my failed relation ship with S_D. If that was the good that came from it, so be it.So anyway were was I? Yeah right, I went to the Big

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I don't know how this has flown under my radar so-far but I recently discover a SF television program exactly to my tastes. Battlestar Galactica has all the things I like about my Science Fiction, which is mostly Science in the fiction. No flashy lasers or rubber suited humanoid aliens but rather chemically driven rounds and Newtonian Physics. It really shows that Mark Verheiden is writing this

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Working on the weekend, isn't it great, isn't it fun?Guess it just comes with being an entrepreneur. So chill out a bit I decided to let the good time rules after all. I brought out a couple of very old computer magazines, I'd like to read on a semi annual basis, most of them are from the late 80s or the earliest 90s. The age of the home computer, the golden day of the diskette, the time of ATARI

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Time for another meaningful post before I bed myself.Lately I've had enough opportunity to dig around my roots, as work and personal life crossed over in interesting ways. Visiting a town along the way to a conference a couple of weeks, I was again confronted with the rich history of my family. It's a shame that I am the youngest surviving member. Before we were in the insurance industry my

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Howdy folks,It's me, and I am going fucking crazy. Starting my own business is more challenging then I first imagined, especially the paperwork. I seriously though I could cut back on the dead tree front, but to no avail. There is even more paperwork then ever before. It's Germany so I am sure that's the way it is. A simple fucking moped insurance now comes with a 15 page disclaimer and

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Alright, finally everything is set into place for the big premiere tomorrow. This is what I've working on non stop since the day I returned to the continent from Australia. There are only a few small things that did not make the deadline but the big important bureaucratic nightmares are over. Everything is incorporated and licensed. The 'puters are set up and the software is up and running. Only

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Haven't posted in while. Extremely busy at the moment. This work thing is taking longer then I thought and we are really scratching at the last possible moment to get all the necessary paperwork. But it should just work out. We are officially incorporated now and the hardware gig is going down on the weekend.What meagre time I've left so far, I spend playing Metal Gear Portable Ops. I am a big 

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When you are younger everything appears to be so big, the colours so bright, the distances so long, the time so slow. Going to a supermarket equals a journey to a new continent at this age.The 25 minutes light rail ride from here to the big city was a perceived hour long trip then, any thing but exciting, yet it was totally fascinating. Now a days I am just bored by looking out of the windows,

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Hi there,it me again your humble and not so relaxed lately, author.Yesterday I spend a day under the zodiac of music. Live outdoor and free music that is.As in the year before it was the time of "Rheinkultur" in our nice cozy little ex capital, the city of my birth, I might add at this point. So then to the muddy banks of the Wishka, oh err, I mean the banks of the river Rhine, the gang and me

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Ok, now I must have filed every fucking piece of paperwork in Germany, every last form, and without any help the oh so "civil" fucking "servants", which should be called crack whores actually, as those fuckers are only available for some four hours each day. Not at all at Wednesdays mind you.So now that have finally filed all the necessary stuff to get the licenses needed, I can finally

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Seems like I've been doing this for a while now and this little while is three fucking years now.Time is really running, especially if it on a good thing like this blog thing. In these three years this blog has gone through several iterations, and so have I. Up and down life went, the world went smaller as time went on and I expended my horizon manifold.Co authors came and went, friendships were

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So I went to this party of a good mate of mine last night. Everything began fine and dandy, but as it so happens to be, the peace was not going to last.I can't really understand why people change their character so much when they are drunk, I mean granted you lose some inhibitions but there is no reason for being mean just because your wasted. Never happens to me, I only become a little less

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Sorry I am a bit intoxicated at the moment, so I might make the extra error here and there.Went to that "Queens of the Stone Ages" concert yesterday and it fucking blew my mind.The support act sucked as usual, a strange band called "Kamikaze Queens" from Berlin or something, they looked fuck ugly and really couldn't make any decent sound.But then the guitar gods came on stage.The QOTSA played a

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Made some progress today on all fronts.Secured a domain name in relation to the project, designed the stationary and already ordered the stamp. I 've also already lined up the new business partners and the new software. Basically I now only have to wait for the fucking bureaucrats to spill out the necessary paperwork to get this show on the road.On the personal front I was also able to remove

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I noticed something about my minds, it's pretty preoccupied with the possibilities of nuclear warfare and the inevitability of a global thermonuclear war. The flame deluge, the great holocaust, the simplification.This is so much part of my thinking, about how you can go on existing when there is the ultimate mean of destruction implemented and from one second to the next everything in the world,

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Looking around the web I find my life pretty much unpreserved except for my continuing musings, but that it very much me.I just not the person to be in my own pictures. Just look at my world trip pictures, I am in about 10 out of 1400 shots, and that is fully intentional. Never be to sure that I am even existing maybe I am just a chimera given form. :-)Don't get the idea that because you read

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Remember my last post? How I had this stroke of providence and premonition that something would come up to prevent my plans for the day? That is fucking exactly what happened. A mere 45 minutes after I woke up in the morning I had a car crash, which worst of all was my fault. I drove out of our drive way and in a moment of oblivion oversaw a passing car and set my station wagon straight into it,

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And now for something completly different...I had to spend the better part of two days in Kassel on  work related business. And boy, oh boy, that city really sucks. Imagine the dull cities of eastern Germany blended with the more rundown areas of parts of west Germany and you get a nice image of Kassel. Rarely I've seen and being to a more boring place in Germany.On the other hand the work stuff

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Turns out that most of affords in the last couple of weeks accounted to fucking nothing, because I did not athere to the "proper" fucking forms and procedures. This is so fucking typical, if a German bureaucrat wants to have something in a certain way there is no way around. Fucking brilliant. So I can do everything again, hate that.Germany really needs to purge these bureaucratic hurdles in the

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To put it short this weekend sucks, nothing has worked out the way I intended, and I am home alone. Just boring, the only exception being that I found out that my new office R60 Thinkpad is quite a gaming machine, so I put a couple of old treasures from way back on it. Nothing beats playing "Blade Runner" after all these years, even if its's the sucky German version.Nationality is part of my

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Me taking a shot of the O'Briens in front of a fountain in the Big City. From left to right: Ellen, Jay,Zach,Michelle.

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Yes that was the official motto of the 2006 soccer world cup, I think it befits the situation nicely.I spend most of the weekend being the "Tourgeek" of the O'Brians. A very good experience this was. I picked them up in Neuss on Saturday, and off we went to the big city. I such a good thing to finally be able to let go of all the stored local knowledge in my mind. A most freeing feeling. So we

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I officially declare the transitory phase to be over and my total arrival back home. The jet lag has finally left me and I arrived at a point, where English is not so much of a mother tongue again.This revelation came to me yesterday while I was cycling the woods. The sunshine had a magnificent impact on my already brilliant mood. Five minutes after this the chain jumped of the gears and I almost

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Now that is what I call globalism. Two weeks ago I ran into this nice woman at an LA food court and this week they are coming to Germany. And guess who is going to be their guide? Yes me.This is such a nice coincidence, and I've already some ideas what I want to show them here in Germany.Other then this, I impulsively pre ordered the next album of "The New Pornographers" called challenges,

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First weekend in Germany were I was properly acclimatised, and so I decided to join my mates for a little fun out in the Big City. We went to our usual haunts in the outskirts of the inner city, as these are usually cheaper and more casual then the inner city fare.First thing I positively noticed was the fact how cheap the beer is here in comparison to Australia and the US of A, and how casual

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Great thinks are happening at the moment, big changes and great opportunities arise. I am getting on with my business.All these time on various airplanes during the last week really got me thinking, about my whole brooding, cynical attitude towards the species in general and certain types in particular. I can't just sit down and wait for things to come to an. This is inevitably coming closer by

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First day back at work, and what happens? I fucking killed my dear and beloved lamp style iMac G4, which was in his fifth year now. This really hurts, although it was my own fault as I didn't double check the stability of the box I was schlepping it in, from the car to the office. So after about five meters the bottom of the box came apart and the iMac hit the ground. Hard sidewalk, the monitor

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So I am back, it was inevitable, but still I find I could have used some more time down under.I tried to make the best of the last couple of days, so here is what I did:Friday: Went to the Löwenbräu in Sydney( I might remark at this point that I am quite glad to have a German keyboard layout again, as I missed my Ö.Ä.Ü. & ß, but then again I am a little bit confused on my Zs and Ys)I guess place

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Wow, what an incredibly amazing weekend, at least the parts I can still remember. There are certain blank spots in my memory, so mind you for not being able to tell you everything to detailed.First of all, the NINE INCH NAILS, did not play their concert on Friday, this sucks, but at least I will get a refund for the tickets. Fucking drug abusers.It all began on Friday, when I met with a nice dude

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As it so happen to be I climbed the Sydney Harbor Bridge last Sunday. It was amazing, definitely one of life's memorable moments.The whole tour takes 3 1/2 hours from the orientation session and introduction to the climbing gear at the base of the bridge through the super structure below the car lanes, underneath the bridge arch, along the outside of the pylons, above the train tracks, on to the

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Yes, that is one of the many perks of being in OZ at this stage in time. I could have my go at today's free comic book day, where the industry hands out free comics through stores. This has become somewhat of a staple, as it is now in it's sixth year. So I canvased all the comics stores in Sydney today to get my share. Actually there are just two stores I know about, but two freebies are better

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So there is me in Queensland, staying with some of the amazing people I met last year on my trip through Canada.Queensland is having a major drought, and at the moment we are having level 5 water restrictions, which means 140 liters of water per day per person. But this is not nearly as bad as sounds, the only thing we this concerns one is in the time to shower which should positively be under 5

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A quick post from the airport lounge before I fly to Brisbane to hook up with some of the people from my incursion into Canada last year.It has been raining, not a little, not much but a fucking non stop more then 48 hours permanent thunderstorm with flash floods kind of rain. Not exactly what you expect of Australia.And now I am sitting here waiting for my plane to be boarded, as the appearently

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Back from Yulara.I was one of the most amazing experiences of my life! Being out there in the desert, seeing the sun going down behind the horizon, the sun light reflecting of Ayer's Rock. Swallowing black flies, until I got me a descent fly net. Seeing the stars like glowing diamonds in the night sky as bright and dark as never seen by me before.Having a great travel companion and pretty

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Well well ,much happening these days, and just not enough time or bandwidth to keep up posting.So here is a quick and brief run down on what I am up to.Went to New Zealand, which was awesome, but this lead to hassle with my credit card and this lead to even more hassle but this has been resolved. Will definitely come back to NZ, there is still so much to see there.Went to Canberra, which is

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It so happens to be that I am going to New Zealand tomorrow until after Easter. This is something that just came up and I decided on doing spontaneously. We'll see what Auckland brings up. From all the flying around I've amassed quite a few frequent flyer points, which come in handy for my trip to Brisbane.So far Australia is great, can't write as often I want to but I've just have to get along

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I've made it, am down under and right in the middle of it. Could not write for some time, only had free net access in HK at the airport, but HK was awesome. Never been to such a fascinating place. Where East meets west. Brilliant.Had a little hassle with the visa though, but I suppose that is worked out now, and I even have one of these older but cooler visa stickers in my passport now.The people

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What a hurry, nothing happens at all or all the things come together in the last single day before the big tour around the world.The weekend was fantastic, went to Düsseldorf with the gang on a surprise visit to a variety show. I was really caught off hand by this. They just told me I was in for treat before going down under, and then this. What a nice surprise, which become even sweeter after

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It took me some time to compose myself again, after the nine inch nails concert on Wednesday.Wow, I am still stoked. It's not my first time hearing them live, but this was the best. The atmosphere is much better when they don't play during a festival but during a solo gig, and in my opinion this was a solo gig, as the opening act sucked, big time.So two hours of wholesome energetic music, by a

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Tempus fugit!!!Time is racing by, just a week to the big trip. Everything is prepared, the papers are ready, the work waiting and the friends around the globe are waiting.The domestic friends have a surprise waiting for me on my last weekend here, I am really curious what that is. And to make things even better a certain antique oracle from Oz has written me a pen & paper later, which really

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Well, my friends, I've returned from the Netherlands and their nether realms. This was really a time out, as the town were the summer cottage is, is nearly deserted this time of the year. I wonder if the town improves if there are more people around. We didn't do much, visited Antwerp on the way there, but it was raining cats and dogs. This somewhat dragged down my impression of this otherwise

Roboclerkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18299683592097764376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7443536.post-4603924374608190692007-03-02T20:51:00.000+01:002007-03-02T21:29:53.261+01:00

It's my pleasure to announce, that I am once more setting sails to embark on a journey, this time on a global scale. I'll be visiting three continents, Asia,America and Australia, four countries, the UK,the Peoples Republic of China, Australia and the United States.I'll life and work in Australia for two months, in the insurance business of course. I've already been invited to visit some of the

Roboclerkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18299683592097764376noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7443536.post-35428688917532088582007-02-26T23:49:00.000+01:002007-02-26T23:59:07.000+01:00

This is year's birthday bash was a total and utter success. I was on such a good mood that I even forget to take some shoots to achieve the event. The presents were most thoughtfully selected, I have to thank all the people who made the selections. Now I am finally able to close the last big gap in my movie knowledge, as I have been given the "Godfather" on DVD. Most delightful!Also great was the

Roboclerkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18299683592097764376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7443536.post-61855943270669746352007-02-24T18:08:00.000+01:002007-02-24T18:10:48.163+01:00

This time it's at home or in the garden to be more precise. It's my annual birthday bash combined with a farewell party before leaving for OZ. Most of my friends come, some are being struck by illness. Should be a nice evening. More once it's over.

Roboclerkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18299683592097764376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7443536.post-91544982377523585102007-02-21T21:53:00.001+01:002007-02-21T22:10:32.409+01:00

Wow, I just saw a mind bending movie, style breaker, something that will affect they way we perceive Science Fiction. "Children of Man" is the film I am talking about. What begins like our standard tale of dis utopia turns into a movie which I can only compare in style with "Blade Runner". Even though the idea of a society or rather a whole population being infertile, is not that new , the way

Roboclerkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18299683592097764376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7443536.post-53547271175882877992007-02-20T22:03:00.000+01:002007-02-20T22:23:47.241+01:00

OK,OK I had the honest intention of avoiding the whole hassle of "Karneval" but in the end there are some things that are just bigger then you are. Meaning I could not avoid the party and the other things, I tried to, but I got the better of me. I have to credit some friends with dragging me along though.Went to the parade in our town and the parade in the next fucking town,was pretty heavily

Roboclerkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18299683592097764376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7443536.post-62028395058193983842007-02-17T17:25:00.000+01:002007-02-17T17:40:23.022+01:00

Right, I did it on Thursday, I beat "Fallout 2", and with the English version I was finally able to see the right end sequences. As I told you before I had edited the character files and max out everything, this way I was able to pursuit every possible quest and twist in the story, but I am sure I still have missed a few bits and pieces here and there. Anyway playing this game has once again

Roboclerkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18299683592097764376noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7443536.post-53428771942149277072007-02-14T23:00:00.000+01:002007-02-14T23:04:15.371+01:00

Couldn't write for a awhile, has been extremely busy these last couple of days. Work, work, work, and some more.All the while it bugged me not having completed "Fallout 2", so I decided to give it another try, this time with extreme measures. I edited the character files, maxed out all the stats and skills and set off to beat the game. In three days I have already beaten most of the game and

Roboclerkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18299683592097764376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7443536.post-32930779113791881752007-02-06T19:55:00.000+01:002007-02-06T20:10:15.710+01:00

There it goes. I've been playing "Fallout 2" whenever I had the time lately, but the game died on me today. Not a simple crash mind you, no a crash right in process of saving the game, which in turn corrupted all my safe games. I fucking hate it when something like this happens!!! Especially with game like fallout, which is quite extensive and you can not play to the point where you where

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Ok, I was finally able to have my Australian Visa fixed. It was tense, as I tried to reach anybody at the Australian embassy to Germany to for almost a week, it was either a busy line or a waiting cue that prevented me from contacting any living person. Tuesday during what was supposed to be my lunch break, I called the embassy again, and stayed on the line. and stayed and stayed and stayed and

Roboclerkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18299683592097764376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7443536.post-43329407985373710052007-01-29T19:56:00.000+01:002007-01-29T19:57:25.128+01:00

Found on the GrubbstreetI am:Kurt VonnegutFor years, this unique creator of absurd and haunting tales denied that he had anything to do with science fiction.Which science fiction writer are you?

Roboclerkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18299683592097764376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7443536.post-73617241366589666382007-01-27T22:03:00.000+01:002007-01-27T22:28:05.677+01:00

I intended for this night to be one out in the "Big City", but suddenly I was quite struck by a wave of depression and in term realization. Realization, that most of the time my life has become "turn based" as of late. Except for clients and employees, I did not talk to anybody during the last week,I did not really met with people often anymore and I am not as contend as I used to be. Most of

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