Archive for December, 2007
“How was your Christmas?” a friend asked today on the phone. I had to think a bit. I got all my wishes and my bottom still hurts after a somewhat bumpy ride that had my tailbone get much too close to one of the structural elements of a sled last Sunday. I also got to [...]
IMGP4617, originally uploaded by Dannie Jost.
Once more I have not sent greeting cards, this is my tradition: no cards. This afternoon Harald and I went for a sledding run to Grindelwald. We started from Berne after 12 noon, and were back down in Grindelwald after 6 PM. In between we took a two [...]
In the last week or so in several of the off-line conversations that I have engaged in we have touched on the subject of life and death, how men start wars, and what is important in life. During this time an Aikido colleague had a serious road accident and is now in hospital in intensive [...]
Le mouton noir Christoph Blocher exclu du gouvernement! - Un swissroll
There is nothing like old news! Really, I mean it. Most news are forgotten before one blinks, even those considered by some to be “historical” are easily forgotten, so when three or four days after the event something is still rather present, one is well [...]
umgebaut und eingemittet
It has been a crazy week. My apologies go to all of those who have stayed out of my communication collimator, and there are quite a few. In particular my colleagues at the Physikstamm have all the right to feel totally ignored, and I will burn in hell — in the company of [...]
was wird aus dem stadtwanderer? - der neue bundeskanzler …, originally uploaded by stadtwanderer/randonneur_urbain.
I got a message from a friend of mine now in Sarajevo that something or other had happened today in the National Parliament. Oh! It is the 12th of December! The election of the new Federal Counselors was slated for [...]
I am having a slight technical problem with uncondition since this morning when during the wee hours I updated ecto and lost in the process a whole bunch of drafts that include a good part of Parallax III that I had offline. I ought to be able to recover the files however I have no [...]
Achilles: Now you have pushed the envelope far, you have opened the window so wide, you have unhinged the doors, you have thrown away the keys, and you have mashed up the whole of it! What on earth do you think that you are doing?Tortoise: We are not here in Lebanon, Lisbon is [...]
oil and water, originally uploaded by Dannie Jost.
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The last time that I could not sleep because I did not want to sleep without writing down a few thoughts occurred a few months ago. At that time what was on my mind was very private and intimate, and then I wrote what there was to write, purged the buffer of my mind, and [...]
