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Actually having a ball with politics!
Just a few days ago I tried pitying a friend of mine for the fact that he works like a horse, and he retorted something that implied that he needed no pity as he was having all sorts of fun. For him work is fun. Yesterday somebody asked me how [...]

Thanks to a friendly email from Sarah I got a reminder that BarCamp Zurich is coming up on Saturday. I will have to disappoint the local firemen and not show up to something that would greatly honour them with my presence (cough… cough… yikes! who thinks up these wonderful form letter invitation formulations?) and head [...]

The session of our city’s parliament on September 6 has left me perplexed, amused, and wondering in what kind of rabbit hole I have fallen into.

Friday August 31, 2007
One of my best friends gets these horrible debilitating migraines on a very regular basis which she endures rather bravely. Today I felt that I must have borrowed her head, I simply woke up in a deplorable state of having a nagging headache, and I will not take medication unless I am [...]

I went back to my Friday evening round-table yesterday to chat up a bit with my Physics colleagues. I have been rare at these rounds for the past few months, and the group itself tends to be less regular during the summer. However now Berne is back in its half-full swing of things, school and [...]

My mac and I took a seat in this city’s parliament yesterday for the first time and within five minutes I had figured out that the wifi was shaky and that I need to get a different cord to be able to feed the mac with a few electrons.
About 58. On tuesday during our party’s [...]

Tim Rice’s lyrics from the musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber Evita keep on popping in my head, and I can see clearly the scene now. I saw Evita twice while in Los Angeles many eons ago.
(EVA and PERON arrive at PERON’s apartment.
PERON’s 16 year-old MISTRESS is in bed.)
HELLO AND GOODBYE
EVA
Hello and goodbye!
I’ve just unemployed [...]

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Really. Just one.
The post with the contents of the talk is turning out rather long (ca. 3′000 words) and it will follow here soon.

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Today had lunch with Philippe Müller to discuss the possibility of actively becoming a member of Berne’s city parliament. For the habitual readers of this blog who are not familiar with my involvement in politics, this may come as a surprise. Me and politics is a troubled relationship. I just have always wondered what role [...]