Missed a birthday ... (Sep 8, 2005)
... mine. Here. 6th.

Never thought *that* could happen...

late all around!


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No matter (Sep 29, 2004)
Meant as a reminder to myself:

No matter what I do
I hurt myself
Even writing these lines.

The goals I suffered
For for
Years and years

Should I heed what I swore
Was I just young
Or can I allow all that to take second place for the time being?

Doing so would mean that I suffered in vain?
Not doing so would mean that I am blind to reality?
No matter what I do, I hurt myself.


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Hernando (May 2, 2004)
Ok, how am I going to tell this?
...
There's me and my beloved Naak, laying in bed and she notices a protruding nose-hair of mine. After prodding it for a bit and driving me nuts with the tickles she announces that she has decided to call it "Klaus-Dieter".
Later she changed her mind and the name to "Hernando". In the sense of "Hairnando" as she informs me. Could have been "Heirnando" or "Harenando", too.
Then she adopted my single nose-hair ... errr, I mean Hernando.

If it follows her home, she can keep it...



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What is the most ... (Apr 9, 2004)
... useless thing to give to me?

you have one week starting from now (1:30) a.m. GMT to tell me. An to the first persom to guess it.
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Friends! Yay! (Mar 15, 2004)
Just a quick note to myself that friends are a great invention. Especially those who I didn't contact for over two years and who then suddenly want to see me (after flying around half the globe to do so). And then you pick up the conversation as if nothing had happened in between.

Just wonderful.


Thanks.

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Results (Nov 6, 2003)
Today I received the marks for my thesis (see F20154?thread=282343). Both correctors gave me a "magna cum laude".

So, I'll have the oral exam soonish and can then start looking for someone to publish my work.

This rocks!


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1st September 1999 (Aug 31, 2003)
Wow ... four years of h2g2.

What a pity that nothing came of the Area42 project. It would have been nice to take a gimpse back at how the site was back then.

Amazing ... all those things I never fully understood about the site ... and the things that changed in these four years. Blast! I am growing old ... pondering all these things.

All in all things changed for the better ... naak!
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Flash Mobbing (Jul 31, 2003)
Ha! I just returned from my frist Flash Mob! A very interesting and fun experience... I can only recommend it!

Appreciating a monument for two minutes.


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I consider entering a joke ... (Jul 9, 2003)
... into this journal. Maybe it's slightly off and slightly twisted.

It could involve the Siamese twins that died during the operation and Matthew 19:6.

Would I post something like that?

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Weird things to write in obituaries (Part II) (Jun 23, 2003)
I though "what is the use of collecting obituaries if no-one knows about it?". And so I started this rather loose series some time ago. Here, now, is part two.



Well, I would really like to introduce you to the "if you have 15 titles, there still is no need to display them all"-category... but these people are easily identifiable and I don?t want to raise any trouble. So I will present one out of the category of "Oh, c?oooooooon... get over it" or "You never left the party, eh?".

Translated version with [annotations] and {censored bits} ... starting ... now!


I had a comrade ...
[Just the first line of one of those rather well known Nazi songs]

We grief for our {honorary upper echelon member}
{...}
Colonel of the reserve, retired

Bearer of the Knight?s Cross of the Iron Cross with the {number}th Oak leaves and other decorations of valour

We owe a lot to him and will commemorate his name in honour.
The Tradition Community
Of German Tank Forces







Ok, wellllll... thank you for pointing that out. I am sure that there are a lot of people who will not forget him or at least his deeds.



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Finally! It is done, backed-up, printed, bound and handed in. (Jun 1, 2003)
My thesis.
For those of you how know (about) me, you might know that I've been working on it like forever. And now it is all done. In some very late night and early morning shifts, as these things tend to be.

Statistics:

237 pages, 71897 words, 372008 characters (not counting blanks) ... all those figures include the list of literature etc.


Yeeeeeeeeeha! </>
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Ok, own up! Who of you useless ... (May 27, 2003)
people took my razor?! I mean, hey!? It was there on Thursday morning and it's gone on Saturday. Who would nick a two year old (admittedly not really cheap) electrical razor? The female flatmates deny all knowledge, as do the boys.
ARGH!
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It sucks ... not. :-/ (May 27, 2003)
Dear Diary,

I just tried to vacuum the far corner of my large bookshelf, after throwing out about 4 lever arch files of old copies. And I found that I cannot get near enough with vacuum cleaner. There are just too much books and 20 (full) lever arch files on the floor... what should I do?



to h2g2 and write a journal entry?


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Ooooops! I'll burn in HELL, it seems! (May 20, 2003)
I just took Dante's Inferno Test @
http://www.4degreez.com/misc/dante-inferno-test.mv
and, uh, I was sent to the 7th ring of hell.


Level - - Who are sent there? - - Score

Purgatory - - Repenting Believers - - Very Low
Level 1 - - Virtuous Non-Believers - - Very Low
Level 2 - - Lustful - - - - - - - - - - - Very High
Level 3 - - Gluttonous - - - - - - - - - High
Level 4 - - Prodigal and Avaricious - - High
Level 5 - - Wrathful and Gloomy - - Very High
Level 6 - - Heretics - - - - - - - - - Extreme
Level 7 - - Violent - - - - - - - - - - Extreme
Level 8 - - Fraudulent, Malicious, Panderers - - Very High
Level 9 - - Treacherous - - - - - - - - High


Look, mate, just don't mess with me, eh?
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From 1681, Chapter 42: &lt;sheep&gt; (May 19, 2003)
No manner of person shall bring, deliver, send, receive, or take, or procure to be brought, delivered, sent, or received into any ship or bottome, any Rams, Sheep or Lambs, or any other Sheep alive, to be carried and conveyed out of this Realm of England, Wales, or Ireland, or out of any of the Queens Dominions, upon pian that every such person, their aiders, abetters, procurers and comforters, shall for his and their first offence forfeit all his goods, and suffer imprisoament one whole year without bayl or mainprise; and at the years end in some market-town in the fulness of the market have his left hand cut of, &c.

Edawrd Coke, 1681
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Very nifty (Apr 11, 2003)
feature, eh?
(look at the top of my page)
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I am (Apr 8, 2003)
* alive (despite having been to China)
* bloody busy
* spending not enough time here
* trying to change some of the above (guess)


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Live from the Yangzee (Mar 22, 2003)
Hi Journal...
Today I am reporting live from the shores of the Yangzee River, about 200 km West of Wuhan. Working on a GPRS modem t incrediblz low speed and thanking the BBC for the plain skin ...
The weather is slightly better than the speed of the connection and the scenery is awesome.


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Overheard at a party (Jan 22, 2003)
Standing in the corridor leading up to the bathroom, she comes out of a room, obviously looking for something.

He: "Toilet?"

She: "No, Lisa."


Pure Genius!
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Overheard on a train (Nov 27, 2002)
I heard this being said by a 12-14 yr old girl on a train last Friday:

"If my mother had no interest in me, she would not hit me."


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weird things to write in obituaries (part I) (Nov 6, 2002)
"He died the way he had led his life: intensively, upright and uncompromisingly."

How does one die in an intensive way?!
And how does one die in a compromising way?
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The h2g2 statistics of October 25, 2000 (Oct 30, 2002)
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Radio (Sep 11, 2002)
10 out of 10 for a local radio station for announcing a special on Sept. 11 and then playing Black Sabbath - "Paranoid" followed by "Another Brick in the Wall (part 2)" by Pink Floyd.
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Naaaaak! (Jun 20, 2002)

Just had to say that here.


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Bhaggi (May 16, 2002)
Went to a disco... and as if that wasn't enough they let me in for free
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