I wish you Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2010!
Ich wünsche Euch allen Frohe Weihnachten und einen guten Start ins neue Jahr 2010!
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Last week some friends and I went alpine sliding at the Hoherodskopf (Vogelsberg). It was a nice day and we all had a lot of fun. Everybody did six runs down the 750m long track. The challenge was to brake as less as possible 
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Here are some pictures (thanks to Anja who let me use them):
Last Sunday Vincent, his brother Stephane and I went to Frankfurt(Main) to the Museumsuferfest. That’s a big event at the riverside in Frankfurt with lots of food places, bars and stages with bands playing all kinds of music. Additionally all museums are open and you can visit them until late in the evening. We had a great but exhausting evening. The festival ended with a large firework which we saw while standing on one of the bridges over the river Main.
Games Convention – the world largest video games event in Leipzig, Germany. That’s where some friends and I spent last Friday. Waking up at 4.30am, driving for 4 hours, getting tickets and then entering the world of video games. I had no idea what to expect since I haven’t played an up-to-date PC game within the last 5 years or so. So after a day of waiting in lines to test the newest and best PC games ever for a couple of minutes I know a bit more about the current state of the art. It’s all nice to see but no game was amazing enough to persuade me buying a new computer for gaming 
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Besides playing computer games we also had the opportunity to drive quads; one company had a quad track with small hills and we could drive for a couple of minutes. It’s pretty easy and it’s really fun. The quads had automatic transmission so all you had to do is accelerate and brake . Unfortunately jumps were not allowed. Here are some pictures from the games convention:
Finally I want to point to two funny articles I’ve discovered recently. Number one: some people in Germany got arrested for tuning an office chair and driving it without license.
Number two is a study about beer and publications. Unfortunately beer seems to decrease the abiltiy to publish papers (or failing to publish papers motivates drinking beer). That’s sad 
. But since I finish school next year and don’t plan on publishing a paper I can bear it. Bad luck for all the PhD students though.
A few weeks ago my dad turned 50 and last weekend we had a big birthday party in our barn. Where 20 years ago about 100 bulls had been fed, on Saturday 130 people celebrated. And since my dad is a big fan of Bavaria the decoration was white-blue instead of red-white (which would be the hessian colors ). I was really surprised how some trees, wreath and table cloth can make a big room look quite inviting.
But the best thing of this party was the bavarian beer I must admit. We had normal beer and wheat beer on tap and after 10 month of american “beer” it tasted even better .
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