Maybe time to think about getting a new eMail address?!?
Another intersting study which shows what women prefer 
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Surfing in the Internet is good for the brain. These research findings make me happy since I don’t have to have a guilty conscience for being online all day instead of reading a book 
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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 .
Here are some pictures (thanks to Anja who let me use them):
I’m back from our 5 day trip to Berlin we did last Wednesday til Sunday. We did all the important sight seeing stuff and had great weather. Wednesday was still a bit rainy but since we arrived in the evening it didn’t matter. The following four days were great; sunshine, blue sky – real nice fall weather. Also ideal conditions for the Berlin Marathon which took place last weekend. Here are some pictures from our trip:
Last Monday I had my very last exam (at least for my degree in Computer Science at Darmstadt). It was an oral exam in Social Psychology and it went pretty well . So now there is only one thing left before I can graduate – I have to write my final thesis which takes about 6 months. Now I try to find a place and topic for the thesis and hopefully I can start working on it within the next weeks. It’s a strange feeling knowing that it’s only some more months of being a student before starting to work and not knowing any details yet. So basically it is a big question mark how my life will look like next summer, or better: a big adventure 
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During the last week I’ve helped several friends solving computer problems or setting up a new computer. It were 2 new laptops, 1 partly destroyed Windows installation and 1 fully destroyed Windows installation. All computers are up and running now (hopefully for a very long time without problems) and I think 4 computers in one week is my personal record .
What else is worth mentioning: The LHC is up and running, too, and the universe still exists. I think the whole LHC-leads-to-apocalypse-thing is a massive public relation campaign which motivates people to catch up on what is happening in the LHC. I have no clue about what is happening there in detail but I like the funny stuff in the Internet concerning this topic. My favorites are the Large Hadron Rap and the following cartoon:
Next week I’ll be in Berlin for some days with friends so most likely my next post here will be about this trip and contain some nice pictures.
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 .
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.
Last Tuesday I finally received my official diploma from CU. So now, more than three month after the official graduation ceremony, all the paperwork is done and I hold a degree in Computer Science *yeah* . If you wonder how such a diploma looks like, here is a picture:
It’s somehow funny to read .
The next news: I’ve extended my blog with a Link-Page. I reactivated my del.icio.us account (didn’t use it for 2 years or so) to store my bookmarks and added a WordPress page which shows a del.icio.us tag cloud and a list of my links.
Last but not least I want to mention a new kind of search machine I’ve discovered recently. It’s called Oamos and it generates an interesting multimedia presentation from a google-like query. This is the result for the words “Boulder Colorado USA”. Have fun trying your own words!
Today’s edition of Ehrensenf presented a nice homepage where you can upload a picture and it gets inserted into a yearbook. The picture is manipulated and you can see yourself with haircuts and clothes from the 1950s up to the 1990s. The homepage is http://www.yearbookyourself.com/ and some of the results for a picture of mine are shown in the following gallery:
Besides wasting my time while playing around in the Internet I try to study for my very last exam which is at the beginning of September – don’t know an exact date yet. The topic is Social Psychology and I’m not really happy with the material provided for preparation, but it’s too late anyway. So I’ll just make the best out of it .
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