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Mr. Seezen's Choppin' Blog
Monday, February 28, 2005
As it turns out, Dresden has spoken. The Waldschlösschenbrücke will be built. The city has no money, but screw it. We're going to rip the Elbauen a new one. It is indeed a marvel of engineering, yet oddly enough also an homage to Ray Kroc.
As a result, we're gonna have even more traffic going down Stauffenbergallee. And furthermore, we'll get a buttload more traffic on my street. While Waldschlösschen might have a remote chance of developing a commercial gain out of this, my street will not be able to; there is simply not enough room to park. So this bridge will only bring us more traffic.
What beautiful snow we've had these days. Just after the groundhog said it would be so, The very next day on through the whole week We cowered and cursed the dry subzero vibe.
Then, in the following week, the heavens came to a conclusion. Wenn schon, denn schon. And white and wet and everywhere between came from up and eventually settled down.
It let up a bit on some days, but never retreated, As at once we savoured the squeaking "urf urf" below our heels, and then we found next a field Of gelatinous dirtcold and open expanses of a billion black orpaned bits of gravel.
Yesterday I went to visit Owen, and shortly before his house (and knowing Rob and Chloe And their silly dog were not ten minutes behind) I saw the corner of the street to the house blanketed in white wanna be snow,
Save the three or four sets of footprints Leading to the house--I tried to guess who they belonged to, and incorrectly I might add. No deer were present.
I stomped out a word in the snow In letters so large and right at the turn you'd never miss it. A little message To those who follow me.
Rob would be too simple, And I can't spell Chloe so I settled With the name of there dog. I shuffled round and spelled OLIVE.
With letters that big you won't miss out on the fact that olive is an anagram for I LOVE. But nonetheless, They didn't see it.
Chloe made the excuse that when She walks she does so like A rhino, a head charge full steam ahead. And don't see nothing.
Or, maybe, with time those little needles of snow were enough to cover up my words. Either way, It's the story of my life.
Nice gig tonight. Oddly enough, at the start of the third set I got a killer cramp in my chord hand and that was all she wrote. It was all those dang barre chords that did me in. Imagine hitting one chord, then not being physically able to release your grip to move to the next one. Needless to say, the last set was fraught with boffed changes and clams. Crap. Must eat more bananas.
It's the birthday of Samuel Pepys, one of the most remarkable characters in modern history. Able to work his way up from poverty to a cushy upperclass job as Secretary to the Admiralty, he kept a brutally honest and insightful journal for over ten years. He wrote about the London fire, the plague, food, sleeping with his wife, and just about anything else that one might experience in the span of ten years.
It's also my dad's birthday, whose age I won't give away; but I will tell you that I'm thirty and he's thirty years older than me.
Let it be known that all of your grades and stuff have been handed in.
Unfortunately, there seems to be a problem with the LSK lektor site. So you can't see your grades online just yet. And don't ask me, because I turned in all the records. Fortunately, the lovely Frau Scheel in all her goodheartedness said she would enter them in for me as soon as the system is working.
So keep checking back. Just not every five minutes, y'all.
The artist responsible for the concrete block I mentioned in the entry below is none other than the illustrious Arthur Ganson, who just so happens to have some videos hosted a ebaumsworld.com. I particulary liked Cory's Yellow Chair and Child Watching a Ball.
The German slang term for abacus is russicher Rechner. Russian Calculator. Of course, the abacus is not solely a product of Russia. They were present in ancient South America, and were also found in Greece and China. I've never personally seen an adept, but my math teachers in elementary and middle school oft told of Japanese excange students they encountered in their own studies who had--and usually mastered with blurring speed--such devices. [more]
PSB Rumor Of course I can't confirm any of this, but a source of mine tells me that Mayor Rossbach has invited the Pet Shop Boys to perform on the roof of a highrise in Dresden sometime this year.
Wrapping up Valentine's Day, and with it the second day of the Dresden Firestorm, Here is how the Washington Post covered it, prefaced by an editorial from Sam Smith, and an entry from the Daily Bleed anarchist almanac.
Just walking down the street over the weekend I happened to several bills posted on walls and lightposts-- [more]
Toast Thanks to everyone who helped out with my little FLA problem. I now have a couple of CDs from which I can try stuff. Patrick, please send me an email. I have a question for you but I am afraid I lost your email with the new install...
This evening I saw Face About Face perform at AZ Conni on Rudolf-Leonhardstrasse.
It was an enjoyable evening. All bandmembers are clearly passionate about the music that they make. The music unto itself is very thoughtful, brooding, pensive, and then explosive. At any rate, they are musically very adept.
What cannot be denied is that Face About Face does what they do very well. They played their asses off tonight, and I am sure no one was left feeling wanting. Rock on, Face About Face! I'll be sure to catch you guys and girl the next time about time you play about play in Dresden around Dresden. [more]
After a few days of knuckle-biting suspense, I am back on line with my newer setup. I have upped to an Athlon xp 2000, which is not all that fast compared to what is out there now, but still a 300% speedup from my last cpu. I had to reinstall winders, as I now have a new motherboard, but at least a reformat was not needed. The most confusing thing was that the new system would suddenly freeze up while I was moving the mouse. The mouse would freeze looking half-arrow, half-text symbol every time. It turns out that this is probably the result of a little spat between mouse and graphic card. Knocking the hardware acceleration setting of the graphic card down by one notch seems to have solved that issue.
However, the MS site is bogged down right now, so I am having a hard time getting those important updates. So I am reluctant to fool around with IE and Outlook for the time being. Your emails may go unanswered for a few days until I get the ship up and completely running.
This evening I caught a showing of Andrej Tarkowski's Solaris.
The germans have a word for works such as his: langatmig, which would mean--at least in the negative sense-- slow paced. Or, you could call it meditative.
Nevertheless, it is a beautiful film less interested in kapow and more in the m-hmm.
The last scene made my hair stand on end.
Afterwards, we watched a documentary film about Prohlis, aptly titled the same. Also creepy.
Man, I wanna punch that guy in the face. I really like the background design, though. The thing is, though, that "I'd hit it" isn't hipster slang meaning "I'd eat it" or even "I'm into that" or just "I'm down". Rather, it's hipster slang meaning "I'd f*ck it".
So some ad wizard in some giant marketing firm attempts to co-opt cool jive talking and gets burned. Or, "pwn3d", one might say.
The graphic won't take you to mcd's site, but rather to I-mockery, where those smartassed kids take it up a notch.
Sweet. Six companies, including Fuji Photo and CMC Magnentics, have formed a consortium to promote HVD technology, which will let consumers conceivably put a terabyte (1TB) of data onto a single optical disc. A TB-size disc would certainly compress movie collections. The consortium said an HVD disc could hold as much data as 200 standard DVDs and transfer data at over 1 gigabit per second, or 40 times faster than a DVD. A terrabyte. That's one thousand gigs.
One of my flash cartoons is to be shown at a little animation film festival in Laipsch in a few weeks and I need help converting it to a video format. [more]
