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[posted: Wednesday, 2008-02-06] [category: fun]

i think the amout of english vocabulary in our everyday-austrian-life is …enormous. being an anglophilic, i don’t really mind.

however, it’s getting kinda silly (especially when german and english words are mixed in product names):

a must-be-there event, this february!
sounds inviting, doesn’t it?

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[posted: Saturday, 2008-02-02] [category: fun]

this is the status bar of an automatic update-download for adobe flash player that just popped up:

adobe flash player update

so… it looks like D is a number close to 1465.

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[posted: Saturday, 2008-02-02] [category: fun]
pessimism
“pessimism”

[previously visualized]

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[posted: Friday, 2008-01-25] [category: fun]
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[posted: Wednesday, 2008-01-09] [category: fun]

yet another proof that biologists are natural-born romantics:

physiologist love-letter
a slide from a recent biology lecture

i think i’ll make this into a valentine’s card in february. ;-)

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[posted: Sunday, 2008-01-06] [category: fun, music] [tags: ]

my hobby: finding animal references where others wouldn’t look for them.

nun seid ihr wohl gerochen - j.s. bach's christmas oratorio, nr. 64 (choral)
“nun seid ihr wohl geROCHEN”1
j.s. bach’s christmas oratorio, nr. 64 (choral)
  1. rochen is german for (sting-)ray []
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[posted: Sunday, 2008-01-06] [category: fun, video]

it’s a strange world we live in:

you may also have a look at their instruments.

what surprised me the most: they’re from vienna, austria.

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