• just reached the arlbergpass near st christoph. coordinates: N 47©0 #
• 7.788' EO 10©12.624 altitude: 1802 m #
• just arrived at walenstadt, switzerland. 117 km today, and we crossed ALL OF liechtenstein. team A now in trento, italy. #
• arrived in zug, CH at 6pm. 90 km. rainy morning, then sunny. beautiful scenery. drove across the long pedestrian boardwalk in rapperswil. #
• made it to burgdorf. 114 km today. the swiss will only greet back if you use the magic word 'gruezi' (n=78, p=0.028). team A: brescia, IT. #
• now in neuchatel CH. everything's french. across the street from a creperie, so tempting. team A in piacenza IT. andi: thanks #
• crap. heavy thunderstorm w/ lots of lightning&rain. stuck under motorway-bridge outside of morges CH. hope we'll at least get to geneve. #
• rain didn't stop, so we ended up in saint-prex today. still raining, hoping for better weather tomorrow. animal sacrifice, maybe? ;-) #
• two days ago: little brother and i in rapperswil CH. http://twitpic.com/ao609 #
• in case i didn't mention it yet: our final destination is denia, spain. 621 km so far, ~1400 km to go. team A now in alessandria, IT. #
• today's weather: wet, cold, windy. now double-waterproofing all our stuff. leaving soon. http://twitpic.com/aqs8w #
• weather still hasn't improved, so we're off. about 12 deg celsius, feels like -20. bye-bye wifi. http://twitpic.com/aqx9h #
• crossed all of CH in 6 days, now in neydens FR. sky cleared up in late afternoon. tomorrow we're heading south. #
• bonjour from whatever the lake at montferrat FR is called. 119 km up-down-u-d-u-d. had to retighten my sunglasses twice. head shrinking? #
• watching microbats hunting at the lake. they keep touching the surface, either drinking water or fishing. amazing in both cases. #

• one typo > new insight: in microsoft word, [crtl]+[shift]+[space] will create a space that is immune to word-wrapping. very useful! #
• RT @FailBlog: google maps #fail http://bit.ly/hctCz #
• "people are DNA's way to create more DNA" in richard dawkin's words: http://is.gd/1pdPC #
• bbc news: stoned wallabies make crop circles. http://is.gd/1qmCG #
• is that …sunlight? never mind, the clouds are coming up again. #
• full throttle from 10 am until now. i'm not going to do that any longer. *after* tomorrow. #
• nuclear reactor fail: http://is.gd/1qizMnuclear reactor fail: http://is.gd/1qizM #
• done for today! departure day is closing in. there's a lot more to do until then. #
• alex peemoeller's distorted carpark direction signs. very cool. http://is.gd/1sLyu #
• icanhascheezburger: i iz in ur space-time-continuum http://is.gd/1uwpA #
• i want some choco kiddo balls for breakfast! http://is.gd/1uwtz #fail #
• i'm about to jump from europabrücke (europe's 2nd highest bridge, 192 m). now fastening rubber rope. #
• adrenaline rush! #
• …back to packing. #
• as usual: last bits of work just finished, about 3 hours before i leave for vacation. #bike09 #
• 24 minutes to departure. current temperature: 8 degrees celsius. feels like 2. at least it's gonna be sunny. #bike09 #
• http://twitpic.com/a3bg7 – wait a second… ok, now i'm ready to start. ;) #bike09 #
• we've already covered one hundreth of the total distance. this is gonna be easy. ;-) #bike09 #
• arrived at accommodation in st. anton, austria around 6:30 pm. first day: 8 hours of biking, 117 km, alt.diff. 850 m. tired.
  #bike09 #

today i jumped from europabrücke (europe’s 2nd highest bridge, and – apparently – one of the highest bungee-places in the world).
key data: 192 m (bridge height), 40 m (normal rope length), 170 m (maximum rope length when stretched), 120 km/h (maximum velocity)

i had completely forgotten i could actually release that much adrenaline. :)
 

big thanks to stefan for taking pictures.

• this assignment is going to kill me. :-\ #
• thank you, twitterfox, for that much-needed update! #
• post-it love: http://is.gd/1ho96 #
• RT @vomessen (transl): new blog post: the special barbecue simulator http://bit.ly/rzodc #
• hahaha, stephen fry talking german. :) RT: @stephenfry: AudioBoo: Mein Handy_Boo http://boo.fm/b34574 #
• cool t-shirt: "things meat loaf would do for love" http://is.gd/1ifAN #
• just saw @echeng in whale wars ep 4. …erm, i mean, i heard about it. very cool! #
• http://twitpic.com/8s76g – cursor #fail #
• short notice people: what's so terrible about making an unimportant decision 3 days in advance, esp.if it helps getting together w/ friends? #
• note to self: always check if there's enough antacid in the house. ALWAYS! #
• how can anybody write three books (400-500 pages each) and NOT include an index NOR structure it alphabetically? #botany #assignment #meusel #
• wow: bill shannon crutch dancing. http://bit.ly/ZrbeL #
• RT: @serafinowicz: Anyone know where I can find transcripts of audiobooks? #
• wtf picture: something funny is going on here… http://is.gd/1lMBs #
• [more...]

while up on patscherkofel¹, two weeks ago, i took the time to make a time-lapse recording of innsbruck, between sunset and darkness.
this time, i used my pentax w60 (night mode), which has an internal timer feature. it took a picture every 15 seconds for 2 hours, which resulted in a speedup of about 200 times in the video.

enjoy! :)

you can also download the video: time lapse: innsbruck nightfall (avi, xvid codec)

soundtrack: tim minchin – not perfect
 

things you can see in the video: [more...]

• people are hardly ever who they seem to be. or who they say they are. #
• updating the profile picture takes longer and longer, what with twitter, facebook, studivz, … #
• "yahoo answers fail", the real page: http://is.gd/18Zod (via failblog: http://is.gd/18ZoN ) #fail #
• "a social network for two" by @zefrank – http://is.gd/18ZBU #
• RT: @olidax: http://twitpic.com/83duc – In case of a fire alarm don't use … :-D #
• inspired by all those annoying chain emails? RT: @zefrank: HardTimes :: Five People :: http://bit.ly/BvfZJ #
• "Ich bin Herr Patrick KW Chan Vizepr?sident & Executive Off. der Bank ofChina Ltd, Hong Kong. Ich habe ein lukratives Gesch?ft Foren Schlag" #
• [more...]

• you know it's been a perfect summer day when you're driving home at 11:30 pm, and you need *just a little bit* of air-con. #
• please come swimming! i promise to behave! http://bit.ly/OVb6H #
• one month from now, i should aldready be in the middle of switzerland. still no sports allowed, though. :( #bike09 #
• this practical class on an alpine research station is almost, but not quite, entirely unlike what we expected. day 1 just ended 10 min. ago. #
• http://twitpic.com/7klkh – great views from up here – once the weather clears up, that is. #patscherkofel #
• received the go-ahead for training. yay! #
• this practical class is actual research: experiments untested, new goals as we obtain data, nobody knows the outcome. exciting (for geeks)! #
• cute: "dis my otter half." – http://is.gd/15tHh #ichc #
• there's so much police at patscherkofel ground station that i doubt anybody's watching the rest of tirol. there's either sb. very import … #
• RT: help protect identity of Twitter users updating from Iran, change your location to Iran, timezone GMT+3.30 hrs #Iranelection #
• "homo sapiens: diligently inventing ways to…" – http://is.gd/17HcY #ichc #
• a perfect combination: cold weather, late evening, family & good friends and a hot tub. #