...just to make you jealous...

We booked our holiday for March/April next year.
Destination: New York City and the Bahamas (Grand Bahama island to be precise).

This is where we will live --> Bahama Beach Condo <--

...and hopefully we will meet Jan and Klaas who are sailing around half of the world currently ;)

DESYs idea of Germany...

...No change since Ocotober 1989 ;)

...does it mean something, that one of the most important german science centres never acknowledged the unicifaction?
Or are there too many "Die PARTEI" members working here ;) ?

Is this YOUR cat???

This THE fucking best Blogpicture I have seen in years, still pissing my pants looking at it :)

Trying to teach at EMBL HD...

...today, I will teach some biologists how to use PERL for stupid biology tasks...
I am curious if they will understand anything...

Well, I will try to do that...but things seem to not be working properly here...the computers are not ready, my lecture was postponed for half an hour...and like 5 minutes ago, a chinese guy came into the room and asked in very broken english, whether i might be the person to help him to get a german bank account...

err...yes, i am...send all your money to my account, i will deduct 50% and put the rest on your nice new bank account ;)

The real bank guy was in the next room...poor EMBL HD ppl...they force them to get an account at the Sparkasse...couldn't they get a real bank ;) ?

Presents from France

Ahhh...was this a nice PhD retreat in shabby France...little sleep, too much sun and the perfect amount of fun ;)

Sadly, there is something not so perfect I took home with me...seems like those french bastards gave me something inferior to eat...at least my system can't work that stuff out...the toilet has become my most favorite place in the last three days...and today the doctor certified me sick for two more days...
let's hope the symbiotic relationship between me and the ceramic bowl has been discontinued until then...

...und noch was fuer die Deutschen...
Bei der ganzen Scheisserei fiel mir auf wie scheisse eigentlich der Werbspruch von diesen komischen bayrischen Moebelhaeusern mit Ottfried Fischer???
- "Die mit dem roten Stuhl" - ???

...neulich aufm Wertstoffhof...

Heute grade die letzten Reste aus der alten Butze weggeschmissen...war dann so mein 5. Besuch...einer Typen kam gleich auf mich zu, guckt mich und meint "ne, deinen Ausweis brauch ich nicht sehen, du bist ja eh dauernd hier..."

...komisch irgendwie...beim Baecker passiert mir das nicht...aber aufm Wertstoffhof erkennen sie mich wieder...irgendwie strange...heisst aber auch, dass ich scheinbar genug ausgemistet habe ;)

Moving is done, well...soon...

As some of you guys might know, i moved in with my girlfriend recently...
almost all of it is done...well, at least all our stuff is in our new flat...but there is still some furniture missing, hence all our boxes are standing around waiting to be unpacked...
some walls still need to be painted (at least in silkes opinion ;) and shelves, wardrobes and a couch have to be bought...
but we hope in 3-4 weeks it is gonna be done...hopefully ;)

the new hood is now schwenckestrasse 4, next to osterstrasse!

Weltuntergang

Hamburg, 31.12.2012...der Weltuntergang nimmt seinen Lauf...

Oh, stimmt ja gar nicht, issja erst August 2009, und eigentlich regnet es auch nur wie aus eimern (5000 Liter Eimern)...

War eben sehr witzig, hab Silke zum Meeting Point fuers nach Oldenburg fahren gebracht...und aufm Weg von der Wohnung ins Auto wurde es schlagartig richtig dunkel...
Als wir dann im Auto sassen am Wasser ohne Ende vom Himmel...
Was daran witzig war?
Im Auto war die Mucke auf random...und was lief??? "Die Flut" Von Witt &amp; Heppner :)

Aufm Rueckweg vonner Autobahnauffahrt Bahrenfeld gingen dann nur noch 20-30km/h und Aquaplaning ohne Ende...witzig, aber doch strange...

...grade eben iss nochn Blitz genau hier um die Ecke eingeschlagen...

Der PARTEI-Film - 05.08. im Millerntorstadion

Moinsen,
Pflichttermin am 05.08!!! Der Film ueber die PARTEI (Partei für Arbeit, Rechtsstaat, Tierschutz, Elitenförderung und basisdemokratische Initiative), in der ich stolzes Mitglied bin und sogar das PARTEI-Buch immer neben meinem Bett liegen habe, feiert am Millerntor Weltpremiere!!!

Kommt alle mit und guckt diesen grossen Film mit mir ;)

Vorstellung ist am Mittwoch den 05.08. (in einer Woche) um 21:30 im Millerntorstadion im Hamburg.

Mehr Infos:

http://www.die-partei-hamburg.de/2009/07/24/der-partei-film-im-hamburger-millerntorstadion/

WE GOT A FLAT !!!!

Finally after fucking 8 weeks of searching we got a nice cozy, little flat!!!
The new adress is gonna be Schwenckestrasse No. 4 in awesome Hamburg Eimsbuettel!!!
63square meters, 3 rooms, new kitchen, new bathroom, 2 great balconies !!!
And we made it out of 800 applicants ;)

I am awaiting congratulations ;)

stockholm fun

I am at the 3d-structures satellite meeting of the international bioinformatics conference right now...
not that interesting for the most of you I think...the interesting part is that I am in stockholm...
as the clichees tell us, swedish girls dress strangely (at least in summer, and we got around 27degrees right now)...they wear always either very short hotpants, or even shorter skirts (for germans, belts...)...

right now i am sitting in my hotel room (pretty drunk) with the window open...and right around the corner there is a disco...

the swedisch girls (with those short skirts) are singing wind of change...
if this wind comes from below, they got a big problem ;)

Back to civilisation...

I really don't know why...but coming back to hamburg from strange areas like southern Germany always makes me feel very sentimental... It's just better here ;)

Oh, and about the civilisation, I heard a very weird conversation on the toilet in Frankfurt while trying to get rid of the apfelwein again:
There where like three bachelors parties going on in that place...of the bad kind...with villageidiots having printed shirts for each other and annoying the bystanders by trying to sell them some shit...one of the guy with the worst, really almost not understandable, accent was saying:
" you know, the German language dies...way to many English words and stuff..."
...and then it came...
"people like me speaking perfect understandable German are dying out" (!!!!????!!!!)

WTF?????

Frankfurt is a beauty...

...NOT!
This is like the most ugly city ever!
Imagine taking the worst parts of Berlin an Hamburg, merge them, add a few skyscrapers and voilà...you puke once you leave the hotel!
...more on Labday and Frankfurt later...

Bauer sucht Frau in Bayern...

Silke ist grade in Bayern und hat versucht auf RTLnow.de ein Bauer sucht Frau special zu gucken...

Das hier zeigt die Seite in Bayern an :) :

Das Video kann in Bayern nicht angesehen werden (andres Land???), wie in China...

Oder gibt es etwa in Bayern zu viele Bauern und das Special waere fuer die CSU zu beleidigend ;) ??

86h later...

Mein iPhone hat wieder Netz...schnell O2, wirklich "schnell"...

Danke fuer den guten Start, O2...

...in der Nacht von Freitag auf Samstag sollte meine vorlaeufige O2 Nummer (hab grade den Vertrag gewchselt...Eplus -&gt; O2) geloescht werden und meine alte Nummer afgeschaltet werden...
O2 hats wahnsinnigerweise sogar geschafft die vorlaeufige zu deaktivieren...leider habe ich meine alte Nummer immer noch nicht wieder...
Seit 60h kein Mobiltelefon....super super...
Ich hoffe fuer O2 dass das nicht so weitergeht...

Bye Bye ihr Ficker an der neuen Flora... ;)

Es ist soweit, die Wohnung am Holstenplatz ist gekuendigt!!!
Wenn jetzt jemand ne schoene 3-Zimmer Altbau-Wohnung am start hat oder mein Nachmieter werden moechte, sagt mir Bescheid...

Another Step...

...completely forgot to mention that my first TAC meeting was last Friday...for all normal people (e.g. non-EMBLists) TAC means Thesis Advisory Comittee; 4-5 very important people who meet 3 times during the PhD to assess the stuff I am doing.

After 4 weeks of hard work, trying to get results out of the strange pile of ideas in my head...I even managed to put a real talk together, which worked out quite well ;)

So, as it seems, the road to the PhD is getting shorter and shorter....

JJ's STAR TREK

I just came back from the cinema watching the new STAR TREK movie.
I exactly felt like the little 14yr old boy in 1996, when I left the cinema where I watched the last awesome Trek movie - FIRST CONTACT.

And this movie might even be better, I need to watch it more often!!!

...and Karl Urbans McCoy was really the best, Peggs Scotty comes close ;)

Thoschis Bachelors Party

just one word - legendary ;)

Last Feasts in Berkeley ;)

before all this air france shit came down on me, i had two last nice days in berkeley ;)

we drank nice tequilla (patron, very good, you dont even need lemons) and had awesome steaks!!! 4lb (pounds) for $11.75!!!

In germany, this would have been 4-5 times the price

This was my steak, I got the biggest one ;)

Hm...medium rare!!!

...and this is us after the bottle of patron...look at axels face...

Next morning we had the steak leftovers (from Axel and Lina, I didnt leave anything ;), bacon, tomatoes and eggs for breakfast, on the roof ;)

Bacon, Steak and Tomato

... in front of Berkeley and the Golden Gate Bridge ;)

ah...and lets not forget the mutant fox squirrels ;) The beasts get around 50cm long...without tail!!! BTW...this picture was number 666 on my camera...coincidence?

Fuck paris, fuck Charles de Gaulle and rape Air france!!!

Yesterday, I made my way back from the states...until now I can just say one thing: never, ever if avoidable fly air France!!! In comparison to klm it was complete shut... Extremely little space, even for my small legs, bad food, ridicously small screens(like 4") and annoying French announcements...<br>
oh, and you're even more lucky if a frenchman sits next to you...they're impolite: mine asked me if he could sit at the window...fuck! I get my seat in advance on purpose!!! And don't think they're gonna share the middle armrest... Oh, btw my Frenchman also couldn't speak proper English (grande nation, my ass!) and he smelled really bad, even before takeoff!
The Paris airport is even worse... I think walked like a mile to get to my connecting flight...and people speaking that gaytarded language everywhere!!!

If the next flight attendant also starts speaking to me in French, I'll plan the next war!

P.S. the flight was also really well climatized...I have a fucking cold now!

Ze German Pest

Bah, kann ja wohl echt nicht wahr sein... Da geht man ohne was böses zu ahnen durch den Golden Gate Park an zwei Rentnern vorbei...sie im Pelzmantel schoen mit Zwergpudel und er mit basecap...

Und was sagt die benerzte da? - ja, die Champions league Spiele sind jetzt ja vorbei, oder? Er - ja, glaube schon...
WTF????&nbsp;

Buying beer at Safeways

Yesterday we bought beer at safeways...this again shows the weirdo-factor of this country...
I am already used to showing my ID every time I buy shallow beer (haven't done this at home for like 10, 11 yrs now ;)
But yesterday it got even weirder...they told me that in the future safeways is not gonna accept foreign IDs anymore...
Hey, my german ID is like 10 times more unforgeable than american ones...with holograms and all that awesome european shit...and everything is even written there in english !!!

Retarded, just retarded...only the great american IDs are good, everything else is shit...

Narnia in Piss

Something I wanted to write for quite some time...when I flew here I watched the new Narnia movie on the plane...
There is something quite funny about it...when the retarded children come back to Narnia the filming location is Cathedral Cove on the Coromandel Peninsula in New Zealand...
A place where Ax, Simon, Scott and me swam out to the first big rock an pissed into the water (looking at the endless pacific ocean in front of us)...
So you can say, the beginning of the new Narnia movie was filmed in our piss ;)

P.S. the film is complete crap otherwise...
P.P.S. going to "the city" now to look at nice hippie areas ;)

2009 - 03 - 10 - Pendulum Concert in San Francisco!!!

Yesterday we went to the Pendulum concert in San Francisco. I just got to know them like 3 months ago and they were playing in SF while I am here. As you see below, the venue was awesome! The Gran Ballroom at the Regency Center, which was really a ballroom, with chandeliers and everything!

The concert was awesome!!! Many different kinds of people, who all had a very good time (sorry for the shitty pics btw, only had my iphone on me)

The people (and band) went totally crazy when they were playing SLAM, if you dont know it, youtube is your friend, you should check it out ;)

After the concert was finished (they played almost everything from the two albums as well as other things, like their awesome remix of prodigys voodoo people, my favorite!) we went to a diner to replenish our power ;) I went for an awesome burger, 12 oz., almost 350g of meat!!!
So I also got my real american diner experience now...

2009 - 03 - 09 - "The City", Pier 39, Chinatown...

San Francisco Port Clock tower



Awesome Black Angus Steak Sandwich at Quizzno



Chinatown



Alcatraz - The Rock



Awesome Sea Lions at Pier 39

2009 - 03 - 06,07,08 - Road Trippin' - Alameda, San Francisco, Point Reyes, Pacifica

You can find all pictures in picasa (click this picture ;)

Our road trip started quite cool, we visited the Nimitz air field in Alameda, full of awesome plane carriers and ohter ships ;)

Then we went to "the city" - San Francisco...aaaand found a IN-N-OUT burger !!!...well nice breakfast...but it cost us about $60, cause we were to cheap to feed the parkmeter properly (we came back 3min late...and had a $50 ticket on our windshield)...

2009 - 03 - 05 Josh Blue at UC Berkeley

On my 2nd day in Berkeley, we went to a comedian named josh blue...
Awesomely funny guy! Always making fun of gays and cripples...well he is partially allowed to since he is "special" himself...he has cerebral palsy, which for all you uneducated people means he is a spastic ;)
Nevertheless, awesome show, very funny guy!
Check him out on YouTube!!!

P.s. Since the show was on the UC Berkeley campus, the gig was full of children...19, 20yr olds ;)

just on short notice...

i know how much you all like the pictures i am taking all over the world, and since i don't have that much time to write: here are a few new nice ones ;)

hot dogs from 7-eleven are tasty but not healthy for you colon...


in frisco we found the dudes heaven...

double cheseeburger and fries "animal style"

this was even worth a parking ticket (more info later)

Next escape...

Yeah, i am finally away from germany again ;)
right now i am sitting in the bed in axels room in berkeley, ca in the united states! 11:30 already, we should start doing something soon...
i arrived yesterday around 1pm at san francisco airport..getting into the states is really much easier than i though, or everyone told me...besides standing in line it took me around 3 minutes ;)

and really...everything here is totally clichelike and much bigger than in europe...university buildings, cars, people (big meaning fat ;) oh and the squirrels are twice as big as in germany...which is slightly weird ;)

okay, time to start the day, which would likely mean running through berkeley for me...

p.s. flying to the states in comparison to new zealand is a joke, an 11h flight...ts ts ts...oh, and flying over the arctic rocks big time!!!

Concert weekend - between the two best cities in Germany

Been watching gigs of bloc party and kings of leon 10 days ago...
Bloc party is awesome live!!! Period!

Kings of leon were kinda...strange...the singer didn't interact with the audience at all...and the audience itself was also very...female and weird...they went totally crazy dancing at the slowest songs...
However, Berlin was nice...awesome currywurst at 1pm and cheap beer everywhere...
Even the house I lived in in east Berlin does still exist;)

But this weekend, kele won against caleb...BIG TIME!

I don't get people...

...who always sit right next to other people on the bus or train...even if the rest of the train is almost empty and has shitoads of free private spaces...
Why are they doing that? Didn't they get enough love and cuddling when they were little?
Or do they just not want to ride backwards?
However, having a nice bagback on the seat next to you always helps...
If not I can always play out good old tourettes syndrom ;)

Too much white shit...

I took this pic last week... It snows too much around here...way too much...
Last Friday I almost missed my train cuz buses just stopped working for half an hour...

Tuesday it got even more creepy... There were like 5cm of really thick snow on my car... Hard to get rid of it...
And it only snowed here where I live... At work there was nothing, which is like 5km away...
I hate snow!

Well, enough boring snow stories... Gottago on being sick ;)

The bigass TV has landed!!!

There he is, my new tv...I had to wait half an hour in an ugly ups shop until a nice black man helped me to put it in the car ;)
My living room is almost only tv now ;)

Merry Christmas ;)

Okay, you all know I don't fancy christmas that much...but my cat told me that he wanted to say "Merry Christmas" to all of you ;)



P.S. Christmas cards are soooo out...christmas blog entries are the real deal!!!

esesespanis sausage...or...the core is haunting me!

Strange things are happening...
Today i went shopping and found this:

fake???


original??? ...or just secret identity???

I always thought Iñigo was the sausage from pamplona...at least for Marta ;)
I am confused...

Tonight at the greek restaurant it got even weirder...i was able to order the following:

hm...nikos...made of pig, lamb and gyros...with zaziki, fries and salad ;)

The famous nikos dish...with all the greek goodness ;) I took the akropolis one nevertheless...

Whats coming tomorrow? shower gel flavia? travelpussy nereo? dan(y)i sahne ;) ?

Southern Germans are all Bloody Assholes

today we had an awesome experience with southern german again...
we were sitting on stairs in front of some cabin on the christmas market...as always...southern germans have to take the narrowest way, where people are sitting (cause they are retards)...then some hydrogenperoxide-blond chick came along and tripped over inigos feet (who was sitting there without moving and she could have easily avoided tripping over him). inigo apologized and you would think that this bitch would do the same...NO!!!
she replied:"Verdammt, man kann doch sehen dass ich hier lang gehe" - which translates as "FUCK, can't you see that I am walking here?"...
this was the point where i cracked...i screamed the following at her "man kann auch seine scheiss augen aufmachen und aufpassen wenn man sieht dass da jemand sitzt, du DUMME FOTZE!!!" - which translates as "You can also open your fucking eyes when you see someone sitting there, you STUPID CUNT!"...
she left instantly, and the family next to us almost kept the ears of their children shut (thy were looking at me very dissapointed)...

CONCLUSION: Southern Germans are all assholes, living in their fucking religious, little world where everyone is acting friendly as fuck and no one means it...we should disjoin germany below cologne (munich could become the new west-berlin)!

Practical Presentation

Today we were preparing the presentation of last weeks practical... As you see, angela was a great help...bad gluhwein!!!
Well I wasn't a big help either...since I was writing my blog and stuff...

Boxbergian X-Mas

Yeah! I even have a christmas tree in my shitty boxberg apartment!
Sponsored by angela (the bottle is mine though ;)

We Ruled the PUBQUIZ !!!

Yesterday we went to the pub (as we do often on thursdays 'cuz a pitcher of cider is only nine quid)...Once we sat down, we realized there was a pub quiz going, so we took part in it...

AAAAANNNDDD??? Who won??? WE DID!!! Okay...not that strange, since we are ambassadors of science and the other (10, ten !!!) teams comprised people from Heidelberg and an irish amateur football team...

Funny thing was the guy started announcing second places first and asked them another question becuase it was a tie...after that he said thanks and cya next weekend...
5 minutes later he came back and was like "err...who is them team predrunks 08?...cause they actually won..."

down here you can see our prize, free drinks !!!

Monteretardo

why does embl put every outstation as far as possible outside of big cities??? and i complained about embl hamburg being in a shit location...its like in the center of the city in comparison to monteretardo !!!
oh, and it's about 18degrees outside....and i am inside listening to mouse-tales...it's interesting...but sun is more interesting nevertheless ;)

p.s. the hotel also sucks balls...and i didnt charge my cam...so i cant take pics...(have to buy an iphone soon...)

Heidelberg, Heidelberg

Hm...ich muesste mal wieder was schreiben, oder?
Heute war bin ich im Guest House geblieben...irgendwie waren 3 wochen nur 6h schlafen (Lectures um 9!!!) doch irgendwie zuviel...und nen Anflug von Grippe hatte ich auch...
Sonst ist hier alles gut, top leute zum rumhaengen (wird mit Sicherheit auch spaeter so bleiben, man kann sagen ich habe neue freunde gefunden ;)
Die Vorlesungen sind etwas viel...und teilweise einfach irrelevant fuer mich...aber, ich bin ja hier um meinen Horizon zu erweitern ;)
Naechste Woche endlich Proteomics und Strucural Biology !!! YEAH !!! Das We nach Hause (Schnuffi !!!) und danach nach Rom (Iphone !!!)
mehr faellt mir grade nicht ein, ich lad bald mal photos irgendwo hoch !!!

Hm...I do have to write sth. again, dont I?
I stayed at the awesome guest house today...somehow 3 weeks of only 6h of sleep (lectures at 9!!!) were a little bit too much...I also have some kind of Flu...
In spite of that, everythings great, awesome folks to hang out with (and it is gonna stay that way, one could say I also found new friends ;)
The lectures are a little bit too much...and partially also irrelevant for me...but, I am here to broaden my horizon ;)
Next week finnaly Proteomics and Structural Biology !!! YEAH !!! next weekend home (Schnuffi !!!) the one after that Rome (Iphone !!!)
I think thats all...I will upload photos somewhere soon !!!

I am officially rich now!

Ich habe grade meine ersten 1.5 Gehaelter bekommen, yeah!!!
I just got my first salary, one and a half salaries, actually...

Strange things happen at EMBL Heidelberg

Ich hab das hier grade im Newsletter gefunden...soll angeblich son Krabbeltunnel fuer Kinder sein...
Was seht ihr da drinnen?

I Just found this in the EBML newsletter...it is supposed to be some kind of tunnelplaythingie for kindergarten kids...
But honestly, what do you see?

p.s. otherwise everythings fine...embl heidelberg is like in the middle of nowhere...but there is beer around ;)
...sonst iss alles klar...embl heidelberg is am arsch der welt...aber es gibt auch hier bier...

Lustige Erlebnisse auf dem Weg zur Arbeit

Mann, Mann, Mann...
Heute morgen war ich noch schnell vor der Arbeit bei der Post um neue bescheuerte T-Shirts abzuholen...Auf dem Weg zum Bus liefen dann zwei aeltliche Frauen neben mir, eine mit nem grossartigen Hund, einer kleinen, dicken Britischen Bulldogge...
Es ist dann nur die hundelose Frau eingestiegen, die scheinbar gemerkt hat, dass ich den Hund ganz geil fand und hat mich mit dem Aufhaenger in ein Gespreach verwickelt...
Nach geschaetzten 0.005 Sekunden drueckte sie mir dann ploetzlich irgendwelche Kirchenflyer in die Hand (und Alexej, nem andren Predoc, der vor mir sass auch gleich)...Hier ein paar Auszuege aus dem weiteren Gespraechsverlauf:
"Man muss, die Bibel lesen, denn in der Schule oder ausm Fernsehen lernt man nicht wie man Kinder erzieht!"
- "Ich glaube das haben mir meine Eltern ganz gut beigebracht..."
"Aber wenn es nicht nach der Bibel war, war es nicht richtig"

"Sie sind auch einfach noch zu jung, um richtig zu glauben"
(Ha Ha...klar alte Frau...ich bin zu jung...vielleicht bin ich auch einfach zu klug um an ein Maerchenbuch zu glauben...und wenn wuerde ich noch eher an sonen quatsch, wie Scientology glauben...wobei...ne auch nicht...an Grimms Maerchen!!!)

Sie wollte dann noch meinen Namen wissen...Hat natuerlich gleich gemeint, dass es in der Bibel ja auch so viele Leute mit dem Namen Timotheus gebe...ich habe natuerlich auch gleich gesagt, dass der Name genau gar nicht zu mir passt (Timotheus = der Gottesfuerchtige) allerdings wusste sie nicht was Timotheus heisst --> zeigt wieder - glaeubige Leute sind meistens ungebildet (besteht da etwa ein Zusammenhang ;) ?)

Alexej hatte sich dazu die ganze Zeit sehr still verhalten (er war im Nachhinein froh, dass er kein perfektes Deutsch spricht)...sein erster Kommentar als sie raus war:"We should start the church of genomics and proteomics and start praying the word of DNA...'Hey, ever heard of DNA, it's the stuff everything is made of'"
-> oh ja, die Kirche der Genetik ;)

So Long...
Freitag gehts zu Silke umziehen helfen und Sonntag dann nach Heidelberg...sonst ist alles fein fein ;)

Herr Diplom-Bioinformatiker, jetzt ne?

Heute hat der Timmy auch mal endlich sein Diplomzeugnis bekommen!!!
Und:
Es steht eine 1.7 drauf !!!
Entweder habe ich mich verrechnet oder das Pruefungsamt (aber die Wahrscheinlichkeit, dass ich es war ist gering...andernfalls sollte das Pruefungsamt das auch richtig machen...).

Eine Ära geht zuende...

Licht aus im Kino, jetzt ne?

...mal gucken, ob sie es wieder richtig ankriegen...