short summary and outlook ;)

Busy weeks, 2nd TAC meeting (yearly evaluation of my PhD) is done, everything looks peachy ;)

Right after that, I presented my stuff on a conference (ECCB, European Conference on Computational Biology). Sadly/luckily, this conference was in Gent, Belgium...Fuck, the belgian beer gets you really pissed...and fuckingly fast! Never drink more than 5 of them...after 2liters I couldn't walk properly nor see straight...and I had to do a talk 8h later ;) Other than that, we got nice fries every day with every meal...rather stereotypical, but I didn't mind.

Some nice concerts in the last two weeks, the mighty Kassierer and Pendulum. Both awesome, in their very own way ;) (Kassierer - ugly naked people on the stage and Assipunk, Pendulum - the best live drum'n'bass ever !!!)

Now it's time for more work, my stuff has to be finalized in 4 weeks, cuz then I will lecture about it in a workshop in Osaka, Japan!!!

Gerade alles n bisschen hektisch, 2tes TAC meeting (da wo einmal im Jahr der Fortschritt meines Doktors gecheckt wird) ist durch, allet war jut daran, allet! Gleich danach hab ich den Kram auf ner Konferenze vorgestellt (ECCB). "Leider" war die in Gent, Belgien...Alter, das belgische Bier knallt mal richtig uebel, nie mehr als 5 davon trinken...nach 2 Litern konnte ich nicht mehr laufen...oder gerade gucken...und 8h spaeter musste ich nen talk halten ;) Es gab auch zu jedem Essen leckere Fritten, n bisschen stereotypisch, aber ick beschwer mich nicht!

War noch auf zwei ziemlich geilen Konzerten, die maechtigen Kassierer und Pendulum. Beides grossartig, auf ihre eigene, spezielle Art und Weise (Kassierer - haessliche nackte Menschen uaf der Buehne und Assipunk, Pendulum - grossartigste Live-Band, die ich kenne...und die machen Drum'n'Bass - live!)

Jetzt ist mal wieder zeit fuer ordentlich ackern...in 4 Wochen muss mein Scheiss komplett feritg und ins Hauptprogramm integriert sein...ich muss dann naemlich nen talk in nem Workshop drueber halten - in Osaka, Japan!!!

...bohrende fragen - pressing questions...

Komischer Tag heute...
Hat viele Fragen aufgeworfen...hier einige davon...

1.) Warum wollen Leute in Veddel Klaas aufs Maul hauen?
- weil sie 16 sind?
- weil sie Kevin heissen?
- weil sie ihre kleinen Assifotzenschlampenfreundinnen beeindrucken wollten?
- weil Klaas einfach unverschaemt lockige Haare hat?
- weil Klaas durchgehend Leute auf der Strasse anpoebelt ;) ?

2.) Warum sind coole Partylocations wie die Soul Kitchen Klitsche am Arsch der Heide?
- ...naja...immerhin waren da keine Idioten ;)

3.) Warum sitzen in der Bahn nach Eimsbuettel auch Idioten?
3.1.) Seit wann sind Strumpfhosen komplett ohne Rock oder langes T-Shirt tragbar?
- finden kleine Idioten dicke, nuttige Maedchen dann geiler?

3.2.) Warum finden kleine, nuttige Maedchen ihre Idiotenfreunde sexy, wenn diese in Muelleimer in der Bahn rotzen? Oder wenn sie versuchen durch die Klappfenster nach draussen zu rotzen und sich dabei einsauen?
- und warum (nochmal) sehen die kleine Maedchen alle nuttig aus und sind doch irgendwie fett? UND WARUM DANN STRUMPFHOSEN???

4.) Warum ist creolisches Huehnchen so lecker?
4.1) Warum schmelzen Gummibaerchen wenn man sie frittiert?


Bitte sinnvolle Antworten als Kommentare hier rein ;)

Argh

Just a few seconds of hate:
Just took Silke to the airport and thought I could go to jungfernstieg on my way back to get some Indian food...
Well once I got out of the subterranean it struck me that it's alstervergnuegen...well I was more struck by the massive amount of retards walking around...I liked the people clothed in black at schanzenfest better, I think...
The real clusterfuck: after squeezing to several tons of retards, I got to the Indian place and it was closed due to the fucking alstervergnuegen!!!

I should stay at home and work...what now? Subway?

iPhone 4

...awesome!!!
After four weeks of wait, it finally arrived on Friday! Sooo fast! And this display!!! Just perfect!

Close to catastrophy...

Wow...adrenaline is still pumping!
Just nearly lost my iPhone...got out of the cab at Bayreuth Hauptbahnhof...got my stuff from the trunk...cab left...and my phone was gone...looked around...nothing...ran after the cab...got him after 200m at a traffic light...not in the cab! Ran back, nothing where I left the cab either...so what now? Asked th next person if I cloud use her phone...called myself AND someone picked up ;)
A nice lady found it and took it, since otherwise someone would surely have stolen it...then she brought it back to me...

So, nice lady from Bayreuth, thank you sooo much again! You made a person VERY happy today!!!

Drinking all over Germany...

Ah...this is a great week...just been in Heidelberg for four days...student rep retreat and labday...awesome! Meeting friends from the predoc course and such! And rght now I am in Bayreuth at some student party with philip k. :)
Fun fun fun!

The End...LOST, no more

For me it all started during some serious cold in April 2005. I watched the pilot of LOST on German TV one or two days ago (the bald headed guy was dubbed using Cpt. Picards voice...again...), since I thought it might be an interesting show I had already downloaded about 15 episodes over the last few months...
To be honest, I wasn't that hooked after the German-dubbed pilot, but decided to use the time I had to lie in bed for something meaningful and started watching another episode of LOST...that was around 10pm...then came another episode, and another,...I finished at 6am and ~10 episodes later...
I was hooked!!!

For the next five years, I was looking forward to every new episode of LOST...and even more to every season finale or premiere. LOST became even more interesting, after I got my HDTV...better than watching a movie.

There have been so many moment LOST moved me or left me sitting on the couch with my mouth open. The first flash forward...the opening and explosion of the hatch...Locke in a coffin...Locke alive again...1977...the bomb(s)...and most of the flash sideways....

Yesterday it left me crying, yeah LOST, welcome to my list of TV shows of which I finished watching the finale crying. STAR TREK-TNG, Babylon5, Six Feet Under and NipTuck...seems like a good neighborhood...But honestly, [Spoiler (mark text to read):] how fucking awesome was the last scene, Jack lying down to die, Vincent running towards him, lying down next to him, the ajira-plane flying away...and finally Jack's eye closing...still giving me the shivers...

And, yeah, there is a shitload of question still unanswered...but hey, this means we can discuss and theorize for the rest of our lives ;)
Also, there is some serious gap left for novel and maybe another movie, I would be really looking forward to something like that.
Oh, I want the complete series on BluRay!!! Birthday...in five months...remember it ;)

If this is really the end, seems like It is time to let go...


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Location:Schwenckestraße,Hamburg,Germany

The ashcloud, friend or foe?

After €20 - burgers, buckets full of shrimps and missing darkness at night, it was time to go back home again today.
As the news hungry ones of you might already have heard, there were about five airports closed today...and as fate wanted it, one of them was Amsterdam, my transferairport for today...
However, it didn't come out as fucked up as the last two times...I am now sitting in a nice lufthansa jet en route to hamburg...and I will only be five hours (not 14 or 5 days) late today ;)

...I cannot get rid of the feeling that someone doesn't want me to fly...


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Location:Trondheim, Norway

iPad at Schiphol!

Woohoooo...you can already buy iPads at schiphol airport...for the cheap price of 800 euros...for 16gb...or 900 for 32gb...wifi, not 3G, obviously...
What a ripoff!

Location:Schiphol airport, Amsterdam

A few seconds of HATE!

The ashcloud wasn't the worst thing to happen to air-traffic in germany...

There is one known to be even worse, and that is - FOOTBALL FANS!!!

I wanted to fly to Norway to visit Silke who's there for work. It started all pretty funny, everywhere there were those Fulham fans in their KIA jerseys. It got even funnier, when the Hamburg S-Bahn sign at the Airport showed "FULHAM FANS=this train!"...no comment...

The fun started to stop quite soon...my plane was 1h delayed...so my transfer time in Schiphol decreased from 90min to 30min.

Wouldn't have been too bad...but since I am sitting in a stranded passenger hotel in Amsterdam, it didn't work out like that...

So, now the big question is why...was there some delay because of the ashcloud? Did someone kidnap a plane? Or anything serious?

NOOOO!!!

Airtraffic was dead cuz of the fucking football game...HAM closed done a complete landing strip to use it as a PARKING PLACE for the airtaxis that got the football fans here and back...

So, ALL the scheduled flights where delayed for up to 3.5h (my flight) just so the FUCKING fans could get home conveniently...

SOUNDS FUCKED UP, BUT IT's FUCKING TRUE!!!!

I HATE FOOTBALL!!!!

ARGGGHHHH!!!!!

The evidence!

...iPad...

The long way home...

Part I: Ejafuck...what?
It started all on April the 15th, on the nice island of Grand Bahama, we were listening to the news on ndr2 via livestream...there was something about some weird Icelandic volcano that erupted a few hours ago and was spitting ash into the air. We joked about Silke not getting to Norway the next Monday, because there might be some problem with the airspace...
Then we got into our rental car to bring it back to the agency and bring driven to te airport.

Part II: Eyjafjuklallalalu?
At the airport we got smarter...well, at least we asked whether there might be a chance for our flight to Amsterdam to be grounded/cancelled - "no, no, it's gonna fly!"...hence, we started our journey back to Hamburg. Funny thing on the side, if you fly from the Bahamas back to the states, you immigrate on the island...so, when you board the plane, you are already in the states. This will be quite important later on ;)
Nice flight from Freeport to Atlanta, no turbulences, nothing...once we gout out at Atlanta, the fun started...Amsterdam was cancelled...because of an ash cloud that was forming over Europe thanks to the volcano...funnily, of this time (2pm, 15/04) it was the only flight cancelled. We started trying to get some information...can we switch to another plane, maybe to Frankfurt whatever? When we got to the international terminal (after complete inability of all delta-desk agents at the other terminal to help us) the line for the "proper" desk was already fucking long...we were standing in line for like 4 hours...people to Frankfurt, Duesseldorf and Munich were allowed to go to their gates and leave...as time went on more and more planes were grounded.
When we finally got to the desk (which was another desk somewhere else they sent us) we got a nice standby flight to Frankfurt the next day and a confirmed flight home via Paris five days later...
We got a hotel and went to Ruby Tuesday to make the best out of the fucked up day...

Part III: Eyjafja...la...lo...ku?
Friday morning, first thing -> checking the live-ticker about news from the ash.
Aaaaand? Frankfurt was closed...no flight today...on the other hand, this also meant no standing in lines and waiting for not getting a seat on the standby flight.
So I booked us two new hotel rooms until Tuesday and we went to the airport to get our luggage back...
We didn't think it'll be easy to get it, big airport, many grounded flights...but it should be there on the next day...so, we thought...
First trip into Atlanta then, checking out the city and so on...not un-nice...went to the apple store, tried to buy an iPad...sold out, so we reserved two...
Some burgers, we had to exploit the nice US cuisine, and back to the airport to get our bags back...
And guess what, after 10h there wasn't even one suitcase, bag or whatever...fun...let's go home and get some sleep...

Part IV: Eyjafjälläjüköll...
For the next three days we went to the airport every morning and evening...and each morning there was a bag waiting for us...
Looking for flights didn't make any sense since the whole of European airspace was completely shut down...
Saturday, my duffel bag...sadly...no underwear for Silke or me...but, yeah, flip-flops and some dirty shirts...at least...down to H&M to get some underwear...and then some nice food and beers...
Sunday, this morning Sushi was allowed to go into the small storage and look whether one of our bags was already there...he came out with my seabag and nothing else...menage we got our whole luggage...Sushi and Nadine had nothing...didn't make me feel good...we used this day to check out the worlds biggest aquarium (nice otters!!! And cool large size fishes...and sea mammals) and the world of coca cola (shit, patriotic shit...but testing 64 varieties of coke was interesting)...afterwards...Hooters!!! Nice chicken wings, but it didn't live up to the expectations...food and boob wise...might be due to all four of us being there...wireless men were greeted nicely and shit ;)
Ah, that evening, we also got told that the flights to Frankfurt and Duesseldorf had to turn around in the middle of their routes, since the airports got magically closed in between...
Monday, finally Nadine's bag...Aaaaaand we got an email from the apple store that we could come and get our iPads!!! So, it was a good day, with some sushi and beers in the evening...also, there one flight going to Amsterdam and Paris again...two of both destinations were cancelled...but at least a chance...
Anxious to get back home...

Part V: Eyjafjallajökull (yeah, got it right!!!)
So, Tuesday morning...checkout of the hotel...and...no bag waiting for Sushi...fucked up shit...only retards working for delta and the baggage claim in Atlanta...
BUT: our flight really started!!! Okay flight until Paris...stupid little cunts sitting right behind Silke and me...always kicking our seats...I hope your next boyfriends fuck you in the ass in an unpleasant way, little French girls...
After we landed I got aggressive...which was only due to fucking Charles de Cock!!! The most fucked up airport ever!!!
And I learned something new...they ain't got toilet seats on the male toilets!!!! Just those fucking paper seats...and if you try to put three of them above each other, the fucking toilet flushes and takes them with you...hard time shitting...fucking Paris!

However, they really got us home...the Hamburg flight also flew! And we were really the first KLM / Air France / Delay flight to touch down in hamburg for six days...woooohoooo!
After we got home, we went out again for grocery shopping...I was never so happy to walk somewhere while it's hailing ;) Back in Hamburg!!!!
YEAH!!!

P.s. We slept 15h that night ;)

Location:Bahamas - Atlanta - Paris, CDG - Hamburg

extended holiday...

still in atlanta...we changed the hotel (cheaper one, and two rooms ;), and settled with getting back on Tuesday...hopefully...it still does not seem like the ashcloud will be gone until then...

Today we also got our first piece of luggage back, more to follow today (or later...maybe...).

So we will make the best of our time, I tried to buy an iPad, sadly they were all gone yesterday, so I reserved one, maybe I'll get it before Tuesday ;) There is also a big aquarium here in Atlanta (the worlds largest, to be precise), I think we'll visit that...

So, wish me luck that we'll get back to Europe at least this week ;)

Lost in transit...

You guys probably have heard about the ashcloud...mist of you might have already seen ;)

I might not see it at all...we wanted to fly back from the Bahamas to Hamburg via Atlanta...well, Almost nothing is flying to Europe...we got rebooked and our next confirmed flight will be on Tuesday...however we will be on standby for a flight each day until we get one...

But things aren't so grim...the weather here is very good and we found a very nice hotel, where we got a cheap four bedroom suite ;)
And we are off to get some nice dinner :) meeeeaaaat!

Swimming with dolphins!!!

Usually I am way too chilled to post something around here, but today is a special occasion!

We were just out swimming/diving when we suddenly saw some fins in the water...at first there was some commotion whether that might be a shark, but when we saw that there were more than one and they were jumping it was quite obvious, that they were dolphins.

So we got back out and swam with them, they got pretty close and you could hear them all the time underwater. Sadly, no one touched one, but hey, WHATEVER ;)

LINK to the pics and vids

Ah, I also swam with Marley our nice neighborhood cow-dog a few minutes earlier ;)

Bahamas!!!

We arrived at our condo on Grand Bahama 1.5h ago, awesome weather after not so great weather in NYC.

Here is a picture, just to give you guys a short impression, this ist the view from our bedroom balcony (the view from the living room one is equally good ;)

Port of Call Villas, Freeport, Bahamas

AIR France, Fuck YOU!!!...again...

As most of you might know, I am on holiday, currently in New York City, from Friday on on the Bahamas ;)
Just a few quick facts:
As you might recall - I hated AIR France after coming back from Frisco using their airline. This time I thought by going via a fancy new A380 everythings gonna be better...
Well, the pkane was nice, really nice, even in economy.
However, there was one serious problem (again): Ze FRENCH!!!
Fucking retards, even their pilots cannot speak proper english...you couldn't understand FUCK of what he was saying over the speakers...
Charles de Gaulle was a bloody mess again, and fucking stewardesses at check-in served french people waiting behind me in line before serving me!
FUCK!

However, now all is gonna be fine...well besides all the germans here in the hostel...

P.S. Worst turbulences ever today on the flight, people were puking around me...

I'm not obese anymore!!!

For everyone who I didn't bother with it yet: I'm on diet...

Silke started doing Weight Watchers again in January and forced me to eat the same low-fat / low-cal stuff as she did...

At first I was slightly reluctant...but after 2,3 weeks I realized that eating less and healthier really works ;) So I started to cut short on sweets, sugary stuff, beer, fat and calories (I still drink and eat a burgers...just less and not that often).

AAAAAND...I lost almost 10kg as of today, from ~105 kg to 95.5 kg (For Joe: way too many stones to still to many stones, but okayish)...This on the other hand means my BMI went below 30 (BMI is bullshit but still ;)

So, 10kg are lost, at least 10 more to go. Let's hope the holiday doesn't fuck up everything ;)

Fuer alle, die ich nicht seit Wochen damit nerve: Ich bin auf Diaet.

Silke hat im Januar wieder mit Weight Watchers angefangen und mich dementsprechend "gezwungen" den gleichen kalorienreduzierten Scheiss zu essen wie sie. Am Anfang hat mir das natuerlich gar nicht gepasst, bis ich nach 2-3 Wochen gemerkt habe, dass der Scheiss funktioniert. Also habe ich mal alles an Suessigkeiten, Zuckerkram, Bier, Fett und Kalorien etwas reduziert (ich trinke immer noch und esse ab und zu Burger...nur nicht mehr so viel und seltener).

UUUUUUND...Ich habe bis heute fast 10 Kilo verloren, von ~105kg zu 95.5kg...Das heisst gleichzeitig, dass mein BMI jetzt unter 30 ist (BMI ist fuern Arsch, aber trotzdem ;).

Also 10 Kilo runter, mindestens 10 mehr muessen noch ;) hoffentlich versau ich mir das im Urlaub nicht wieder alles...

Hamburger b-promis

Ich Sitze gerade in der Fabrik bei stermann und grissemann...schraeg gegenüber sitzen König Boris und jaques palminger mit seiner Tochter...
Ich dachte kurz das ich gerne jaques palmingers tochter waere...erstmal haette ich Titten zum dran rumspielen, in jaques' Bart zwirbeln und ich wuerde König Boris kennen...
Allerdings hab ch gerade gesehen das die ische ihr trinken mitgebracht hat...
Das geht ja mal gar nicht...als Starkind...

BBQ vs. Snow

We planned a BBQ for tonight, already march...so it's time to start again...
However, there were 15cm of snow last night...didn't stop us ;)
BURGERS!!!