One of my cousins in England works in the IT industry and recently alerted me to a developing technology which is nothing but disturbing. It is called RFID (Radio Frequency Identification Device). Below is a link to a lecture by Katherine Albrecht who heads the opposition to this technology in the States.
One application of RFID [...]

Sorry I haven’t posted in a while.
 I am in Bavaria on leave right now. Yesterday at 13:30 GMT+1 my mom died after a year long battle with cancer. Several radical operations as well as 3 months of chemo therapy had no effect and her cancer just seemed to grow faster and faster. I spoke to her last [...]

Just like Lloyd and Harry I sometimes think I’m stuck in the same rut as the guys in the movie Dumb & Dumber. First my toe nail falls off, yesterday my lamps get stolen, today the carburetor falls of my lawnmower. Just like that.
I think I’ll emigrate to Aspen, California.

WHAT THE F@CK? I just recently installed some solar powered lamps that charge during the day and then light up by themselves at night. It made our little landscaping project look really cool and I must say I was particularly proud of myself. One day I noticed that out of the original 4 that I [...]

I had to fill up my van today – and almost needed a mortgage.
Price per liter : €1.559 (don’t you just love the little .9 cent they add on the end – why?)
= $ 2.41 (at the current exchange rate of $1.5502 per €)
= $9.14 per Gallon (@ 3.875 liters per gallon)
 
Holy Fuck. Glad I don’t drive [...]

I live near nature – but I’m not a nature freak. You should see the state of my yard. I find it quite picturesque however,  when spoiled teenage ‘daddy’s girls’ trapse by on their overweight horses and ‘go out for a trott’, or whatever you call it. We have some pretty big stables in our [...]

It’s been a year since I managed to worm my way through all the code and server crap to get this page up and running. I enjoy checking in every day to look at the latest statistics. The site averaged about 17-22 hits a day with 61% coming from the US. Average time on site [...]

I finally got fed up.
I don’t know if it was my last backseat ride in the EF2000 where I noticed my flight gear getting tight after a months’ break, or a collegue mentioning in passing that “nobody abuses their body like Limey” – or both. Either way, I am in the typical rebound cycle of [...]

Went back to work today after my two week emergency leave only to find out that our course is delayed another 1-2 weeks. I really AM trying to stay motivated, but it is really really hard lately (no sts out of spite). A friend hit the nail on the head : do you really think [...]

Friday the 13th was not a good day. I totalled my car (detailed post to follow) and was pretty pissed off at having to deal with insurances, not getting any money back for my van that was only worth pennies etc… Luckily no one was hurt and I was simply annoyed about the administrtive hassle [...]

It’s still raining. Hard. We had 4 hours of sun yesterday when I tried to revive my now rusty charbroil grill from the states that I have yet to use. It took me a while to make the german gas bottle fit correctly to the grill, only to find that the pressure regulator put out [...]

The germans have something called “Siebenschläfer” (lit. Seven sleeper). It is an old wives tail that predicts that whatever the weather is on June 23 (the summer solstice) will stay that way for 7 weeks. Well it pissed it down on that day, and so far the prediction holds true. It can see how you [...]

Made it back home and am getting used to Germany again. No, I won’t start blogging in German, but the content might be more German related. Most recent – I was told not to bother showing up for work this week. The base is worried about possible demonstrations outside the base against the G8 summit,  [...]

I was viciously and deliberately attacked at the BX yesterday and I never even saw it coming. I made two major mistakes leading up to the tragedy.

I went to the BX barber shop to get my overdue haircut.
I accepted the chair of a new employee I had never seen before.

This guy seemed friendly and amiable [...]

I realise I am teetering on the edge of political opinion, but how many more of these will it take before our 1st amendment toting, gun wielding ’sport enthusiasts’ realise that the right to own a gun and the right to buy one readily at Wal Mart or frickin’ garage sale are two completely different [...]

Fuck you, would be spammers. One little change to my blog and your fucknut bullshit viagra crap can’t get through. I think adding 2+4 is a small price to pay for honest commenters in exchange for me not having to delete 200 spam mails every day. Today, only one made it through, and strangely enough I [...]

Starting the last three days, I have become the victim of Spam like you would not believe. I did not know that Spam also attacked blog comments. I do not want to turn them off, since it is one of my favorite things to look if there are any new comments to stuff I have written. In [...]