Amsterdam Marathon

The first runners just finished this years Amsterdam Marathon. While I should be out there sight seeing the city with my friends, I "preferred" to be sick at home. While lying in bed most of the time I took the chance to make a few snapshots out of the window for your fellow viewing pleasure. So have fun!

The two guys who came in first and second together with their escorts and my lovely street light

A slightly tilted number three
Bad ass helicpoter waking me from my precious sleep
Two average joe runners... At least better than the loosers running by my house rigth now

Mystery of the Urinal Deuce

New South Park Episode comming up... Again!

"The world’s biggest conspiracy of all time will finally be uncovered when Eric Cartman exposes the true culprit behind the September 11th attacks."

[Via Mr. Twig]

Ay last.

The big fairly important conference week is over. At last. Not one day without great great food, way too many pre-paid (not by me though) drinks and hardly a day when bed called for me before 3 o' clock in the morning. A presentation was held by me, which as planned, made the feedback rolling in. Interest was comming from SurfNet, University of Vienna, the BBC (yes BBC!!!) and many many others. All in all a near perfect week.

"The document RIPE-104
Goes on longer than ever before
If you want an address
And your network's a mess
Then Daniel will get very sore"

And better late than never, I bring you a picturous update.

Make Love, Not Warcraft

At last. The tenth season of South Park is going to continue on Wednesday this week.

"The Massively Multiplayer Online game, World of Warcraft comes to South Park and the boys dedicate their lives to defeating an insane gamer and saving the World of Warcraft."

[Via Mr. Twig]

Good Evening Lady and Gentelman

I have never been to a concert where there were more people on stage than in the audience. Well, until yesterday... More or less by accident I stumbled upon this band from swizerland called Open Season. Turned out they were scheduled to play at the Winston, so I hoped on my bike and cycled through the city to hear some crazy ska rocksteady and reggae tunes.

Though they started to play with like only two or three people listening to their music, they made quiet a good effort on stage. In fact I haven't seen such an enjoyable show in, well probably years... A sophisticated ska band, joined with a good portion of fun, incredible suits and an awful lot of experience from tours with King Django or The Toasters. The singer really knows his stuff, the bass is close walking almost incoming, and Open Season also comes up with the very most sexiest saxophone in the world (from a musical point of view, of course). In the end the crowd got joined by a few metal heads and a few girls which even made the event rather dancable.

Check out their website, go see them when they are around and excuse me for my terrible hung over writing. On the 4th of October they will play at the Arena in Vienna, check it out!

Election Massacre

Elections are coming up in Austria, which means fellow me has to vote. I applied for my "Wahlkarte" (the thingy you need to vote outside your hometown) about two weeks ago. Guess when it arrived... Today. Well, what would one expect from good ol' snail mail? But that's not enough. Now I'm left with 3 days finding me someone with an Austrian passport. Alternatively I could go to the embassy. Conveniently the Amsterdam embassy is closed these days, and the nearest one is in Den Haag, about an hour and half away from here. Well, at least their opening hours are rather generous (7-12 am). And since it would all be way to easy for me anyway, I have to return the goddamn thing by 9th of October, which might be quiet tricky concerning the two weeks it took to get everything over here in the first place.

And everything just to choose between a douche and a turd...

Still no treasuer

Again I'm here to tell you that I haven't found the treasure yet; Whatever it might be. Dutch is improving a lot, though I won't bother you with that for now. Rather fed up with work, can't tell you much about it, since it's all top secret (no, it's not, but I'm lazy). Will go to a big conference some time next week, which will keep me rather busy. So I'll try to do my treasure hunting during the weekend and will keep you all updated eventually. Hope I'm not disappointing you again.

To someone: Didn't really mean to be that rude, somehow got left with hardly any other choice. Maybe it's better that way.

To someone else: Lost in frustration, however feeling like good things will happen soon.

To someone completely different: Girls suck? Tell me something I didn't know already.

Good night!