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this one for our geek and nerd readers… sometimes (or probably more often than not) armin likes to play sheldon cooper, but he won't just realize it. like today. first, while having again one of these internal communication difficulties (due to the interaction man-woman, or french mind-german mind, or precisely nerd-average individual) i was told that we need to synchronize. where i thought to myself heavens-i-am-not-an-iPhone. then, later, sitting comfortably at the terrace of the kienegg inn in the middle of the mountains, ready for this apfelstrudel  i was having in mind, or either chasing after, during the 17 km bike ride uphill to a 1,100 altitude, starting a chitchat about the lovely weather, the fantastic panorama, how great it is to be able to escape the city so quickly, and so on, he looked at me and said: 1-0-1 5 (one zero one, five). eh? here the reason, a tiny card on the table: you certainly noticed the error on the cube… (elucidat...

while we're sorting out our belongings in the aim of our next big adventure, last week i reopened my old blue metal trunk (which carried my few basic stuff on my way to hamburg 1991), 15 years after i left it in the darkness of our so-called basement, and threw tones of handwritten notes, documents, handbooks and tapes from my past life as a german philology student and later teacher for french. and i found this one – my first work typed on a computer, the  commodore 64  my brother wasn't using anymore, some time end of 1989, shortly after the fall of the berlin wall. the paper was about the propaganda of the old german democratic republic.

january 25th 2003 – today 10 years ago, the iPod 2nd generation. 20 gb, touch sensitive wheel and firewire.

that's so geeky...