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Schluchsee 2009

1.02.2009 in Life, Travel! | No comments

Due to an enormous amount of work, i could not find neither the time nor the inner peace to concentrate on my paperwork so I took some days of and went into a sort of conclave :-)

The short trip led me to a small village named “Schluchsee” located in the heart of the Black Forrest in southern Germany. I knew the hotel since my childhood when I spend many holidays at this place. The “Vier Jahreszeiten am Schluchsee” (Four seasons at Schluchsee) is a upper class Sport and Family hotel, not the top luxury house, but very neat and comfortable. A great feature is the quite cheap internet access. An incredible bargain at 5 euros a day.

During the relaxing time I had the opportunity to shot some pictures, have a look.

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Winter

8.01.2009 in Life | No comments

For about a week it’s freezing cold, and the temperature won’t pass the 0°C mark. *brrrrr*

Self-Reminder: Buy wood! Look for warm clothes! Move to Norway!

WCG Finals 2009

11.11.2008 in Life, Travel!, Watch! | No comments

… where the geeks & nerd meet.

The World Cyber Games finals where hosted this year in Cologne, which is a 2 hour ride form my hometown, so I could not let pass the opportunity to see that once in my life. What shall I say … it is as you imagine, thousands of geeks watching the ubergeeks.

These pro gamers, build a base in WC3, grind their heroes, attack, destroy, build creatures faster, then I can double-click the icon to start the game. The counter-strike games are that fast, that I don’t even realize what could have been happening. (Guy runs around a corner, no one there, guy dead, screen black in less than a second?) And don’t get me started on the guitar hero players.

The sponsors village was not a big thing. Try out possibilities were at the X-Box booth, free giveaways were rare food was expensive. All in all a fun experience, but nothing you have to see every year.

Cologne on the other hand was great as always, even if they were already preparing the beginning of their stupid carnival.

Farewell and Goodbye: Fury in the Slaughterhouse

1.09.2008 in Life, Listen!, Touring!, Travel! | 1 comment

I spend my weekend in Hannover, to say goodbye to one of the coolest Bands I know, or knew. After more than 20 Years the Furys will leave us but won’t retire yet. The last show was quite emotional even though the setlist was quite the same as for the rest of the tour.

We saw a whole set of the greatest Fury Hits, an unplugged Set in the middle of the crowd and a crowd-surfing, overweight german TV Star.

Won’t forget these days, and I never thought I would!

One more thing. The king is dead, long live the king. It might be Fury in the Slaughterhouse’s end, but there was also a reunion. Hannover needs at least one decent Rockband and therefore Terry Hoax are back together.

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Arabella-Sheraton Pelikan Hotel Hannover

31.08.2008 in Life, Touring! | No comments

As a quite satisfied Starwood Hotel Group customer I try to stay as often as possible at their Hotels, and ’til now I was usually satisfied. They are great value for money. The Arabella Sheraton Pelikan Hotel is no exception.

Based in the old Pelikan Factories it offers nice modern rooms and a great service. As usual I was too late for breakfast, so I can’t say anything about that.

 

Arabella Sheraton Pelikan Hotel Hannover

Arabella Sheraton Pelikan Hotel Hannover

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Walibi Belgium

3.08.2008 in Life, Travel! | No comments

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The man you see in this picture is the famous explorer Prof. Piwitsch, who discovered the secret of Tutankhamun during one of his research trips to egypt. Or it is the guy who simply beat me in the Tutankhamon Challange, an interaktive darkride at Walibi Belgium (scores below)

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The second mystery we faced today, was the riddle of the green tides. While I refused to participate in water-rides today (after my cold day – wet clothes experience at the Boobejaanland earlier this year) i saw this boat pass. I wonder where the passenger went. And I seriously hope that none of them had contact with the neat clean water ;-)

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One hundred push ups – Week 1 / Day 1

21.07.2008 in Life | No comments

I started the onehoundredpushups program today.

The target to achieve were 5 series with 60 seconds break:

10 / 10 / 8 / 6 / max (at least 7)

I made:

10 / 10 / 8 / 6 / 11 (collapsed on the floor)

 

Result: I have no feeling in my arms, but they seem to still work ’cause they’re trembling since. My elbow hurts as well. I believe I’ll be in pain tomorrow :)

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one hundred push ups in six weeks

16.07.2008 in Life | No comments

I read about the site hundredpushups.com on lifehacker today. The strange thing is though that many times people told me to be more sporty. With no effect at all. And as soon as some geeks create a trendy webpage, I find myself sweating on the floor.

The whole thing is about doing one houndred push ups in six weeks being able to do one hundred push ups in a row after six weeks of training.

I just took the initial test and made 16 full body push ups before collapsing on the floor. Better then I’d expected. ;-)

I’ll keep you posted…

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