daemons dungeon

Which one would you have:

Today we had quite a lot of fun at “Herr Lenz”.

We arranged the tables in (one could say) a strange way and some might say that none of us wanted to have his back in the open. We did, because we did …

Fun started when staff appeared and we (mostly me) acted as jury for “You think you can sing” instead of ordering drinks and food. While we were busy with the food we have been watched by the staff and noticed that they started to make fun of us and asked what is so funny. It turned out that from their view of the restaurant we looked more like little Eucharist than a jury.

But decide for yourself:

• Grab the nearest book.
• Open it to page 56.
• Find the fifth sentence.
• Post the text of the sentence in your blog along with these instructions.
• Don’t dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.

“Bring the sword straight down in a wide curve through the central plane of the body at the speed of a falling object (chiburui).”

The quote comes from: William de Lange - The History Teachings, and Practice of Japanese Swordsmanship

As there are more and more iPhone and iPod touch out there in the wild the need for simple stuff is growing stronger and stronger. Today we had someone complaining that he is missing cut & paste on his iPhone and so we had a short brainstorming and came up with “grab’n'push”.

The idea behind this is to “grab” something like a URL or a e-mail and “push” it to another application.

For grabbing the needed thing you close your fingers (all 5) over it, lift your hand and release it by opening the fingers on the application where you want to add it. You easily can switch trough your applications using the normal method because grab’n'push only reacts if you use all five fingers.

Watch out for a demo …

Andrew has strange ideas … but funny ones as well! So here we go:

Via Andrew.

1. Take a picture of yourself right now.
2. Don’t change your clothes, don’t fix your hair…just take a picture.
3. Post that picture with NO editing.
4. Post these instructions with your picture.

As you might have noticed - I also applied for a position as board member.

Now it is your turn … I need a shitload of money to buy stickers, t-shirts, mugs, flags aso aso

So if you want to help me with my candidature/run for the board then open your pockets and show your love!

You don’t have money - no problem! Simply show your love!

Today I have to announce the death of a dear friend …

It was a fine little server which always served me well and I feel sad that it has to go to the computer heaven - but I know it will be well and some parts still will be alive in the new server.

Goodbye my beloved dentaku!

It takes quite a lot to scare me but today I learned a new lesson.

I had to use a taxi to get home and during the ride the driver started to mumble or suddenly laughed. I tried to have a conversation about the soccer games and that the germans won but it took quite a while till he noticed what I was talking about and then he just laughed again.

When we arrived I asked him why he is acting that strange and as response I got:

“What do you think how you would react after 20 hours of work … taking amphetamines!”

I was quite happy that I made it home without a crash and called the police to catch that guy!

Seems that one needs to do drug tests on cab drivers before a ride!

I’m definitely scared to take a ride now!

I’m not much into sports and actually did some research to understand it before I joined the fun.

We have been to the “Kaiserburg” to watch the game between the czech and turky and in my opinion it was a fantastic game.

It was so sad to see that the turkish won that game and we expected that they will do some weird parties as they usually do but this time they seemed to be scared to party which was quite strange. During my ride with the U2 (underground train in NBG) one dared to ask me about the game and after my statement he asked me if I was czech. It seemed that he was relieved when I said that I’m german.

I wonder what he would have done if I would have told him that there is a famous guy in the czech republic which has the same last name that I have!

Anyway … it was nice to see those guys that calm - we expected more weird stuff.

And last but not least - I’m very sad that the czech lost the game!

It was a great game!

Big love goes to the keeper - if his fingers would be a little longer the czech would have won!

Today we (the german QA-Team) have been out for a team event and went hiking. We had a lot of fun walking trough the woods and also had some very funny games on the tour. My favorite one was the game where we had to build a bow and arrows to shoot at CDs that we tested during the SLES10-SP2 phase. And again it turned out that we work best when we work as a team because I had my best shot with the bow Kevin and I created and used the arrow from Sebastian.

Here is a picture with the wrong arrow: