gregoa's blog

something's wrong with chello or with our cable modem:

• thursday: no internet connection from 4:xx until 21:xx. well, I wasn't at home at that time anyway.
• friday: the internet connection drops in the evening. time for dinner. — still no internet later. power toggling the router doesn't help. after power toggling the cable modem the connection is up & running again. causal connection or not?
• saturday: the internet connection dies again at 18:19. I have dinner again. — afterwards still no connection but power toggling the cable modem helps again.

people have been whining about the missing snow for weeks. & now that it's snowing what are they doing? hanging out in shopping centers. ARGL.

the alpine climate is not made for humans.
definitely not.

ill he is.

I consider music on public toilets (e.g. in restaurants) a crime against humanity.

in the name of science: please read & link to Measuring The Speed of Meme: An Experiment in which You Will Participate, Or Else....

"S.O.B." as in "save our bodies".
it's this time again — the long tyrolean winter seems to have started; it's cold (7° C at the moment) & rainy, & the mountains are already covered with snow.

time to wait for the heating to be turned on everywhere ...

"the farm" is a nice exercise in the field of group dynamics — basically all members of a group have to agree on the assignment of a typical farm role to each of the group's members.
a "fork" of the exercise is if one or more persons just try to assign roles for themselves and others in a group; & that's what david & me tried today for the cUG.

cf. also david's comment and/or ask at bauernhof@sporschill.priv.at or bauernhof@comodo.priv.at.

eastern tyrol
explaining a campaign "per l'uso responsabile del alcool" in italian to italian tourists is fun.

southern tyrol
driving through the val pusteria/pustertal is !recovery: why are they creeping without any reason (mostly cars with italian & some with german licence plates)?

fm radio
needed: blacklists for fm radio stations (that skip northern/southern tyrolean folk channels during autosearch).

geekwear
wearing the new debian t-shirt for the first time feels good.

recycling
chips seem to be made out of paper; at least some guy throwing a paper plate with chips on it into the paper bin at a local snack booth seems to think so ...

argentina failed at the penalty shoot-out, germany won the quarter final; every german is blowing their (car's) horn. fascinating.

this blog entry was brought to you live from berlin, germany.

update: some hours later: berlin's still partying.