gregoa's blog http://info.comodo.priv.at/blog/archives/cat_3/ random musings about guitars, computers, and everything en-us gregoa 2011-10-01T23:06:30+02:00 http://info.comodo.priv.at/blog/archives/2011/10/#e2011-10-01T22_26_01.txt long night of museums 2011-10-01T22:26:01+02:00 gregoa misc "lange nacht der museen" – a warm late-summer evening, & it's amazing how many galleries, exhibition rooms, etc. innsbruck has.

a quick list of my tour (all places in the city center, & just a few minutes away from each other by bike). as usual, the quality was mixed.
  1. kunstpavillon der tiroler künstlerschaft: no exhibition, & the projector for the movie wasn't ready yet
  2. neue galerie der tiroler künstlerschaft: weird something (the confusing way)
  3. fo.ku.s foto kunst stadtforum: a few boring photos
  4. galerie 22a: great paintings from carmen m selma
  5. galerie im taxispalais – galerie des landes tirol: some nice drawings, & a funny video
  6. kunstraum innsbruck: weird installation & video (but somewhat funny)
  7. gösser's: delicious zwickl (wait – that's not art in the strict sense, & not included in the "long night" ticket)
  8. fotoforum west: a projected photo blog
  9. galerie nothburga: some nice mini-sculptures, & some paintings, not my style
  10. artdepot – kommunikationszentrum für kunst und kultur: a few abstract (?) paintings, not my style
  11. galerie kass: a few paintings, not my style
  12. <some garden across the street from the last gallery>: music & fashion, if I understood it correctly
  13. aut. architektur und tirol: installations, in the wider sense; with an interesting tour
ps: the only places I knew beforehand were 6, 7, & 8.]]> http://info.comodo.priv.at/blog/archives/2010/12/#e2010-12-06T19_46_32.txt interesting times 2010-12-06T19:46:32+02:00 gregoa misc
two interesting portraits of julian assange: ]]> http://info.comodo.priv.at/blog/archives/2010/07/#e2010-07-27T00_39_43.txt entering the U.S. 2010-07-27T00:39:43+02:00 gregoa misc, debian

immigration

I spent roughly two minutes at the immigration counter. the dialog with the polite, tired, & probably bored guy was like:

he: what are you doing in the US?
me: going to a computer conference at columbia university.
he: how long are you staying?
me: until the 14th of august.
/he looks at passport
he: you are here for the first time?
me: yup.
he: (instructions for fingerprint scanning & photo)
he: do you work at home? what are you doing there?
/me explains
/he probably doesn't really listen
/he stamps passport

customs

I had ticked "I bring food" on the customs declaration form, & entered "cheese, 0.5 kg, $9" in the "goods to declare" box. the guy handling the queue sent all people without any "yes" ticks straight to the exit, & me to the counter. dialog with the friendly lady:

she: what food are you bringing?
me: two small pieces of cheese.
she: anything else? meat? fruits?
me: no.
she: ok, put your bags here. (belt for the luggage scanner)

that was all, no more questions, no inspections, or whatever. – & noone actually looked at the customs declaration form except for the one "yes".]]> http://info.comodo.priv.at/blog/archives/2010/07/#e2010-07-05T00_53_10.txt weekend 2010-07-05T00:53:10+02:00 gregoa misc
  • reduced the amount of dust in my rooms
  • increased the amount of air in my bike's tyres
  • created an armel cross-building chroot (with pdebuild-cross, multistrap, & some patching & swearing & beating)
  • switched from xterm to urxvt
  • filled in the ESTA/VWP form to be allowed to enter the u.s.
  • upgraded colleen (which doesn't have any devices for hard disks under /dev anymore since then)
  • cleaned the toilet & the corridor
  • uploaded some packages
  • played with some of the meego stuff; not very successful
  • saturated 2GB of RAM + 1GB of swap by having ~40 tabs with airline websites open in chromium; still no ticket
  • wrote two blog entries (what's recursion again?)
    • some successes, some failuresroom for improvement.]]>     http://info.comodo.priv.at/blog/archives/2010/01/#e2010-01-10T20_59_01.txt data rentention 2010-01-10T20:59:01+02:00 gregoa misc statement regarding the amendment of the austrian telecommunication law (implementation of the EU guideline on data retention) to the federal ministry for transport, innovation and technology.

    it should show up on the parliament's law draft page at some point.]]>     http://info.comodo.priv.at/blog/archives/2010/01/#e2010-01-03T23_58_57.txt social orange juice 2010-01-03T23:58:57+02:00 gregoa misc 07:00 <Ryan52> this social networking thing is getting rediculous. the side of my orange juice carton says "find us on facebook" and "follow us on twitter". :/ 2010-01-03, #debian-perl (OFTC) ]]> http://info.comodo.priv.at/blog/archives/2009/12/#e2009-12-22T00_31_46.txt déjà-vu or: 25 years later 2009-12-22T00:31:46+02:00 gregoa misc
    2009-12-21: police forces evict students from the "audimax" in vienna, the center of the university protests.

    & I thought we as a society might have learned something. FAIL.]]>     http://info.comodo.priv.at/blog/archives/2009/05/#e2009-05-16T23_49_27.txt competence 2009-05-16T23:49:27+02:00 gregoa misc email to the BZÖ & you want to find out their email address you can:
    • go to http://www.bzoe.at/ – ok (if you ignore the 123 HTML errors)
    • click on Mailen Sie mir with the photo of the current chairman bucher – hu? interesting URL in the address bar: ..?content=westenthaler_kontakt
    • above the form you are told that you can use office@bzoe.at for contacting them – hu? the actual code does not agree: <a href="mailto:joerg.haider@bzoe.at">office@bzoe.at</a>)
    it seems that they change their chairmen too often for their web guys ...]]>     http://info.comodo.priv.at/blog/archives/2008/09/#e2008-09-21T03_59_46.txt saturday 2008-09-21T03:59:46+02:00 gregoa misc, debian rebekka bakken. great voice. highly recommended.

    & when I came home the new issue of profil was already lying in front of the door.]]>     http://info.comodo.priv.at/blog/archives/2008/08/#e2008-08-15T20_14_17.txt seasons 2008-08-15T20:14:17+02:00 gregoa misc, debian
  • innsbruck, austria: 13°C
  • mar del plata, argentina: 14°C
    • so much for european summer & south american winter.]]>