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listening to the Ö1 evening news can be funny:

milch- & milchprodukte sind nach (sic!) bier die größte umsatzgruppe im österreichischen lebensmittel(sic!)handel.

prost!

... the first leap second in seven years!

thanks to jwz for this enlightning blog entry.

opened the window before going to bed: snow is lying everywhere & still falling. some people like it ...

update 1: even more snow in the morning, and fat ugly snow flakes tried to block my way to work.
update 2: it's still snowing (or snow raining) now in late afternoon, the streets are more wet than snow covered but on the grass and the parking cars the unnecessary stuff piles up. some 10 to 15 cm I'd guess.
update 3: no snow in telfs, not a single grain ... but on the highway an accident near zirl (without any snow or ice on the road).

what are people doing on rainy saturday afternoons in november?
right - they go shopping.

and what are they doing in the shopping malls?
they all participate in the contest "walk-as-slow-as-you-can-without-falling-asleep- & -always-leave-your-shopping-cart-in-the-middle-of-the-aisle".

argl.

each time I enter a shopping center with an elevator I'm astonished why there are so many people who seem not to understand how elevators work though two buttons ("I want to go upwards" vs. "I want to go downwards") and two illuminated arrows ("this elevator is on its way up" vs. "this elevator is on its way down") shouldn't be that complicated to interpret. how do they cope with much more difficult tasks like using an ATM or operating a car?

smoking is forbidden in the whole sillpark (shopping center) except in some designated areas in the restaurant section since a few days ago. I would have expected people to ignore this rule without further enforcement; and when I came there today I saw several people standing around and smoking in the lobby despite the informational posters.

but then some charming young yellow clad women appeared, approached the smokers, informed them about the new policy, and made them put out the cigarettes in their ash trays.

WTF? early august is supposed to be summer, even here in austria. and what have we got? snow on the mountain peaks around innsbruck and less than 10°C in town.

incroyable!

if you would like to get delicious indian food in innsbruck go to the "rama" restaurant in innstraße.

at least that's what apple's tiger dictionary says: "an unhealthy interest in computers". cf. heise newsticker (article in german, screenshot in english).