New pictures...

Heya,

check out the new pictures - there will be more next week I guess :).

Wohooo! Freedom. And Fire-Alarm

Today shall be remembered as the day of freedom! Freedom from oppression - oppression of EWS, a mandatory part of my state exam. The exam went very well and I no longer need to carry that burden with me. The upcoming second oral exam (June 10) should be no problem at all, considering that I already passed it without any problems last time.
However, today shall also be remembered as the day of lost sleep: Some jerk decided that 5am is the appropriate time to push the fire-alarm button. As you can see on the pictures, the fire-fighters actually came and I actually left the building. Considering that I took some time to pack my notebook and camera into my backpack and that I was really trodding out slowly, I am a bit worried: I took almost 5 minutes to get out of the building - however, the fire-fighters took an additional five minutes or so. That's ten minutes in total. Hmmm. I thought they were faster.
Anyway, this served as a great reminder of my first month in Carbondale when I got to know the American fire-fighters in a similar fake alarm (Check out the gallery for that).
I am not sure though whether the American or the German dorm sirens are louder. Maybe I should fly to Carbondale and run a series of tests... ;)
Anyway, I also posted some pictures of the most recent LARP a few days ago.
Congratulations also go out to my mate Aravind, who won his MA in the lottery a few weeks ago ;) No, actually he worked for it. Probably he even worked hard :)

That's it for the moment, take care and feel free to leave a comment!

Southpark for Free!

In case you haven't heard about this before: You can now officially watch all Southpark Episodes for free - legally. Just click on the link above and you will be directed to the official site. There's only a minor catch: Roughly one minute of ads in between the show. It is still a fair deal though.
Enjoy!

New pics again

Woha, it has to be Christmas or something. Anyway: If you take a look at the gallery - social to be precise - you will find three new sets of pictures.
The first one of a Singstar-evening at Miri's, the second set was taken of Stefan's moving out party and finally some pictures of my dad's birthday party.
Enjoy!

A matter of state security?

Admittedly, this link is rather old. However, I want to share it with you. It basically discusses an assumed petty crime - slander and libel against the mayor of a small Bavarian town. What makes this crime special though are the measures taken: The houses of the suspects were searched, not by regular police, but by special forces who are only acting in matters of state security...
Furthermore, a guy who called the mayor's office asking for the swinger club (the mayor was allegedly involved in sex scandals) was not only questioned by the police but searched for with the aid of computers - something which is normally only done when capital crimes have been committed.
This surely makes one think about the appropriatness of police action in Germany - a sad proof that arbitrariness in police action has reached Germany as well...

Look!

The situation is definetely improving - With the help of Hawkeye, I have been able to add the gallery script to the page. Pictures, here we come!

Back again!

Finally, I am back online. As you probably will have noticed by now, I am writing in English.
And: I have decided to keep it that way. Why that? Well, I guess my writing in English gives everybody a fair chance to understand what I am actually writing - and, believe it or not, I feel that I'm able to express myself better in English.
As for the reason of my absence: Unfortunately, the database of dauli.de had a crash. This resulted in the malfunction of both blog and gallery. I have solved the problem with the blog (or rather, my fried doc has) and I hope that I'll be solving the problem with the gallery soon (rather, I hope that my friend Hawkeye will) :). As you can see, my laziness knows no boundaries.