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Sunday, April 15, 2007

Google AdSense really works

The principle of Google AdSense is to provide ads that are relevant to the content on a web page.

And it really works. See for yourself.

Bow Wow Wata is a cute comic for children about pets and pet problems, drawn by a vet.

(Uhh, and if you wonder about the other tabs, I'm just doing research to check the facts in a translation I'm working on ...)

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Friday, April 13, 2007

Seme or uke?

Chibi Seme
Take Are you a Seme or an Uke? today!
Created with Rum and Monkey's Personality Test Generator.

You are the seme in disguise. Able to fit in and get along with uke and seme alike, you are able to get close to the uke on their level before exerting your dominance. This makes you at times manipulative and able to fool others about your true seme nature. Because of your harmless appearance, it takes the flamboyantly gay Flaming Uke to really bring out your aggressive side and expose you for the seme that you are.

Posted at 12:30 am by turukhtan
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Thursday, April 12, 2007

Some of the many interesting make out partners I've had in my dreams:

- Lou Reed (in the dream he "taught" me french kissing o_O)
- Aragorn
- Martin Kellerman (who draws Rocky)
- Eminem (twice!)
- Edin in Safe Area Gorazde

And, this very morning:

- Boromir

(I hadn't done or thought about ANYTHING that could be associated with LOTR the day before!!!)

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Friday, April 06, 2007

Mum was here

For a much too short time ... We walked all over town, saw an exhibition of Weegee's photography, ate a lot of good food and did a lot of dogspotting.

Giving mum advice on how to use my camera ...

See all the pictures! Though mum didn't allow me to take any pictures of her ... :o(

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Friday, March 30, 2007

Tinets galore

Yeah, I do think I'm pretty good-looking ... :oD

I'm convinced that picture no. 3 would have been perfect, had I not moved my head.

I tried to take a somewhat decent picture of myself for a Greenpeace campaign to get the Greek representatives at the International Whaling Commission to vote against whaling at their meeting on May 31.

That's 16 days beyond my current deadline, so I'm heading back to work now ...

Posted at 7:34 pm by turukhtan
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Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Keffiyeh = Nazi???

As I was researching an entry about Henrik Vibskov's piggy scarves, I came across material that suggests that keffiyehs "have been increasingly associated with neo-nazis in Germany since the late 1990's". Uhh, WTF??

Is it the "anti-Zionist" (= "anti-Jewish", according to false logic) connotations of solidarity with the Palestinian struggle? Or is it an attempt to adopt/destroy yet another youth culture (think of those poor Skinheads) or Leftist symbol?

In any case, hiphopper Invincible got into a bit of trouble when wearing a keffiyeh to a concert in Leipzig.

Arhh, and what signals do I myself send, walking down the street here like this?

Okay, this calls for more research ... Continued in my other blog.

Posted at 8:40 pm by turukhtan
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Sunday, March 25, 2007

Weird Sunday

Maybe it was the amounts of ice tea that I drank, but I just didn't sleep last night. When I realised it was 6 AM and getting light outside, I still didn't feel too sleepy, and instead ventured out to bike around and check out the city as it was waking up.

Then I went back home to sleep a bit. I still wasn't "sleepy" like you usually get in the evenings, but I felt a bit weird. For instance, everything small and dark on the ground somehow frightened me ...!?

In the afternoon I went to the flea market here in Mauerpark, to look for a tennis ball that I could use to train my arm muscles. I didn't find any (!), but I found a guerilla concert by the indie-rock band By Heart. They are originally from Sweden, as it turns out, but they seem to be cool guys, and sing about body hair (in "The Astronaut": In a Motel / On a bed, as we rest, / You examine / Every hair on my chest :o). Still, I'd like the bass to be more prominent in the recordings they have on their website, as the prominent place of the bass is what I liked about them when they played live. (Hmm, I'd like to learn to play bass sometime.)

I also found some loose types:

I was most interested in the big semicolon, but then I figured, why not my whole name? Though I didn't find any capital T that would fit with the lower case letters.

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Monday, March 19, 2007

Oh no! I live in a Plattenbau ...

The Berlin Senate and Berlin Partner GmbH have developed a 3D model of Berlin for Google Earth. It's way too heavy for Megamårtron's meagre RAM, but I managed to find my house in it:

Oh noes! They just used some random house facades on the less famous buildings, and my beautiful 5-floor house has been turned into a 6-floor Plattenbau ...

Here is a view from the back:

Posted at 11:30 am by turukhtan
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Wednesday, March 14, 2007

Flatmate quest part II

Okay, now I've met many people, several of whom turned out to be really creepy. Four or five of them could be nice flatmates from what I can see. Hmm, but how to decide between them?

If this was a comedy manga I'd announce round two of the Great Gutenberg Haus Contest, where the five people would have to complete difficult tasks in cooperation with me, such as buying groceries, cooking, cleaning, fixing a crashed Internet connection, walking a doggie, chopping wood, rock climbing, teaming up with me in a full contact martial arts match, solving a hostage situation, etc.

But I guess I'll have to just weigh pros against cons, and figure out what it is I *really* would appreciate in a flatmate. Of course, it's impossible to know now, after a brief conversation, what it'll be like to live together for one year, but I try to rely on my gut feeling (it tends to be right).

Posted at 11:41 am by turukhtan
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Saturday, March 10, 2007

News on my housing situation ...

So, I asked my boss/landlord if it was still okay for me to stay here, and he put his hands on my shoulders and said, "YES."

I put an ad in WG-Gesucht.de, and so far 27 people have replied. Like, TODAY.

And I was worried that it would be difficult to find a flatmate.
Well, it surely will be difficult in the sense that there will be a lot of administrative work ... :oD

I hope I'll be able to find the right person among them.

Posted at 10:53 pm by turukhtan
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