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Discworld – The Light Fantastic [Update]

5 October 2007BooksSascha

The second book in the Discworld series. A continuation of the advantures of well known wizard Rincewind.

Unfortunately I am still waiting for it’s delivery… since the first time it was sent to me, it ended up at some mysterious Mrs. or Mr. Grtjber’s place (according to Amazon) … as you might guess from the name its a neighbour I do not really have …
Since there also doesn’t seem to be real person behind this name wanting to hand over the parcel to me, I am now waiting for an replacement …

More to read as soon as I get it and finish reading… ;-)

[Update]

I am done … and it’s been another great pleasure! Or to sum up in other words: I’m gonna buy the next one too!

Discworld – The Colour of Magic

1 October 2007BooksSascha

Another book done… This time a classic from Terry Pratchett: The first Discworld novel “The Colour of Magic”. Funny story about a wizard and a tourist along with it’s living luggage experiencing all sorts of things except the expected.
Some sort of fantasy novel as you might have guessed already…

New faces

30 September 2007BerlinSascha

(700x1000mm each)

Meet “Walter”, “The Dude” and “Donny” … guys/pictures now decorating our hallway, inspired by/stolen from Thierry Noir.
He painted his “Mauer-Eierköpfe” (Berlin Wall Egg-Heads) on the Berlin wall starting 1990, I painted our’s this weekend ;-).
These were still not the last frames to be filled in our “new” flat …

Being sick sucks

24 September 2007BerlinSascha

Not much happening these days…
But for some reason I am coughing out my lungs these days!
So you have to be patient… ;-)

Maria Laach

15 September 2007PhysicsSascha

I just returned from the 39th German Autumn School for High Energy Physics Maria Laach.
Maria Laach is a monastery in western Germany located in the caldera of an old vulcano.
Covering lectures from cool to reasonable good, from detetor physics to extra dimensions as well as exercises on Feynman diagrams and group talks.
For physicists: One of the guys doing all that elektroweak radiative-corrections stuff I used in my master thesis (Uli Baur) was there and also one of the heads in extra dimension theories (Nima Arkani-Hamed)… both with cool lectures!