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Slightly addictive …

CNPS, Hobbies

… would be a good and short way to describe my latest addition in hobbies:
Consecutive Number Plate Spotting.

carplate1 carplate2 carplate3

As it’s always with these addictive things, I’ve been introduced to it by a good old friend of mine (thanks Carsten) and you can get hooked in different degrees of addiction.  When practiced just on the side, it can actually be quite fun :)

And why am I writing about it now, even though I started already in August 2015. Good question! It’s because I combined my new hobby with some of my long-standing ones … coding and numbers :)

You are hereby kindly invited to join the spotting club and track and compare your count!
Of course, I will add some stats later on :)

X-mas wrap-up

Climbing, Family & Friends, Music

xmas2015

Here’s my personal Christmas harvest ;)

It’s been the first time we did not spent Christmas in Berlin and it’s been a bit strange not to see old friends this time, yet it’s been slightly more relaxing than usual (less appointments, less driving, …).
Unfortunately, and somehow the standard over the last months, at least one of us has been sick and on medicine each day :(

Anyways, it’s been fun holidays and I am looking forward to test all presents next year :)

Pancake throwing

Outreach, Physics

Ever thought about the physics of pancake throwing? No?!
Apparently some people did and came up with an ‘interesting’ formula.

Last week I was contacted by a TV production company that wanted to make short clip about some formula on pancake throwing they found on the net and needed some information / check on.
Dr. Mark J. Hadley of Warwick University has derived a simple equation, that might or might not be a reasonable approximation.
It lacks a few details, though some are discussed, and completely ignores the shape of the pan, but then again …

Unfortunately, I did not yet find out when and where the clip is to be shown on TV :(
Still, it was fun reading and physics :)

A book, two bottles of wine and my name on Amazon

Books, CERN, Deggendorf, Outreach, Physics

DFDDA

Today, I received this very nice box with two copies of the book “GoBD und Big Data: Neue Herausforderungen für die digitale Datenanalyse”, two bottles of wine and a kind letter from the Deggendorfer Forum zur digitalen Datenanalyse e.V., to celebrate the publication of the proceedings for the annual meeting I went to end of June.

It’s also a celebration of my first book as an author on Amazon :)

Thanks a lot to Prof. Georg Herde and the DFDDA e.V. for inviting me and of course for the gift box :)