Category Archives: Hobbies

Honour & Glory

23 June 2016Football, Honour & GlorySascha

The group stage is over, 36 out of 51 matches played and 20 people have placed bets in this year’s UEFA European Championship.

Congratz to Bernd K., Janine, Lea and Michael for taking the lead after this initial step of the tournament. Quite an impressive show by some of you, I have to admit. Down below is the overview on player ranks after each match. As usual, you find all the details (schedule; standings; matchboards, yes there’s multiple; scoreboard; and alternative counting) on the Honour & Glory section.

Looking forward to an exciting round of 16!

Honour & Glory

7 June 2016Football, France, Honour & GlorySascha

It’s time for this year’s (major) Honour & Glory event – EURO2016 is starting in a few days!

Remember to check your account and place your bets before the matches start!
The bets and some stats and plots will be visible right after kickoff and I’ll do my best to put in results quickly.

Looking forwards to another exiting (betting) event!
Let’s see who’s going to make this time … newbee or someone with history ;)

Brighton

17 April 2016CNPS, GeoCaching, Physics, UKSascha

ATLAS SUSY workshop and a bit of spare time in Brighton last week. Unfortunately the weather was best on the days of the workshop and real British during my last day.
Anyways … workshop and hotel where nice, I found two caches and spotted some number plates ;)

PK7

21 January 2016Munich, MusicSascha

Berlin Calling – yesterday, I went to see the opening concert of Paul Kalkbrenner‘s 2016 tour in Munich.

Once you accept the fact that it’s a well planned concert more than a live set in a club, which it usually is these days with him, it was actually quite nice. There were not too many surprises: he played his classics and stuff from the new album (where my preference lies on the classics). Here and there he could have given it a bit more drive, but you could call it a fair mixture. In my opinion, the first encore was the best part/track of the night (which unfortunately started 30 minutes late). The location (Zenith, Munich) was nice, though the organisation (especially the coat check) could certainly improve a bit. All in all, it was a good concert and a nice evening, but it could have rocked (not sure that’s the word) a bit more …
Check out his new album.

Slightly addictive …

12 January 2016CNPS, HobbiesSascha

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

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 :)