Category Archives: Hobbies

LHC Inauguration and LHCfest

CERN, Geneva, LHC, Music

Its been a nice party with some nice orchestra and some cool movies to start out with. After a speech by Robert Aymar and some strange slideshow with orchestra music (well only live for the Inauguration, we got the recording of it) the quite nice buffet was opened … as usual a mess … no wonder with 3000 physicists ;)

Anyway all the classic CERN bands were playing … Les Horribles Cernettes, the CERN Jazz Club Reunion and the Canettes Blues Band. We also had a special appearance of the LHC-Rap performers featuring the head of the LHC as one of the posers ;)

Fleamarket, Gimbap, Champagne Party and the Jura Mountains

Geneva, Hiking

After starting into the weekend with some very nice and tough badminton matches, some Orangina drinking and almost last tram missing, I continued on Saturday with the Plains Palais fleamarket, some troubles to go through to get a drill that has a hammer/action, Korean Gimbap selfmade with my flatmates and a Champagne Party at Troels’ place … almost won the music quiz with my team and went home kind a late.
Still today I woke up fairly early and was convinced to go for a hike in the Jura mountains … unfortunately the bowling that was supposed to give this weekend the proper close, wasn’t at all as good as the mountains … the lanes were quite shitty and they had this cosmic bowling thingy going on … man!

300

Movies

Finally managed to watch one of the movies that was on my “2watch”-list for quite some time … “300” is another fine piece of fantasy, historical action movie.
For those of you that like these kind of movies you should certainly give it a try (for the other, maily female, readers … theres a lot of half naked greek warriors ;)
Anyway … its a cool movie to watch on a Sunday morning ;)

Hard Core Logo

Movies

Just had my first video night at my new place in Geneva watching “Hard Core Logo” … well, you don’t know it … it kind’a has a reason … its quite nice to watch, but its definitly not going to be one of my favourites …
it reminded me a little of this “This Is Spinal Tap” movie (which they are also refering to twice in the movie) … so if you like that, give it a try …
To sum up: its kind of a documentary about a band (called Hard Core Logo, surprise!) and a guy making a documentary about them … confused? … well, the guy making the docu is actually the guy making the docu … even more confused? … shish … just watch it or leave it …

Predictably irrational

Books

Just finished reading a nice book about the irrational behaviour of humans. A collection of strange/funny/interesting things people do even if they do not want to or would not think of doing in the first place … anyway, its a nice book also introducing a lot of experiments that have been carried out (mostly on MIT students) to test these behaviours.
Its called: “Predictably irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions”.