I just found out that I am (at least sort of) living the “Straight-Edge“-Way-Of-Life…
Without even knowing about the existence of this “culture” I followed the principle rules quite well (even though the reasons might differ): no cigarettes, no alcohol and no recreational drug use! Even some additional commitments like abstaining from promiscuous sexual behavior and caffeine are fully or partially (this refers only to the caffeine, since cola has it too) fulfilled.
I would actually be the perfect Straight-Edger, if I just refused eating meat and listened to Hardcore Punk of some kind.
Which are “unfortunately” two things I could definitely not live with… never!
So besides these discrepancies I would be eligible for wearing a black cross tattoo on the back of my hands. Which apparently is the “sign” to identify a “real” Straight-Edger… and again another fact I just wouldn’t like…
Well… one thing I have in common with these people is the fact that many other people just do not (want to) understand…
Greetz to Thomas at this point ;-)

a French!
And the competition: snail spitting!

Yes… right!
Just take a living snail from the beaches in the north of France, put it in your mouth and spit it out as far as you can… sounds easy (and disgusting)… reach 10.41m and get World Champion like 45 year old Alain Jourdren just did to defend his title… great isn’t it?!

I love this world…

I just found sth nice about salaries of scientists…

Petro’s “Salary Theorem” states that:

engineers and scientists can never earn as much as business executives and sales people

and of course there is a mathematical proof for that, using known postulates:

Postulate 1: “knowledge is power”
Postulate 2: “time is money”

so here we go:

power = work / time (that’s highschool physics)
using the postulates it follows:
knowledge = work / money
solving that for money, we get:
money = work / knowledge

thus, as knowledge approaches zero, money approaches infinity, regardless of the amount of work done

=> the less you know, the more money you make

Thanx to all who remembered my birthday and shame on those who didn’t but should… btw this is a picture of the birthday cake I got from Heike… made in my new shared kitchen, which is getting more social day by day… even the gangster on my floor were painting eggs yesterday, thanks to the initiative of Heike and me…
yeah… old people rule ;-)