sometimes I hate computers...

... today was a good example. I used open-office to write a short assignment. The text was in English the spell checker always suggested my German words. So no problem just switch the language! Well, it might seem this way but it actually was not. I messed around like 1h trying to solve the problem in the menu-jungle of open-office. I turned around 25 different options language options to English and still no result. AHHH! The one option I found that would solve my problem just switched back to German every time I changed the language. Even uninstalling my current version and reinstalling a new English version did not solve the problem. Sometimes computers are a miracle, even to a computer science students...

winter is here

Since a few days we do have winter weather in Lund. It started with the first snow in this year a few days ago. Since that it was melting a bit but there was also some new snow that arrived, so we have around 5cm of snow. Although we have no mountains is it still very beautiful. Especially the weather is amazing throughout the last few days. We had almost one week of sunny, almost cloud free weather. Even the nights are clear and so the temperatures dropped down quite a bit. Two days ago we had the coldest day since we are here: -8°C. Feels almost like winter. The air is so clear and fresh it's really amazing.
Although the snow on the bicycle ways is quite dangerous because everything is covered with ice. So I have to drive very, very carefully. But in any case does my new headlamp do a good job, it makes cycling a lot easier and I suddenly see where I am driving and how the road-conditions are :).

impotent hamburgers

Having a great Hamburger is a pleasant thing per definition. Well you only need some meat, vegetables a good sauce and well bread. Well so I was a bit worried when I bought a 4-pack of hamburger-bread that it would get foul before I could it eat. So thats why I checked the expiration date after the first two burgers today. Well, what should I say?

THE FUCKING BREAD IS GOOD UNTIL THE 14.7.2007

When I read this I first had to laugh, especially since they say it is without preservatives. What the hell are they doing with their bread. I stopped laughing at the point where I remembered the headline of a Swedish newspaper I had seen exactly at the day when I bought the hamburger-bread: "Food that makes you impotent". What else except "ois nur a tropfen aufn heißen Stoa" should I say? :D

Love you :P

another post about climate changes

A very interesting article about the costs of climate change: Read here

open your eyes

This post is one I had in mind for quite a while.

What could be a better day to talk about climatic changes than a day in the middle of January where it has 16° in Austria? What the hell is wrong with the weather? I hope a lot of people are asking those questions since I can't remember a single time in my life where the climatic changes have been more obvious than this winter.

I don't wanna write too much on my own here. I am not an expert and I should leave this field to those who spend their life exploring the coherences. The only advice I can give every reader from here is to watch the following movie: "An inconvenient truth" by Al Gore. It is the best documentation about climatic changes I have ever seen. It is scientific but still simple kept understandable. And it covers a variety of topics that I haven't seen in one film so far. If not now, when else should you watch it?

Do it!

NOW!

a visit to system bolaget

What happened after my first visit at the local "System bolaget", the only shop in Sweden where you can buy alcohol above 3.5% can be seen below :)


nice isn't it?

btw: I like the ice-bear logo :)

back in Sweden with a stay in Copenhagen

After two marvelous weeks in Austria where we meet a lot of friends and relatives we are finally back in Lund/Sweden. The stay at home was a very nice and "necessary" refreshment of friendship and relations. It left me with a happy smile to see that everything is as it should be even if we are not here. Of course some things changed while we were in Sweden but those are more or less details.
We left Graz at 5h in the morning with direction Bratislava/Slovakia where our flight left to Copenhagen. Thanks to Annina's parents who drove us to Bratislava we had a very nice journey and could spend our last evening in Austria in "the kongelige WG". After our arrival in Copenhagen we very surprised how cheap the ticket to the city was and how close our hotel was to the station. Considering all the luggage we had was it maybe the best choice we could make. It was the first time for me and Annina ever that we were sleeping in a Hotel that we paid ourself, normally we tend to chose camping places or youth hostels for our stay. But since there is only one youth hostel in Copenhagen which was more expensive than the hotel we booked it was an easy choice. We can really recommend the Hotel Saga, especially the breakfast buffet was super awesome.
A second stay at a place is always a lot different than the first one. We already had a good orientation inside the city and we did not "have to see" the main attractions again. So we mainly enjoyed the atmosphere in Copenhagen. The city center is quite small and almost 100% pedestrian area which makes it very nice for shopping. And that's what we did :). Since there was a huge sale in almost every shop we had the opportunity to get really nice affordable clothes. Annina bought new shirts, black SEXY boots(yehaa Alex!), lingerie, a belt, ear rings and I got at least 2 shirts. The shopping zone in Copenhagen is really amazing you can buy Levis, G-Star, Diesel, Wrangler jeans from only 12 Euro upwards if you have a bit unusually proportions. Aside from shopping we visited the Guinness Museum of records (unfortunately no beer this time) which was odd.
The museum covers a lot of world records ranging from cows that weight 2.3 tons and produce 120 liter of milk a day to humans with 4.2m long hairs, jumping up to 8.9m, eating airplanes and bicycles(!), and a baby weighting 10kg when it was born. In other news: Russians drink an average of 18l Vodka per year, Czechs a average of 157l(not pints!) beer/year but the Luxembourger beat every country by drinking an average of 12.6l 100% alcohol per year. Argentinians eat an average of 56kg of beef (steak for breakfast, yeha!!) per year, Greeks eat 27kg of cheese and the Swedes drink 6.3kg of coffee every year.
One of the most sickest records I have ever seen:


Except from this museum we visited two other museums: the museum Erotica and the Danish design museum. The first one was an exhibition of the history of sex and erotic pictures from the antic ages until now. Very interesting but not as spectacular as 40 years ago, when it opened. The design museum was very interesting with a car exhibition that would have caused some friends I have to forget their girl-friends ;).

In other news are we back in Lund since Saturday night. Currently our corridor is silent as never before because almost all the room are empty but this will change dramatically tomorrow when the "new ones" arrive. We are really looking forward to this! I already started to work a bit for university. Apart from that we do enjoy our life here, cook great meals every day and start running again. Tomorrow we will buy a 6 months membership in the local gym to reactivate our vanishing climbing-muscles.