There’s been much discussion about the iPad, arguments pro and con bla bla. I don’t really give a fuck in terms of computer-replacement – also it’s not meant to be one. But what I really hate is that I have the impression they’re not focusing on what made me love Apple anymore.
That reason is I’ve used Windows and Linux for a long time. When I switched Windows XP was the newest version and it was the worst thing ever. Constant driver issues, random crashes, the OS just falls apart after a year, annoying dialogs all over the place etc.
With Linux I actually fell in love, but I found myself compiling and configuring and experimenting wayyyy too much.
So with OS X I finally found an OS that was stable and didn’t distract me all the time.

But I have no idea what’s going on right now, the OS gets more and more pointless features, things start to break. E.g. networking was best in OS X 10.4. Java support, which Apple is not willing to hand over to Sun (Oracle), is probably the worst on any platform.

So come on Apple, get your stuff together and hire some more OS developers.
On the other hand… as Apple is diving deeper and deeper into this “new personal computing”, which Apple seems to define as tiny OS + a bunch of app stores, this might be good opportunity for Linux and Windows to catch up with that imho not dead market of classic operating systems.

I’ve this happen often during my life: ads take the fun out of things.

#1 ads in the mailbox
#2 ads in the emailbox
#3 ads in youtube

the last one certainly hit me the hardest.
you can find me crying in a corner… (or i’ll just switch back to firefox and install an ad-blocker!)

Slow-Motion day:

Time-Warp is a bunch of guys that got crazy expensive slow motion cameras by the discovery channel. Now they just get to tape whatever they want.

This is probably my real complete total absolute eternal favorite. It’s by a company called ultraslo, make sure to check out all their videos.

While the whole web2.0 thing still needs to prove itself (at least for me) web 1.0 already has done so for the longest time – because animated gifs came out of it! Beat that, you lame web2.0!

Slo-mo bubble breaking
Deer om nom nom
Kitten Mittens
Riding a motorcycle on water
Belorussian high-school death metal
Ostrich vs. elephant

I’d like to show off a small excerpt of the lecture-material for my most time-consuming class.

Say hello to those infamous overhead slides of Prof. L: (this is a download from his webpage, not a scan!)

I keep looking at it and ask myself: wasn’t that already ugly and unreadable when there still was a need to use overhead projectors? Like… it’s 2009. Wonder what would happen if I showed up at a presentation with that kind of slides.