Published on Saturday 18 August 2007 .
As I was walking home last night from the BarCampCologne2 party in Lichtstrasse I got p0wned!
I was dead tired and minding my own business, but as I was passing Live Music Hall some motherfucker mentally challenged person decided to take a swing at me, flooring me with a hook to the left cheek.
I guess the guy hits like a girl - nothing broke. Retaliation was not an option as I was drunk and dead tired he had minions at his side.
I have no idea why it happened. I did however notice that my t-shirt was getting a lot of strange attention earlier in the day:
Maybe some ignorant Germans thought this had something to do with fascism or Neo-Nazism? I don’t know. And I thought Dead Kennedys were all about the polar opposite? Well, I stand per fist to the face corrected. You really showed me there. There’s nothing quite like re-education by fist!
It left me a bit shocked. Cologne is usually a peaceful city and I’m never concerned that something like this will happen. Has anything like this ever happened to you? Have you been the victim of random violence? Please share your experiences in the comments!
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As I was reading the latest blog entry from Eric ‘Spin’ Rice this morning, it struck me that I’m wearing a matching t-shirt today. I thought I’d share so I snapped a picture with an old Ixus 430 laying around.
I’m a management ninja. What are you?
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Be sure to check out the wireless access points. As I have a hangover am feeling rather unproductive this Sunday, I thought I’d just share this little gem of a hotspot I found at the Standsted Airport in the UK a couple of months ago.
Make sure you share your weird hotspot stories by leaving a comment!
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I used to believe things. Not that there was a Santa Claus able to travel faster than light, a fairy that ate teeth and shat coins or that there is a life after death (there’s a reason why it’s called DEATH, don’t you think?). No. Until a couple of years ago I believed, or more like took it for granted, that everybody sees numbers in their mind as coloured numerals. What? You don’t? Let me try to explain how this looks to me.
Every number from 0 to 9 has it’s own colour or shade of gray. I’ve illustrated roughly what they look like below:
Now as you see, it’s a bit complicated with the shades of gray. Hey! I didn’t invent this - it was just sort of always there. To make matters worse, when numbers stand together to form yet another number, as they often do - the clever bastards, the colours at the end of the number seems to outshine the others. I’ve tried to illustrate this with some of my favorite years:
I only see this in my mind when thinking about numbers, not when reading numbers, mind (no pun intended) you. I have more strange things going on in my mind, but I’ll keep that for future posts.
I’ve later learned that some incredibly intelligent and fascinating autistic people see numbers as coloured three dimentional shapes. Pretty cool! There’s some very interesting research to be done in this field.
Do you see colours? Do you have some interesting visualisations in your mind? Am I crazy? I’m looking forward to be reading your stories!
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