November Rain
So never mind the darknessWell, looking forward to Christmas and a three weeks vacation, which is needed indeed...
We still can find a way
'Cause nothin' lasts forever
Even cold November rain
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Monday, November 30, 2009November Rain
Jebus, what a crazy month ... Especially Friday 13th and the weekend was pretty, pretty, pretty bad. I thought all the Friday 13th stuff is just common superstition, after getting an "expensive" letter from the tax authorities and a pink slip from my boss due to a company closing because of the financial crisis I started to realize that it could be more. But when I heard the bad news that my grandpa had died, I knew Friday 13th is a bitch.
So never mind the darknessWell, looking forward to Christmas and a three weeks vacation, which is needed indeed... Wednesday, October 14, 2009Splendor in the Grass I might have already said that I just love Pink Martini. But I can't stress it enough: Pink Martini is awesome.I can hardly wait until their new album "Splendor in the Grass" will be published in a few days. I've already fallen in love to this album by the three preview tracks on Pink Martini on MySpace. Not only that Thomas Lauderdale, the creative head of the ensemble, is also openly gay, and China Forbes is an awesome singer, they're also so inspired and amazing, and the "background story" of the band is very interesting, too. Saturday, October 03, 2009Rigi, Rings, 3rd of October and other things
Ok, I admit, I've been neglecting my blog
Last Month, my BF and I exchanged rings as a sign of our connection and love. I've never been in a relationship that serious, but it feels very good. This week, we've been hiking on the Rigi, the place on top of the Queen of the Mountains where I've been so many times in my youth that it actually feels like home. And I was happy that my BF liked it very much as well. We had excellent weather and a great time. On the Rigi there are no cars allowed, so the air is clean and fresh and it's like paradise. ![]() On the second day we walked to a nearby village. One part of the trail is the "Felsenweg", where you have a beautiful view over the Vierwaldstätter See (a very beatiful lake in the valley). ![]() This was the view from the balcony of our room at the harborage. ![]() On the way home we made a stop at the beautyful city Lucerne. ![]() There was a fair in Lucerne and I found a beautiful reflection of the ferris wheel in the windows of the art museum. ![]() Today, it's 3rd of October, it's the German 4th of July. Except it's not that cool. However, my dad turned 60 last week and celebrates it today... Wednesday, September 23, 2009Tethering from your Nikon to your Linux PC
If you're using Windows, you can buy some software from Nikon to have Photo Tethering (I guess it's called Tethering). I.e. you take a picture with your camera and it pops up on your computer screen. It's used in studio photography and very useful. I missed it very much during the last three days of product photography.
I wanted to have that on Linux as well. There is an excellent library called gphoto2, that can do half of the trick (i.e. it can download a picture right after the shot), but it can't display it. So I played around a little bit and wrote that script: #!/bin/bashTo "install" it, place it somewhere on your path. To use it, connect your Nikon camera to your computer via USB. Go to an empty folder in a shell and just start it: rian@thunder:~Pictures/example$ tetherThen take pictures. They will be displayed on your screen and stored in your current folder. For this to work, you need the image-viewer qiv (or use any other viewer and adjust the script) in its most recent version (older versions don't support the -l switch which autorotates the image), if you're using ubuntu jaunty, you need to install qiv from karmic. And you have to install gphoto2 to access the camera as well. Sunday, August 16, 2009Tuesday, July 28, 2009Anthem of Wuerttemberg
When you compare ancient anthems of different states, you'll see that about 99% of them praise the landscape, the prosperity, the victories, etc. But they're usually not about the state's habitants, nor about the advanteges of other states. Well, our anthem is different ...
Graf Eberhard im Barte (Count Eberhard with the beard), Württembergs beloved ruler boldy resting in a subject's lap
Thursday, July 02, 2009Solution found: nvidia 180 dkms build failed
I couldn't switch to 2.6.28-13-generic Kernel on jaunty because the nvidia graphics driver kernel modules couldn't be compiled by dkms:
Examining /etc/kernel/postinst.d. Today I finally had time to inspect the problem, and found out the reason, and a very simple fix as well. This happened because "patch" wasn't installed. So, typing those two commands fixed all problems: sudo apt-get install patch In case anyone is stuck in the same place, try it out and let me know if it worked ... Monday, June 01, 2009Come aboard, we're expecting you ...
Yesterday, the traditional gay party Pentecost boat cruise was on again. The BF and I also went to party on the open sea. It was a very pleasant party, like evey year. On the upper deck there was a Karaoke show, and on the lower deck a dance floor. Of course there were two outside decks where the BF and I were cuddling in the sunset. Was very beautyful.
Sunday, May 17, 2009Monday, May 11, 2009The Boat That Rocked - Ooops, I did it again ...
I have a confession to make. Tonight I went to the movies again to see The Boat That Rocked again. I can't help, but I really like this flick. And the BF enjoyed it as well. I remember that I didn't want to go after I saw the Trailer before another movie. But I did. And I'm so glad I did, this movie is lovely and just great.
No, I don't get paid to promote it. However, if you're a representative of Universal and want to pay me for promoting one of your films on a blog that has no readers, get in touch. :) |
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