patrickMoore := arse

It's a sad thing. A person who has done so much for the popular science can act like an arsehole bigot. It's a well known fact that Sir Patrick is a Tory but behaving in such an immoral way? Argh, an other hero bites the dust. I'm really really sorry for him.. No, that's a lie. I'm not. How can a clever man like him utter such stupid words, it's just unbelievable. It appears that finally senility hits him, or maybe not, maybe we can't blame his gray matter aging, maybe he really meant it - which is worst, a hero like him getting completely nutty or his hidden feelings about women finally coming out and shaming him?

Hitit Gunesi Podcast

Now we're on our way...

Dejavu all over again

Woah..De... Ja...Vu...
Here I was, listening to "Eye In The Sky" by Joe Frank and suddenly everything goes funny and I know exactly what's going to happen and just follow the precognitions and here I am.

By the way, Eye In The Sky was very good. Go and find it, listen to it.

first podcast out of the way!

Yay!

It needed to go out. I've been hanging to it for two months and I did almost no work on it.
Today, I cleaned it up - twice. Audacity crashed towards the end of the first attemt. I rushed the second edit but it's OK.

Then I cleared it up and mixed it with Ardour2 with gates, compressors and whatnots.

Then I exported it, clipped the end using Audacity again, converted it into mp3 with Lame and then I edited the mp3 tags using Amarok and....

I tried to reopen the project in Ardour2 and the damn thing dies on me. Arrrrgh!

Anyway, the first MiniMi episode is out, it's 2:15, with only 1 minute of Eralp talking. Now, that's not long - I am really scared of the long shows I'm planning and I really envy other podcasters, how do they go through all this, it's unbeliveable. Especially Mike of Farpoint Media is MetaGod!

Kurt Vonnegut(*) R.I.P.

He's gone... Oh well, so it goes...

Section 6!

Unbelievable! Google Mail locked me out with Section 6 - I can't see any of the HDRI pics Michele has been sending to me! And this happened just after I reported a problem with Thunderbird. Strange? Suspicious? OH HELL YES!

This is the first time I'm seriously pissed of with Google Mail - so far I've been a big advocate and this really sucks.

2007052010

Back in Starbucks... I love Borders in Cambridge. I browse, buy books and magazines and sit down and have a nice cup of extremely expensive coffee listening to some podcasts... Live the feeling. I need to do this more often but...

Food in Starbucks is evil and outrageously expensive so sneaked in a KitKat in. Hehe. They can try throwing me out. Good luck to them.

Just before the easter bank holiday, it's almost completely empty. Probably all of the studens have gone home or on holiday somwhere, same with the rest of the people. It's only me who gets stuck.

Spent an hour reading some documents and some PDFs I had with me - I better get going...

Twitter sucks?

I can see how Twitter can be used to harvest data about me - I am getting friended by bots lately and I can't find a way to block them. Damn damn damn!

Escape Pod hits 100!

Escape Pod rocks! I've been spending all my time since this morning listening to old (and new) Escape Pod episodes. Love this guy and the show!

Mason Rocket is dead

Joe Murphy is gone...
It's better this way, he was very heavily drugged and I'm glad he's no longer suffering.

HDRI and long walks

Went to Wimpole farm with Michele and Serkan. Walked slowly but a reasonable distance, shooting lots of pics. After that we went to Cambridge, had something to eat at Dojo (great place). And then my stomach got very upset. After walking a bit more, we headed back home (now it's 7 hours after we met first time today) and then looked at some of the pics. I'm dead tired and tomorrow will be long and stressful.

Spaceship

Time to get on board and fly to the stars, dreaming in the hibernation pod.

Snowblind!

Wow... An other storm and we couldn't see anything through the windows. Only half an hour ago it was cloudy but not bad. It's gone now, only lasted 5 minutes. It's snowing again but large, puffy crystals. It won't last long, there's a strong wind and it doesn't look like it's going to settle down to the ground. Shame, I'd love it.

It's snowing!

Wow! We have a storm right here! Wow! Only this morning the skies were crystal clear and blue!

incoming bad weather but great skies

Right now it's gorgeous outside. Blue skies and puffy clouds.
The weather this morning was clear sunshine and a very cold winter but right now the wind has picked up speed and the forecast is snow. Probably this is the front I'm watching out of my window. The wind is bitterly cold and I had to turn the heating on since it is loosing a lot of heat because of the cold wind.
I am having a slight cold, I have a bit of temperature and a gorgeous headache. Now I had had some painkillers and drank vast quantities of liquid, I feel better now. I am upgrading the BlackBird to FC6. Hope it goes well.

Dunkelbier and Charlie Jade

Dunkelbier was good...
We had a lot of fun at the hotel bar, drank lots of weissenbier and later, when we figured out that they had some, lots of dunkelbier. But I managed to put some weight on as a result of the hotel breakfasts and hotel dinners plus the beer. Now I have to exercise more than normal.

I am watching Charlie Jade - it is good. I'm quite intrigued by it and I want to know how it will develop. I'm not a great fan of its camera movements and editing but the story looks good so far. I've only managed to watch 4 episode so far so there's still a lot to see.

Frankfurt

Yay! Pilseners for a week!

Belgium was great. I spent two nights at Eralp and Deniz's place and loved it. They took me to the down where the beer Leffe is brewed (Dinant) and I had white beer soup and two pints of very good beer. Then we wandered around the Dinant castle and that was fun. They also let me play with their baby, Toprak, and he was so sweet.

I spent the last day in Antwerp, with Bahadir and Lizbeth, along with their kids, Alice and Beatrice and that was good.

Then two more days in Lille and a depressing three days at home. I arranged to be sent for training for four days next week so I'll be flying to Frankfurt early on Monday morning. Fun fun fun.

Okaaaay....

Disorder	Your Score
Major Depression:	Extremely High
Dysthymia:	Extremely High
Bipolar Disorder:	Very Slight
Cyclothymia:	Slight-Moderate
Seasonal Affective Disorder:	Extremely High
Postpartum Depression:	N/A
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Lille...

Lille... I'm here for three days, this is the end of the second day. I managed to get a WiFi connection from the hotel room but couldn't get it working on Linux so I switched the work laptop to Windows temporarily.

I got lost three times on the way. I mean, in England every road is marked with the road number (M25, A14, B1040) and where it is heading - this way you can easily follow a route without really knowing where you are. Here, the only thing you have is cities and places. After I got out of Eurotrain, I got lost and started heading south, almost immediately because the road sign was not clear. Then I realised my mistake (lost 40 minutes overall) and went back. Then at Dunkirk, I managed to miss A26 junction and lost an other 10 minutes. When I arrived at Lille, very quickly I got lost and had to ask for directions. Incredibly, the guy was working where I was heading to so we had an amicable agreement, he pointed the way, I gave him a lift.

Tomorrow - Belgium. 'ere I come!

Babylon 5

I got the seasons 1 and 5! Now I can actually listen to the Bab5 podcast!
I'm watching the first episode, it looks fun!