Christian Reinboth on Frischer Wind has collected data on the profession and educational background of the members of the German Parliament (Bundestag) and presents some statistical evaluation (sorry, German only). That's just an overview for now, and he's asking his readers what else could be extracted from the data base. There are some interesting results […]
Recently, I browsed the archive of Mathlog and found a nice article about the still not completely solved cryptographic puzzle sculpture “Kryptos” (sorry, German only; you may find more info on Wikipedia).
It seems I'm back on track with playing WoGE, although not always successful. (For a description what this is, see below the fold. Previous WoGEs are collected on Felix Bossert's blog and in Ron Schott's KML.) But this time I was lucky and found Felix Bossert's remake of WoGE 122, a close-up view of dunes […]
On 14 January 2011 there was a rockslide at the “Hirschsprung” cleft near my home village of Obermaiselstein. I happened to visit Obermaiselstein a few weeks ago and had a look at it. These are some photos from 06.02.2011.
In this whole gruesome affair about our beloved impostor, opposition leader Sigmar Gabriel made a interesting observation in his speech about the impending army reform (at 11'50" in this YouTube video; German of course): There was no call to order by the president [of the Bundestag], not even all too loud uproar or protest on […]
For several months now I didn't get round to try solving WoGE puzzles (For a description what this is, see below the fold. Previous WoGEs are collected on Felix Bossert's blog and in Ron Schott's KML.) or was just too slow to find the current page on the web (and the location, of course). Now […]
Today was the referendum for disclosing the contracts for the partial privatisation of the Berliner Wasserbetriebe (Berlin Water Supply, 49.9% of which belong to the companies Veolia and RWE), which was initiated by the organisation “Berliner Wassertisch”. It has been accepted according to the preliminary results (German page of the election supervisor). Living in Cottbus, […]
Some time ago, I've blogged about my stylesheets (CSS) with the colour codes of the International Stratigraphic Chart (ISC) of 2009. For some months now, I own a Palm Pre smartphone (which I am quite happy with) and thought that it would be quite handy) to have this chart on the phone. Of course, you […]
Dear readers (all two of you ;-)), I wish you a happy new year. Hopefully it won't be as foggy as this New Years Eve in Obermaiselstein and also not as messy as this long-exposure experiment with falling camera Soon I'll post something geological, I promise.
In November 2008, I wrote my stratigraphy stylesheet, which contained colour codes for all units from the International Stratigraphic Chart (ISC) down to the period/system level. Later I added some Cenozoic and Mesozoic units of lower rank. When I was ill during the last weekend and therefore sometimes rather bored, I completed the colour codes. […]
Blue light all around Cottbus – the Film Festival takes place next week!
Last Sunday, there was the “Day of Stones in the City” in various cities throughout Germany. Mr Wolfram Köbbel offered a walk through Cottbus to show the various stones used in the buildings and their history. The original post in German is quite long, so I have not translated it completely yet. But perhaps some […]
Considering such exuberant culinary delights, I could understand that some people want the GDR back. 😉
It's nice that there is always something new to be learnt: the moon is covered with quite a lot of thrust faults, some of which could be “relatively young” (approx. 800 to 1000 million years). They are probably a result of a slight shrinking of the moon due to cooling. I've found this at Bad […]
I've bought a “Bavaria Ticket Single” online. Afterwards, I was asked to take part in a little survey. Having time and being in a friendly mood, I agreed. But then, this rather weird questions pops up: Translation: Are you traveling with the Bavaria Ticket Single alone or with several people? alone group of two group […]
Being just a ordinary person, I sadly don't look deep into the legal foundations of life. Thus, I've only recently found out from a blog post on Astrodicticum simplex that Article 131, paragraph 2 of the Bavarian Constitution contains these paramount educational goals: The paramount educational goals are reverence for God, respect for religious persuasion […]
Quite exactly half a year after my last WoGE win, I finally managed to find one again: in the last WoGE, Simon (hosted by Jeromes Blog) has shown the mountain Tronfjell, a nice gabbro intrusion in the Norwegian Caledonides. I'd like to present a rather younger feature:
This is just a pointer to an old post about a nice fold which I finally managed to translate. Follow this link or click on the image to find out more…
Yeah, I feel fast now: 74 words Typing Speed Test And, opposed to German, I even didn't mistype anything; but I'm slower in English. Still, I rank 17535 of 252337, with 393 characters per minute. Oh, sometimes the internet is full of pointless things. 😉
Sometimes, for some equation in LATEX, you need an obscure symbol; but you don't know how it's called. Might happen with over 5900 symbols to choose from. 😉 Without a name, searching the Comprehensive LATEX Symbol List can get a bit tedious. In an older article (German only) at TEX and friends, I've found a […]
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