I’ve bought a “Bavaria Ticket Single”1 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 of three
group [...]
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 [...]
I’ve waited so long for this, and now I’ve almost missed it: there are some first results from the geoblog survey 2009. Lutz Geißler presents a summary on geoberg.de (and a shorter German version on geonetzwerk.org). Also, there’s going to be a publication about it in a not-yet-known journal.
It’s interesting (similar to the first [...]
I made this reminder “sticky” so it stays on top for a while. For new articles, just scroll down a little bit.
The new geoblog survey is online this month. This aims at getting a better picture of the geoblogosphere, and to find out what’s good, what’s bad, what’s missing.
However, participitation has been low yet. So if you own a geoscience-oriented blog, take this short survey!
The survey is open until 1st November.
When preparing my post on the human arm as a geological timescale I looked up the colours for my table from the ICS’s International Stratigraphic Chart. This colour scheme is in turn based on the International Geological Map of the World. The ICS offers both the “official” CMYK and the corresponding RGB colour codes [...]
Florian Jenn – Research assisstant at the Department of Environmental Geology of the BTU Cottbus.
Interest besides geology and science in general: various nonsense one encounters in life, and cooking, especially Thai.
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