K.-Michael Aye

found tripit.com, a free travel itinerary organizer. quite nice for people who travel a lot. especially nice if you have an iphone and install the offline use app for the website.

arrived in hotel in Oberkochen. total disaster: furthest room possible, going up, card doesn't work, going down, recoding, going up, card doesn't work, going down, manager comes with me and a new battery set, going up, entering, main light switch does not work, had to help manager to replace battery pack, jalousie is down and unmovable... WTF???

Wanna train your carving muscles in the boring summer? :) http://www.youtube.com/watch...

for the star trek and star wars fans: how would a battle between the enterprise and a super-star destroyer go out? http://www.youtube.com/watch...

funny: "Sylar from Hero"-actor Zachory Quinto is playing the young Spock in the recent prequel of Star Trek. But he just couldn't do the vulcan greeting with spread middle/ring finger. They had to glue his fingers in a spread configuration! :)

Would planetary/solar physicists ever be so keen on results to act like paparazzis? The HEP folks are! (And I admit I like it, we have to beat journals like Nature with their Embargo ideas into submission!) http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/breakin...

just realising how weird it must be to have no longitude definition on gaseous planets... well then again, there are no stable features to describe anyway.. :)

Rumors surface of Apple showing interest in acquiring Twitter - http://www.appleinsider.com/article... (via http://friendfeed.com/thomash...)

Standard model survived for now! Fermi and HESS Do Not Confirm A Dark Matter Signal - http://www.scientificblogging.com/quantum...

Earthquake in Germany!? Whoah, 4.5 on the Richter scale...

Landlord harasses murder victim's mother for early termination fees because her son was killed before his lease ran out - http://www.boingboing.net/2009... (via http://friendfeed.com/e...)