On Sunday we used the calm roads during the football game to shoot a couple of pictures of Timo’s Minicooper. A selection of my favorites is online on Picasa (link below).
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| From Shooting with Timo's Minicooper |
On our vacation in Croatia last week I took “a couple” of pictures. A selection is on Picasa.
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| From Croatia 2010 |
I spent last weekend in Hann. Münden, where I grew up. Similar to the last 1000 years not much has changed since the last visit about one year ago.
The building above looks like a church from the outside. But because the church wanted to get rid of it and nobody really wanted to buy it, the director of a nearby hotel (http://www.fahrrad-hotel.de) transformed it into a Cafe.
The evangelic church removed most of the religious symbols before handing over the building but found it too expensive to remove the altar. Consequently, it was transfered into a high table.
I have some more pictures online on Picasa.
I you want to have a coffee, a snack, or a (a little more adapted to the history of the place) a spirit from this is the coolest location in town.
I spent quite some time finding and adapting a LaTeX template for my Ph.D. thesis. My template is based on a class file that was developed over several years by a number of people. Thus, I am far from claiming that this is exclusively my own work. However, I added some details and a brief documentation that might be worth sharing.
This is what the final document might look like: thesis-template.pdf
You may download the template and the documentation in a single ZIP file.
I provide this template as it is and I will not provide any support or warranty.
Not many updates in this blog lately, but for a good reason: Yesterday I submitted my Ph.D. thesis.
We spent this year’s easter weekend in London. On Picasa is a selection of my pictures.
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| From London April 2010 |
Sam O’Hare created an amazing time-lapse film with perspectives from New York. Using a tilt/shift lens it looks surreal and like a miniature word.
The Sandpit from Sam O’Hare on Vimeo.
Here is an interview with him abou the making of.
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After about one month of searching and reading reviews on dpreview.com and similar websites, I bought my first digital SLR last week. Just like most IT projects this one also ended up way above the planned budget after talking to a couple of people with more experience than me.
Eventually I ordered a Canon EOS 7D the 15-85 IS USM kit lens and a bunch minor small parts like second battery, etc.
The plan is to revive my photoblog where I used to post photos from the old industry ruins around Chemnitz, Germany. We’ll see, how often I manage to update that page. The link is here: http://www.manuelm.org/photoblog/
This is one of the first pictures with the new camera documenting the results of sheep feeding on genetically modified flowers (seen in Konstanz this weekend).
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On my way back from Hong Kong to Frankfurt I had the “pleasure” to fly with Air China. On the way to Hong Kong they had already set a new lower boundary for airline food, but on the way back they really got me. After ordering the “not Chinese breakfast” from one of the flight attendants, I got the Chinese breakfast which looks like this:
I had a dejavu with a scene from “The Matrix”: After Neo has left the Matrix and has a meal with the crew of Morpheus, one of the crew complains about the white slimy stuff that they have to eat. It contains all you need to survive, but tastes – well, not so good.
Guess, what the white stuff on the bottom of the photo is like. 
Never Air China again!
Yesterday, the German comedian Helge Schneider gave a concert in Saarbrücken.
Here are a few of my favorite quotes (German, as a matter of fact):
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