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New pillow

Oliver — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 17:11:28 +0000

(They don’t call me The Don for nothing.)

The manliest names

Oliver — Mon, 26 May 2008 16:58:21 +0000

I stumbled over the material for the last post after stumbling over The 9 Manliest Names in the World.

It’s been resting in my session tabs for so long, I can’t even begin to imagine how it got there. Great site, though. But why am I not on the list above? At least my middle name means young/strong warrior… and the first can be interpreted as hopebringer (”oiltree planter” and oiltree being a sign of hope), so this basically makes me a Paladin… oh right.. that’s why I’m not on the list. Have to figure out what my last name means someday, maybe it makes it up.

It’s the end of the world…

Oliver — Mon, 26 May 2008 16:52:53 +0000

… as we know it… more or less. You know, it’s hard to keep track with all the world ending scenarios out there. And we get so many new one’s all the time. Anyone remember the Y2k crisis? I still wonder how we survived that. Well, for anyone who can’t get enough of the end of the world, check out The 5 Most Kick-Ass Apocalyptic Prophecies. I’d prefer a mix of lava, sun-eating wolves and sting-the-crap-out-of-everybody scorpions. Though, I’m amazed by the accuracy of the Hopi.

Of course, if that is a bit far-fetched for you, you might prefer 5 Kick-Ass Sci-Fi Apocalypses (That Could Actually Happen). How ’bout we discover a giant asteroid that could put humankind on the list of endangered non-space-traveling species, send a fleet of robots to take care of if, which happen to be/become sentinent (and hate us) and make sure the asteroid hits us good. Of course we are prepared for something like that as well, but the asteroid carries an unknown virus, which causes deathly mutations. While scientists search for a cure, they unleash a terrible monster/whatsoever.

There you have it. One or the other way, we’re doomed. Better get the old family suicide knife ready, to escape the horror.

I’m Debian

Oliver — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 17:05:14 +0000

I knew it!

Which OS are You?

But depending on the mood I can be Slackware or Amiga OS as well.

Bovine tongue?

Oliver — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 09:57:30 +0000

There are thousands of lists out there, that show how one particular word/phrase is spoken in another language. Like happy birthday and other boring stuff. But there are others as well. Original ones. I’d say the most important one is JUST COWS.

Which reminds me of the days, when I was more into esoteric programming languages. If you’re interested into those and cows as well, try COW. (In case the server is still unavailable, look it up on Esolang.)