A very important part of the car is the ignition/induction/spark coil, which seems to be a major problem in the cold season, since they sometimes get wet through fissures and restrain the car from starting.
First-hand experience, ‘nuff said.

Be all thumbs sometimes (and/or less helpful).
New Year’s Day, around 10:30 am, sleeping for five hours, phone call from my parents. “We could use a hand at laying laminate.” Soon I was doing the main work, while my parents were giving me a hand. Thus, instead of snuggling in my cozy bed, I spent a few hours for three days laying laminate while also moving furniture and the heavy night-storage heater.

The swiss may be good at quite a few things, but coffee is none of them.
Our secretary bought a new brand of beans (Schümli and Schümli 2… no joke, they apparently made a sequel of terrible flavour) and after tasting them we were… well, not really satisfied. Now we get a really horrible brew for a while (till we run out and get our old brand back). Even if it’s more work, I consider switching to tea for a while.

Must be cold.
Well, I’m told that all day. Not that it gets to me that much, but I tend to believe the others… and my car stereo. Apparently it was cold enough to reset the thing. Always remember to take the panel into the house.

Do your paperwork early.
At least early enough, so that your boss can still recollect some memories. While I’m loath to do paperwork, explaining why one was working past 9 pm on a certain date three months ago to the boss is also annoying and unnecessary.

Nobody is perfect, but some should at least frickin’ try!
It’s a damn lot of work to correct all the title errors (as well as figuring out what those movies are called in German/English) they made in the 5 CD “Ennio Morricone – The Soundtracks” collection.

Ordering at Amazon is way to easy.
Just a few routine clicks and the money is gone. They should implement some kind of captcha, in case I autopilot-order myself another bunch of books and DVDs.

Addendum January 09, 2010 00:46

Just be a normal user from time to time.
I tend to get carried away by elaborate technical solutions. I’ve been working for almost two hours on a mod_rewrite solution to fix the strange incoming links from facebook. After I finally found the solution and proudly posted the link to this post on facebook I remembered that I got a redirect remover installed in firefox, which would just need a little adjustment to fix the problem. Doh!

“Dazugehören – mit Rotkäppchen Alkoholfrei”

Aaaah so, wenn man keinen Alkohol trinkt gehört man also nicht dazu. Und daher muss man nun sich und seine Umgebung anlügen, um akzeptiert zu werden. Oder hab ich da was falsch verstanden?

Super Werbung, muss ich schon sagen. Dank Sektimitatplörre mitten drin statt nur dabei… im Gelagezentrum der Saufgesellschaft. Also ich gehöre zu den Leuten die sowas genau so wenig verurteilen wie Tofuschnitzel, laktosefreie Milch oder Plastikgenitalien. Doch man sollte es schon etwas cleverer verkaufen, vor allem im Zeitalter des trendigen Komasaufens.

Mhm, klasse. Die Dudens, welche vielen Kilogramms wiegen, müssen bei denen auch Kilometers weit weg liegen, um im Falle der mehreren Kilotonnens schweren Explosion, wenn die Routers hochgehen, sicher zu sein.

This unstable version status of the female branch sure explains a lot. Oh sure, it is somewhat more advanced. The GUI for example. Looks way better than the stable male version, I’d never touch some parts of that. But this is also the first problem. For some uses, it’s more difficult to handle, hard to find all the buttons and sometimes they work better or worse than other times or even trigger a totally different event. Then there are better sensors. Being able to tell the difference between 20 different kinds of yellow is surely an advanced feature. And they are able to fork child processes. Okay, this feature is a bit buggy, since the forks don’t share a common memory with the other processes. Inheritance doesn’t work very well, too. You you still have to pass on some arguments during runtime to make it a working process. Heck, they can’t even handle buffer overflow at start. But that’s another topic. Speaking of arguments… don’t try. This feature has a messed up configuration. ‘Nuff said ’bout that. Like most developer versions, it’s output is set to verbose mode. If you don’t watch it, the data might cause your disc or memory to overflow/crash. Unfortunally this is hard to filter. Most times you try this, it gets even worse. But the females own logs are quite detailed. The branch version can recall events which are years back. Obviously these many features need a lot more resources. Especially a large set of themes to customize. The boot part alone can fill many racks. So be sure you are able to support upgrades for your female.

Overall you have to be careful with the unstable female version. While it has some great features and is really fun to handle… it might blow up in your face now and then…

But makes you think. Two years ago, they started to reveal several cases and scandals of exipred food, that has been relabeled and put out for sale again. (Called “Gammelfleisch” in Germany.)

Now, if they even promote the food with a name like that… ain’t that somewhat suspicious? How old was that meat? The Pliocene epoch was a long time ago… at least when using a human scale to measure… especially when using best before dates…

Still, I had fun. Only thing that didn’t fit was the side dish… rice… don’t get me wrong, I love rice… but this skewer called for a more manly side dish… like home fries (Bratkartoffeln) or any other variant of potatoes. I wonder if they will keep up with the size… or if they go along their usual nouvelle cuisine sized dishes.