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Behaviour in offices and toilets

Does this fit your office behaviour?

Basically, there are three trays: In, Out, and Shake It All About;
the last one was where he put everything
he was too busy, angry, tired, or bewildered to do anything about.
Terry Pratchett, Snuff

And, talkin about behaviour:

In the scientific world, the Not-Invented-Here bias is fondly called

the toothbrush theory.

The idea is that everyone wants a toothbrush,
everyone needs one, everyone has one,
but no one wants to use anyone else’s.
Dan Ariely, The Upside of Irrationality

Besides that? Nothin happens. Not really. Writing my book, hoping it gets finished SOMEDAY (anyday!), preferably befor this years photokina, and playing around with a few cameras. oh, and working, of course 😉

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Added on Friday and a Tip.

samstagmorgen josephina (9)
So, what are you doing?
Really?
Nooo!
Tell me more!

Actually, that’s a lie -I am not interested and currently I’m trying to get the Comments-Field out of wordpress. And since the Theme isn’t quite standard, that isn’t easy. If you want to know why – I just don’t care about comments anymore, at least on websites (every website). So, if you wanted to ask. Just saying.

So, what else? Read somethin good lately? (If you answer „No, I rarely read“ – Get the fuck out. Now.) I have, but it isn’t exactly a discovery Iain Banks is and Old-Time-Favourite, even though the Wasp Factory was to harsh fpor my tastes. But for example „Against a Dark Background“ was fun – with Passages like: “Aah…Yes, and how does madam wish to pay?” She slapped her credit card on the counter. “Eventually.”

Also from this novel:

“Power today rests in the hands of the lawyers. Those whose function it ought to be merely to help regulate have—following the failure of nerve in those with the rightful claim and historical provenance required for leadership—come instead to legislate. By their very nature, they will ensure that having taken the reins of power into their hands, they cannot legally be wrested from them. What has to be remembered by those who care for the future as well as the history of our species is that law is no more than an abstraction of justice; an expression of a society’s political will and philosophical conceptions. Truth, right and justice are processes, not states. They are dynamic functions which can only be expressed and understood through action…And arguably the time for action is fast approaching. Thank you.”

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Quoting Marathon

Just because I can might not mean that I should, but if I shouldn’t, cant I just because?

All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted.
Bureaucracy destroys initiative. There is little that bureaucrats hate more than innovation, especially innovation that produces better results than the old routines. Improvements always make those at the top of the heap look inept. Who enjoys appearing inept?

Chapterhouse: Dune (Frank Herbert)


He met his day in the shower, washing his hair with shampoo that was guaranteed to have never been put in a bunny’s eyes and from which ten percent of the profits went to save the whales. He lathered his face with shaving cream free of chlorofluorocarbons, thereby saving the ozone layer. He breakfasted on fertile eggs laid by sexually satisfied chickens that were allowed to range while listening to Brahms, and muffins made with pesticide-free grain, so no eagle-egg shells were weakened by his thoughtless consumption. He scrambled the eggs in margarine free of tropical oils, thus preserving the rain forest, and he added milk from a carton made of recycled paper and shipped from a small family farm. By the time he finished his second cup of coffee, which would presumably help to educate the children of a poor peasant farmer named Juan Valdez, Sam was on the verge of congratulating himself for single-handedly saving the planet just by getting up in the morning.

Coyote Blue (Christopher Moore)

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Coming out.

Ok, this may not mean much to you, but it got me psyched beyond believe. If you can’t understand that – fine.
But DONT think your above the stupid grin, wenn the Doctor comes on:

And I still think that most of the comedy series aren’t funny in the least, but only a prolonged marathon of „gnaaaah“. Seriously! Watched one for breakfast today (won’t be saying its name) and i was almost offend by its stupidity.  And than I am thinking about the watchers, who might think that this is actually witty (uncreditied quotes from a dozen other series included), and than I usually look outside and wait for that blue box…

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Quoting extravaganza

“People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint – it’s more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly… time-y wimey… stuff.”

– Doctor Who

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Quoting Time!

li 2011 06

History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to the unknown without help. But, like dandruff, most people do have a religion and spend time and money on it and seem to derive considerable pleasure from fiddling with it.

Time Enough for Love by Robert Heinlein

Here’s another one:

Scratch a conservative and you find someone who prefers the past over any future. Scratch a liberal and find a closet aristocrat. It’s true! Liberal governments always develop into aristocracies. The bureaucracies betray the true intent of people who form such governments. Right from the first, the little people who formed the governments which promised to equalize the social burdens found themselves suddenly in the hands of bureaucratic aristocracies. Of course, all bureaucracies follow this pattern, but what a hypocrisy to find this even under a communized banner.

God Emperor of Dune by Frank Herbert

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Done with Bonaparte (And flickr)

A love affair that lastet years is over,
about something small as „hover“
and size and format and watermark.
There is just no more spark –

and social it ain’t no more
the contacts are stale like old smore.
Nevermind the recent news –
it feels all just done and used.

So, onwards to more pleasent sites,
gathering my wiles and lights
to jump once more in

for greener hills,
and more and newer frills.
I’ll show my pics elsewere.

So, I’m almost done with flickr.
And currently considering the swith to either smugmug
since I already found 6 (!) of my pictures display under others names.
Not that I don’t appreciate it .

Don’t get me wrong – I love showing my work,
and if somebody feels he has to plagiate, so what.
But they were grad-A- Turd-Photographers.
If you wanna steal, make sure it is somewhere on your level.

And the protecion in Smugmug is far superior.
And, as I said, flickr become boring.
By now I’m just searching for the easiest way to switch.

The question is just: Smugmug, Picasa, Facebook (Yes….) or somethin else entirely?
I think,  I should try smugmug, because it is unlimeted storage,
which should be considered, if you have almost 1TB of Picture Data,
And, by the way, the above are two fuckin‘ sonnetts in one evening.

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Bye Bye Gewerkschaft

Sogar eine alte Rot-Socke wie ich ist jetzt aus der Gewerkschaft ausgetreten – wer hätte es gedacht, aber nun ist es so. Im Positionspapier(pdf) stand:

„ver.di setzt sich für eine konsequente Verfolgung der Betreiber illegaler Tauschbörsen ein, die sowohl die Nutzer/innen als auch die Urheber/innen schädigen.“


Dies ist die Legitimation für  Abmahnanwälte und einem komplett entfesselten Urheberrecht, welches das Verhältnis von Kulturschaffendem und Kulturkonsumierendem (Künstler und Publikum) unter den Scheffel der Rechteverwalter und ihrer Ausführungsgehilfen stellt, und somit für mich moralisch inakzeptabel ist.

Und wo werden Nutzer und Urheber geschädigt? (Bitte nur mitreden, wenn ihr den Unterscheid zwischen Urheber und Rechteinhaber kennt).

Ein weiteres Bonmont:

“ver.di .. hält es für notwendig … technische Instrumente zu finden, die … beim Aufruf einer Seite mit illegalen Angeboten ohne Re-istrierung der Nutzer/innen-IP auf dem Monitor eine … Information über die Rechtswidrigkeit des Angebots und dessen Nutzung erscheint.”


Das sind Internet-Stoppschilder und als solche deutliches Zeichen dafür, dass derjenige, der über das Thema schreibt, nichts von der Sache versteht, sonst würde man keine Maßnahme mit derartiger Sinnlosigkeit als „Grundsatz“ deklarieren. Da derjenige, der darüber schreibt (und alle, die die Erklärung verlesen) aber als Gewerkschaftsmitglied in meinem Namen als Mitglied spricht, zeigt, dass weder die Vertreter noch deren Zuarbeitende ernst zu nehmen sind.

Also, tschüs, verdi, schön wars, aber ….

bist ganz schön alt geworden, in verdammt kurzer Zeit.