All posts for the month December, 2009

When the conspiracy stares you in the face…

I don’t have time to write much, but the WSWS has a simple and useful list of points about the failed terrorist attack aboard Northwest Flight 253: Among the facts now known are the following: • Abdulmutallab’s father, a prominent retired banker and ex-government minister, had visited the US Embassy in Abuja more than a [...]

Writing, feeding cats, and stuff

That’s pretty much what we’ve been doing. Made some nice progress on the book  – more pieces of the puzzles are in place. (Want a teaser? One bit that I wrote is 9 pages long and stretches over 10.000 years. The next bit is 10 pages and stretches over no more than a couple of [...]

In Greece Again

It’s odd being here. I’ve probably said so before, but it’s true. Being in Greece is very odd for me. In a way, it’s like having walked back into my childhood. Sure, things have changed, but more things have remained the same. Especially since Germany is so different. And I suppose the feeling becomes even [...]

Alive and in Greece

Despite a heavy snowstorm, we managed to get to Greece alive – if several hours late. Even driving from the airport to Thessaloniki turned out to be diffcult, thanks to the barbarians flooding the streets after a football game. Then we collapsed in bed and slept for 12 hours. We’ll try to use our time [...]

Phenomenon 32 Release Date (and this one is not changing!)

Writing from my father-in-law’s computer. Have found out that the only way to kill the evil thing on our computers is to format everything and reinstall the OS. On the positive side of things, the Phenomenon 32 files should all be OK. So I’m setting a release date. This one I will keep to, except [...]

FUCK

So, I was ready to release Phenomenon 32 tomorrow. It just needed a few more hours of work. I was extremely happy. Hell, I even had some of the publicity stuff done. Then my computer got infected with a most seriously nasty trojan. Remember when my computer got hacked a few years ago and we [...]

A Short Message About What You Should Do

Go see Avatar, for God’s sake. It’s excellent. It’s beautiful, thoughtful, complex, intelligent, touching, and a lot of other adjectives. It’s probably going to piss off a lot of stupid people, so ignore what they tell you and go see it.

Whoa, what happened to the updates, dude?

I’m still here. I’m trying to finish Phenomenon 32. All the voice recording is done. Lots of other stuff is done. But the work has been delayed by various pleasant and unpleasant things – meeting friends, hanging out with my mother, Verena being verbally assaulted by a lunatic from our old theatre group (big macho [...]

Above us only sky

Twenty-nine years ago, one of the greatest artists of all time was murdered (or assassinated – I’m not big on conspiracy theories, but frankly this type of thing happened too often and always to inconvenient people). No matter how many times this song has been used and abused by the media, if you listen to [...]

Ain’t No Rest For The Wicked

When not working my arse off finishing Phenomenon 32 (almost there), I have lately quite enjoyed playing Borderlands. The game is surprisingly good – I’m not very far in the story yet, and I’m not expecting any wonders there, but the presentation is stylish in an appealingly mad way, and the gameplay is great fun. [...]