Purposive without Foresight

Today I was attending a training class. There were questions at the end of each teaching block. In today’s quiz, the items to choose were presented on the body of five buckets. The buckets were placed in a horizontal row. There were drops of water above the buckets. The answer of the questions would be [...]

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From my mother-in-law’s email: Der Opa hat ein Vogelnest im Garten entdeckt und dem Kai gefragt “weisst du was ein Vogelnest ist?”. Kai: “Ein Komposthaufen mit einem Vogel drauf”. English Translation: The grandpa discovered a bird nest in garden and asked Kai: “Do you know what is a bird nest?” Kai: “A bird nest is [...]

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A while ago I started to work as a software engineer for a company in Hannover. I spend about one hour per day on trains between Hannover and Hildesheim. My father sent me some cash for getting a new car. I got car magazines, did some homework and made a schedule with a car dealer. [...]

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Today I arrived at this page when I was checking out information about the MySql Falcon engine: http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/Falcon Below is the part I found amusing: Falcon is NOT … Jim (Starkey) ‘s been at this for a long time, there have been some changes since he wrote his first database at DEC: Uni-processors to multi-core [...]

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Well, I know, to many people this is not a good joke. Dirk considers it junk. But it made me laugh for a little while. Don’t know who’s the author, I guess must be from somewhere in the US. He’s very good at writing not-so-good English, so vividly. Boycott what, Olympic? Author: unkown Boycott what, [...]

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The other day I stared at Henri Cartier-Bresson’s Siphnos (the left picture) in a book for a very long time. Dirk felt strange and asked what was so good about this picture. I read the introduction in the book “…the form, tone, proportion, lines, structure and balance (are all perfect)…” to him. He immediately showed [...]

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Weeks ago I ordered two CDs from cdbaby.com. Here is the shipping confirmation from cdbaby: ellen – Thanks for your order with CD Baby! … Your CDs have been gently taken from our CD Baby shelves with sterilized contamination-free gloves and placed onto a satin pillow. A team of 50 employees inspected your CDs and [...]

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Dirk and I were at the cosmetic department in Sogo, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong. I was trying out some blush and eye shadow colours. Dirk looked at the prices and said: “My sister likes to buy colours from DIY home improvement hardware stores. There you can get the red colours in 10kg or 20kg buckets [...]

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Dirk and I are constantly producing jokes in our life, it might not be a bad idea to collect the laughs we have had. Today Dirk’s boss Peter is going to have a Ph.D party at home. Dirk is taking me there. I was programming in Drools in the afternoon and talked to Dirk for [...]

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