"Tiipical!"

Crossed paths with Vilém Flusser again in a bookstore in Berlin Kreuzberg. Flusser lived in Meran for a few months while I was a little baby there. He died in a car accident near the czech-german border in 1991.

If you feel not at ease with the Internet world you're living in (as I often do), you should probably read Flusser. He's got it all explained. It's the world's fault, not yours, and understanding that will make you feel better. (That's just the first step of course.)

I'll post some pictures from Praha and Berlin as soon as I find a slot for my memory schtick. OK, I've got the schtick adapter now, but I'm brutally reminded that the henso.com app still lacks a feature to upload images. So I'll just manually post the ... err ... most disturbing one. This is a semi-naked waitress in an otherwise normal (or so we thought) czech pub near Palac Akropolis, where both the Low and the Melvins concerts took place (a beautiful location, by the way). We thought we were in some hidden camera scam or that maybe she had lost a bet, but nobody except us seemed to suffer culture shock or even take notice. The food was very good, however. A note to the Euroranch travel group: This is the same place where we tried to get something to eat after the Low concert but were kicked out because it was too late or whatever.

OK, while I'm at it I'll post some more pics to re-establish the reputation of Prague among Henso reading population. First, there's Kavarna Slavia, the nicest cafe I've ever been to. If you visit Prague you must check out the Slavia (sorry Euroranchers, I discovered this only after your departure). It's a few meters above street level, very spacy and bright, and features ultracool 1900 style hardware and huge windows with great views on the river. (I guess the picture sucks, because it doesn't really convey any of this. It just shows people. Here's another one with a different set of people.) According to some travel guides, Franz Kafka, Max Brod and Vaclav Havel hung out at the Slavia to write, plot the fall of the government, or woo their future wife Olga. In fact they would have been stupid if they hadn't. We used it for breakfast and general purpose slacking. Finally, check out this beautiful TV tower they have, glowing in the evening sun. Here's a random street shot and some Praha subway impressions to round it off. Well, looks like I didn't need the picture upload facility after all :-)

What's up in Hop-Land? Nothing. Not even a Posting to the mailing list since last sunday. Wossup? Is everybody dead or on vacation or just plain happy with the way it is? Chris writes it's the latter: "wenn du mehr traffic willst, bau mehr probleme in den hop ein." Can't argue with that :-)

Still, things are not all that rosy. I feel there's no way I can go back to the old routine of leading the whole project without loosing my health. So there's a real need for somebody to step up and take over some of the responsability and work. If that won't happen, I'll be happy to go back to leading a "normal" life - it's not that bad, as I found out last week. This is not a threat, it's just an option that I didn't see (or accept) until now.

Phil Greenspun has left ArsDigita. Via Langreiter.com.

Fuzo: Selbstmorde nach Mobbing bei der Telekom

Schtick it in! Schtick it in!

mußte ja so kommen: die prager ziehn sich erst aus bzw. zeigen als angezogene ihre wahren sehenswürdigkeiten erst, wenn wir nich mehr dort sind. die rache muß wohl auf dem fusse folgen - auch wir werden uns ab jetzt erst dann ausziehen bzw. das wahrlich sehenswerte zeigen, wenn alle prager weg sind. also ganz anders als bis jetzt. jedenfalls hoffe ich, dein urlaub war auch in berlin noch reizvoll & willkommen im normalen leben. oder so.

coole fotos!

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