And the my hard disk said “tilt!” and now I’m running Linux. Grrrrrr!
Update: And now the hard disk is back, I can start Windows again. But the hard disk monitor doesn’t see it. Suspicious.

It was lovely in the garden yesterday, as was the case on Saturday and Friday. And this morning it was snowing again, but hey, it’s Monday.

Some time ago we got electronic signs at our bus stops showing the departure times of the next buses. Yesterday I saw that on the post of these signs there is a button. “Push here” it says, without any further explanation. So what do you do? Right. Resulting in the post reading out the text [...]
The first time I had to stop on hard shoulder (strange metallic sound near the right-side back wheel), the first time the road authority put the car, with us in it, on a tow truck, he first time we were parked illegally on a personnel parking spot at a filling station. The first thing I [...]
As wonderful as ever.
Высоцкий – Очи черные Погоня
In case you want to sing along:
Во хмелю слегка,
Лесом правил я.
Не устал пока,-
Пел за здравие.
А умел я петь
Песни вздорные:
“Как любил я вас,
Очи черные…”
То плелись, то неслись, то трусили рысцой.
И болотную слизь конь швырял мне в лицо.
Только я проглочу вместе с грязью слюну,
Штоф у горла скручу – и опять [...]
Three films we watched last weekend, which get better the older the main characters are. But that could be coincidence of course.
1. The Men who Stare at Goats. Loosely linked scenes revolving around a basic idea, complete with a rather disappointing ending. Reasonably amusing, but seing it once will do.
2. It’s Complicated. This was actually [...]
How lovely, dear cabinet, that you have now delivered us to the blonde beast almost a year sooner. Couldn’t you have bungled on for nine months more? Lazy buggers!