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Glanzleistung
Klick = Komplettansicht
Die Organisatoren der diesjährigen Party des Co-Studiengangs unserer Fakultät können nichtmals den akademischen Grad, den sie anstreben, richtig schreiben. Dafür war es ihnen aber möglich, Kommilitonen anderer Universitäten für den Getränkeverkauf einzukaufen. Man muss halt Prioritäten setzen.
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Canon EOS-1D Mark II announced
8.5 fps continuous shooting in full resolution with up to 40 JPG or 20 RAW images per burst - here we go...
Rob Galbraith DPI review: Canon unveils EOS-1D Mark II >
Canon USA press rooom photos >
UPDATE
Perhaps I am wrong, but doesn't have this body striking similarities with the Nikon D2H body?
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Atlantic City
Well now everything dies baby that's a fact
But maybe everything that dies someday comes back
Put your makeup on fix your hair up pretty
And meet me tonight in Atlantic City
Put your hair up nice and set up pretty
and meet me tonight in Atlantic City
Bruce Springsteen, Nebraska (1982)
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Farewell
Yesterday, my cat died. I can't get it. The summer of 1989. A small place in southern Attika, Greece - that kind of tiny village virtually untouched by anything that happened after 1965 and that never sees a tourist. Just that one backpacker per week, and, from time to time, some travellers who know a member of a local family. The local my parents and I knew: a physicist who fled the Greek dictatorship, studied under Felix Wankel and later got stuck in our neighbourhood. The travel: by car through Austria and the then-Yugoslavia, all along the Autoput, then measuring through Greece until hitting Loutsa. Five weeks of vaccation to go.
People didn't use trash cans. They hung their refuse sacks high in the trees the evenings, garbagemen would collect them in the mornings, but hat one day they ran late. We heard this strange and weak chirping and tweeting the very moment we left the orchard in front of the house. It wasn't a bird, but what was it? A cat, two or three days old, dumped into a refuse sack. With all her remaining forces she managed to draw a hole into the sack, but was unable to escape through it. Locals wouldn't have cared, weird German travellers certainly would. So did we. We washed her and took her to a vet where she received vaccine and where we learned how to feed her.
Frankly, the quesion what name to put into her vaccine documents catched us by surprise. Before our local friend, now interpreter, could explain, that Old Man in the corner already broke his silence, calmly said in fluent German: "Artemis would be a fine name, too", and fell silent again - the name had already been written down. Three weeks later, the drive home - with her in an open basket on the back seat.
In the night on yesterday, she started to scream and to drool. Rapidly, her forces left her. She didn't appear to be herself any more. At 03:00 she died of what the vet assumes to be a stroke, after just hours of suffering.
Postscriptum: The same day, Anabelle and Armin married at Ana's family home in Goa, India, in a traditional ceremony. Contrary to inital plans, I have been unable to attend. The irony of life.
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Falling Down
Note: Might take a while to load, as all photos fit on one page. Hazy picture quality due to light snow that started just minutes earlier.
Hoerde Torch: 14:01:24 - 14:01:42 in 21 shots (plus a composition) >
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She fell in Grace
Hoerde Torch is dead. She fell in grace, and she took her time: more than 12 seconds, twice as long as predicted. After inclining less than ten degrees, it seemed as she stood still in the air for a short while.
Extensive photo coverage as soon as the negative films are developed and scanned. For now, a short series of digital shots:
hebig.org/photos: She fell in Grace >
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T minus {3, 2, 1}
Three installments in a row:
T minus 3 days
2004-01-23 | Warm afternoon light | Click to enlarge
T minus 2 days
2003-10-18 | The classic view: Remberg I | Click to enlarge
T minus 1 day
2004-01-23 | Remberg II - 22.5 hours to go | Click to enlarge
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What remains
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A final view from Hoerde Torch on what remains of Hoesch Phoenix Steel Mill. The remaining buildings will vanish within the next few weeks. The gallery is a preliminary version that just contains some of the digital shots taken with the Canon PowerShot S40. Hover images for details. A gallery that includes edited digital shots and scanned old-school shots taken with my Nikon and Mamiya cameras will follow at a later point.
A final view from Hoerde Torch >
BUMMER
The cropped image did not show in Exploder due to a missing square bracket - bummer, fixed
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Meta hoch drei
Die üblichen verdächtigen Meta-Blogger meta-bloggen ab sofort das, was nicht ins eigene Blog passt, passen will, oder die falsche Sprache hat, im Meta-Meta-Blog blogosfear.org, wo natürlich diese Klitsche aus Hamburg ihre Finger im Spiel hat. Und da das nicht unkommentiert bleiben kann, gibts auch noch den Meta-Meta-Meta-Blog Meta-Meta-Meta. Das Ganze ist natürlich nur eine Platzhalterveranstaltung, bis auf blogosfear.org dann wie erwartet unser kollektives blog noir mit viel Sex and Crime startet - da übernimmt dann wer anders das Meta-Blogging. Und die Blogo-dings, die bleibt ja eh Möbius-Würfel.
Und in wichtigen News via Moe: Sie ist zurück! - Fernsehen gerettet!
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T minus 4 days
2002-03-10 | East meets West: Sleeping Phoenix Steel Mill seen from Phoenix Blast Furnace 5 | Click to enlarge
IN THE PRESS
In today's issue of local Wesfälische Rundschau: Die Fackel fällt bestimmt
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Willkommen, Indopendent-Leser
Der angedrohte Weblog-Artikel in der Campuszeitung der Uni Dortmund ist nun also erschienen (noch nicht online, Link folgt), Pilot und Crew dieses Weblogs begrüßen freundlichst die neuen Gäste. Früher, als Bloggen noch akademisch war, traf man sich noch an Universitäten im angrenzenden Ausland um über das Thema zu diskutieren, heutezutage ist Thema bereits deutlich populärer, es ist für (fast) jeden Geschmack etwas dabei, immer mehr Themen werden besetzt, und eine stetig wachsende deutschsprachige Blog-Welt gibt es auch. Einen Artikel mit zahlreichen Einstiegs-Links für Interessierte findet Ihr ab morgen hier - gleiche Stelle, gleiche Welle. Bis dahin empfiehlt sich ein Blick auf blogg.de, in die "recently updated weblogs"-Seitenleisten von TypePad, auf PlastikThinking - Moe's Blog, den Blog meines Fast-Namensvetters Heiko oder die ebenso lange wie unstrukturierte Blogroll. Und wie man bei blogg.de arbeitet, das demonstriert der technische Leiter höchstselbst in einer großen Fotostory (Fotostory - so weit ist es schon). Bei Fragen einfach die Kommentarfunktion oder eine der anderen Kontaktmöglichkeiten nutzen, ich werde dann versuchen, sie zu beantworten.
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T minus 5 days
2004-01-18 | At 98 meters above grounds, a look into one of the burners. Above, just the skies | Click to enlarge
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T minus 6 days
2004-01-18 | Interior view | Click to enlarge
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T minus 7 days
2003-07-06 | IT and server building | Click to enlarge | Inside 1 | Inside 2
(The "Inside 1" link does not pop up a new window in Firebird. It does in Exploder. Weird.)
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Exquisite taste
There is something magical about the short second between slipping into the right shoes and feeling moistness in the right place. These are the kind of shoes I'll put on before my clothes, getting ready in just tanga, bra, and heels, because for just a little bit they need to be admired on their own.
Carlene
Armand Frasco is a man of exquisite taste. He not only creates blog buttons for Caterina and Heiko, but also for The Shoe Project. And that goes into my bookmark.
The Shoe Project >
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T minus 8 days
2003-07-30 | Arteries | Click to enlarge
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Back on the chaingang
hebig.org/blog now returns to a more frequent update pattern. Topics that will see coverage within the next days include comment spam and politics. They will not include reports on how big public transportation sucks. As my new car won't arrive before next week, I am currently depending on busses and trains, which is one of the last things I need, though it is much better in certain details than I expected.
And today's music recommendation: Schandmaul
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T minus 9 days
2003-10-08 | Hoerde Castle office buildings | Click to enlarge
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T minus 10 days
2003-09-24 | In the foreground, hot rolling mill | Click to enlarge
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T minus 11 days
2003-10-19 | Up in the clouds | Click to enlarge
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T minus 12 days
2003-08-24 | Tropicana Steel Mill | Click to enlarge
12 days to go for a unique landmark that spends identity to a whole region. As a prelude to an act of destruction without sense or reason, hebig.org will publish one Hoerde Torch photo per day - until it dies.
BACKGROUND
2004-01-11 Cronica de una muerta anunciada
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Hamburger Wahlblog gestartet
"Das Hamburger Wahlblog berichtet vom Wahlkampf der Bürgerschaftswahl 2004. Es wurde mit Beginn der 'heissen Wahlkampfphase' am 12. Januar live geschaltet. Mehrere in Hamburg wohnhafte Autoren werden den Wahlkampf aus Ihrem ganz persönlichen Blickwinkel verfolgen und kommentieren."
Initiiert von Heiko unter Mitwirkung von Bjoern und Nico. Scott, Lyssa?
Hamburger Wahlblog >
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Cronica de una muerte anunciada
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Fronts harden in the decision whether to blow up the Phoenix Mill Torch in Dortmund Hoerde or not. The 98 meters high central chimney with three large-scale torches for low-caloric mill gases on top has been used to flare gases remaining from the basic oxygen steelmaking process that have too low a caloric value to use it elsewhere in the mill. Even though the sometimes several dozens meters high flame finally went out in 2001, the "Hoerder Fackel" continues to spend identity to the south of the city. If it disappears, there will not a single trace be left of the 160 years long history of steelmaking in Dortmund. There can't be a better monument or symbol for this past era.
BLOW IT UP, SAM
On the pro side: ThyssenKruppSteel, formal owner of the premises and the remaining buildings of the Phoenix Ost Steel Mill who says the decision is of political nature and politics is not its business, Gerhard Langemeyer, lord mayor of Dortmund, who wants to "blow up Dortmund into the future" and who says that "a torch without a flame is not a torch", and his lackeys in the administration who signed the formal permission to use explosives months ago. On the opposite side: Stadtbezirksmarketing Hoerde, a committee that adds a local voice to political decisions about the Hoerde district, strongly opposes the tear-down and now says it feels degraded to an alias organization whose formal powers are ignored by the lord mayor. Local citizens hardly raised their voice in the torch question so far.
13 DAYS TO GO
If decisions and opinions don't change, the torch will fall January 24th, 14:00 local time. Anything else takes a small miracle.
Photo Series: 26 Things in One Abandoned Steel Mill >
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Weblogs, jetzt auch in den Campusmedien
Interview zu Weblogs mit der Campuszeitung inDOpendent gehabt, obwohl deren Website in Mozilla nicht navigierbar zu sein scheint - dafür die Gelegenheit genutzt, mal wieder das Cafe Muckefuck zu besuchen. Dirk Hesse und ein dritter Dortmunder Blogger werden ihr Scherflein per Mail beitragen. Cathleen, mach was Ordentliches draus :-) Erscheinungstermin in den Geschmacksrichtungen Dead Tree und PDF ist der 20. Januar.
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BMW-Unfallwagen abzugeben
Und wie hat das neue Jahr angefangen? Mit einem Eisunfall. 40 Sachen und ein Weidezaun führten zu Schäden an Blech, Kunsstoff und Radaufängung, dafür gab es keine Verletzten.
Der Wagen steht in unrepariertem Zustand zum Verkauf, Standort ist Dortmund, Anfragen oder Hinweise zu Kaufinteressenten bitte per E-Mail oder telefonisch unter 0160 21 24 673. Verkauft
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