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If anyone needs the dates for the 2006 FIFA World Cup you could e.g. subscribe to this calendar. (I tend to forget those things.)

Today we (Bas, Jonas, Richard, Sascha) were incredibly lucky to get a sneak preview of the most enlightening event in Germany this year: The Luminale 06. (No, it’s not about soccer this time!)

Jonas says, the Iluminale was the only thing you could see when you were on the moon tonight.

filed in the category complex hacks. What an efficient way this chairs offers to end a discussion. Simply push the button. Video (via make)

May 25 till 28, 2006, you might want to come to Hamburg, Germany, to see the First ITSF Table Soccer World Cup 2006. See you at the Fischmarkt! (Anyone who needs a place to stay can contact me.)

Can any soccer fanatic tell me if I should sign the petition for Mehmet Scholl? (The reason I’m asking is that I don’t know sh*t about soccer…)

The world biggest cruise ship, Freedom of the Seas, came to Hamburg this morning. To see it in motion you had to be there at 5:30 h. It’s now in Dock 17 of Bloom & Voss. I didn’t think it fits in there …

The specs:

• Length: 339m
• Beam (total): 56m
• Height: 63.7m (18 decks)
• Tonnage: 158,000
• Top speed: 21.6 knots
• Passengers: 4,370
• Crew members: 1,360

At this point, the depth of the Elbe is about 13.5 m. The draft of the ship is about 8.5m. If it sank here nobody on the ship would get wet.

More images.

Last Saturday I took part at the 3. Kieler Kick-Tipp Open 2006. With as much as no training and just a few warm-up shots I managed get to the position 12! — Next year the St. Pauli Spätzles-Mafia will take over!

Read Klasomat’s Review for more information.

Funkstation’s CEX (Chief of Expeditions), Richard, has found this a while ago, now I re-discovered it at youtube. Now learn somthing:

I didnt think this was ever going to happen. But now there’s NO more reason not to use beautiful computers…
PS: Sit down before you open that link!!!

Bootcamp

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Yes, save back home! After a five day glacier tour, I am back and still alive. Carsten and I started snow shoeing in Galtür, Austria. After 5 hours (perceived 15 hours) we arrived at the base camp. Well, if you consider ‘droping dead’ in front of a hut arriving. Half of my bag was filled with food. Lesson learned: food can be super heavy.

Every day we got up at 6:00 and shortly later started the day tour.

Then we ascented, and ascented, … and walking is great, it frees your mind and lets you focus on the important things.

More than a thousand meters higher, we finally arrived at the summit. After having lunch, we prepared for the best part of the day: The snowboard-run down to the basecamp through the deepest powder snow with loads of airtime.

Another day, another summit.

One day we joined an instructor group for a day tour. Our guide found the prefect way around the crevasses of the glacier. However in the middle of the tour, the weather turned out to be so unfavorable, our guide decided to stop and return. Back at the base camp the group trained rescuing injured. These guys know pretty much all MacGyver tricks. They constructed sledges with nothing more than two skis, a snow shovel and a dozen ropes. Quite impressive.

Seriously tired, but trying to look casual.

On the summits I was just overwhelmed by the beautiful sceneries.

From a certain steepness on, buckling on one’s snowboard starts to become a problem.

During the days each person wore an person detector in case of avalanches. Of course we extensively trained searching people with the detector. For training purpose a person usually buried a sender and then second person searched for it. One of the guys made the worst mistake one can do during such a training. He buried his detector and forgot to switch it on! And these devices are super expensive. It resulted in 10 persons digging up a 10×10 meter snow field in order to find the device. We certainly know how to dig now.

Kind of lost in the glacier (I clearly state I was not involed in navigation).