LAST 4 MONTHS:
Jun 10
Jul 10
Aug 10
Sep 10

nyc arrival

September 2nd, 2010

6am – ich bin wach – jet lag.

12:00 abflug stuttgart
12:00 ankunft london… 1 stunde gut gemacht
13:00 upgrade auf business class.
17:00 upgrade gecancelt.
18:10 abflug.
18:15 das baby neben mir fängt an zu schreiben.
18:45 das baby schreit immer noch.
19:00 ich packe ohrenstöpsel und schlafmaske aus.
21.00 das baby schreit immer noch.
21:15 das offensichtlich komplett überforderte britische elternpaar schüttet dem russischen nebensitzer mit 2m körpergröße ein wasser auf die hose.
21:20 5 stewardessen müssen den schreienden und fluchenden russen lautstark in seinen sitz zurück bitten.
23:45. das baby schreit immer noch.
03:10. ankunft. das baby schreit immer noch.
04:20 ich bin als drittletzter der gesamten maschine durch den zoll.
04:30 der fahrer wartet trotzdem immer noch, freut sich aber nicht 2 stunden rumgestanden zu haben.
11 uhr local time: ich bin im apartment… STRIKE!


Amiland

August 30th, 2010

Scheisse bin ich heiss auf Amiland. Diesmal definitiv auch Westküste. Football, light beer, wings night. Welcome 2 LA.


Auszug St. Gallen

August 17th, 2010

Seit Samstag bin ich nicht mehr Bewohner der Gatterstraße 1b in St. Gallen. Der meiste Stuff war schon in Tübingen – noch 2 Wochen Deutschland. Damit ist das Studium in der Schweiz schon vorbei.

Analog zu Münster vor zwei Jahren :-).


preparing 9 months in the US of A

August 12th, 2010

Work offer: check
Apartment on 36. and 6th avenue: check
Flight from Stuttgart to JFK: check
Visa: check
New camera to capture all that: check

Getting nervous: check


New York City Apartment Hunt

August 8th, 2010

Quotes from various craigslist postings while I was hunting an apartment in Midtown West:

Please read ALL of the post before you reply! Thank you.

We have loved our summer subletter, a fabulous wealthy and sophisticated young investment banker and now are in need of an appropriate replacement.

About us: We are in our late 20′s and early 30′s, work in the non-profit field, are kinda nerdy and artsy-fartsy, political, and always up for a good board game.

We are two crude and often drunken (kind of) recent college grads.

I kid. We’re not strippers, although we do know how to pole dance.

We also enjoy Jeopardy, particularly the kiddie version because we know all the answers

We’re very laid back and easy going with a great group of friends.

We would like a roommate who is respectful, relatively clean (we are not sticklers), and not mentally insane.

Oh, and you can’t be Republican or racist.

Age, race, gender, sexual orientation no matter.

If you have a good sense of humor, know how to cook and the meaning of life are of course big big pluses, but not required. ;-)

Looking for a sane, nice, non-smoking roommate to share a great two bedroom in perfect mid town west location.


Family vacation

August 1st, 2010


Risk Risotto

July 31st, 2010

Last round of Cook’s risotto – last round of risk in St. Gallen. Francis, Katha, Joe, Roman, Lukas, Cook, Kai.

Most people gone now – see you guys in New York… most of you;)


Schwiiiz hop Schwiiiz

July 17th, 2010


New map feature on the blog

June 30th, 2010

With the help of a Swedish designer / entrepreneur that is working on a restaurant map for Sweden, I finally got my little world map thingy done.

If you click on the little world-map-icon on the top right you will see where I write my blog postings.

If you happen to be in Sweden, check out bolagskartan.com to find your favorite restaurant :-)


23dpi Growl Style

June 22nd, 2010

All Macusers should have it: Growl (growl.info).

Since the regular styles that come with it are quite dull, I decided to make my own. Comes in 4 different flavors.

Download. Download. Download. Download. Download. Download. Download. Download. Download.

Growl Style

Download. Download. Download. Download. Download. Download. Download. Download. Download.


First WordPress Widget

June 12th, 2010

Aight. So Steve is talking about apps and how they change the world and stuff. Well, after developing websites for more than 10 years now I begin to like the ease of adding “apps” to existing systems. Be it iOS apps, Facebook Apps or WordPress Widgets. Still they have some flaws.

After my first Facebook App some weeks ago I just did my first WordPress Widget. A countdown until I go to Canada next year. With a micropayment system behind WordPress for plugin developers, I might jump in and do some coding here… At least its not as proprietary as fucking Facebook Markup Language and fucking Apple Iphone SDK. Thanks Steve and Marc.


Appenzell Light

June 11th, 2010

Neue Runde – ich steiger mich, leicht. 14km, 650 Höhenmeter, 4,25min/km. Da geht noch was.

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1 Jahr HSG – Time’s up – Over – Now

May 30th, 2010

1 Jahr Universität St. Gallen sind vorbei. Genauer: 9 Monate. Strategy and International Management – 2 Semester in St. Gallen. 80 Leute die mich mehrheitlich auf allen Gebieten beeindruckt haben. Menschlich, zwischenmenschlich, fachlich. Intensivstes Semester meines Lebens im Herbst – intensives Semester in meinem Leben im Frühling. Währenddessen als HiWi am E-Commerce Lehrstuhl gearbeitet. Auch intensiv.

Was war gut? Die Lehre und die Wirtschaftskontakte? Sicherlich.

Was war wirklich gut? Die Leute! Freunde fürs Leben? Sicherlich! Deutsche, Schweizer, Schweden, Franzosen, Liechtensteiner.

Wie geht’s weiter? University of Toronto, Rotman School of Management, MBA Programm. Integrative Thinking – Marketing Strategy – Innovation Management. Ich freu mich drauf! Auch wenn meine US-Freunde mich jetzt schon für den Besuch in Kanada hassen :-) Guys, I’ll be in the US the first weekend. And probably every second weekend after that.

Letzten Donnerstag letzter SIM Regular Table – diesmal als BBQ. Schöner Ausklang.

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Boston reviewed

May 24th, 2010

Went through my Boston pictures and figured that I never edited them. Heres a bunch.

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3 Weier: Biken

May 24th, 2010

Wetter seit Wochen endlich wieder gut. Heute das zweite mal die Runde gefahren, sehr nice. Blick auf den Bodensee. I like. I like.

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Ok, zugegebenermaßen sieht das ohne Höhenprofil ziemlich poplig aus :-)