Avec Papiers

Tadaaaaaaaaaaa! I know, it was about time...but better late than never, right?

My Selfless Nature

It really is incredibly selfless of me that I agreed to go out and celebrate a friend's new job yesterday. Especially considering, that I want to attend this conference today (celebrating 25 years of teaching law at my University) which will consist of lots of speeches on legal topics and which I fear will be very hard to follow while hung over and sleep deprived. Ah, well, life would be boring without these little challenges anyway, wouldn't it?

Writers In The US Want Me To Get A Life

As of yesterday, television and movie script writers who are members of the Writer's Guild Association are on strike. They are looking to be compensated for all profits made via the Internet and DVD sales. Last time they were on strike was some 20 years ago, when they were demanding to participate in the sales of video tapes (VHS and VCR). The strike could go on for several months and effectively end this year's tv season by the end of the year or early next year, since no new scripts for the remaining episodes will be available.

Scripted daily talk shows such as The Daily Show and The Colbert Report are already off the air and have been replaced with re-runs.

If you speak German, serienjunkies.de has a good overview of how the strike affects specific shows, what exactly the writers are demanding, etc.

Having Fun Is Hard Work

Wednesday at Petra's in St. Gallen, Thursday Die Ärzte pre-listening party of their new album in Zurich, Friday HSG Alumni-Party in Zurich, Saturday house-warming party in Rickenbach. Phew. Now let's see if we can get some actual hard work done next week;).

So Much Love For Geek Humor

I think I've never mentioned my love for bash.org and german-bash.org. Both sites are hilarious actual transcripts from IRC-chats, and it's very geeky, so unless you're a real computer geek, a lot of the humor will go over your head (as it often does for me), but even then there's still a lot to laugh about (although it really helps if you know what WoW and pwned mean).

By the way, General Buster wants you all to know that he is not happy with today's achievements. At least the item "sign up for recruitment events" can be crossed off from the task list. Better than nothing, he guesses.

General Buster: A Hesitant Thumbs Up

Edit: I removed the Borat-picture because it was generating a disproportionate amount of traffic to my blog and it's not like I own a copyright to that picture...

Subject initially responded well to yelling. Continued to be generally more productive, but has not fully met all goals. Still much room for improvement. The beginning of a new week will hopefully aid efforts at motivation. Volume of yelling will be increased from level 6 to level 7. Adjustments may be made at any time as seen fit.

Goals for this week include signing up for various recruitment events, going swimming, preparing lessons, teaching, reading the book on international private law, scheduling dates with neglected friends and buying light bulbs. New goals will be added if subject, against all expectations, finds herself ahead of schedule.

Random (Morbid) Question

How do manufacturers of body bags feel? I mean, any business should be happy when business goes well. But in this case I'd assume the sentiments are a bit more conflicted...

Any other depressing professions come to mind? Like casket manufacturing? Grave digging?