Blog · Dominik Mayer · Products, Asia, Productivity

Still trying to find out which laptop to get, I went to a local store and took a look at the macbooks. They didn’t have the newest ones but some mid-2007 machines with Tiger.

The one I tested had the speech recognition application running and so I really talked to the macbook and it answered. I asked for the time, the date and actually a joke. I have to admit that I didn’t get the joke. I might have been expecting too much.

Skype finally released version 2.0 beta for Linux including video support. Two years after it was first introduced in the Windows version and one year after Mac OS got it…

43 Folders cites a resource on how to develop a better sleep hygiene. This point is interesting:

Get up if you have not fallen asleep in 15 minutes and practice a relaxing activity (e.g. handwork, reading a boring book) until you feel sleepy

But my absolute favorite is:

Reserve your bed for sleeping only

Allergy + sleep + open window in late autumn = Cold :(

What is art? How can one define whether an artwork is good or bad and determine its worth?

A rather exotic birthday present were two fruits: A horned melon and a pitaya. They don’t only look unfamiliar, they also have an interesting taste.

There are some improvements to the Macbook, but not the ones I had expected. Don’t know whether I’ll get one.

Every year around my birthday I indulge in something. This year I wanted to get a Macbook. Despite all the rumors there hasn’t been an announcement yet. So I decided to get a toaster. Not the same class but better than nothing. And there has to be a new Macbook on the way.

A wonderful movie with a great, touching finale, so happy and so sad at the same time.

Every 30 seconds, a baby with birth defects is born in China. Alarming. I think I better not have a child there.

I think they should accept cooking asparagus as pre-study industrial practical. It contains chipping technology as well as heat treatment and it’s a very serious matter: If all the water accidentally boils away you get roast asparagus. ;-)

Seems like my orthopedist is doing acupuncture as well. Two patients were running around with needles in their skin.

I finally got the two Chinese to talk Chinese instead of English. So it’s only a matter of hours until they figure out whether there are doctor’s offices in China or not.

I know it’s an ad, but it’s a good one. It really makes me want to go there.

Amazon offered me some great things today. Books about elastostatics and maths for engineers, another one about programming in C and a scientific calculator. Halleluja.