Chinese Year

Luckily (?) I was born as a fire-dragon in the Chinese calender, to be more precise, I was born in the 5th part-cycle of the 77th 60-years-cycle of the Chinese calender:

77th cycle(1924-1983) of the Chinese calender, 5th part-cycle 1972 till 1983

• 龍 31st January 1976 till 17th February 1977 year of the fire-dragon 丙辰 bǐngchén 53

(Whatever the Chinese may mean). Here some links, what the fire-dragon is like:

• US-Bridalguide
  
• Tuvy.com
  
• Kurier-Horoskop
• Tarot-Treff.de
• ...

Why this fuzz about horoscopes, which I don't believe in? Well, 'sides my birthday there is another annual event coming up: the earth-hour. So turn off your light on Sat. 27th March from 8:30 pm till 9:30 pm to show your dedication for environmental protection.

Long time no see!

Well, in October I've been at the SPIEL09 in Essen, Germany, and, alas, the semester has started, so many young unknown students join classes to learn something. Teach them I can. Anyway, the VIENNALE, the international Vienna film festival, is also occupying my time. Although I watch less movies than I've bought games, which, of course, have to be tested (20 vs. 35), my spare time is pretty scarce right now. Also the students in Austria protest against the commercialization of education, which I support (the students pint of view, of course).

But my bank account is plundered, so I will have more time in the near future, since I've no money left to spend. (I had much luck on my trip back to Vienna from Düsseldorf airport: I didn't have to pay for the considerable overweight (15kg á 7€ per kg), but still, the games themselves, and the trip, and the movie tickets, and my bracers, they make quite a sum in total!)

So for this weeks news, I just give two pics of advertisement I found:

Cucumbers "mini" from Viennese gardeners:

Take Jesus!

Shot in the back ...

was a 14 yo teenager by a cop. The boy broke into a shop one night in August. The expertise now says that the teens (another 17 yo guy was with him) weren't attacking, like the policeman and the policewoman said. The investigation goes under the title "involuntary manslaughter under dangerous conditions". So these two teens are considered very dangerous, armed with a rake and a screwdriver, as they were. Or maybe dangerous because it was dark, and the police didn't turn on the lights. Many facts about this case make many people wonder, I wondered mainly about the severe reactions of so many people. Very many said: "He got what he deserved.", even the most spread Austrian newspaper told so. I don't think that any mere thief deserves the death penalty.

Only one circumstance made me rather angry, and that was that the two police officers were allowed to arrange their testimony. I think that was a very bad idea and it doesn't speak for the "very professional training" the police gets "to deal with such situations".