Denn es geht ja darum, wie jemand wider Willen Präsident wurde, weil er aus Ängstlichkeit geleugnet hat, ein Alphatier sein zu wollen. [Hellmuth K.]

Coldly profane and impiously accurate.

If we can play like that every week we'll get some level of consistency. [Sir Alex Ferguson]

It is always pleasant to have exact solutions in simple form at your disposal.

Happy new year.

I love to walk there at night, a modern data center is quite amazing. Almost no one comes down there anymore, kind of a pedestrian zone at 3 am. Unless, of course, there is a problem. That is how it is with people, nobody cares how it works as long as it works.

I like it down here as it remindes me of our modern society being so very much dependent on theses machines, they keep the digital natives alive. The ones that refuse to stay at a perfectly decent hotel because the internet is so darn slow.

Ten years from now this place looked all different but essentially it hasn't changed a bit. I had detailled knowledge of each an every piece of equipment and, of course, it was me to grant or revoke privileges that did matter the most. No change went without my knowledge, I did control these machines.

Today I do not recognize too many of them, as a matter of fact for most of them I have absolutely no idea how they work. Tomorrow I take my girl for a long walk in the woods, I love to walk with her during the day. Particularly the part where she finds it hard to stick to the subject as she tells me her story.

I need to consider the alternatives.

Kind regards

Zigarette am Hintereingang, der Kollege schmunzelt: gestern das Schnitzel ins Bad gebracht und Shampoo in den Ofen geschoben. Habs aber noch gemerkt, ist gut gegangen.

Heute früh hat er das Shampoo im Kühlschrank gefunden.

There is only one satisfying way to boot a computer.

Viele, die ihrer Zeit voraus waren, mussten in unbequemen Unterkünften warten.

I don't tell you how to tell me what to do, so don't tell me how to do what you tell me to do.

prepare to have a bawdy, taboobusting good time. Just don't expect it to resonate anywhere except your funnybone.

Mate, you really had me worried here.

can see how I lived before I met you.

I guess we all saw what we wanted to see. Interesting.

No - wait - the other thing: tedious.

Since I know you got plenty of experience with a job like this: have a good time and watch out for Germans selling DR to innocent young people from abroad.

You deserve it.

How many times have you heard those words.

You deserve it.

Makes you feel good.

Yes, we say, I’ve worked hard!

And like any advertising strategy,

there is some semblance of truth to the statement.

You deserve it.

Stop. A confirmed close miss? Make a notice to force them deliver in human language.

Stop. You gotta admit, sometimes it takes a second or two.

Stop. So we did hit them after all.

Stop. YES

At a certain point, even if the one alpha male is dominant, there`s a younger lion that is stronger, and everyone knows it.

If I live to tell the story.

"Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess."

To whom it may concern - this guy makes you feel very nervous.

Men of genius are not quick judges of character, deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up.

Recently a friend celebrated his cancelled wedding: “In love, it is better to know and be disappointed, than to not know and always wonder.”

Fair enough - always the record of an encounter between character and circumstances, often no more but the encounter of two weaknesses.

Created when one's mind overrides the body's desire to beat or choke the living shit out of some bonehead who desperately needs it.

I deserve respect for the things I did not do. Beta is back.