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Posts from September 2008

An ugly aftertaste

…left by the results of the elections for the Austrian National Council. An unbearable shift to the right, and a collective loss of cognitive abilities, has apparently struck the Austrian population. The results leave me totally dumbstuck, with the right wing FPÖ and BZÖ collectively getting 29%, and together with the moderate-right ÖVP even 55% [...]


Ich kann nicht so viel essen wie ich kotzen möchte

…anders kann man meine ersten Gedanken zum Ergebnis der Nationalratswahl gar nicht ausdrücken. Ein unerträglicher Rechtsruck, gepaart mit einem kollektiven Verlust kognitiver Fähigkeiten, scheint die östereichische Bevölkerung erfasst zu haben. Anders lässt sich das heutige Wahlergebnis nicht erklären, in dem die FPÖ und BZÖ gemeinsam 29%, und gemeinsam mit der nicht viel besseren ÖVP sogar fast 55% der [...]


straight out of your shoes

Awesome. Kick-ass. Impressive. Breathtaking. Everybody knows this feeling. It can be a moment in time, a thing, or a person. No matter what it was, it knocked you straight out of your shoes, leaving you breathless, head spinning, incoherent. And all you can do is sit back, shake your head and say "Wow." Dedicated to [...]


More hurt than expected

The 100×1000 today started out very nicely, we were clipping along at a great pace (3:20-3:30/km) in second place overall. It was pretty cold, and we were only 5 runners, so there wasn’t really a lot of time between turns and a proper warm-up would have been good but there wasn’t really much time to [...]


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