2013
May
  23 The long, long wint...
  19 memory of memory
  18 Shorts
Apr
  09 Euros Remembered
  08 Swiss Touch Trainin...
  06 Swiss Touch Trainin...
Mar
  11 Chiasso / Como
Feb
  28 Barcelona Touch Rug...
  18 Stresa
  11 Buying bread from a...
Jan
  09 Back in Basel
  05 Atlantic volcano

2012
Dec
  31 Christmas in Engelb...
  15 Squashed
  02 Visitors
Nov
  24 baseltouch is live!
  20 Job
  16 Danish holiday
  13 Halloween
  01 Neurological traces
Oct
  30 The Craven
  29 Getting E-inked ...
  21 Victory
  19 Natalie
  16 E-readers
  14 Touch training
Sep
  27 Pratchett
  12 Euro Touch Champion...
  07 Finland in 2004
  07 Dodgefathers Win
  07 Permits
  03 Frankfurt touch
Aug
  30 Jurmo photography
  19 National Politics
Jul
  30 Alsace in Summer
  01 The Secret Wedding
Jun
  29 Yahoo email hacked
  27 GMD, yet another sc...
  23 Wheel hack
  01 Omicsonline scammer...
May
  24 H-index
  06 Bad Science
  02 Vappu
Apr
  27 Suomi
  16 Jelly legs
  09 Memma // Mämmi
  07 Winter family visit...
  02 Basel touch rugby
Mar
  27 BIT Life Sciences a...
  27 Scientists are idio...
  20 Sophocles quote
  14 Sprechen Sie Deutsc...
  12 Robert Weinberg get...
  11 Shepherd's Pie Nigh...
  10 Ethnic food
  05 MPSE facility
  03 Flame on
Feb
  28 Basel Faschnacht
  19 Pearson versus Spea...
  17 Heatmaps and cluste...
  15 Goodby Aunty Carol
  11 French freeze
  10 HOPP hooray!
  07 Night out
  03 Icy touch
  01 Last impressum
Jan
  28 Turning the tables ...
  27 Fair fa' your ...
  24 Gene expression pat...
  18 Wasted
  16 State of mania
  13 3457 days of Zurich
  11 Touch rugby
  10 Linear regression
  10 Unemployment blues
  10 Steven Hawking quot...
  10 Phenotypia

The long, long winter

In less than two weeks Summer is supposed to begin. Today we had a maximum of 11°C and, so far, warm days have been very far and few between. This weekend is expected to be even colder. They are expecting snowfall down to 600m and rainfall everywhere else.

That day in shorts I had last weekend proved to be a fluke, sadly.

What is sort of interesting is how annoyed, even grim, people are becoming. Perhaps they feel cheated.

Thursday, 23rd of May, 2013 at 7:22 pm

memory of memory

Had a BBQ with friends today. At one point, lying back and looking into a blue sky with tiny wisps of cloud I realized that right beside an early memory of lying back as a child and looking at the sky in Idler's Bay there is my father's own recollection of laying back and looking into the sky when he was a child. Not only is there the fact of my father's recollection but also how he expressed it when he related that earliest of his own memories. How he related it has stuck with me so profoundly that I cannot but look up into a blue sky without feeling deeply the context his memory provides.

Sunday, 19th of May, 2013 at 6:27 pm

Shorts

Today was warm enough to spend the whole of it in shorts. Cycled into France to do a little shopping, then spent the afternoon downtown with some friends lazing by the Rhein (for some reason it is spelled Rhine in english).

Saturday, 18th of May, 2013 at 8:59 pm