when asked what kind of music they listen to, many people say something like

"everything except country and techno".

"super! i heard about that interesting genre, alternative-funky-industrial-free-celtic-drum'n'breaks-dirtyhardcore-swingin' east-west-gothic-oldschool-psychedelic-rapcore-brit-grunge-crossover indie-ska-raggae-dope-jungle. what do you think, what bands should i check out? what are the important, basic albums of that style, what are your favourite tracks?"

"huh?"

• pop
• rock
• country
• techno.

"i listen to everything except ...",

"i have no idea what you say, but i will defend to the death your right to speak russian."

you know, they had a decimal point in the wrong place when they did the math in the sixties; popping eyes isn't all that healthy as it's widely believed.

if you'd use times new roman to typeset your thesis work, you're either blind or an asshole.

if you'd use arial, you've got to be a blind asshole.

after the java applet had finally finished rendering the small ditrigonal dodecicosidodecahedron, it refused to accept the vertex data of the large one.

if i ever found a sect, err, discover the one and only true religion, its symbol will be the pentagrammic crossed antiprism. it looks as cool as it sounds; the only problem is you can hardly wear a wooden copy 'round your neck; all those sharp corners would make that a rather painful experience.

GLUT primitives:

• sphere
• tetrahedron
• cube
• octahedron
• dodecahedron
• icosahedron
• teapotahedron

shifting phase the easy way.
shifting phase the hard way.
shifting phase the bloody wrong way: no matter if you sleep longer or shorter, it just makes you even more tired and you have no idea what's wrong.

five to seven hours is healthiest. sleep eight or more hours a day and you'll die earlier. if you didn't know that, you're a victim of the sleeping pill industry's propaganda.

did i really bring up the idea of assisting natural selection before? oh no! kids, don't try this at home, it's a Bad Thing---this is was the nazis did! you wouldn't want to be a nazi, would you.

but adaption of the gene pool to the environment through natural selection isn't happening any longer---any idiot can have kids, any weakling can procreate nowadays. evolution's grinding to a halt. we've got to find new ways to evolve. genetic engineering, augmenting our bodies with cybernetic implants and nano bots, wiring our brains to the internet permanently, find new ways to learn and exchange knowledge, create a new post-human culture. our brains might not be growing any longer, but we're smart enough to stick some silicon in there already.