Torsten Hoefler’s blog

Ohohoh … I ate too much pizza in the last days. Tuesday, Wednesday and today … free pizza all around. I’m feeling as I become fat. Sounds like running a bit longer tonight .
And I drink tapped water! And i had some fun with programming languages .

An excerpt from the newspaper:
- Police can confront you on your own property if they see you drinking in plain view and suspect you are underage.
-It is illegal to consume alcohol on city sidewalks, alleys, city parks, city streets and other public areas.
- Police can arrest you if you are carrying IDs with two different [...]

This is getting better and better . Not even that IU is amongst the top party schools, there are also amazing events going on here (I missed it last year because I was in Europe *argh*)!
I “attended” the little 500 (wikipedia) this weekend. This is amazing, forget about the “Oktoberfest”, it’s like the whole [...]

A really drunk guy (drank for 13 hours), yesterday at Nicks: “Homicide before suicide”.
A senior researcher, today at the lab: “The category of nice ideas that never worked: ‘The compiler can do it’. It’s the technical equivalent to the idea of Communism. It never works”.

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… is funny, it’s obviously designed by comedians. I’m just sitting next to my buddy who tries (since hours) to file his state tax. It’s all online (like the German Elster, but it works with FIrefox). Following questions are hilarious:
First Page:
Enter Your Name: ___”Max Mueller”___
Second Page:
Did “Max Mueller” die in the tax year 2006? [ [...]

Yes, that’s what happened some days ago. I’m still not used to the continental climate! The temperature fell literally overnight from 28 Celsius to 1 Celsius. The next day’s minimum wa at -7 Celsius *ARGH*. How is this supposed to happen??? Such a weird weather here. And the worst thing is that it did not [...]

Yeah, it happened that I missed my flight from LA to Indy. I arrived 8hrs late, don’t ask why . Anyway, they explained me that I would have to purchase a new ticket *argh* – I thought that I would never ever fly with Northwest. I discussed for 45 minutes with the clerk and [...]