Torsten Hoefler’s blog

For all that don’t know it yet – I’ll be in Germany (Chemnitz) between the 11th and 24th of October! I have some things to do (I’ll of course bring work ), but the evenings should be free to party! So let me know if something will be on during this time!

Oh my gosh! Read that:

I’m not sure if this is true but since I don’t like beer anyway I’ll just stop drinking it . Please, anybody who has evidence – write me (own beer bellys and man boobs do not count as evidence)!
UPDATE: Ok, Mehdi gave me a hint … beer contains hops (of [...]

I’ve been at a Wii party yesterday. I was sceptical at the beginning because I’m not too much into video games (as they are usually desocializing). But the Wii is awesome. It supports up to 4 players (!) that can even play simultaneously in some games! Hmm, why do we have so many PS3’s in [...]

I booked my flight to the states through Orbitz.com because is was cheap at this point. But yes, cheap … and nothing more. I tried to change the flight back to Germany yesterday. It took me 45 minutes on the phone, talking to many different people and half of them couldn’t even speak a proper [...]

We’re all kind of used to the mourning of the whole world for the victims of the 11th September attacks. Don’t get me wrong, I think it’s terrible but seems a little bit exaggerated. About 3000 people died and two big buildings collapsed. But there have been much higher losses in the history. E.g., I’m [...]

I just want to mention that it is 11:30pm, I just took a shower and I’m sitting topless on my balcony working with my MacBook pro. The view is great and some friends just passed by. Oh man, this is sooo great! I love this place and the weather.

Everybody is waiting for pictures, I know … and I got a camera phone now! So here are some random pictures:
We explored the new underground Chemistry building. This is pretty interesting, because I know it’s there, I’ve seen the construction work last year. And we went into the first floor (I mean the first underground [...]

This time some German title . Do you get it? Yeah, we have an Aldi here! People did not believe me, so I had to provide some proof. We tried to find some Nutella, and I thought a German supermarket chain should have this. So we went to Aldi. Ah, btw. it was 32 [...]