Torsten Hoefler’s blog

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 [...]

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 [...]

Yes, right …. somebody broke into my room and stole (nearly) all my electronics. Only the GPS is left and two laptops (one was the lab’s), a cell, an MP3-Player and my lovely Palm PDA are gone . That sucks … I hate this house. Especially those windows, I am able to open the [...]

Don’t drink wine, beer, rum, beer, beer, beer and vodka shots at the same evening … it’s gonna be embarrassing. You may think you’re tough, but you aren’t! Remember that!

This deserves it’s own post because it reflects what I have to watch every day :
The Soft American by John F. Kennedy

FBI wants students to stop travelling, because they could talk about US secrets
The totally useless American movie rating. Die Hand IV with brutal killings rated PG-13 while Amelie, containing a a funny montage of orgasms, was rated R. Go and shoot your neighbors!
Developing Intelligence? You are mentally disabled if you solve this puzzle [...]

I have some scientific news because they affected my private life enormously . My paper was accepted at the Supercomputing 2007 in Reno! Yeah, the first supercomputing paper in my career! A EuroPVM paper was also accepted, but that’s way less exciting than the SC07! LibNBC begins to gain attention, and I need to [...]

… I know. I was under high stress the last weeks … had some personal issues and three papers to write for conferences. But this is pretty much done now *yeah*. Besides that, my life was pretty dull. My freaking piece of sh*** Saturn broke in a really ridiculous way. I destroyed the stick shift [...]

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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