Torsten Hoefler’s blog

Well, I had another crazy trip last week. I attended two meetings, one in Washington and another one in Poughkeepsie (yeah, I bet you don’t know where that is, it’s an IBM research lab close to Fishkill and about 1:30hrs north of New York City). So I flew to Washington and attended the first meeting [...]

Yes, now it’s official, I’m moving to Urbana-Champaign to work at the University of Illinois (UI). It’s somewhat a funny change not only because of the IU to UI thing but also with regards to many other things. I’ll be working as a Research Associate at NCSA, or better in the Blue Waters’ Directorate. I’ll [...]

Yes, I had my commencement yesterday. I know, I got the Ph.D. six months ago, however, I didn’t have the time to visit last year’s commencement but still wanted to do it. I didn’t know what it would be like but it’s actually kind of fun (my roommate said “everybody looks like in Harry Potter” [...]

80000 people died instantly. Mostly civilians. Here some thoughtful links:

Anniversary in Hiroshima 
Photos
today’s mightiest weapons
another story
the Manhattan Project

… that’s what I should think then:

I just don’t believe it … how can anybody nominate this guy!

… but this is so obvious …. I mean I will loose all my faith into the American people, the society and Democracy in general, if anybody but Obama is the next president.
And I already lost faith in US foreign politics … how can one be so stupid, planning to build a “defense missile” station [...]

Wow, watch this and stop trusting me . The text says that this film was screened to American GIs before they started their missing in Germany.
Too bad that there are no movies like this about Vietnam, Afghanistan or Irak. I guess the Germans must have undercut the US and continue “the vicious peace-war cycle” [...]

AT&T sucks, that’s all that I can say now. Not only that their name servers are kind of broken (resolving is very unreliable and takes forever sometimes), but their customer service is really bad. So I wanted to perform a simple task … change the name of the account holder, [...]

Oh *MAN*. I thought the German tax system is complicated. But it’s a joke compared to US one. Everybody has to file taxes to the US (IRA) *AND* all the states *and* counties he worked in. Man, so I had to file federal tax, Indiana tax and county tax (fortunately part of the Indiana tax [...]