The past few days were quite hot — merely relat­ing to the tem­prat­ure. Up to 33C in the office here in Kas­sel is really warm enought for me. Mainly because the sea is so far, far, faaar away! “Sea” means Atlantic Ocean or Pacific Ocean to me, some­thing beau­ti­ful, open and far-reaching. An altern­at­ive would be an air con­di­tion. There’s a room with an air con­di­tion in our depart­ment. Maybe I should have settled for this room. Hav­ing said that, air con­di­tions often cause colds, so maybe a fan also suf­fices? Non­ethe­less, I would prefer the see if it was possible.

Yes­ter­day after­noon we had a quite impress­ive storm here. A second one star­ted just a few minutes after I left the Uni­ver­sity. Due to a quite improb­able coin­cid­ence I was in the video store on the other side of the street at this time. About ten minutes later the storm was over. I then con­tin­ued walk­ing home.

Mindhunters is a good film for lone­some, bor­ing even­ings. The plot is a bit loose but actu­ally it is a quite enter­tain­ung movie. It’s the same with Con­stantine. It is good enter­tain­ment but not much more. Its plot is a bit weaker.

As you can see: depressed moods, lone­some even­ings and some bottles of orange, grapefruit, apple, and pine­apple juice and gren­ad­ine sirup. A great com­bin­a­tion but the sea is still too far away ;). A little bit of south­ern men­tal­ity would be nice. It’s a pity.

The other thing is, that I’m not quite sure about how to start my dis­ser­ta­tion pro­ject. Adapt­ing tech­niques of related work, com­bin­ing them, or cre­at­ing some­thing new? That’s always the prob­lem with com­puter sci­ence and pro­gram­ming. Once the soft­ware pat­ents dir­ect­ive passed, these three altern­at­ives instantly reduce to only the lat­ter one, given I can avoid already assigned pat­ents. Shit! STOP SOFTWARE PATENTS!

I’ll stop this depresses post now. Let’s hope that the next week won’t suck like this one. :P