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Leave out all the rest

Love this song: Linkin Park, ‘Leave out all the rest’ from their album ‘Minutes to Midnight’. I am in a pretty good mood, even if the text would suggest otherwise. ;) I don’t know, it just strikes a chord with me.

I dreamed I was missing, you were so scared
But no one would listen, ‘cause no one else cared
After my dreaming, I woke with this fear:
What am I leaving when I am done here?

So if you’re asking me,
I want you to know….

When my time comes, forget the wrong that I’ve done
Help me leave behind some reasons to be missed
And don’t resent me, when you’re feeling empty
Keep me in your memory, leave out all the rest
Leave out all the rest

Don’t be afraid
I’ve taken my beating, I’ve shared what I’ve made
I’m strong on the surface, not all the way through
I’ve never been perfect, but neither have you

So if you’re asking me,
I want you to know….

When my time comes, forget the wrong that I’ve done
Help me leave behind some reasons to be missed
Don’t resent me, and when you’re feeling empty
Keep me in your memory, leave out all the rest
Leave out all the rest

Forgetting all the hurt inside you’ve learned to hide so well
Pretending someone else can come and save me from myself
I can’t be who you are

When my time comes, forget the wrong that I’ve done
Help me leave behind some reasons to be missed
Don’t resent me, and when you’re feeling empty
Keep me in your memory, leave out all the rest
Leave out all the rest…

Forgetting all the hurt inside you’ve learned to hide so well
Pretending someone else can come and save me from myself
I can’t be who you are

I can’t be who you are

By the way, the album is excellent.

Hand’s better again

The cast is off, the stitches are gone, I’m healing. The picture was taken the day the cast came off, by now it’s looking even better.

(This was part 2 of an ongoing series.)

Avatare im “SZ Magazin”

Vor ein paar Wochen wurde ich fürs Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin interviewt — es ging um Avatare und die Leute dahinter, i.e. um die Charaktere, die Menschen in Onlinespielen spielen.

Heute wurde es veröffentlicht.

Hendrik, der auch interviewt wurde, hats sogar ins Print-Magazin geschafft, ich war anscheinend zu hässlich und kam “nur” in die Web-Ausgabe. Aber hey, das passt schon. Was ich etwas schade finde: ca. 90% von dem, was wir gefragt wurden und was wir gesagt haben, haben sie nicht verwendet. Schande!

Wie dem auch sei, hier bin ich zu sehen und hier ist Hendrik. Und hier ist ein Screenshot, für die Nachwelt erhalten. (Klick darauf geht zur großen Version.)

Carlo & The Carpet Cutter

A week ago I was doing some home improvement. Well, I tried. And failed. In a spectacular way — the carpet cutter slipped and chopped through the back of my thumb.

For a split second I had a clear look at my joint, then it got messy.

Well, Dana got me to the ER – not after saving my life, tho! Standing upright next to the stairs (upper end), I lost consciousness for about 30 seconds. She grabbed and yelled at me, and after a while I blinked and was back. Oiy.

Anyways, we got into the ER, and the friendly lady at the reception desk said “What’s the matter?”, and I finally could do the one thing I had always envisioned, yet never had the chance to pull off.

“I’m bleeding.”

Had to grin a bit after I’ve said it. So worth it. (Well, not really.)

To make a long story short, they stitched my thumb together again. Turns out I had actually really reached the joint, and even partially cut a tendon. Splendid.

Now my whole hand is in a cast.

Typing is slow as molasses, mostly because the freaking cast is in the way. The stitches are starting to itch, which probably is a good thing, but that doesn’t make it better.

The doc gave me two weeks off, and until then, the web is mostly “read-only” for me. Because writing is slow, as mentioned — this blog entry took half an hour.

Whore-iffic!

Halfpixel.com is proud to announce an experimental new service called “Friends for Five.” For the unimaginably low price of ten dollars, you can get a five minute phone call from Kris and Scott, stars of the “Kris and Scott Power Hour” (heard live ever Thursday at 6pm). For those five minutes, Kris and Scott will indulge your fantasy and act like your life-long best friend for five minutes.

Posted by Scott Kurtz over at PvPonline.com. This is the biggest bullshit I’ve read in a while. Egos the size of Montana, maybe? And don’t give me the “they’re just joking!!1” treatment, because in the comments, both Kris and Scott confirm this is actually “THE REAL DEAL” (emphasis theirs). I think you have to be very, very convinced about yourself to offer something like this.

I can certainly understand the wish to making money without actually working, but how does pretending to be something you are not — for money, mind you — not make you a whore?

Thus, let me be the first one to coin this “service” as totally “whore-iffic”.

Wow.