Monthly Archives: May 2010

Find a nearby GPS receiver

As it happens quite often that I need to know whether a GEONET or IGS receiver is close to a location which is of some interest for my studies I appreciate the work done by Takasu-san, who prepared GoogleEarth overlays

Posted in computer, GPS

Spicy recommendation V

Here’s a new spicy recommendation, which is not a restaurant, but instant noodles (“cup noodles”) that are sold across the county. A few months ago I have reported about Lee Curry, and it seems that this product has been merged

Posted in Food, Spicy recommendation

The magic of publications

Every scientists is expected to do it and many of us produce several of them every year … scientific (and other) papers. Here’s an interesting and somewhat funny statistic which I found on PhD comics: Most of it is not

Posted in paper

The correct badminton service

As I am doing it continuously wrong, I looked up the proper service rules for badminton. Here’s an excerpt from a nice homepage: It’s stated in the Badminton Service Rules that both you and your opponent shall not cause undue

Posted in sports

The sound of (no) music

On my flight back from Vienna last weekend I was booked on Austrian airlines. They operate a B777-200 on the route VIENRT which is not so bad, although a modern plane would offer more comfort. At least the seats are

Posted in travel
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