Blog | Dominik Mayer – Products, Asia, Productivity

A rather exotic birthday present were two fruits: A horned melon and a pitaya. They don’t only look unfamiliar, they also have an interesting taste.

There are some improvements to the Macbook, but not the ones I had expected. Don’t know whether I’ll get one.

Every year around my birthday I indulge in something. This year I wanted to get a Macbook. Despite all the rumors there hasn’t been an announcement yet. So I decided to get a toaster. Not the same class but better than nothing. And there has to be a new Macbook on the way.

A wonderful movie with a great, touching finale, so happy and so sad at the same time.

Every 30 seconds, a baby with birth defects is born in China. Alarming. I think I better not have a child there.

I think they should accept cooking asparagus as pre-study industrial practical. It contains chipping technology as well as heat treatment and it’s a very serious matter: If all the water accidentally boils away you get roast asparagus. ;-)

Seems like my orthopedist is doing acupuncture as well. Two patients were running around with needles in their skin.

I finally got the two Chinese to talk Chinese instead of English. So it’s only a matter of hours until they figure out whether there are doctor’s offices in China or not.

I know it’s an ad, but it’s a good one. It really makes me want to go there.

Amazon offered me some great things today. Books about elastostatics and maths for engineers, another one about programming in C and a scientific calculator. Halleluja.

Apple released Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard yesterday but didn’t announce any new products yet. Three weeks ago, AppleInsider had reported:

Apple Inc. has begun preparatory measures for significant announcements to take place during the last full week of October, AppleInsider has been told.

While sources have requested that we not go into detail regarding the specific measures being put into place, they say the announcements are likely to arrive any time between the 22nd and 27th of the month.

So let’s hope they’ll present something today.

This morning, I found a long black hair on my bathroom floor. How on earth did it get there?

An exam is scheduled for February 25th, five days after the projected start of the semester in China. The professor offered to send it to China so that I could write it there, supervised by a member of Tongji. Sounded like a great idea, but TUM won’t allow it.

We’re three again and the flight is booked. Stockholm, we’re coming!

Heather is cool. 8)