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September 2008

The Number of the Beast

by cimddwc · 2008-09-19

Here is wisdom.
Let him who hath understanding reckon the number of this post
for it is a human number,
its number is

And in this 666th post, I got a diabolical special edition of search request “replies”:

For those who don’t know yet: These search phrases, highlighted in grey, led people here, and I neither shortened nor extended them nor made them up, I just translated the German ones.

pfaffenhofen devil
[deep, thunderous voice] YOU HAVE FOUND HIM!

do you want to change the devil
[deep, thunderous voice] HA HA HA! YOU’LL NEVER MANAGE THAT, YOU WORM!

the devil ass
[deep, thunderous voice] NOW DON’T BE INSULTING!

SON YOU BETTER WATCH YOUR STEP CAUSE YOU GOT THE DEVIL BY THE TAIL HER EVIL WAYS
[deep, thunderous voice, louder] HEY, IF SOMEONE’S SCREAMING HERE, IT’S ME!

angel and devil porn pictures
[deep, thunderous voice] WE DON’T TAKE PHOTOS!

*cough* Alright, seriously now:

is there a devil uri geller how can a table bleed
I said seriously! Or are people really stupid enough to connect a magic trick such as a “bleeding” table with the devil??

I’ve crossed “the door” and I don’t like what I see....but a devil is only a sick Angel
And I’ve read “the search requests” and I don’t like some of them, either… but it’s rather cold outside.

What do men want angels or devils
Women!

Halloween devil update
Erm, what’re you tryin’ to say?

devil motive 4 you 2
Erm, what’re you tryin’ to say?

if you wont to give your soul to the real devil how do you and what do you say
Counterquestion: How do you think you’re able to recognize the real devil (assuming for a moment there was one)?

windel devil
Wouldn’t you prefer diaper teufel?

I think that’s enough for today. Bye, I’ll go and sacrifice a few goats now, and remember, i wanna be your god i wanna be your devil too.

More about this silly number mysticism e.g. in the Wikipedia.

Fiery text created with Flamewordmaker

This is the rest

by cimddwc · 2008-09-18

Alright, this is the last photo series from my Montreux holiday, a mixture of various topics.

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A look at the sky shows more cloud formations, a parhelion and a steaming sail boat:

When sunny skies break through behind the clouds
I wish it could last forever…

A fork in the lake (thought these things only exist in roads…) in Vevey, in front of the Alimentarium, a food museum:

A few buildings: My hotel, the Eden Palace au Lac, and the restaurant Le Palais Oriental:

The Montreux Palace and the Grand Hotel:

Congress center with Auditorium Stravinski and the old market hall:

Through the old town, we reach a church, the late gothic Temple St-Vincent:

From its terrace we have a nice view of the lake and parts of the city:

Now quickly a few animals who also seem to enjoy the sun…

…before we say farewell with a postcard view:

The poor dogs!

by cimddwc · 2008-09-18

Décapitez votre chien s.v.p.
Bitte enthaupten Sie Ihren Hund
Please decapitate your dog
Decapiti prego il vostro cane

(Or are these sings that are painted on the ground in Villeneuve at Lake Geneva just telling you to leash it…?)

Sep 2008

In this post I present to you three panoramas of Montreux and surroundings, stitched together from 8-10 photos each – created with Hugin. Quite good-looking results, I think, without much work – I just had to correct very few control points, and in one case (in the 1st picture) I didn’t manage to tell Hugin to properly put together the lake horizon (one photo probably was too slanted), so I had to edit it a bit afterwards. Seems that you have to do some cutting manually to get the proper rectangular result, though (since you never can hold the camera in the exact same height without tripod).

You see all photos (assuming the browsers do it right…) first cramped into the post width, then with a scroll bar.

The first panorama from southeast of Montreux, shortly before reaching Villeneuve, in 2732×320 pixels:

Montreux-Panorama von Villeneuve aus

» Single view
» Version with 6830×800 pixels

Second one from the shore at Clarens (the western suburb of Montreux) – Montreux on the left, the Rhône mouth in the center; 2056×320 pixels:

Montreux-Panorama von Clarens aus

» Single view
» Version with 5140×800 pixels

Number three, unfortunately with the largest vertical differences, so only a rather narrow stripe1: From Glion station, 300m above the lake – you can see Villeneuve and the Rhône mouth well, and the castle of Chillon on the left edge of the lake just made the photo, too; 3332×320 pixels:

Montreux-Panorama von Glion aus

» Single view
» Version with 8330×800 pixels

which can’t really be noticed here, downscaled to 320 and 800 lines ↺

“Goodbye and sorry” ← just a quote, don’t worry!

by cimddwc · 2008-09-17

Recently in my feed reader1, after about only 30 words of post text (my translation):

[Now only a small appetizer as feed. Bye and sorry to all who like to read the feed!]

Now another feed gone from my reader. Bye from someone who liked to read the feed!

There are only a few blogs who manage to still be subscribed to by me despite of their abbreviated feed… but you, too, are more “endangered” than others.

It certainly happens that I read less of you than if your feed were delivering complete posts, because I don’t click on every post. It’s also a matter of the time it takes, you know. Especially if the short text doesn’t really show what the post is about and what one can expect (depends on its length, of course; one blog, for instance, used to have not even one complete line). Just wanted to mention that…

Or how do you think about shortened feeds?2

Feed icon from the Smashing Magazine

if you don’t know what that is: see Wikipedia ↺
Yes, this is the typical “question at the end of the post asking for comments”. ↺

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September 2008

The Number of the Beast

This is the rest

The poor dogs!

Montreux Panoramas

“Goodbye and sorry” ← just a quote, don’t worry!