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David

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

Always curious to learn about the things and places in the world that I do not know yet. I enjoy being outdoors and doing things. I love to travel, but I'm not the type of person being able to spend his vacation in an all-inclusive hotel for more than two days.

And then, of course, some of these silly personality quizzes:
How Will You Die??
You scored as Disappear. Your death will be by disappearing, probably a camping trip gone wrong or an evening hike you never returned from. Always remeber that one guy who was hiking alone and got in a rock slide. He could have died, but he cut his own hand off to save himself. Don't end up like him (or worse, dead).
Disappear


80%

Suicide


73%

Bomb


60%

Poison


60%

Eaten


60%

Disease


53%

Gunshot


47%

Natural Causes


47%

Cut Throat


47%

Drowning


40%

Suffocated


27%

Stabbed


27%

Accident


27%

what alcoholic drink are you?
You scored as rum. you are rum. you are adventurous and fun loving, but laid back and cool. you like to travel and love good times.
rum


71%

daiquaries


67%

vodka


63%

midori


58%

beer


54%

wine


54%

champagne


46%

absinthe


38%

whiskey


33%

bourbon


33%

My Interests

Caving, traveling, climbing, nature, biking, technology, food, drinks, sun, movies, parties, ...

I'd like to meet:

Austinites, globetrotters, fun people... And somebody who can tell me the winning numbers for one of the upcoming Texas Lottery drawings.

Music:

I will listen to more or less every kind of live music. The The, Depeche Mode, Fettes Brot, Thievery Corporation, Cake, Johann Sebastian Bach, Lauryn Hill, No Doubt, Pearl Jam, Norah Jones, Top 40, ...

Movies:

Pulp Fiction, The big Lebowski, The Matrix (the early one ;-), 23, Kill Bill I & II, Hellboy, The fast and the furious I, Pitch Black, Groundhog Day, Lost in Translation, Brother, From Dusk til Dawn, Fight Club, ...

Television:

Selling my TV set. Any takers?

Books:

Douglas Adams, Neal Stephenson, Chuck Palahniuk, ... and the piles of books in my bedroom that I am planning on reading soon...

My Blog

Strange looking dude...

Entering German soil in recent times has been kind of weird. The German immigration officers are the only ones in the world that always look at least twice at me and then back at the photograph in my ...
Posted by David on Fri, 21 Sep 2007 01:21:00 PST

Riding the bus - lessons learned

So I was riding the bus to work to day. After all, CapMetro had proclaimed the National Dump the Pump day and I decided to give it a try. Here are my top three lessons learned:1. Be 5-10 minutes early...
Posted by David on Fri, 22 Jun 2007 07:07:00 PST

World Environment Day

Tomorrow is World Environment Day. I gonna ride my bike to work.If you wanna do something, check out this PDF....
Posted by David on Tue, 05 Jun 2007 06:33:00 PST

Stranded in central Texas

So there I am, somewhere in the middle of nowhere on a farm road close to Driftwood, TX, with a broken car. Took AAA three hours to send a towing truck - good that I had a six pack of beer and my slee...
Posted by David on Sat, 10 Mar 2007 10:21:00 PST

11.5 hours away

...time shift-wise, that is.Looking north towards the city center of Bangalore. An amazing place!
Posted by David on Thu, 15 Feb 2007 11:49:00 PST

I'm getting old

Today I found the first grey (actually, white) hair in my beard. ;-)
Posted by David on Tue, 06 Feb 2007 11:44:00 PST

Finally!

The sun is (was) shining today!! Spent an awesome day caving and climbing at the Barton Creek greenbelt... and the creek carries water, amazingly enough! I have never seen that before....
Posted by David on Mon, 22 Jan 2007 07:44:00 PST

The same game every January...

...ice and chaos in Austin.At least good to see that "real" icicles exist. I started to think that there are only the little electrical ones... :-)...
Posted by David on Wed, 17 Jan 2007 05:12:00 PST

Americanization

Aahhhh!I was sure that this could not possibly happen to me, ever. But now it did. I'm running around wearing my cell phone IN A HOLSTER ON MY BELT! Unthinkable in Germany. How scary. What's gonna be ...
Posted by David on Tue, 19 Dec 2006 06:10:00 PST

Portable cooking devices...

As seen in Laguna Beach, CA...
Posted by David on Sat, 02 Dec 2006 10:52:00 PST