snow to mud

now that the sun's back and all that slushy slippery snow is gone, i made the most of the superlong easter weekend to get out and dirty mountain biking. my legs felt the 4 month break from riding, but that's kind of the point... and how much fun is burning up firetrails and cruising down sweet smooth singletrack (with a liberal sprinkling of mudpuddles)!

toby's evil genius

this is pure genius.

www.savetoby.com

'Toby is the cutest little bunny on the planet. Unfortunately, he will DIE on June 30th, 2005 if you don’t help.

I am going to eat him.

I don’t want to eat Toby, he is my friend.

However, God as my witness, I will devour this little guy unless I receive 50,000$ USD into my account from donations or purchase of merchandise.'

(he says) people have actually paid lots of money already!


and other people are getting really shirty that he's a complete bastard:

VEDA STRAM: That people will threaten to hurt another living being, blackmailing people who care to send the money so they won’t hurt them, is just disturbing. (www.abc.net.au)

come on please - go home and eat your abatoir-slaughtered cow.

all power to you tobes!


(make sure to check out the recipes and pictures on www.savetoby.com!)

rain in the springtime

it's raining outside now, so i'm happy :)

shy shell

i was out showing my style snowboarding on the weekend (falling over lots (especially in front of big crowds), getting annoyed at the flat bits, and thinking i was way cool) at mt pizol, with michelle, who was down from england for the weekend (yay!). she was skiing, and didn't let me take any pictures of her. she said it was because she was too embarassed about how bad a skier she was, but of course we all know it was because she wasn't snowboarding.

my organisation was a bit of a debacle however. i'd booked accomodation in bad ragaz, but our train ticket got us to sargans, 5km short. so in our confusion we ended up having to walk 5km saturday afternoon and sunday morning, rather than face the wrath of the swiss ticket collectors. that was all ok though, since our time on the slopes was more than enough to give me aching muscles (and hopefully not a fractured rib...). plus the views were kind of pretty.

spring!!

i find it so incredible that as soon as the snow melts, there are small flowers stretching upwards. sometimes they even seem to be flowering before the snow melts from around them. it makes me smile :)

zürich is the new brisbane

that's right. there's no snow anymore, not that much happens, and they sell xxxx at the local supermarket.

snowboarding kicks arse

just back from a day snowboarding in flumserberg.
sweet :)
although my arse is like a pile of freshly mown grass.
that seems completely par for a first day out though, and falling over is great fun!
we may have to organise another lab snow day sometime next week...

i had no idea my arse was covered in snow from falling so much


and everyone had fun (they're not just laughing at me)

motr

ahhh the good old days. the memories keep flooding back. martin and i stumbled across some commodore 64 emulators for pc and mac, together with all sorts of classic games from the late 80s. monty on the run is simply the king. it didn't take much to get my touch back, but even with infinite lives i still can't get past the car jumps. whoever programmed this was a real mean bastard!

running at half mast

whoops. half way through today i realised my fly zipper was totally kaput. luckily a combination of ultra-high-slung pants and stretchy jumper got me through the day with only a few quizzical smirks :)

true, it would have only taken 20 minutes to get home and back with a change of pants, but it gave me a warm fuzzy feeling knowing i was doing my bit for spreading cheer and sillyness.

heaven and hell

cristina told me such a nice story today:

once there was a man who wanted to know what the difference was between heaven and hell. so first he dropped down into hell for a quick visit. everyone was incredibly frustrated, pained and angry - there was an amazing banquet spread out in front of them, but everyone was forced to eat with really long forks, so they couldn't get the food to their mouths!

a bit distressed by the experience, he next popped up to heaven to see how things were there. his first impression was of how happy and friendly everyone seemed, but to his suprise everything looked very similar - there was another amazing banquet spread out in front of everyone, and everyone was still forced to eat with the really long forks. the difference was that everyone was using their own long forks to feed each other.

isn't that just so sweet :)