Hobbys

Sports

This might sound strage because it seems so obvious. But sports has a variety of opportunities. Not only thinking about the very popular german sports as football (as in soccer) or tennis. No, climbing or even Le Parcour can be very addictive. Or diving. One thing I have learned: Always try to change things and don't do all the time the same. Could be boring, and that shouldn't be.

Travelling

Through my trips I recognized how I changed myself. There are much more opportunities to everything than you ever would imagine. If you try to be open-minded, you can make the most interesting experiences. One fancy thing is that you can reflect yourself in other surroundings, resulting in seeing different perspectives. I would recommend everyone to travel. Maybe even abroad all those main tourist paths. There are a load of different web pages which make travelling more easy. For cheap travelling I recommend Hostels and CouchSurfing. My profile name there is weirdnose.

Pictures

I always try to catch the moments in my trips and show them to others. From time to time I create some panoramas with hugin or try to create a HDR picture. I also like to take night pictures. All this is to be explored in my flickr account.

Participation

It doesn't matter if Open Source Project or volunteer work, a lot of different things live just from people helping. I had much fun to help on projects like Secret Maryo Chronicles or Simutrans. I did also volunteer work for the ASB, which is a health organisation like the Red Cross, as a paramedic. Unfortunately things have changed as I am travelling. But I really liked the experiences and I will definetively do it again.

Hattrick

Hattrick is a free browser game. It is about the management of your own virtual football (soccer) team. You have to train them, set them up for friendlies and other games. There is much more to tell about this game, and one thing is outstanding: It doesn't cost you that much time than those browser games where you have to be on all the time. Even better, there is a independent tool called Hattrick Organizer available. It offers funtions you miss on the web page. All together this is a very nice, complex game. By the way, my team is called Torfnasen.

Pinball

I like those blinking, hyperactive, noisy machines. I had for a few years the Terminator 2. An inexpensive way to experience even the newest pinball is Virtual Pinball. Dozens of popular machines have been rebuild to run on your Windows-PC. Very impressive, how real those virtual games feel.

Movies and Shows

There are a lot different movies on this world. I really enjoy watching a good movie and get some ideas from it. Sure, there are also a lot of senseless movies, but everything has it's downside. But nevertheless, I also like to see an episode of Scrubs. Or of Battlestar Galactica. I like also the X Files. And much more...