The Christmas Tree

Posted on December 23, 2008 | by Markus Stocker

Have you ever bought and decorated a Christmas tree in advance of the festivities and by the time it was Christmas your tree was not anymore where it was meant to be? This year I bought my first Christmas tree. Admittedly, I was not entirely responsible for the idea. Probably, for the idea, not at [...]

Don’t Give Up

Posted on December 20, 2008 | by Markus Stocker

There is a duet by Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush entitled “Don’t Give Up” which I’m likely to listen regularly in the next couple of weeks. In a moment in which I feel like I was forced to give up, I hope it will remind me to continue to believe, whatever the difficulties, whatever the [...]

Try to Understand

Posted on December 11, 2008 | by Markus Stocker

Sometimes we don’t care to understand. Sometimes it isn’t important to understand. Sometimes we are required to understand. Sometimes we need to understand. Sometimes we can’t understand. Sometimes we try to understand. Sometimes we give up to understand. Sometimes we are not meant to understand. Sometimes we try and can’t and give up to understand. [...]

Madness Is …, cont’d

Posted on December 1, 2008 | by Markus Stocker

In a previous blog post I quoted IEEE Spectrum, $21 million is the amount the Pentagon spends per hour to produce new defense systems (IEEE Spectrum, 11.08). For what did the Pentagon spend its millions this hour? Or the hour you, dear reader, are scrolling through my blog and are rolling your eyes over this [...]

 

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