understand why

eine Koalition grosser deutscher Fernsehsender Merkel als die Gewinnerin des "TV-Duells" sehen will. Es war so offensichtlich, dass Schroeder Merkel rhetorisch und inhaltlich um Laengen ueberlegen war. Uebrigens bestaetigt von der an das "Duell" anschliessenden "repraesentativen" Umfrage.

Was soll das werden? "Meinungsbildung"? Will eine Koalition aus ARD, ZDF, RTL und Sat 1 Merkel als Kanzerlin? Wieso?

Persoenliche Meinung:
Guenther Jauch ist ein Arschloch

Another Saturday morning. I have gotten used to waking up alone on saturday mornings. No big deal. But still... If you happen to have a partner then make sure to spend the first morning of the weekend with him/her.

I have to give a talk. I am very nervous about the talk. It might be the most important talk of my entire career to day. It may very well determine if I will have anything close to a successful career in the future. A fair number of almost-nobel-laureates will be in the audience. I have to talk about my thesis work. About all the things I have done the course of the last two years. The talk is next thursday around midday. I am already nervous....

The other day, Koko and I went to the Wannsee/Havel beach. Here is the story: stay away from grandma's apple cookies! :D

So Harry is visiting. We are trying to get that damn EOS working with arbitrary initial profiles. Does not look good at this point. Harry's code is running off the table even before bounce when using the Marquina solver and shortly after bounce when using the HLLE solver. All runs are pure hydro at this point.

Tomorrow morning we will go see the Goya exhibt at the Alte Nationalgalerie. Then more work and then some sort of "blind date" in the evening. I'll keep you updated.

Okay. A couple of things happening today:

• The Spin Paper will get submitted to ApJ and astro-ph today!
• Around 10 p.m. Harry will show up at my place. He'll stay until Thrusday evening
• Before Harry get's here I have to clean Max's room and move Max into my room. Not sure if he'll like it.
• I might even clean the windows in Max's room. But I am not sure if I need/want to do it...
• I really, really need to get my desk at the institute in better shape...

Update on other stuff:

• Multipole 16x3 run seems to be going pathologic :-/
• Something is wrong with the derivatives and the speed of sound in my EOS tables :-(

Returned to Moabeat this early afternoon. I am now getting ready - surprise! - to once again start working on / fixing the Spinpaper. Fun Fun Fun.

No drugs or alcohol until it's done!