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gj70

no, i am not 70 ... i was born in 1970 ;-)

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Tetris3d - a three-dimensional tetris clone, written in java.
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The SICK ROSE

by William Blake. From "Songs of Innocence and Experience" (1794).

The Sick Rose

O Rose thou art sick.
The invisible worm,
That flies in the night
In the howling storm:

Has found out thy bed
Of crimson joy:
And his dark secret love
Does thy life destroy.

about me

hi, my name is jürgen. i am from austria/europe (1). i am living in hard, a little village near bregenz, at the lake of constance ... very convenient in summer.

i work as a system-/database-admin, managing oracle-databases on an ibm-sp/2 - does "deep blue" ring a bell? it's a box like that, only we ain't got chess copros in our nodes

hobbies:

reading
computers
paragliding
mountainbiking
drinking beer ;-)

reading

terry pratchett
frank herbert
douglas adams
william gibson
robert heinlein
jrrt tolkien
douglas coupland
ernest hemingway
john steinbeck
william shakespeare
antoine de st.exupery
edmond rostaud
voltaire
gabriel garcia marquez
isabell allende
arthur schopenhauer
emmanuel kant
johann wolfgang von goethe
and everything i can get my hands on ;-)

as i speak english and french (and, of course, german), i try to read english/french books in the original language. however, books in foreign languages are in somewhat short supply where i live. i order a lot at different book-sellers in the internet, but i prefer to roam around in a book store, just looking around ... you often find the best books by chance, i'll always prefer a "real" bookstore.

computers

at home, i got a sparcstation 4 (running solaris) and an old 486-notbook running OpenBSD. Why not linux? don't know, i simply like the BSD-clones more ... and you have kernel and applications in one source tree, its very easy to recompile your whole system after more "hackish" sessions.

at work, i am managing an ibm-sp/2 with 23 nodes. hard disk space is approximately 480 gigabytes. the production database is growing by 2 gigs a month, rate increasing. at my desk, there's a rs6k 42t (officially, it is our netview-machine, inofficially, its hosting all my internal web-pages and online-manuals and doing all kinds of nifty things ... like monitoring and archiving some newsgroups). and i have to confess, i have also got a pentium-90 running ms win95. i am using it for exchange and schedule+.

paragliding

once you experienced flight, your eyes will be forever turned skyward; for there you once have been, and there you long to return -- leonardo da vinci

soaring and thermaling in a para-glider is simply ... *cantsay* like christmas, birthday and having sex for the first time ... you look at the world from above, the landscape and scenery, and you are feeling so free, without bounds and limitations

and once you're hooked to the sport, you are permanently looking at the sky. is it flyable? wow, those clouds look DANGEROUS ... i nearly crashed into other cars several times because i was looking at the sky. i try not to do it when i am driving, but it's hard. once you're hooked, the sky will never be the same again. my garden not either, by the way. i am not mowing my lawn anymore, i rather go flying when the weather is good ;-)

mountain-biking

if the weather is good, but not flyable or it's already late in the evening, i often bike around on my mtb. i am living in the alps, and there are some beautiful forrest-tracks starting 5 minutes from my house (by bike). most of the time, i bike up the "pfaender" (mountain near bregenz) by different tracks ...

making contact

you want to reach me? email me at gj70@geocities.com.

footnotes

no, we don't have kangaroohs 'round here ;-)

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