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    shipping forecast

    7 Mar ’12
    ventnor-quay © 2002 dirk husemann

    having just updated our squeezebox radios i re-found the BBC iplayer plugin. it’s been lingering in depths of the squeezebox radio menus for ages, i guess, but i had never really checked it out. while waiting for @jmdhh to return … Continue reading →

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    a time trip to the 1950s

    22 Jan ’12
    chaernehus - kino etzel © 2012 dirk husemann. all rights reserved.

    even though the place we live at here in switzerland has a rather rural character — there are several livestock markets throughout the year down at the station square, very few regions regularly vote more conservative than ours — einsiedeln … Continue reading →

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    smells & memory

    16 Jan ’12
    DSCF0593 © in the wee hours dr_who. All rights reserved.

    the other day @jmdhh and i were out shopping. while i was waiting at one of the shops i was “hit” by a smell of coffee — and immediately taken back to the apartment of my grandmother in the late … Continue reading →

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    recipe: slow-roasted pork butt (blade)

    7 Jan ’12
    DSC_9549 © in the wee hours dr_who. All rights reserved.

    meat: 1kg pork butt (blade) crust: 1 glove garlic teaspoon salt 2 tablespoons italian herb mixture 1 teaspoon sweet paprika 3 tablespoons olive oil freshly ground pepper 1 tablespoon balsamic vinegar (aceto balsamico) pre-heat the oven to 80–90°C wash the … Continue reading →

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    the joys of creative commons licenses

    2 Jan ’12
    Screen Shot 2012-01-02 at 16.41.37 © in the wee hours dr_who. All rights reserved.

    i’m in the process of re-working both this blog and my photo site. for the photo site i’ve switched from zenphoto to jalbum — zenphoto didn’t really offer any decent support for displaying geo-tagged pictures, had at the point in … Continue reading →

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    @jmdhh admiring the views…

    5 Jul ’11
    enjoying the views from silver how © in the wee hours dr_who. All rights reserved.

    at the beginning of june @jmdhh and i spent two fantastic weeks in the english lake district — one of our walks took us up on top of silver how. the photo below shows @jmdhh enjoying the wonderful landscape and … Continue reading →

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    recipe: vampire ears tortilla with cherry tomato chutney

    13 Jun ’11
    DSC_9521 © in the wee hours dr_who. All rights reserved.

    tortilla1 ingredients: 300g potatoes 140g dried tomatoes in olive oil (aka vampire ears) 40g pitted black olives 5 large eggs clove of garlic 2 + 1 tablespoons olive oil chutney ingredients: 200g cherry tomatoes 1 tablespoon olive oil 1 tablespoon … Continue reading →

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    panorama picture experiment

    3 Jan ’11
    panorama from hochstuckli © in the wee hours dr_who. All rights reserved.

    last saturday mrs d and i did a snow shoe hike from alpthal stei up to hochstuckli and then across to biberegg. the views were fantastic, the snow was good prompted by mrs d, i tried my hand at taking … Continue reading →

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    some more pseudo HDR experiments

    31 Aug ’10
    DSC_7597-tonemapped © in the wee hours dr_who. All rights reserved.

    during sunday’s #twallfahrt i managed to take a couple of 5-step bracketed pictures, two of which i think produced some interesting results. the first one is the view from etzel pass towards einsiedeln: at first i thought that it looks … Continue reading →

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    world’s first twitter wallfahrt!

    29 Aug ’10
    DSC_7591 © in the wee hours dr_who. All rights reserved.

    9:10 — ms d and i arrive at einsiedeln railway station, all kitted out in our walking gear, ready to go. walking past the train we spot our fellow pilgrims. yep, pilgrims: we are on our way to the starting … Continue reading →

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    mucking around with pseudo HDRs

    28 Aug ’10

    it’s taken a long time, but i finally managed to upload the pictures of our lake district vacation (back in may, yes…) to our photo website, the 50mm-traveller. for most of the pictures i used the exposure bracketing mode of … Continue reading →

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    swiss conservatives: annex regions surrounding switzerland!

    12 Jun ’10
    Screen Shot 2012-01-02 at 17.43.54 © in the wee hours dr_who. All rights reserved.

    yesterday’s tagesanzeiger report on a parliamentary motion of the swiss conservatives right-wing, nationalist party SVP to prepare the annexation of all regions surrounding switzerland — no, today’s not the first of april. interesting. as the tagesanzeiger rightly observes that would … Continue reading →

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