SMS – Short Message Service- a dying art

Eine aussterbende Kunst – das SMS Schreiben mit den zwei Daumen . Wenn man das früher immer beobachtet hat, hatte das schon etwas von einer Kunstform , Fingerfertigkeit war absolut vonnöten und man musste sich einprägen welche Taste mit welchen Buchstaben doppelt belegt war.

Heutzutage haben die Smartphones ja meistens Tastaturen mit dem kompletten Buchstabensatz , das funktioniert dann wie auf einer normalen Computertastatur. Vorbei die zeiten als sich die leute noch in Wettbewerben maßen und im SMS Schnelltippen beim Guniness Buch antraten , hier habe ich so einen Wettbewerbsbeitrag ab Minute 2 :20 sieht man dann auch den Guten tippen was die Daumen herhalten.

Crazy

A dying art – the writing SMS with the two thumbs. If one has ever observed someone earlier, it contains  something of an art form-absolutely necessarywas , dexterity and you had to memorize which key has been doubled with which letters.

Nowadays, Smartphones have indeed mostly keyboards with the complete character set, it will work like a normal computer keyboard.  The times are gone when the people  competed in in SMS Quick Tap competitions for   the Guniness  book. Here I have a contest from 2008 – entry from minute 2: 20  then you see one guy typing the hell out of his thumbs

Crazy

 

Dr. Who and the Tardis

4 Beauties on their way north

Today i saw these 4 “Beauties” at the filling station , Zündapp Bella has been built from 1953 to 1964 . Approximately 130000 of these motorcyles have been built . More information here http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z%C3%BCndapp_Bella

These 4 Bella Fans have been on their way to the Nürbugring /Vulkaneiffel. Every year there is a reunion of all Bella Fans , about 200 people meet there , exchanging spare parts and experoiences , having fun and atr least they make excursions with their motorcycles , must be really fasinating to see a lot of them in a convoy .

 

Here http://bellatreffen.de.to/ you can find also a few pictures from the meeting in 2012 and earlier

Paranoids paint it black or Memories are made of this

The title of my blog is a sample of different songs from Black Sabbath, the Rolling Stones and Dean Martin , which have been afterwards covered in german by german popstars in the late 60´s . It has been the attempt to gain success with songs which have been very successful in the english original , but in germany there have been not so many people who spoke english very well , so they translated the lyrics into german and covered the rock songs. I think the attempt has not been soooo successfull but often funny and sometimes a little bit strange. Especially if you know that Cindy and Bert , Karel Gott or Freddy Quin has been popular for german folk songs or bettern known as “Schlager” and not as rock interprets.

Here are a few examples – first the english Original , afterwards the german cover version

The Rolling Stones – Paint it Black

Karel Gott – Rot und Schwarz (translated Red and Black with Balalaika )

Black Sabbath – Paranoid

Cindy and Bert – der Hund von Baskerville (translated in english – the Dog of Baskerville )

its abouth this famous Sherlock Holmes Story

Dean Martin – Memories are made of this

Freddy Quinn – Heimweh ( this song has been very successfull in germany )

 

 

Every Noise at once

I would not call it noise , it sounds so negative , no it´s music , and for every music genre you get an example

Try it out

http://www.furia.com/misc/genremaps/engenremap.html

 

i´m a cool man

Today i´ve watched this video

i thought , okay , this guy is rather cool , and then i remembered a young friend who has worked in a gas station

a man cam in and asked for the money with a knife in his hand , and after he has received the money he asked my young friend for cigarettes

and what was so funny to me , he asked him for the fucking brand ” Marlboro , Camel ??

you know there are a lot of cool people out there !

Dr Who Theme – from 1963 til today

Dr Who and the Dr. Who theme

1963-1969

1967-1980

1974 -1980

1980-1985

2005-2007

from 1963 to 2010

from 1963 – 2010

the eleven doctors