This won't be a rantposting, even though my tiredness practically screams for one: this is a happy posting. Semi-seriously, someone, who is politically active in the same movement as me, called me his role model. This simply makes me happy.

\begin{rant}I am annoyed by optimists. Optimism might be a nice strategy in some cases, but it will lead to lots of disappointment in the long run. I can not understand how people survive having their hopes shattered every time. Fuchur in the Neverendung Story by Michael Ende is such an annoying character - but no one seems to realize that. I am also annoyed by people who are no able to tell me what they want me to do. As happened today. I sure wouldn't have put so much effort in one page if I had known that we had to create 2 pages. I however am most annoyed by immature people - who should know better. And they are not immature in the good way: not funny, sometimes a bit silly, playful, interested in new things, these people are loud, always out for trouble, disturb people, especially me... It's getting on my nerves. Meeeeh.\end{rant}, \begin{smile}

I guess there are people who didn't understand my sig or felt insulted by it. You should not be. Maybe I should just explain what it means: The signature is Pascal code which defines a variable (=an area in the RAM, which can be accessed by a name) which stores integer numbers (traditionally between -32768 and 32767*). You can name variables all you like and so I named this one 'god'. Then I added a comment stating that god is not 'real', while this can be understood from an atheistic position, it can also mean: God is not a 48 bit long variable to store real numbers. So yeah, unlesss you are insulted by puns or think that god is a variable of the type real, you shouldn't be insulted. :) * no I didn't have to look that up, I knew it. Yes, I have no life.

The next posts will be rather grumpy, because when inline skating, I fell on my knee. Exactly on the one, I fell on a while ago when I ran to catch a train (which I missed, but another one on the same platform was 'downgraded' so I could use it). Yes, this mmeans, at the moment, I can not exactly walk well. Not that I am not trying, of course I do, but it hurts, which puts me into a state of constant annoyedness. In other news, things are not bad. I had my first real challenge in C, it was not a problem, it was a challenge! And I had 9 hours of sleep! how glorious is that? ;) I am normally not an optimist, but I think things are not too bad at the moment.

I am lacking sleep at the moment, being jetlagged due to the start of the new semester and some activities, which are a bit weirder. But what can I say? It's not that bad. Of course, you might say: it's not the fall that hurts, it's when you hit the ground, but meh. I feel that it is important to be active, to do something relevant. Yes, even for us atheists, the ultiimate purpose in life is not only fun, I see my activities on a logical basis as long-term investment but on emotional basis as one way to canalize my anger about the current political situation. I do not want to make this blog dissolve into a rant about politics, so let's just say that I am very interested in civil rights and in issues like copyright and patents (which I think need to be reformed very much). I think it is important to fight for a better world and thus don't mind only 5 hours sleep a night some times - especially when one can spend the entire weekend in bed.

Of course, rms (Richard Matthew Stallman) designed the Church of Emacs as a joke, but I do not think it is just that. While I am atheistic and do not believe all free ideas come from GODS, I do believe the OpenSource movement is inherently spiritual. Think of the amount of people, all over the world, who created Linux. They all were guided by very idealistic motives. This is something which overwhelms me. Many OpenSource projects are in this respect like a medieval cathedral: Countless people contributed but it all is one harmonic entity.