Still A Lot Of Winter To Go

The winter festival is over now, the final event was a big "social" on saturday. We didn't go (we are reclusive hermits after all), but several of my co-workers showed up either late or not at all yesterday. Which was monday. Party on! People here don't do things half-assed.

Anyone remember the good old game "Hollywood Pictures"? It came out in 1993 or something, and was simple and fun and about making movies. It's been old for a long time now, and has always left a hole in the world of computer games. Games focusing on the same aspects of movie making just didn't exist. Until now.
Appearantly now some dude from Germany has made a new game called "World of Cinema". I am seriously thinking about trying it out.

Today is also "Shrove-Tuesday" (?). On this day, so goes the tradition, people are supposed to eat the last of their eggs and milk before 40 days of fasting begin. Therefore you must have pancakes today. Great! Not that I need a reason like that to have pancakes. So we had pancakes today, yum!
I think, by the way, that this whole fasting-thing was invented somewhen during the dark ages to keep the masses down. All the peasants would regularily this time of year run out of food, all the stuff from last year's harvest would be gone with still a lot of winter to go. So the rich and powerful came up with some made-up bullshit story about some period of constant hunger, which they conveniently linked to the religious belief system (which in itself had worked out fine so far to keep the peasants in check), and the dumb farmers who are our ancestors believed that bullshit story once more, and we still live by it today.

For those who'd like to see what I looked like before I shaved off my beard, here's a picture of me taken outside Berlin Airport on february 18.