Ölbaum’s Delirium

I didn’t react immediately when Steve Jobs showed the new Finder in Panther, with brushed metal windows. Then it struck me. Oh no, not again! We will once more have to endure the whining of all those news editors and software reviewers who (a) hate metal windows, (b) can’t refrain from telling every one and (c) are too lazy to apply one of the eight different aquafier patches that will undoubtedly come out two days after the release of Panther, if not sooner. I counted at least five¹ utilities that do the same thing for Safari, but it didn’t stop the whining.

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There were four or five Stag Beetles (Lucanus cervus, Lucane cerf-volant in French) in my garden on Thursday, around 22:00. They made a strange noise against the window and my sister had seen one about the same time the day before.

I managed to take a couple of pictures, even though it was pitch-dark. I even caught one. It was surprisingly easy: when you disturb them, they take a menacing pose and freeze completely. The one I caught didn’t move a leg during the picture session, until I put it back where I found it.

There are some pictures below.

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johann followed my subtle suggestion about starting a blog and now I have the difficult task of writing an entry to trackback his first post.

I don’t think he quite understood the extent of this task when he asked me to do so. Writing a blog entry should never be done lightly. It should be done on an impulse and the topic should not be imposed. Otherwise, it would be the beginning of chaos. And everybody knows the consequences of chaos: a storm bursts in Zürich in the morning, causing a butterfly in Chicago to flap its wings, in the middle of the night… Who knows what an angry butterfly, disturbed in its sleep, might be capable of?

I’m not sure I want to know the answer to this question. Therefore, and I’m sorry about it, I will not write an entry to trackback johann’s blog today.

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