Ah, poor creature, I thought. It scrapes away at the floor after urinating because that is the program laid down in its brain by some whim of nature. It does not understand this program, it simply follows it, even when standing on a granite floor. How pitiful! We super-clever humans can watch this behaviour and easily spot that it is only a mechanism that is set in motion — like a wind-up toy — and that the intellectual input is zilch.
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Knut, born December 2006, has already had quite an illustrious career: he became a tourist attraction, a commercial success, was the subject of international controversy, has spawned numerous toys, and has now grown fat and seems to spend a lot of time asleep. It is something I aspire to emulate.

TC, as his good friends call him, is currently filming his WW2 yarn, Valkyrie, in Berlin. For the past week they were filming on the street where my parents live.

… is the name of my new company. We are three founders in total. We have big ideas. Our website, which is going to be a a blog of sorts, is here: www.binarystone.de.

I should be writing a speech but am avoiding it by writing this instead.

In theory I could write a day to day diary of my life here, my musings on all the things I muse about, er… instructions on how to bake a really good cheese cake. Whatever I feel like. Or I might simply run out of things to write about and never touch this blog again.

Which will it be? I don’t know myself