The big "Music Mess" and other European weirdo's!

[Haible Juergen]

	>I was a little disappointed about not seeing the little
manufactorers. I was
	>really hoping that I could finally see some of the stuff the
internet's
	>plenty about in realtime, Big Briars etherwave for example, 

The Big Briar distribution in Germany is done my MAM (Music & More).
They were in Frankfurt, but I don't know if they showed an etherwave.

	>On the way home we were speeding again. And about 100 km in the
wrong
	>direction. If the guy didn't drove that hard, he might not have
missed the
	>sign, and we'd probably been home earlier... :-)

The insanity on German highways is something we're not much aware of
ourselves
anymore, but every foreigner that came to visit was struck by the mere
intensity of it.
Some enjoyed it ("Freie Fahrt für freie Bürger"), some were shocked.
As for myself, I stopped to enjoy it a few years ago when I almost died as I
was driving
to work. A truck and trailer suddenly broke out of its trace and came to
halt blocking 
the three lanes of the higway in front of me. Not fun for me who followed
with 140km/h,
gaily singing along to Pink Floyd's Shine On You Crazy Diamond. I gladly
managed
to avoid the trailer (running underneath it would have severed my head) by a
few 
centimeters and hit the bushes instead. Talk about guardian angels ...
I changed a lot about my lifestyle since that event. I moved closer to my
work (less
driving), and I choose the train for business trips more often. And my wife
says
my own driving style is much tamer now (;->).

Ok, this part was off topic. Sorry.

JH.