Today I am Red

You would have to shave every day when serving in the Bundeswehr. A beard was only permitted if you already showed up with one or if it was long enough after a R&R. There were guys taking leave to grow a beard that would not have to be shaved, just so that they could avoid the daily inspections by the drill sergeant. 

I did not really see a need to shave during the last lockdown. No meetings to go to anyway. As a result I now look like the Animal from the Muppet Show. And if that was not hilarious enough... I have been asked to be a model for shavers. Funny to think that soon an entire male population might be looking at my visage when shopping for grooming products... 

Meanwhile, I am having a toast. 

Sculptures Everywhere

Malaysia is a country full of arts and crafts. It is not unusual to find a sculpture in a park or along the road. Just like this one by E. Honda, which can be found in Subang Jaya.

IF this is a Sign

 

The year 2020 was clearly wild and weird. Some may say it was unprecedented, but I would disagree (see my earlier post on that word). 

However, if this sign is an indication of what 2021 is shaping up to be... Well, then good night! I have taken this picture last week and have tried to figure out what the message is ever since... 

No Time to ... Whatever!

 

As they keep delaying the screening of the latest James Bond movie, media has taken to milking the fact that this motion picture exists in the most bizarre ways. Not a day goes by where we do not learn something about the main character and how / what / where / when something is going down in the movie. 

In one outlet I counted 8 (!!!!) posts on James Bond related items in 14 days on their Facebook feed... 

It is absurd. There is nothing left untouched. Now there are speculations about re-shooting scenes because the products placed by nifty marketers are out of date. Did anyone ever care? I drink Wiskey by the gallon and could not be bothered with the "unique, custom blend and the futuristic bottle " of Blade Runner 2049.

Using this from an internet search: "Information fatigue syndrome – also known as Information overload, intoxication is a term coined by Georg Simmel (1858-1918), a social scientist who postulated that the overload of sensations in the modern world caused increasingly jaded and insensitive people incapable of logically reacting to situations."

Hopefully, nobody will be surprised if this thing flops in the theaters. I don't know about others, but I am certainly tired of the things being surmised about Bond. In fact, my next book will be called:

"1001 Things You Never Wanted to Know about James Bond but were Forced to Find out During the Pandemic."

Book Title

What do you think about the following as a subject for a book I could write:

"Gamification of communication and documentation processes in project teams as internal stakeholders being a contributing factor to successful implementation of ERP software"

Leave your comments...

Bored Pensioners

My parents just told me about their latest plan. They are going to put a beach chair into their garden. Complete with 2 tonnes of finest sand from the beaches of the Baltic Sea. 

I guess they want to create Germany's biggest outdoor cat litter box.

Frankly, a beach bar would be more exciting. Possibly, I would spend more time in their garden then.

Formulated for Success

 

Here at the Stefan Pertz Institute for Useless Information we strive to bring you the biggest nonsense, worthless stuff and gibberish you could ever use to stop any dinner conversation dead in its tracks. Here the latest, specifically geared up to depress the hottie in a red dress (Die da? Nein die da mit dem dicken Pulli an, man!) that initially had a most massive crush on you...

THIS, Laddies and Gennelmen!, is the formula used by the German government to calculate your pension.
Focus.de had this on their website so that readers could make an effort to calculate for themselves how much they would be drawing as a pension.

I ask you: how bored must you be with your collection of spores or dried orange peel to be wanting to do this??? Contact me via email and I can send you 12 suggestions for fun activities to do when you are alone and don't have a stick to dig a hole in the yard. 

Now, this blog would not be among the most popular on the interweb, if there wasn't any value I could ad. So, here goes then: the Pertz'sche simplified formula to determine your pension:

<your pension amount here> = by far not enough