User talk:Nervousenergy

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Iain Banks auf deutsch[edit]

Hi Michael. I was interested in the work you were doing on the Iain Banks novels on :de. In the Culture novels template, you have included "A Gift from the Culture" (although it is currently unwritten), but not the original Culture story "The State of the Art". Why is that? Do you plan to include it in the template?

I am delighted to see someone extending :de's coverage of Banks, and if there is any way I can help, please let me know. Is Banks much read in Germany? I envy you living in Berlin, one of my favourite cities in the world. Best wishes, --Guinnog 15:46, 27 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Guinnog. "A Gift from the Culture" is the German title of the collection "The State of the Art". The standalone novella was never published here and by the german wikipedia's rules, the article has to bear the name of the book, even though the novella is what makes it significant for The Culture. So de:Ein Geschenk der Kultur is going to be a translation of The State of the Art.
As far as I can see, Iain Banks is only slowly gaining popularity in Germany, which probably owes to the sometimes mediocre (or worse) quality of the translations that are sold here. To give you an example: I read the german translation of Consider Phlebas back in the early 90's. The ideas and detail of the Culture in the book were the only thing that kept me on reading, even though the style was horrible and the plot ranged from stumbling to incomprehensible... A few years later, I picked up The State of the Art in english, which was soon followed by Use of Weapons and Consider Phlebas, this time in english. I vividly remember that it took me until the scene on the Megaship to get a feeling of dèja vu ... and all the way to the escape of the Clear Air Turbulence from the GSV Ends of Invention to even realize that I had read this book before!
This is also the reason why I'll have to wait a while for someone to turn up in the german wikipedia who owns the german version of The State of the Art because I need the titles of the individual stories in the book (which is out of print here) to do a translation of the article. (Don't worry, in a few weeks I'm going to do it anyway and keep the english titles if need be, but with the deletion craze we have going on there... *sigh*) --xGCU NervousEnergy 20:51, 27 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

http://schoener-denken.de/blog/?p=46 has the German titles. Good luck, and keep up the good work. --Guinnog 00:32, 28 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the link. I just got the english article imported to my german User-page. --xGCU NervousEnergy 14:26, 29 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

TXL Terminal[edit]

Many thanks for the diagram, it so great to finally have a distinct one!!! Fancy doing something similar for SXF? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Per aspera ad Astra (talk • contribs) 22:11, 8 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Even though I'm not as familiar with SXF (I only used it twice so far), the idea is tempting. (The same goes without saying for THF!). However that will have to wait for some other projects, so it may take a while for me to get arround to it. (I have to go there to take pictures and maybe some GPS-fixes first...) --xGCU NervousEnergy 13:44, 17 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Great Picture[edit]

I saw your picture on the featured picture nominations -- of the plane taking off at Gibraltar. Wonderful! Could you fix the caption so it's not taking off into the bay, but rather over the bay? We would hope that it didn't go into the bay. That would have been a rather distressing photo. Auntieruth55 (talk) 01:39, 26 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the praise! I was pleasantly surprised when I found out that the image is now a featured image here as well. Since it isn't my caption but the one chosen by the nominator Avala for the featured candidate, I don't really want to go and change his caption after the candidature has been closed. --xGCU NervousEnergy 01:46, 27 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted file (FP)[edit]

An image created by you has been promoted to featured picture status

Your image, File:GIB 2007-09-18.jpg, was nominated on Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate an image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Thank you for your contribution! Zoo Fari^{Thank you Wikipedia!} 01:53, 26 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

POTD notification[edit]

POTD

Hi Michael,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:GIB 2007-09-18.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on August 27, 2011. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2011-08-27. howcheng {chat} 17:34, 24 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the heads-up. This is a very pleasant surprise!

The caption looks good. You may want to link to Takeoff as well, especially since the runway at Gibraltar Airport is only 1.628 m long, but a fully loaded A320 (at MTOW) needs 2.090 m! From Airbus' technical specs it's obvious that the airport is at the lower end of the A320s performance characteristics and its usable payload is reduced by about 1/3 of the aircrafts capacity due to the shortness of the runway.
As you can tell from the image, the crew rotates the aircraft fairly late – in fact right on top of the 1,500 ft. mark at the far end (457 m from the end of the runway). A rejected takeoff in those conditions has be a finely cut and very precisely timed maneuver with very little margin for error.
Anyway, I'm looking forward to seeing my work on the main page for the first time. --xGCU NervousEnergy 23:53, 24 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]