Terry also told a “dirty joke” during his explanations:

“A man went into a bar, carrying a crocodile. He put the croc on a table and challenged everyone in the bar to do as he does: he openend the crocodiles snout, unzipped is trousers, inserted his … ahem … part and hit the crocodile over the head. The croc blinked a bit, but did nothing more. Then the man looked around for someone to do the same. No one came forward at first, but after a short ehile an elderly lady raised her hand and said: “Welll, I’m willing to give it a try, but only if you promise not to hit me!”

After the talk finished, all the people stood in line to get their books signed.

I gave him my copy of “Thud!” and got a nice signature in there, as well as some buttons.

The best part: Terry loughed out loud when he read my “Will work for bandwidth” t-shirt .

Since some people asked for it, I also made a short video of a small part of the talk.

I drove to vienna by car, mostly because Elke joined me to visit some friends there. I filled my fuel tank in Linz and watched how much fuel I needed, simply because I wanted to compare the consumption to the money I would have to pay to go by train. There and back again I needed about half the tank, so i would guess about 25 Euros. That is the same amount of money I would have to pay to go by train – ONE WAY! I think the ÖBB is a bit crazy.

I also finished reading Thud!, the new Discworld novel by Terry Pratchett. Although it’s not as good as “The Fifth Elephant”, just to name one, I quite enjoyed reading it. Did you know, by the way, that one of the last books, “Monstrous Regiment”, was translated to German as “Weiberregiment”, which is one hell of a spoiler. If anyone ever asks me again why I like to read books in the original language, that will be my answer…

Totally incoherent things: