Ullis Top5 Page
I know "Who the heck cares what my favorites
are ?"
No one, so just click on the
'Back'-Button ....
(Don't take this page serious, this is just a fun-thing. (It
was inspired by Hans
Florines Top 6 List) )
Top 5 Hobbies
| Name | Area |
|---|---|
| Paragliding | |
| Audiobooks | |
| Photography | |
| Nightlife (Movies, Theater, Music, Events, ...) | more details to follow: Locations in Stuttgart |
| Architecture |
Top 5 Movies
| Title (Orig) | Country/Year | Director | Starring | More Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pulp Fiction | USA 1994 | Quentin Tarantino | John Travolta, Uma Thurman, Sam Jackson | |
| Léon | France 1994/96 | Luc Besson | Jean Reno | |
| Trois Couleurs | France 1993 | Krzysztof Kieslowski | Juliette Binoche | blue white red |
| Matrix | USA 1999 | A&L Wachowski | Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne | |
| Gattaca | USA 1997 | Andrew Niccol | Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman, Jude Law | Movieweb Sony |
| Amelie | France 2001 |
Top 5 Books
| Name | Author | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| Ä | Max Goldt | He juggles with words like crazy and lets none of them drop! |
| Soloalbum | Benjamin v Stuckrad-Barre | A bit too sarcastic, but still a great portrait of his generation. |
| Narziss und Goldmund | Hermann Hesse | All other Books of Herman Hesse are also great ! |
| Zusammen ist man weniger allein |
Top 5 Shops in Stuttgart
| Shop | What's cool about it ? |
|---|---|
| Magazin / Manufactum | |
| MERZ & BENZING / Markthalle | |
| Stilwerk | |
Top 5 Music
| Band | CD / Song | Music Style |
|---|---|---|
| Nightmares on Wax | Carboot Soul / Smokers Delight | |
| Thievery Corporation | The Mirror Conspiracy (esp: Lebanese Blonde) | |
| Morcheeba | Only the older stuff | |
| Portishead | Dummy - Dark but moving | |
| Massive Attack | Mezzanine - My start into TripHop | TripHop |
| Mo Horizons | CD: Remember Tomorrow , Song: "Foto Viva" | |
| Bebel Gilberto |
Tanto Tempo |
Latin |
Top 5 Radio Stations
| Name | Comments | Music Style |
|---|---|---|
| Groove Salad by Soma FM | The coolest WebRadio I know | |
| Lounge-Radio.com | "Wer hats erfunden?" ;-) | |
| Das Ding | Local Channel, Stuttgart | |
| SWR 3 | The best of the 'regular' stations | Pop (often too 'poppy'!) |
Top 5 TV-Shows
| Name | Who | What's cool about it ? |
|---|---|---|
| Late Show (orig) | David Letterman | |
| Late-Night Show (.de) | Harald Schmid | |
| Polylux | Tita von Hardenberg | |
| zak | Friedrich Küppersbusch |
Architecture
|
Name |
Buildings | What's s special ? |
|---|---|---|
| Frank Gehry | Guggenheim
Bilbao B Vitra Design Museum |
His creativity and ease in evolving new forms and finding ways to actually realize his dreams. Google Link: Exhibition Zollhof more links |
| Frank Lloyd Wright | Falling
Water Guggenheim Museum NY |
Link Google |
| Renzo Piano | Centre
Georges Pompidou, Potsdamer Platz |
|
| Norman Foster | ||
| Daniel Libeskind | The Jewish Museum Berlin |
Links: architecture.com GreatBuildings.com
Top 5 Phases of my life
| Name | What was cool about it ? |
|---|---|
| Today | Do what you like - like what you do ! |
| First Study (Computer Science) | Easy life, everything is *new* ! |
| Second Study (Archictecture) | Hard Times, but it changed my life in the right direction... |
Personal Qualities
|
My Qualities |
Comment |
|---|---|
|
Good |
|
| Commitment | |
| Honesty | |
| Universality | |
| Caring | |
| like to surprise | |
| great cooking skills | |
| Dedication/Discipline | |
|
Bad |
|
| Impatience | |
| restless | |
| Arrogance | |
| not being present | |
| ignoring flowers | |
| 4gets important dates | Alenka is his savior since she will be reminding Ulli about things not to 4get |
| pain lover | |
|
Other Peoples Qualities |
Comment |
|---|---|
|
What I like |
|
| "deep" not superficial people/thinkers | |
| people from Sweden/Slovenia | |
| genuine | |
|
What I dislike |
|
| Schnuppern | |
| crowds | |
| red traffic lights | |
| "Schlangen" | |
| rain | |
| hysterical female laughter | |
| the law | |
| annoying citizens | |
| static car drivers | |
| schwabish | |
Top 5 Time-Sinks
( Einstein said: "Matter cannot be
destroyed" - I want to add: " ... nor
can it be returned without receipt !"
Unfortunately Time is not so undestroyable
- These things make time _very_ relative...)
| Time-Sink | Comment | |
|---|---|---|
| Working on my Web-Page | Sometimes it seems the longer I work on sth., the worse the result looks ... | |
| Watching TV |
Top 5 Sweets
|
Cookies |
|
|---|---|
| Oreos | my Black and White delight ! |
| Hob nobs | One nibble and your nobbled ! - Their slogan is all to true ... |
| Oatmeal Raisin C. | Homemade or from a good shop like HD (see below) |
|
Ice Cream |
|
| Häagen Dasz | Their "Cookie & Cream" is a dream ! |
|
Deserts |
|
| Prekmurska Gibanica | |
Top 5 Watches
| Brand | Model | What's cool about it ? |
|---|---|---|
| Ventura | v-matic | Design Material - a pity the manuacturer vanished |
| Fortis | Flieger Automatic Chronograph | |
| Breitling | Chrono Avenger Titan | |
| Citizen | Promaster Aqualand |
Top 5 Knives (sorry, I just love to collect them ...)
| Name | Model | What's cool about it ? |
|---|---|---|
| CRKT | KISS | Simplicity of design, Weight, finish, quality, Unusal, creative idea |
| Buck | Folding Hunter | The most copied knife in the world, this is the original lock-back knife. |
Top 5 Kitchen & Design Brands
| Name | Model | What's cool about it ? |
|---|---|---|
| Eva Solo | ||
| Ittala | ||
| Stelton | ||
| mono | ||
Links:
Top 5 People
| Who | What's cool about him ? |
|---|---|
| Will Gadd | Not only World Record holder in Ice Climbing but also
Paragliding: I admired him in both sports. The best thing about him is his humbelness and humor: simply a great guy overall! |
Top 5 Places
Around Stuttgart (Germany)
| Place | What's cool about it ? |
|---|---|
| Rothenberg | The view on Stuttgart, the history in the look on the sun going down in red over the city, a bottle of wine, a nice company with you, ... what else do you need ? |
| Karlshoehe | It only takes minutes to get there, you can get something to eat, You can sit in the grass or |
| Birkenkopf | You have a 360 view, you can bring your grill, usually not too crowded |
| Eis-Pinguin's Terrace | Great Ice-cream, nice view on the sunset
over the city, fast to reach, mostly nice people, lots of them so you have a lot to sit and watch. |
| Kloster Maulbronn | |
| Städtisches Lapidarium | Many interesting remnants of a Stuttgart
that was lost in the war ... When you see these pieces you can image that even Stuttgart must have been nice once. |
Worldwide
| Place | What's cool about it ? |
|---|---|
| Annecy FR | A view from the take-off in La Forclaz - and no more words are needed: Lake, Mountains, nice city, what else does one need in this world? |
| Aiguille de Midi, Chamonix, Fr |
If you are there on a day without the crowds, you can enjoy the view to Mt. Blanc, the Gd. Jorasses, Chamonix, .... This is where I decided that staying in Europe is much more rewarding for me than moving to the US at the moment. |
| Similan Islands, Thailand |
Far away from the hectic tourism in the rest of Thailand, this national park sports pure white sandy beaches, interesting large granite boulders and it still has a lot of natural coral reefs for scuba diving. I was there for 5 days on a Diving Ship once and decided that if I won enough money I'd come back with my sailing yacht there and stay there for some weeks. |
| Grand Canyon Rim | The view down there is so extremely vast&empty, that it seems to suck you into the vacuum. |
| Top of El
Capitan, Yosemity, USA |
Laying down at the edge and looking down 1000m straight takes away your breath for some time. Somehow this was much more impressive than Preikestolen in Norway although that one is also quite nice. |
| Monbachtal, Black Forest, De |
Peaceful walk through the forest, nice
little creek |
Top 5 Restaurants
| Name | What's cool about it ? |
|---|---|
| Wielandshöhe, Stuttgart, De | |
| Food Affair, Sindelfingen, De | Unfortunatley not exisitng any more ... |
| Pier 51, Stuttgart, De | Seafood galore! |
Top 5 Hangouts
| Place | City | What's cool about it ? |
|---|---|---|
| Suite 212 | ||
| s'Cafe | Sindelfingen,De | Your extended living-room: drop in and feel at home. It's a tradition since my graduation days ... |
| Tacuba | Boeblingen, De | |
| Pauls Boutique | Stuttgart, Germany | R.I.P. |
Top 5 Websites
| Site | What's cool about it ? |
|---|---|
| Basislager.ch | My favorite place to look for infos for my next weekend trip |
| SummitPost.com | A great resource of info about mountains, a living community of friendly individuals, and a very capable and helpful webmaster ! |
| texthalde.de | Very interesting tabu (=Tagebuch =Diary) lots to laugh, a little bit like Max Goldt |
| der moment | nice flash webdsign - amazing what a complete layman can do in short time ! |
Top 5 Sports
| Name | What's cool about it ? |
|---|---|
| Paragliding | |
| Mountaineering | - Contrast to my everyday life at work. - The solitude & views - Making decisions that really matter! (and don't at the same time;-) |
| Biking: On&Offroad | - My main transportation and training for many years. |
| Motorcycling / Moto-Cross | - Speed! Jumps! Fighting the physical laws with success! ;-) |
| Scuba Diving | - Weightless gliding like in space. |
| Windsurfing | - Fighting the elements with your little board. |
| Caving | - Experience the -total- darkness and how it changes you. |
Top 5 Rock-Climbs
| Route | Area | What's cool about it ? |
|---|---|---|
| Directe Americaine | Petit Dru Cham | Cleanest granite, nice moves, great view, beautiful line |
| O Sole Mio | Capucin, Ch | |
| Le Chemain des Extremes | Sanetsch, Ch | |
| Vertiges de l'oubli | les Vuardes, Cluses, Fr | |
| ? | Verdon, Fr | New rou (right of artificial r. at beg of gorge, new in y2000)te |
Top 5 Ice- Climbs
| Route | Grade | Area | What's cool about it ? |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crack Baby | WI6- | Ch: Kandersteg | A beautiful very long line in alpine environment |
| Repentance Super | WI6 | It: Cogne | The Cauliflowers, Caves and other shapes in this fall are awesome! |
| Hydrophobia | WI6 | Brunnital, Ch | A 'castle' made of ice |
| Eiskoenig | WI6 | At: Renkfaelle | Remote, long, wide wall of beautiful lines. |
Top 5 Climbs I have to finish (for some reason I failed in these routes and I want to finish them)
| Route | Area | Why I failed ... |
|---|---|---|
| Dame du Lac (google) | Chamonix, Aiguille du Midi, Fr | Partner 2 sick and route 2 hard, not enough pro |
| Piranhas (7+) | Wetterstein, Schüsselkarspitze, At | Route to hard, not much pro, too many people in route |
| Toggel | Graue Wand, Near Furka pass, Ch | Not much pro and first tour after the winter in the gym |
Top 5 Outdoor Gear
| Article | What's cool about it ? |
|---|---|
| Tent: Bibler I-Tent | Light, rugged, yellow ;-) |
Top 5 ?
| Item | Why ? |
|---|---|
|
Positive |
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| Commitment | |
| Creativity | |
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Negative |
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| Impatience | |
| Intolerance | |
Top 5 ?
| Name | Area | What's cool about it ? |
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| Name | Area | What's cool about it ? |
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