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Peter Debik M.A.
Peter Rolf Michael Debik German by passport, stateless at heart, born November 1970
CEO of Bitpalast® LLC, CEO/CTO of
annoknips LLC Really nice guy
I always reply to all mail. Unfortunately, my mail account is currently populated by two spams per second (= makes the tremendous number of 172,800 spams per day)! If you do not receive a reply within 24 hours, your mail has been lost or filtered. In that case, could you please call or skype me instead?
Sensburger Allee 27, D-14055 Berlin-Charlottenburg, Germany -
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Call center agents have cold-called me and tried to talk me into anything from magazine subscriptions, lottery tickets, phone pre-selection contracts and believe it or not: options in next year's hybrid bread wheat harvest of South Africa. Listen up, agents: The best way to forestall any order I might have placed with your clients is to make a single cold call to one of the numbers displayed above. I guarantee: this will whisk your client's name away from all current and future purchase plans of any pie I have my fingers in.
Everyone else is welcome. 365/24/7 anytime. Friends anyway, but also people that once were or still are at odds with me. If I have ever done you wrong, get in touch with me and openly address the issue. Whether you want to re-establish disrupted ties or only cultivate a friendship, because we might do joint projects in the future (and also if we won't): you are welcome. Be nice to your fellows on your way up, because you'll meet them again on your way down.
Alois-Andritzki-Strasse 76, D-02625 Bautzen-Carolagarten, Germany -
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Viktorgasse 20/2, A-1040 Vienna-Wieden, Austria -
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Look(s) behind the scene - more photos:
From top left to bottom right: first lesson in technology with "uncle" Virnau; a picture from one of the Asia trips my father took; me at Main river (Frankfurt/Main, Germany); snowball fight; as a child I never understood why my dad loved to live in different cultures, today this is one of the best assets I have; my dad had an eye for what would make a good picture; kitchen in Vienna (Austria); next to a comerade of cardboard at Saltborough (Austria); on the slide in the Berchtesgaden Salt Mine (Bavaria, Germany); on a boat ride near the Isle of Ruegen (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, coast of Northern Germany, Baltic Sea); Trabbi (former East German car brand) at a town festival at Görlitz/Zgorzelec (Germany's most eastern city); next to the fountain in front of Herrenchiemsee Castle (Bavaria, Germany); next to the cross on the summit of Jenner mountain near Königssee (Bavaria, Germany); on top of Jenner mountain with clouds in the sky; springtime in Dresden (Saxony, Germany) = windchill factor -150° F; me.
I run the website of a Christian church in Saxony, Evangelic-Lutheran Church Community Bautzen or help them out with designs like for a video wall TV advertisement such as
I also make music, see below for details. Whenever time allows, I love to meet with friends, go out and discover new places and people. I spend dozens of unpaid hours on the phone translating to my clients what their computers really expect them to do and what they don't. And if that all still leaves a few minutes, I love to read belletristic literature.
Some of the best and entertaining stories I ever read are
Currently I bite me through War and Peace (Leo Tolstoj) and Buddenbrooks (Thomas Mann), but both are likely to never appear on a list of my favorites.
Some of the best specialized but yet very entertaining books I ever read are
You'll meet me at CineStar Original at Sony Center in Berlin or at Artis International in Vienna, normally for action-packed movies like and also
And as you may have guessed from the scan of my soul (see below)
On TV: Monk, House M.D., The King of Queens, and Home Improvement are the preferred shows (if I ever get to watch any at all).
I normally don't plan much ahead to see a show event and remember times when we'd book tickets online from a cell phone on the Interstate between Bautzen and Berlin. And if my Canadian friend Stéphanie had never taken me to the Cirque du Soleil Quidam show on tickets of one of her friends who worked in the team, I really would have missed out on something. Thank you Stéphanie for taking me to the Quidam tour in 1998! You did your country a favor :-). These and more I have enjoyed:
In a tradition, friends of mine who affiance or marry get a single from me ;-) I compose, arrange, play, record, and mix it all from scratch and finally design the label, back, and cover. See some samples:
The works don't only reflect the personalities of the couple, but also part of mine, and therefore every track is different. Although they may sound as if a whole band or orchestra plays, every single note and sound you can hear has been written by and played on my own. All come from a single Roland JV-2080 synthesizer with a few expansion boards, including vocals like on "Scatting Dino". Effects (e.g. the "record noise" on the lead-in and lead-out of "The Snow of the Season") have been added on purpose. Some of the following samples don't include a lead voice, please use your imagination:
The ability to create music is owed to my mom and to my dad who have both been opera singers and let me sit on the sill between orchestra pit and audience during performances when I was a child. I also took piano lessons, but only for two years, because that was awfully boring, I hated it. Another major influence has been exerted by Mrs. Bosch, a former music teacher of mine at Erich-Hoepner-Oberschule, as what she really taught was to think independently and have an own opinion.
Nineteeneightysomething I had raised the family record to 9 1/2 plates of salad at Ponderosa's at Carbondale, IL. Maybe customers like me were the reason they had to close that one down :-) Although I liked Circle R even more, but the next Circle R was located in Du Quoin - too far away for a short snack. Unfortunately, neither Austria nor Germany know about the advantages of salad bars ... And even worse: they don't know Godfather's Pizza either ...
So Asia Running Sushi, a wealth of Pizza places in Vienna, and a europeanized McDonald's menu must do. While at home, I love to copy-cat cook and could maybe scare the - virtually speaking - sauce out of McDonald's, cause after a few hundred tries I figured out the recipe for the - now formerly secret - secret sauce of their flagship product. Also, my own "Debik Mac" features a secret sauce and special preparation to the buns that is guaranteed to outperform burgers from your favorite burger store in taste.
However, I never managed to reveal the secret of Pizza Hut's deep pan crust, although I have tried for years, mixed dozens of doughs, oils, flour types, special ingredients from white vine through elderberry juice, and all levels of baking temperatures. Pizza Hut beware - the day will come! By the way, you don't happen to have added some caraway to your minced meat, have you? ...
I love country music, and my favorite Yahoo! Launchcast channels are Soft Country and Today's Country. Favorite songs change often. Currently, these are on my list:
and also from other music styles
Also I like movie soundtracks, from time to time classical music, and also Launchcast's The Coffeehouse channel as well as Karaoke versions of songs, but do not sing Karaoke myself. My favorite radio stations are Clear 99 FM Columbia, MO, and Spreeradio 105.5 Berlin.
Happiness is a thing in
life one can only obtain by
Friends come and go. Enemies accumulate. Although this may be true, I never burn boats and do my best to help my enemies understand me better. You will always get a clear signal from me and a chance to avoid a conflict before we run into it. Use your options. Nevertheless, some people kicked off wars while they could have easily reached an agreement with me. I wonder why?
Thanks God I have more friends than enemies. My friends consider me special and different, a unique brand of my own with a bright and open mind, endless optimism, and Zeno, a fellow student of TU Berlin even once totally overpraised: "Man, I wish I had your brain" - only to score an A+ exam himself. I am thankful for my friends, and when you really know me, you will know that I will never under no circumstances let anyone fall. But: web pages don't blush, so you will need to find out by yourself what the difference between a conventional "friend" and a "Debik" is ...
Ladies and gentlemen, it is my pleasure to introduce to you: Biscuit (yellow, cock) and Clärchen (blue, hen).
Budgerigars are covey animals, so it is best to have at least two of them, that they find a partner to care for one another (= lets you have twice the noise and the dirt). And they love to fly (= lets you invest into an XXXXL cage that was originally designed for polecats, to after all leave all doors open constantly anyway). Biscuit and Clärchen die for lettuce (= makes them stoned, so why not drug them a little ... just kidding, lettuce is part of their normal feed plan).
Clärchen is dumb as a post, flies clumsy liky a Raisin Bomber, and is only survivable by copying Biscuit's habits. I still love her. Biscuit is very smart. Unfortunately, as in human life, characters who are dumber than you still have the say when they're louder or bigger. And Clärchen happens to be a quarter of an inch bigger than Biscuit. Plus, she's the girl, and we all know about the strong influence a girl has on her partner, don't we?
Biscuit used to be shy. On the first day when Biscuit was transported from the breeder into his new home in a cardboard box (that's the least unsettling way for the bird to do it), he shortly peered out of the box and then decided it was better to stay inside. Consequently, he hooked his pecker into the cardboard and virtually hung in there for minutes before the cardboard taste must have been enough for him and he finally splashed out of the box into real life.
Sailing boats cruise a golden-blue sea gently while mythical creatures fly softly across lush meadows where flowers and plants blend into a silver-sparkling waterfall as if God had painted a rainbow of feelings on a canvas made of copper. On the shore where I rest on a gray wooden bench that has a brass plate with the words "Sponsored by the Spirit of the Past, the Present, and the Future" nailed to one of the top battens, despite friends are with me I feel yet lonely and am hiding a secret, that my heart has been lost way back to an angel from the South of a foreign land in a never ending dream who has among all and through the years remained the only one to ever touch my soul truly and deeply.
Isn't it the biggest fear of all, that some day it will be too late to tell the ones, who have crossed your path and mean something to you, how you feel for them?
When I considered to strike up a list to thank those who have influenced my path of life, the list grew into the hundreds and could not be ranked. In addition to that, some persons' names must not be published at all, because otherwise that could perniciously influence their lives.
One of these names should have long been erased from my mind, but for unknown reasons still holds a rank of its own. It does so since decades, and I don't even mind to fly endless holding patterns, although in all likelihood we'll never meet again. I feel blue, really sad about it, because it is the result of a cultural misunderstanding I was exposed to and, which is even worse, of a thorough but dithered decision I made with best of intentions, to not to establish the friendship. The best of intentions soon merged into the worst of results. It undoubtedly was the worst erroneous decision and the major mistake I ever made in my life to not to at least try to build this friendship. It will be wrong to state, that whom I write about here ranks #1, because it is above that: this person is way off the chart. On a scale from 1 to 10 it scores 12. This has been the only one in my life, who could and still can bypass all checkpoint barriers of my soul, and also, there is nobody else in sight, who will ever be able to do the same. A one-in-a-billion. First I thought this was unreal, and it took years and thousands of other people to meet to realize that there will never be anyone alike.
What forms a personality is not the music, food, or activities you prefer, it's how you place the toothpaste tube on the bathroom shelf and interact with others.
Despite it feels as if I involuntarily signed up for a lifetime test of Murphy's Law, I am still grateful to at least know for sure, that I will never need to play a lottery ticket: Because with all the strange odds that met in my life at one time and place and the odds that instantly stood against them, this cannot possibly have left any for other occasions. Some morning at the very moment when night and day kiss "good bye" I'll wake up, yawn, get up, stretch, have some cereal for breakfast, look outside at the sun that is just about to rise, wonder how it can brighten every day seemingly causeless just for the reason it exists, and in this mood decide to finally write a book about a story that will be the saddest drama you will ever read (should it be translated to English).
Also, a list should not include family or almost-like-family, because this is self-evident. If I listed family besides my own family: Charles Spencer, Kathy and Glenn Unzicker, and Dorothy and Phil Schaefer (Phil passed away in 2001 though) fill the top slots of the list.
Just to name a few others, the list would include Marlene Koerner, my U.S. Government and U.S. History teacher, who had a bright and admirably open-minded view on the world and politics which was a very well example for me, and also to Doctor J. Johnson, who was one of the most honorable men I ever met. It would also include Marie Samuel, my former Art teacher, and her husband, who took me on tours. Marie and me met in Amsterdam and Berlin a few years ago again, and I was still unable to express what I owe to her.
Also many many thanks to Shirley Watson and Josephine Kirk. Never ever will I forget what you did for me. As well it will need to include Wanda Spiller and her team, I loved your burgers and pickles, but what I really honor you for is that you did not just do a job, you truly cared for the students. I can't list all the teachers I once had, but a few more names who were really important to me are Becky Clark, Robert Mars, S.-P. Kaselitz, and many more, even remembering Mr. Künemund from Charles-Dickens grade school, who left most of the class with an outstandingly well impression of how a teacher can be like.
The list will also need to include a friend, who actually never stepped into my life like an ordinary friend would, but yet she did something for me I'll never forget. This is Tonya Forbes. Thank you, you have a friend in me, you may not even know why, but I do know what you did for me, and that's sufficient. Also Tammy McGill, who was a good companion, and Shari Mulvany, who had an aggressive argument-by-mail with me on Operation Desert Storm, which was aggressive enough to quit communication, but anyway she belongs on the list, and we'll need to discuss that point to an end again some time. I appreciate your opinion, Shari. Husbands and/or boyfriends: don't worry, this is all just for friendship.
Also Bill Dawson, the Panzica twins, Rocky, Richard Holt and Kevin McCamish should know that they will find an open door at my house. I am also thankful for a friendship with Martin Stout, although, Martin, you and me were so different as anyone could be, plus I know what happened in your life shortly after we met.
"Everything has three sides. One side you see. One side your opponent sees. And one side neither of you see." (Chinese saying)
I would especially like to apologize to Chris Pentecost. I made a mistake when you and your family invited me into your life and a few months later I turned against you. I feel really sorry for that and whish I hadn't done that. It was wrong. Also, I need to apologize to Sarah Woody. Sarah, my decision was wrong, I assume it had an impact on you that I did not intend to cause. I can't ever make up for it. I am really sorry and will do better in next life.
For another friend of mine, Peter Kuhnert, whom I should have apologized to for a fully illegitimate and unreasonable personal attack, it is already to late. He died of cancer some years ago.
From my German, Canadian and Spanish friends it would really be hard to list all of them. I do my best to let you know in person each time you call or when we meet. Some names would be Sebastian Kringel, Jörg Krause, Robert Lux, Heiko August, Stefan Quaschning, Michael Endres and his wife, Stéphanie Poitier, and Susanne Denck.
I also owe to Willi Lissner, who was a great colleague to work with at German Red Cross and a fine friend. Speaking of colleagues, I must list Elke Mayr, and I would also need to list a former line manager who was the best I ever had and cannot be named here, because there might be a chance it inflicted his top executive position he works in today, but fortunately I was able to tell him personally before.
Also I would like to express my deepest gratitude to Sandy Kruspe who has worked as my fugle(wo)man for years and helped me to develope my brands and pave the way for exciting new projects. I'll remember you and get you in as a director once we achieve what we've both started to layout together!
I am thankful to have met Prof. Manfred Krause, my Communication Science professor, who had sadly passed away a short time after I completed my studies. Also, very special thanks goes to Prof. Evelyn Dölling, my Semiotics professor, who is an outstanding personality with an impeccable character and one of the best examples I ever met. Without knowing her seminars I would have never been able to complete my studies the way I did. Also, when I mention these two, I must mention Prof. Ferdinand Braun, my Linguistics professor, who was among all an outstanding and most friendly character. Also, I owe to my former Math tutor, Valeska Naumann, who got me through three levels of "Higher Mathematics for Engineers".
There are hundreds more, and if you are not listed here, it could likely be for the reason that we are in regular contact with one another and I will have told you in person. I am looking forward to share many more emotional and impressive events, talks and experiences with my friends in the future!
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