Last night was a memorable night. It didn't really start off very geeky at all. We had roasted duck for dinner at a friend's place. It was a fabulous meal with a 2005 Beaumes de Venise with the bird and a 2005 Podio Alto with the cheese. Stuffed, a little tipsy and in a party mood, we went to the Alte Kantine in Berlin Prenzlauer Berg. And this was when the geeky part started. The new version of Shazam had come out and I wanted to try of this version could handle the volumes in clubs. Unlike previous versions, the new version had no problems at all and detected many of the songs they played. So for most of the night (when I wasn't getting drinks, basically) I was dancing with a drink in one hand and the iPhone tagging songs in the other. And to top the whole thing off, around 1am there comes this hot young lady up to me: "Excuse me, but I just can't help it. You look so familiar, I think we've met before." As I open my mouth to chastise her for using the cheekiest pick-up line ever on me, she continues: "you're not working at a Max-Planck Institute by any chance, are you?" Not being entirely sober anymore, that threw me off, so I wondered whether we had met at one of Yoshan's parties? Nope, she didn't know him. But then she said she studied Bioinformatics at my university and it was clear: I teach the neurobiology course for bioinformatics students and must have been her teacher last year or so. Then I lost track of her somewhere in the crowd. Tagging songs with Shazam and getting propositioned by one of your students in a nightclub - can it get any worse? Mmmkay, it would have been worse if I hadn't alrady been dancing with two girls as she aproached me
Anyway, here are some of the songs they apparently played last night: Stop the Clocks (Donots), Hot N Cold (Katy Prry), Disturbia (Rihanna), Rck this Party (Bob Sinclar), Infinity 2008 (Guru Josh Project), Cobrastyle (Teddybears), Jerk it out (Caesars), Temperature (Sean Paul), Seven Nation Army (The White Stripes), Song 2 (Blur), Put your hands up for Detroit (Fedde le Grand), Do it Again (The Chemical Brothers), Allein Alene (Nephew & Polarkreis 18), Don't stop the music (Rihanna), So what (Pink), Foundations (Kate Nash), This is the life (Katy MacDonald), Sex on Fire (Kings of Leon), Mr. Brightside (The Killers), Never be alone (Justice vs. Simian), That's not my name (The Ting Tings).Did I mention Shazam is a very, very cool app?