From the monthly archives:

April 2007

The Movie Meme

April 30, 2007

Taken from Blythe Spirit, leave a comment if you do it too, I’d love to see what everyone else answers. Name a movie you have seen more than 10 times There’s actually a lot of these, but I’ve probably watched “Dave” more times than any other movie. Name a movie you’ve seen multiple times in [...]

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One last product to go

April 29, 2007

I’m coming up on my fifth anniversary of German residency and have pretty much become completely adjusted to living in Germany, but for one exception: I still stock up on Secret Platinum Protection deodorant every time I visit the States. Yesterday, I received the May issue of Stiftung Warentest (a German equivalent to Consumer Reports [...]

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Closer to home than I thought

April 28, 2007

We’ve been back for a few days now, and I will post about our vacation soon, but upon returning, I heard some news that, while not really bad (well, in some sense), has shaken me up a bit. So there is this guy Luke that I went to high school with. We rode the bus [...]

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See ya later, alligator!

April 19, 2007

I’m off for a week of fun. First on the itinerary is a quick stop in Leipzig to chill with Rita for a bit, then on to Berlin, which I miss terribly. Saturday looks to be a jam packed day of visiting, including meeting up with a bunch of my Berlin blogger pals (oddly enough, [...]

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Photos of Tech

April 19, 2007

Vicky H., a Blacksburg resident and my friend of 17 years, takes a walk on the Va Tech campus and includes some very sad and touching images of the mourning.

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Thoughts on Va Tech and gun control

April 18, 2007

According to a Reuters FactBox on Guns and gun ownership in the US, there are approximately 640 million guns in the world, 200 million, or 1/3, of which are in the United States, in 34% of households. I’d originally planned a long tirade on creating tougher gun control laws. I had graphs in here, statistics [...]

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Tragedy in Virginia

April 17, 2007

Due to being sick, I hadn’t turned on the TV once today, so I didn’t hear about the shooting until a short time ago when Rainer returned home from work and told me (in case you didn’t hear either, Gunman Kills 32 at Virginia Tech In Deadliest Shooting in U.S. History). It’s really shocking. I’m [...]

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