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Books & Music

Happy Zombie-Lovin’ Halloween

October 31, 2011

Some gory zombie fun from my favorite German band. Junge (Boy) Junge, warum hast du nichts gelernt? Boy, why haven’t you learned anything? Guck dir den Dieter an, der hat sogar ein Auto. Look at Dieter, he even has a car. Warum gehst du nicht zu Onkel Werner in die Werkstatt? Why don’t you join [...]

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New Kindle and reprint of Echte Deutsche Kueche

July 29, 2010

Amazon.com is now offering their all new Kindle devices for pre-order.  The new Kindle and Kindle DX are smaller than previous versions, have higher contrast to make reading easier, and the Kindle includes wi-fi for $139 and wifi + free 3G coverage in 100 countries (including Germany) for $189.  New features include being able to [...]

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Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee by Dee Brown

May 17, 2006

I finally finished this book and boy, I definitely won’t be reading Trail of Tears. I’m more depressed now than in 2003 when the Iraq war started up and I had to avoid all sources of news for a week. It got a little better towards the end when there were a small minority of [...]

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Immigration and Terrorism

May 13, 2006

A rerun of the previous day’s Larry King Live is shown every morning here on CNN International at 11am. It’s now 1pm and I’m still angry and dismayed by last night’s show [click here for transcript]. Last night’s show involved two liberal talk show hosts debating two conservative talk show hosts about today’s hot topics. [...]

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Early morning fun

May 12, 2006

Two old biker guys rang my bell this morning to tell me they’d be working on the house. I wonder if these guys worked for the complex or if they were just doing something for one of the residents here in the building? Anyway, they put a ladder up in my yard and were installing [...]

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It was the Professor with the candlestick in the library

March 10, 2006

I guess while I’m in a blogging mood I ought to share my new Harry Potter theory. I think there is something very fishy about Professor Flitwick (the charms teacher). Breaking it down, his name in Old English means floating (flit) weaver (wick) – what is he weaving? He is described in an almost excessive [...]

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It makes the world go round…

February 28, 2006

Hey, it ONLY took me ten minutes to get the page loaded so I could write this! (And people wonder why I don’t blog as often as I used to!) I was at Rainer’s work yesterday and downloaded a file I have been trying to download at home (but after 1.5 hours it would always [...]

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