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Firsthand account of the infamous finger incident

June 23, 2006

Excerpts from an amusing letter my grandpa wrote to my dad back in 1980 (my dad was most likely in Germany or S. Korea at the time): Dear Daddy: Grandpa is writing this letter for me since I’m injured. I cut off the end of a finger on my right hand. Monday about 3:30 Grandpa [...]

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Brazil v. Croatia

June 13, 2006

Halftime just ended in Berlin and Brazil is leading 1:0. We went to the Potsdam big screen for the France v. Switzerland match which ended surprisingly scoreless (France spent a lot of time not making goals that any other team would actually make, even the USA – well, maybe). The Potsdam big screen It was [...]

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News from around the globe (okay, the euro-american world)

June 20, 2005

What are Germans talking about? Hemorrhaging Money for Homeland Security, a report on the Spiegel Online website reads, “Fear can be a lucrative business. That, at least, is what American companies selling security gadgets are finding out as the US government continues to spend billions of dollars on a variety of different Homeland Security programs. [...]

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First Spain, now Italy and Poland

October 6, 2004

German news is reporting that the coalition in Iraq is breaking up (the article is in German, sorry, I couldn’t find an English report of this – I checked Washington Post, CNN, MSNBC, and BBC News – although CNN did report on Poland, see below). First it was Spain, Honduras and the Dominican Republic. Now [...]

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Man’s Best Friend

August 9, 2004

Today I was quite impressed by a dog, who was actually misbehaving, but I was still impressed. I was waiting to cross a divided street and the dog was sitting patiently next to his family on the opposite side. My side of the street got a green walk signal before the dog’s side, but when [...]

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