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Television in Deutschland

March 29, 2007

So lately quite a few bloggers have been making helpful posts for the various people that arrive at their respective blogs through searches, and I’ve decided now to do the same. I get a fair number of hits from people looking for either English broadcasts on German television or American shows watched in Germany. So [...]

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Breakthrough!

March 19, 2007

It’s come much earlier than I expected – and from a completely different direction – my first breakthrough with a neighbor. As I was walking down to physical therapy this morning, I ran into one of the older farmers from town. He’s someone I chat with every once in a while (actually, he chats and [...]

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What’s the big hurry?

March 15, 2007

Just back from shopping in Regensburg. First I was looking for a trash can that I liked and that Charlie couldn’t get into. Nothing. How is it that I have been looking for the perfect trash can for almost 5 years now and never found it? There was one kitchen-size trash can at the Baumarkt [...]

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Random thoughts of the week

January 15, 2007

The Waiting GameThere are some benefits to living in a small village, like never having to wait more than five minutes to see your ob/gyn. I LOVE this. In Berlin, Rostock, and Potsdam, the waiting rooms were always jam packed and you could look forward to at least a two hour wait. I haven’t been [...]

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Ch-Ch-Changes

January 3, 2007

So not much is going on over here in Bayern. Well, I have noticed a two differences from my almost 5 years living in the former East (in Berlin, Rostock and Potsdam): 1) Almost everyone immediately recognizes me as American as soon as I open my mouth. Even the kids that come round and write [...]

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In The News: Religion, Diet, Racism, and Sport

September 16, 2006

Faith and Reason?During a recent speech at the University of Regensburg, Pope Benedict XVI made a comment that has inflamed the Muslim world. In a discussion about how faith and reason can coexist, he mentions a religious dialogue that took place between the Byzantine emperor Manuel II Paleologus and an educated Persian around 1391: In [...]

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Alphabetic Fun, aka From A to Zed, aka I am the Alpha and the Omega

July 10, 2006

[A is for age:] 31[B is for booze of choice:] Southern Comfort, but not straight[C is for career:] None at the moment. Statistics?[D is for your dog's name:] Charlie the gas factory[E is for essential items you use everyday] My rapidly aging computer, whose right speaker has stopped working[F is for favorite song at the [...]

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