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Holy Cow I’m White and Nerdy

January 31, 2007

This morning while channel surfing, I landed briefly on Viva, where I found out that Ridin‘ by Chamillionaire was Germany’s #1 downloaded ring tone of 2006. First I thought, are there really enough people downloading ring tones to warrant the constant, unending ring tone commercials on MTV, Viva, and Comedy Central? I guess it must [...]

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Lange Kerls und kleine Amis

January 18, 2007

Hamish over at FiF recently posted a link to this New Yorker article discussing why on average Europeans are getting taller, while Americans haven’t had an increase of average height in 50 years. The Netherlands, as any European can tell you, has become a land of giants. In a century’s time, the Dutch have gone [...]

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My trash floweth over

January 18, 2007

Before our current apartment, we always lived in high density areas where our trash was collected in dumpsters. So I am only now experiencing the true pressure of living in a pro-recycling country. Before, we separated paper, plastic, and glass (brown, green, clear), and took drink bottles back to the supermarket for refund, but down [...]

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Happy New Years!

December 31, 2006

I’ve actually been back in Bavaria for a few days now, and have been feeling somewhat more energetic (I can stay awake all day now!), but my new affliction is that after a few minutes of looking at a computer screen I get a headache. I felt guilty about not posting, so I thought I’d [...]

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Germany not banning smoking in public buildings…

December 13, 2006

So, it was disappointing news this week, but not a big surprise to me. The proposed smoking ban in public buildings was deemed unconstitutional, and the ruling coalition is now looking at ways to implement a partial ban. Many expats in the blogosphere are in a rage over the news, claiming that Germans are so [...]

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Color me curious!

October 11, 2006

I know, I know, I need to stop using so many exclamation points in my titles. But I was just checking my website stats and found that someone at Caltech searched for my name, then made four entries onto my website. It is possible that I know someone at Caltech, so I’m very curious who [...]

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Good deed for the day? Check

September 7, 2006

Well, I didn’t actually have to do much for my good deed of the day. This afternoon an elderly woman rang my doorbell and explained that her husband is ill and desperately needed to use the toilet, which I don’t really think I could in good conscience refuse, so of course I escorted the couple [...]

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