Serendipita

Four jobs I’ve had:

1. Tutor for mathematics, English, Latin, and physics.
2. Typist at the Federal President’s office, transferring the information on persons who were decorated by the Federal President (is there a shorter way to say this in English?) from paper to computer.
3. Secretary at the newspaper of the German Armed Forces Union.
4. Teacher.

Four movies I can watch over and over:

1. Blues Brothers.
2. The Straight Story.
3. The Big Lebowski, Fargo, and some others by the Coen brothers.
4. Wallace and Gromit.

Four places I’ve lived:

1. Hetzwege, Lower Saxony.
2. Hannover, Capitol of Lower Saxony.
3. Bonn, North-Rhine Westphalia, former Capital of Germany.
4. Andernach, Rhineland-Palatinate.

Four TV shows I love:

1. Friends.

I’ll have to pass on the other ones since we don’t own a TV. My sister got me hooked on Friends by lending me the DVDs, though.

Four places I’ve vacationed:

1. Florence and Tuscany, Italy.
2. Kenya and Tanzania, East Africa.
3. Devon, Cornwall and Kent, England (two different trips)
4. Western United States (CA, NV, AZ, UT, NM, CO, WY)

Four of my favorite dishes:

1. Tandoori Chicken with aromatic yellow rice and spicy green beans.
2. Murg Jalfraizee (chicken with bell peppers).
3. Curry soup, a favourite at the moment.
4. Tiramisu, homemade by André.

Four sites I visit daily:

1. Too many weblogs, but i usually read their feeds.
2. National Geographic photo of the day.
3. Astronomy picture of the day.
4. Weather forecast for Andernach.

Four places I would rather be right now:

1. New Zealand.
2. Southwest of the USA, somewhere in the desert.
3. Outside in the snow and sun, instead of at my desk.
4. Glen Canyon, before the dam was built.

Four bloggers to tag with this:

1. Daniel.
2. Ralf.
3. Hmm, almost everyone else has already been tagged…
4. … you!

MetaFilter: “Ripple Tank Simulation is a delightful, mesmeric java applet simulation of a ripple tank. It demonstrates two dimensional wave phenomena such as interference, diffraction, refraction, resonance, phased arrays, and the Doppler effect (do try the 3D view). From Paul Falstad’s fantastic collection of Math, Physics and Engineering Applets.”

Excellent, I’m adding the ripple tank – and the other applets – to my collection of useful sites for physics lessons.

California Cafe Cooking Tips: Rice can be your best friend too. Found in this AskMeFi thread on ricey goodness, which includes some yummy recipes as well.