Monthly Archives: April 2001

April 30 2001

Playing with words

I just found the Assoziationsblaster, German for “Associativity-O-Blast”.

“The Assoziations-Blaster is an interactive text network. Anyone, including you, is allowed to contribute to the text database. And all the texts inside this database are connected automatically in real time.

You can not browse through all the texts in a linear way. Instead you jump from one text to another depending on their connections, revealing new meanings and associations.

I especially like the Web-Blaster which shows any web page with lots of links. Here’s my site web-blasted.

Random information I found there: The most powerful invention must surely be the book. If not the form, the idea that information could be stored and shared independent of a single person’s memory. So true…

Die deutsche Version gibt’s unter http://www.assoziations-blaster.de/, natürlich auch mit Web-Blaster (meine Site geblasted).

The Lord of the Rings

Imladris is a site with news about the LotR movie. If you’re among those who can hardly wait until the first movie is released, go and have a look! They have all kinds of information and some photos as well.

Link via Garret.

Reading

“If All of Rochester Read the Same Book”: Book sparks student debate, unifies community. Sounds like an interesting project – and an interesting book: A lesson before dying by Ernest J. Gaines.

Link via Garret.

Sad news

Two days ago, Susan’s grandfather died at the age of 100 years. And although I’ve never met him (or Susan) in person, I feel like I knew him at least a bit through a Lake George Diary and other stories.

Our thoughts are with you and your family, Susan.

Endspurt

André posted photos from the last three days of his trip to Cornwall and tells about his journey home.

US National Parks

I’m looking for a book about all the National Parks in the USA. It should be an overview of all the parks with descriptions and some facts about the size and location of the parks, when to go, what to do there etc. I’ve searched several online bookstores and looked at the National Park Service site as well, but all I found was the National Geographic’s Guide to the National Parks of the United States (a newer version of which is available from Amazon). Maybe you could help me out?

Do you know this book, and can you recommend it? Or do you know another book about the National Parks that’s worth checking out? Your recommendations in the discussion group or via email will be greatly appreciated!

April 29 2001

More photos

André posted four pages of photos today. On Moday, April 2, Pauline and André went to the Isles of Scilly, which are very beautiful.

Sunday

The weekend will be over in less than half an hour, and I didn’t manage to write anything here, besides pointing out André’s pictures which you’d probably have found by yourselves. I seem to be in a phase where nothing is happening that’s worth posting here… I hope that will pass soon. But not really much is happening here anyway. I’m slowly reading through some of the books I’m supposed to read for my exams in August, and aside from that, I haven’t been doing much. Even the weather has been boring, but it’s supposed to get warmer and sunnier over the next few days. I’m looking very forward to that!

April 27 2001

Trip to England

More pictures over at André’s! These were taken during a rugby game. Irgendwie bin ich versucht, das mit “Schlammschlacht” zu übersetzen, keine Ahnung, warum…

Also, I’ve put together an Index Page for the trip to Plymouth.

April 26 2001

Reisen

USA-Westküste ist eine gut gemachte Site, auf der zwei Reiselustige von ihrer Tour durch den Westen der USA erzählen (Reisetagebuch, mit Fotos) und dazu viele nützliche Tips geben. Auch einen Burger-Test, Literaturempfehlungen und Links fehlen nicht.

Trip to Plymouth

On Wednesday, March 28, 2001, I went back home, but André stayed in England for another week. He posted the photos from Thursday, 29 March 2001 today.