Cinema

Has anyone seen Les Rivières pourpres – The Crimson Rivers (deutscher Titel: Die purpurnen Flüsse) yet? It came out in Germany yesterday, and I’m thinking about watching it because I like the actor Jean Reno. He played Léon in The Professional (deutscher Titel: Léon der Profi), and he was Enzo in Le Grand bleu – The Big Blue, which I watched on DVD last night. A wonderful film, by the way. The only strange thing about it might be the ending: I saw the long version (director’s cut?) in which Jacques dives down in the end and meets a dolphin, with which he swims away, but I heard that in the American version of the film the dolphin brings Jacques back to the surface of the sea…

Community

From today’s amount of output I conclude that Garret got over his food poisoning. Glad you’re feeling better! (And did you note I used those neat permalinks? )

And what would you do if your daughter comes home from school and says there’s going to be a shooting the next day? I didn’t have time to reply yesterday…

A difficult question. If you send your child to school, it might be in danger, if you let it stay home, you might involuntarily encourage students to create rumours like this…

Craig let his kids decide, and they stayed home. Since he didn’t mention any shooting, I suppose it was a rumour, and nothing happened.

Trip to England

I moved the photos to their own pages:

http://serendipita.org/england/day2

Yesterday’s photos can be found here:

http://serendipita.org/england/day1

The first day in Plymouth – 21 March 2001

I moved the photos here in order to reduce loading time of the home page.

Synaesthesia

I discovered this article about a synaesthetic woman on a MetaFilter thread in which someone linked to Letter-Color Synaesthesia by Cassidy Curtis. Who in turn linked to the International Synaesthesia Association. Did you know Richard Feynman saw the letters in equations in colours?

I’m not synaesthetic in any way, but I think it’s an interesting concept that some people see music, or hear paintings, or associate letters with colours, like Cassidy Curtis describes. Don’t you think we ‘normal’ people miss something?

I think that of my senses, only smelling and tasting are somewhat connected, but as far as I know that is normal. Do you think that some people can taste words? Smell music?

Community

Hey, Garret did a redesign at dangerousmeta. Now he’s got permalinks as well – cool.

I hear that Audrey and Hal are expecting their first child. How wonderful! Congratulations!

Back home

I returned home last night after my grandmother’s funeral. She was 87 years old, and I’m glad that she didn’t have to suffer before her death.

Thanks for the condolences, everyone. Please understand I’m not going to send/post individual answers. I’m quite busy with catching up with mail, weblogs and other odds and ends.

Right now I’m sorting through mail – both snail and electronic mail – and trying to get organized again. Somehow, a whole month has passed since I finished my thesis, and I have no idea why time goes so fast. But I hope everyday routine will return now, so I can finally start preparing for the exams in the summer.

More news later, when I find the time. And yes, I’m going to post photos from England soon.

Still alive.

Sorry I haven’t updated in a while. My grandmother died last Tuesday, and the funeral is going to be next Tuesday (the day after easter). I’m staying with my parents until then and probably won’t update before I’m back in Bonn next Wednesday.

A happy easter to all of you, and see you in a couple of days!

News Update

André came home last night at about 1:30 a.m.!

And in case it wasn’t clear: when I wrote great news earlier, I was being ironic.

Birthday Boy!

A very happy birthday to you, John! Sorry I’m a day late… I should have remebered that you entered a new decade a year ago.

Weblog Community

What a sad story. I can understand that Patti is upset.

News

I heard great news from Plymouth this morning: André’s flight from Plymouth to London-Gatwick has been canceled because of fog. Instead of flying, everybody is now riding a coach to London. But of course that takes much longer than the flight, so André will miss his flight from Gatwick to Frankfurt as well. He’s been transferred to a later flight but will arrive in Frankfurt at 9:30 p.m. instead of 4:30 p.m. I hope he’ll be able to catch a train to Bonn at 10 p.m. That way, he’ll arrive at home before midnight.

Suddenly, I feel very lucky that my flights were on time last Wednesday.