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December 15 2000

Astronomy

CNN: Four new moons spotted around Saturn. That means Saturn now has 28 moons.

Link via Audrey.

Find your Star Wars Twin

Here’s an online test that determines your Star Wars twin. The cool thing about the test is that cou can take it for yourself and a friend at the same time.

Link via /usr/bin/girl.

Weblog Community

Happy 100th birthday to Susan’s grandfather!

Al’s weblog, ViewFromTheHeart, has now a shorter address: http://vfth.com.

Cool!

Diese Woche in der Zeit

Gesellschaft: Die neuen Lehrer, von Susanne Gaschke.

“Lerncomputer für die Kleinen, Tretroller für die Eltern: Statt zu spielen, sollen Kinder sich heute fit machen fürs Berufsleben. Die Erwachsenen werden derweil immer infantiler. Eine kleine Soziologie des Spielzeugmarktes.”

Schule: Zu lang zu starr, zu billig, von Martin Spiewak. “Mehr Flexibilität könnte den Lehrermangel lindern.”

Internet: Endymion antwortet nicht, von Kerstin Hoffmann. “Die deutschen Surfer haben das Chatten entdeckt – und quasseln und flirten bis zur Sucht.”

“Wenn man sich im 19. Jahrhundert beim Tanztee und im 20. Jahrhundert in der Disco kennen gelernt hat – warum sollte die angemessene Form im 21. Jahrhundert nicht die Kontaktanbahnung per elektronischem Medium sein?”

Und besonders empfehlenswert für alle, die noch Weihnachtsgeschenke suchen:

Diplomatische Präsente: Hier schenkt Deutschland, von Jürgen Rutenberg.

“Die richtigen Geschenke für Freunde und Verwandte zu finden ist oft ein ziemlicher Staatsakt. Der Protokollchef im Auswärtigen Amt praktiziert die Kunst des Schenkens auf höchstem Niveau”

December 14 2000

Reading

“A new book by Tales of the City author Armistead Maupin: The Night Listener. ‘The first novel ever broadcast as a spoken-word serial in its entirety on the web prior to publication!’

Read and listen to Chapter 1 of The Night Listener.”

Thanks for the link, Sheila.

You can also download it as PDF. Oh, and here’s a biography of the author.

Fromme Wünsche

Ich auch. Allerdings hätte ich lieber ein blaues.

Stories

Al told great stories yesterday and today.

“Megan will now provide running commentary of the morning events along with interpretive dance movements; you may assume from this point on that she is closely following the morning action while bouncing randomly off the walls.”

Andre mit Brille: 20/20 vision

Look at my new and improved boyfriend, now with perfect vision again! wink:

More snow

It seems everyone’s got snow. John reported plowing through snow drifts, Garret has 6″ of new snow, and now Susan has snow as well. I want some snow, too!

Oh, and look at Susan’s icicle photos from yesterday! Walking in a winter wonderland

US election

Finally. The election is over, and it seems like George W. Bush is going to be the next president of the US.

Here are the transcripts of the statements of George Bush and Al Gore.

Oliver has some thoughts on the outcome of the elections.

To me, it seems like the whole vote counting business has been made more complicated by those voting machines – which are supposed to make counting easier!

In Germany, we vote by putting crosses next to a name or party on a sheet of paper. After the election is over, all the votes are being counted by hand, and we get the results an hour or two later. No half-punched ballots, no discussion what counts as a vote and what doesn’t, no recounts. It’s that simple.

I think the US should think about using this technique instead of their fancy machines.

December 13 2000

Lunch

Today we had a very special treat – we were invited to dine at the Graugans Restaurant in Cologne. Ah, look at the menu! It’s just a sample, but it gives you an idea on the food, which was really delicious! We all had Crème Brulée (and assorted other treats the names of which I forgot) for dessert.

Thanks again for the invitation! – I know the generous donor is reading my weblog, but he said he didn’t want me to give away anything about the lunch. Which I didn’t, did I?

Wintertime

It’s not yet winter in Germany. Here in Bonn, it is fairly warm, and it was sunny almost all day today. But it is quite windy, and there have been heavy storms in other parts of Germany.

Since there’s no sight of cold and snow here yet, I’m re-reading Susan‘s Lake George Diary from January. Ah, those wonderful photos… They make me want to go and visit Lake George myself.

Look at these photos! The second one is especially beautiful… almost unreal.

December 11 2000

Christmas Shopping

Today, André and I went ‘downtown’ again to shop for clothes. It was much less crowded than it was on Saturday, but we didn’t manage to be as fast as Papa Scott. André, maybe we should go to Hamburg next time?!

Anyway, we’re now all set for whatever dinners we have to attend during the holidays. Sigh!

Neues Weblog

Bei Sean wurde ich auf Bluepixel aufmerksam. Wieder ein Blogger mehr…

Und er oder sie (?) hat mich in der Linkliste. Dankeschön!

Er oder sie? Hm… Entweder, ich kann nicht gucken, oder da gibt’s tatsächlich nicht das kleinste bißchen Info über die Autorin oder den Autor. Hallo, wer bist Du?

The weekend is over

Hmmm… I missed not one, but two flips this weekend. When has that happened last?

So, did you miss me? wink:

I’ve spent four horribly stressful hours in town on Saturday, shopping. No, not for Christmas presents, but for clothes. I do that very seldom, and I’ll make sure it won’t ever happen again on a Saturday two weeks before Christmas.

When I returned home on Saturday afternoon, I was totally exhausted and had a headache, so I spent the rest of the day lying on the sofa and reading the Zeit. In the evening, I talked to my sister on the phone – for three hours! I guess that’s a record. (In case you are wondering: We talk on the phone very seldom; usually, we ‘talk’ to each other via email.)

Today, I spent some frustrating hours on trying to update OzTeX, only to discover that some features I need for my thesis no longer worked, so I had to change back to the older version.

After that, I started experimenting with MetaPost. Lo and behold, I managed to draw a circle and some lines!

I’m working on it, though.

And now the weekend is over, and it’s time for bed. Have a nice Monday, everyone!