Oliver in Seattle

Oliver is in Seattle. He wonders where his readers are. I don’t know about the others, but I’m right here, and I read your posts. And I enjoyed the photos, too, by the way!

The link from Dave should get you quite a few hits, I guess!

PapaScott loses a hat at Dodenhof

Scott and Frauke went to Dodenhof in search of a crib for Christopher. Seems like they were not successful. Lost a hat and bought only some socks.

I have been to Dodenhof many times. It’s less than half an hour by car from where my parents live (and where I used to live until I was 19). I bought some furniture there when I moved to Hannover, but I’ve never tried to buy a crib there, of course.

I always marvel at the license plates of the cars in the Dodenhof parking lot. It seems people come from all over Lower Saxony, Bremen and Hamburg. Is it really worth the long drive?

Some authors on the web

I spent some time on the web looking for authors yesterday. Here’s what I found:

• Rohinton Mistry
• The J.R.R. Tokien Information Page and the Tokien Page of the University of Toledo Libraries, from whose page I got the beautiful picture.
• Tad Williams (More links about Tad Williams can be found on my Links Page.)
• Elizabeth George
• Ken Follett
• John Irving
• Douglas Coupland
• Douglas Adams, and his Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

Excerpt from ‘Valinor’ by Ted Nasmith

Autoren im Web

In den letzten Tagen habe ich die Sites einiger Autoren im Web angeschaut. Die meisten sind in Englisch (siehe oben), aber ein paar gibt’s auch auf Deutsch:

• Tad Williams (weitere Links auf meiner Links-Seite)
• Paul Watzlawick

P.S.: Offenbar funktioniert der Mailserver der Uni Bonn heute nicht. Daher bekomme ich momentan keine Emails… Sorry!

A birthday (almost) each day, it seem…

Happy Birthday to Craig Jensen over at BookNotes!

Piano Man

For two days now, I’ve been permanently listening to Billy Joel‘s new CD 2000 Years – The Millennium Concert. I just love it!

I’d really like to see him live. I went to one of the concerts of the Face to Face Tour he did in 1998 together with Elton John. But unfortunately, he had an inflammation of the vocal chords and wasn’t able to perform in Düsseldorf, so Elton John had to do the show alone. What a pity! I mean, of course he was great, but it would have been even better to hear those two great musicians perform together.

Piano Man

Schon seit zwei Tagen höre ich ununterbrochen Billy Joels neue CD 2000 Years – The Millennium Concert. Einfach gut!

Ich würde ihn sehr gerne mal live spielen sehen und hören. Im vorletzten Jahr war ich bei dem Konzert in Düsseldorf, wo er zusammen mit Elton John (Face to Face Tour) auftreten wollte. Leider hatte er Billy Joel eine Stimmbandentzündung, so daß Elton John das Konzert alleine geben mußte. Er war natürlich auch gut, aber es wäre doch toll gewesen, diese beiden großartigen Musiker gemeinsam spielen zu hören.

A belated Happy Birthday! to Kate!!

She got a digital camera as a present. And already she has beautiful pictures from her garden on her site. I’ve been wondering about her garden all the time. Sounds like a real jungle, but looks beautiful. I especially like the flowering maple.

Then why has God put us on earth? To drive us mad. (Voltaire)
Craig Jensen quoted Voltaire in his yesterday’s BookNotes.

André and I went to the movies yesterday and saw Dogma. I’d say Voltaire describes the contents of the film very concisely.

I enjoyed the film, by the way, but I can only recommend it if you understand this kind of humor. The film was allowed for age 16 and above; the Internet Movie Database says (for the US): Rated R for strong language including sex-related dialogue, violence, crude humor and some drug content.

Warum hat Gott uns geschaffen? Um uns verrückt zu machen. (Voltaire)

Craig Jensen zitierte Voltaire gestern in seinem BookNotes-Weblog.

André und ich waren gestern im Kino und sahen Dogma (Link zur englischen Site). Ich würde sagen, Voltaire hat den Inhalt des Films sehr prägnant zusammengefaßt.

Mir hat der Film sehr gut gefallen, aber ich kann ihn nur empfehlen, wenn man diese spezielle Art von Humor versteht. Der Film ist erst ab 16 freigegeben; in den USA wurde er mit “R” bewertet, wegen “Schimpfwörtern inklusive sexbezogener Dialoge, Gewalt, rohem Humor und Drogen” (meine Übersetzung).

Amsterdam

Here’s my Amsterdam Travel Report!

Hier ist mein Amsterdam-Bericht!

Trip to Amsterdam

I’m working on my story. Soon to come…

Where do you want to live?

Zannah had this link to a test where you can find the best place for you to live. (Only places in the USA are available, I think.) It said my number one place would be San Francisco!

I guess that would be fine with me!

Murphy’s Law

Zannah also had this link to a Murphy’s Law site.

Murphy’s Gesetz

Hier ist eine Website mit wer-weiß-wie-vielen Gesetzen, die alle auf Murphys Gesetz beruhen: Alles, was schiefgehen kann, geht schief.

Vier Tage in Amsterdam

Ich sitze an einem Bericht, der demnächst hier erscheinen wird…