He’s back!

Garret has returned: array is back online!

Glad you’re back, Garret.

I’m sorry I missed the group hug for him yesterday. I certainly would have chimed in!

Sadly, Garret has bad news today about the fire in Los Alamos.

“Andrea’s Book Challenge”

Thanks very much for the links on your weblogs, Sheila, Alwin, Craig and Oliver.

However, I didn’t have a challenge in mind when I posted my list. I just liked Damien Smith‘s idea.

Alwin has posted a list of his Top Ten Alternate Worlds.

I like the term “alternate world” for a book because that’s just what some great books are. From my list, I felt like almost living in another world when I read the Memory, Sorrow and Thorn trilogy by Tad Williams. I read all the books in maybe two weeks, every day from morning till night. I was sad when it ended and I had to leave the world and the characters.

Sheila has a list of Mr. and Mrs. Simmons’ Favorite Books on her website.

Thunder on Thursday

Oliver says it’s likely to be true. I’d say it looks like we’re going to have a thunderstorm in Bonn as well.

Olivers headlines remind me of the story about the Sams. Um, a literal translation seems difficult. This is a children’s book by Paul Maar in which a man observes that every day of the week something happens that has to do with the name of the day: sun on sunday, Mr. Mon visits on monday, Dienst on Dienstag (Dienst means something like work), the middle of the week on wednesday (which is “mid-week”, Mittwoch in German), Thunder on Thursday, free on friday (“freeday”). So when he meets a strange creature on Samstag (saturday), he cocludes it must be a “Sams”. There’s a picture of the Sams on the book cover. (Sorry, the books is not available in English.)

Thunder on Thursday

Oliver sagt, es könnte heute, am Donnerstag, wirklich donnern. Ja, in Bonn auch.

Olivers Überschrift(en der letzten Tage) erinnert mich an die Sams-Bücher von Paul Maar:

Ein Mann erlebt eine Woche lang folgende Ereignisse: Am Sonntag scheint die Sonne, am Montag besucht ihn Herr Mon, am Dienstag muß er zum Dienst, am Mittwoch ist die Mitte der Woche, am Donnerstag donnert es, am Freitag hat er frei. Als ihm am Samstag ein seltsames Wesen (siehe Bild oben) über den Weg läuft, schlußfolgert er: Das muß das Sams sein!

“Andrea’s Book Challenge”

Alwin Hawkins hatte einen Link zu der englischen Version meiner 10 Bücher-Liste. Und er hat sie als Ansporn genommen, eine Liste seiner “liebsten anderen Welten” zusammenzustellen.

Mir gefällt diese Bezeichnung für Bücher, denn genau das sind manche gute Bücher. Von meiner Liste trifft das (für mich) am ehesten auf die Drachenbeinthron-Trilogie von Tad Williams zu. Innerhalb von vielleicht zwei Wochen habe ich diese Bücher am Stück gelesen, von morgens bis nachts. Und am Ende war ich traurig, diese Welt und die vertrauten Charaktere verlassen zu müssen…

The sun

Doesn’t the sun look just cool? (via Times Shadow)

Ten Books

Ever since reading Damien Smith‘s Ten Books list months ago, I’ve wanted to create my own list. And here it is, finally!

Okay, it’s not really ten books, but maybe fifteen or so, depending on how you count them. For example, I’ve chosen to count The Lord of the Rings as one book, although most editions come in three parts. My list is a “Get 50% plus for free!” package.

Damien said that books are supposed to say something about the reader. It is for you now to decide whether my list tells you something new about me…

While working on this list, I realized that I’ve read most of my favorite books in English. I wonder if that means something?!

Zehn Bücher

Seit ich vor einigen Monaten auf Damien Smiths Site, Indiawest, die Liste seiner 10 Bücher gesehen habe, wollte ich auch so eine Liste der Bücher zusammenstellen, die ich am liebsten gelesen habe. Hier ist sie!

Na gut, es sind nicht wirklich zehn Bücher. Zum Beispiel habe ich den Hobbit und den Dreiteiler Der Herr der Ringe alle zusammen als ein Buch aufgenommen, weil im Grunde eine einzige fortlaufende Geschichte erzählt wird.

Damien Smith hat gemeint, die Bücher, die jemand liest, sagen etwas über die Person aus. Lernt man also aus dieser Liste meiner Lieblingsbücher etwas Neues über mich?!

Die Sonne

Sind das nicht phantastische Bilder? (gefunden auf Times Shadow)

Sad news?

“you have found array. but array.editthispage.com no longer exists. if you are a member of this site, a bulletin will be forthcoming.
“

Is Garret Vreeland taking down array?

That would be too sad!

Unfortunately, I am not a member of his site, so I’ll never know what’s in his bulletin. But I’m interested in his reasons for closing down the website nevertheless.

Craig Jensen comes to Germany

Craig Jensen is going to accompagny his daughter, who sings in the Austin Girls Choir, on a trip to Germany. The choir will perform in Cologne, too. That’s just 20 miles north of Bonn (my current home town), so maybe I’ll be able to go to their concert.

Oregon

Oliver says: “WILL I TAKE MY CAMERA? You bet.”

Okay, Oliver, I heard you. Maybe I should have asked instead: Are you going to post pictures of your trip on The Far Side of My Mind?

But I guess the question is superfluous as well.

Manila Sites’ Updates

Hey! There’s a new Updates page with all the Manila Sites on it.

Will there also be a new Top 100 page? I’m not on the current one. Seems like my site is one of the ones that have been moved to another server.

Dave says:

“Yes, your site was moved to increase performance of both your site and the server it used to be on. Congratulations Andrea, lots of people are reading your stuff. Keep up the good work!!”

I feel honoured!

Hey! Es gibt eine neue Updates-Seite mit allen Manila-Sites, d.h. denen von EditThisPage und Weblogs.

Ob die Top 100-Seite auch erneuert wird? Momentan bin ich nicht darauf zu finden; offensichtlich gehört meine Site zu denen, die auf einen anderen Server umgezogen sind.

Oops, I missed two days! Has this happened before? Hmm…

Oregon

Alwin Hawkins has posted some information about Oregon.

“I am a firm believer that Portland is one of the few places outside of Germany or England where you can get a decent pint of beer. Microbrews are big here (pardon the expression), considering that coffee is almost the regional beverage it’s even more amazing you can find a decent hefeweizen…”

Good to hear that – I like a cool hefeweizen on a hot day. But I’m afraid it wouldn’t lure André to Oregon because he doesn’t like beer.

But of course, we would not go anywhere just to taste the beers. I guess we’d both enjoy visiting the rainforest or watching the whales migrate.

Thanks, Alwin – makes me want to go there right away! Sadly, this is not possible. The students I help with math have their final exam on May 11 – and there’s still a lot of work to do.

Besides, I got my last Schein (the piece of paper saying that I successfully participated in a course at the uni) the day before yesterday. We celebrated with a hefeweizen!

I just read that Oliver is going to Oregon soon. Makes me want to go, too.

Oliver, are you taking your camera? I wanna see photos!

Ups, gleich zwei Tage “verpaßt” – ist mir das schon mal passiert?

Aber ich hatte auch viel zu tun. Meine Nachhilfeschüler schreiben am 11. Mai ihre Abiklausur in Mathe, und bis dahin werden noch einige Nachhilfestunden nötig sein…

Außerdem habe ich endlich vorgestern meinen letzten Schein bekommen – für meine Hausarbeit über Bildung und Mathematik, die mit “gut” bewertet wurde. Jetzt kann ich mich also in die Vorbereitungen für’s Examen stürzen…