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Imported from andrea.editthispage.com, a Manila site, on Sep 20th, 2005.

Tuesday, June 12 2001

Smile!

Und hier kommt noch ein Link für Jörg, weil er mir so fleißig beim Fremdwortübersetzen geholfen hat: smilie.li, eine Sammlung von Emoticons oder Smilies oder wie auch immer die Dinger heißen. Sortiert nach Kategorien gibt es dort kleine Graphiken dieser Art: clown:    wink:    grins: . Falls Du mal neue oder ausgefallene brauchst…

George Bush in Europa

Hier ein Link, den ich Craig widme: SWR3 Unterstützung für den US-Präsidenten: Europaführer für George Bush. (English translation here.)

Useful

Woerterbuch.at has a collection of links to online dictionaries, from Bulgarian – English to Tibetan – English, and even for exotic languages such as Tamil, Maori and Rotuman.

Und dabei war ich eigentlich auf der Suche nach einem Wörterbuch, das mir erklärt, was Archeget und dihairetisch bedeuten. Das steht nämlich nicht in meinem Fremdwörter-Duden – und leider auch nicht in Langenscheidts Fremdwörterbuch. Kann hier jemand griechisch?

Update: Hurra, der Jörg hat eine gute humanistische Bildung genossen und mir die Begriffe übersetzt. Dankeschön!

Community

Garret’s dangerous meta is back to normal (except for the location, I guess), and he has a new gallery up!

Happy 1st Weblog Birthday to VanEats!

VanEats is “Barb and Roland’s guide to dining and cooking in Vancouver”, but of course, you can cook everywhere else, too. And they have a great collection of recipes. Reading VanEats makes me hungry…

Spruch des Tages

A balanced diet can also be a cookie in each hand.

But don’t forget:

Thou shalt not weigh more than thy refrigerator.

Found at Moving Target (German).

Afraid of foreigners?

The Xenophobe’s Guide to the English ( first half of the book only). In our edition from 2000, I found this:

“English is to communication what Microsoft is to computing: the world cannot do without it. The French may insist that its use in aviation is ‘pending the development and adoption of a ore suitable form of expression’, bu it marches on regardless. One billion people use it; 80% of the Internet and 75% of the world’s mail is written in it, and 2000 million-odd Chinese at any given moment are learning it. India has more native English speakers than England has. The Voyager 1 spacecraft in deep space beyond the solar sytsem carries a message from the United Nations on behalf of 147 countries – in English.

It will soon be possible for English people to travel anywhere in the world and speak their own language without having to repeat themselves or raise their voices. It’s a prospect which makes them feel – in a word which has no exact equivalent in any of the world’s other 2,700 languages or cultures – comfy.”

Monday, June 11 2001

Birthday Dino:
Geburtstag!

Alles Gute zum Geburtstag, Frauke (aka Supermaus! )! Einen schönen Tag – hoffentlich trotz Arbeit!

So, how was the weekend at Westerland? Hope it didn’t rain all the time…

Interna

Ahem… no, my weblog is not turning into another Birthdays.Weblogs.com. I’ve been pretty busy preparing for my exams lately, hence the lack of updates. It is possibly going to stay this way until I finish my exams at the end of November, but then again – maybe not. Who knows?

And now, back to work. Today is Algebra day.

Have a great day, everyone!

Goin’ to the movies

It seems that last week was a week of movies for me. The library recently opened a DVD section. It seems to be quite small, but I can’t say for sure because all the films are never there! I managed to get Lola rennt (Run Lola Run) the week before last, and liked it. The tagline is Jeden Tag, jede Sekunde triffst Du eine Entscheidung, die Dein Leben verändern kann. (“Every day, every second, you make decisions that can change your life.”) And the film shows just that. Three times, everything starts with a phonecall from Lola’s boyfriend. She runs, and because of deciding differently every time, the outcome is completely different from before.

For last week, I got Jackie Brown by Quentin Tarantino and Cookie’s Fortune by Robert Altman. Jackie Brown is supposed to be even better than Pulp Fiction, but since I haven’t seen it, I can’t compare the films. I thought that Jackie Brown was good, though. Very suspenseful and yet funny.

Cookie’s Fortune was a very funny movie, somewhat similar to Fried Green Tomatoes in atmosphere and kind of humour.

I also went to a cinema in Bonn that shows films a couple of months after they are first released in Germany, but costs only DM 4,99 (about US$ 2.50). Actually, I went twice and saw Cast Away (Verschollen) and Malèna (Der Zauber von Malèna) with a friend and fellow student who is preparing for the exams as well. We felt we deserved to do something relaxing on the weekend, so we went to have some ice cream and later watched a movie.

wink: And if this sounds like I did nothing else but watching movies last week, please note that I watched the DVDs late at night after I had finished my work of the day. Same goes for going to the cinema. And you know, one just has to take a break from time to time.

Musik

Gerade lief im Radio wieder Aff un zo von BAP. – Ob es daran liegt, daß ich schon fast vier Jahre im Rheinland wohne, daß mir die Musik jetzt gefällt?

Obwohl ich von zu Hause nur das norddeutche Platt kenne, verstehe ich sogar meistens, was die singen:

Aff un zo ess alles herrlich,

aff un zo och janz erbärmlich,

aff un zo jeht einfach alles schief.

Aff un zo hätt mer verloore,

aff un zo weed mer öm sieh Glöck bedroore,

aff un zoh hällt mer die Uhre stief.

Manchmohl nimmste alles leich

un manchmohl fällt dir alles furchtbar schwer.

Et selve Glas kann morjens halvvoll sinn

un ohvends ess et dann halvleer.

Manchmohl schweb mer en Jedanke`p Wolke

Un steht met singe Fööß em Dreck.

Et kütt vüür, dat mer nit wiggerweiß

un et dann klapp em selve Augebleck, em selve Augebleck.

(Übersetzung gibt’s hier.)

Wednesday, June 6 2001

Andrea home alone

Yes, I’m still alive… and yes, I haven’t flipped the page in three days. Busy with math and physics and pedagogy.

This morning, André left for (Northern) Ireland, so I’m home alone for a week.

Update to André’s post: He just phoned and said he arrived safely and managed to meet with his host. Yay!

Community

A very happy 24th wedding anniversary, Diane and David Singer! Alles Gute zum Hochzeitstag!

Saturday, June 2 2001

Community

Something I meant to post for a week now: Jan-Willem‘s take on the Scripting News/Blogger dinner in Amsterdam:


Questions

1993: What’s your number?

1998: What’s your email?

2003: What’s your weblog?

Channel One

Today I received an email from Ken McNatt, the highschool student who maintains The facts about Channel One. The subject came up almost a month ago, initiated by Garret‘s link to The Phenomenon of Channel One (Kuro5hin).

Ken McNatt wrote that about 40% of all US students have to watch Channel One, and sent me a link to Obligation, Inc.‘s site about Channel One – The Most Controversial Show On Television. Although I have to admit that it is not the best-organized site I’ve seen, they have accumulated a lot of information, including specific examples of advertising that is inappropriate for school-age kids. They also have quite a few links to related info on the web.