From the monthly archives:

August 2005

Mac in Mac

27 August 2005

On vacation I bought an iPod Shuffle. I couldn’t plug it into my old PowerBook, so I had to get a Mac Mini (1.42 GHz / Combo Drive).

Seriously ’santana’ (as in Johan) will be a nice companion to the 500 MHz PowerBook ‘moneyball’. It has some amenities that moneyball lacks, and is small enough [...]

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Wahl-O-Mat

26 August 2005

I can’t vote in the Bundestag election next month, and judging from the Wahl-O-Mat I think most Germans are happy with that.

I’ve said before I wish I could vote for a German greenish kind of liberal New Labour party, and this just proves it. (via Webpropaganda, among others)

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PawSense

24 August 2005

“PawSense is a software utility that helps protect your computer from cats. It quickly detects and blocks cat typing, and also helps train your cat to stay off the computer keyboard.” But what if you have a Tablet PC like Nicole? (via dangerousmeta)

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I don’t think you can blame Noel Gallagher for Coldplay

23 August 2005

“I don’t think you can blame Noel Gallagher for Coldplay”

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Bonjour!

23 August 2005

“Bonjour!” exclaimed Christopher as he came into the living room last night.

“Pardon me?” we asked. “Where did you learn that?”

“On the computer. That’s how they speak in France. Adieu!”

I think we have to control his computer usage more closely.

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Miles per Dollar

22 August 2005

Dave’s Picks:

The Fred Krause Miles Per Gallon is defined as the mileage obtained by a vehicle traveling 85 miles per hour with the air conditioner set on ‘MAX.’ My Camaro got nearly 35 FKMPG. My Blazer? Closer to 20. An even more useful measure is MPD (miles ger dollar), which turns it all into dollars. [...]

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Playmobil Lego Alliance

20 August 2005

Woe is us, our enemies have banded together.

In the background, the remains of O’Hare Airport….

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Backyard Camping

20 August 2005

Karl went backyard camping with his sons last night. On vacation Christopher slept in a pickup bed with his grandmother, does that count?

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Joey’s Three Principles of Money

13 August 2005

Joey’s Three Principles of Money:

More money is better than less money. Money today is better than money tomorrow. Real money is better than fake money.

Seems sound to me…

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Saturday Shopping

12 August 2005

Only Germans would think that the internet is like Saturday afternoon shopping.

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Wir sind ein Volk (ausser Bayern)

11 August 2005

Herr Stoiber, which part of “Wir sind ein Volk!” don’t you understand?

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Want to go for a slide?

11 August 2005

The Airbus plant in Hamburg-Finkenwerder is looking for members of area sports clubs (for example Blau-Weiss Buchholz) to participate in an evacuation test of the A380 to be conducted in January. The test is to evacuate over 850 passengers the aircraft via the emergency slides within 90 seconds. Applicants must be between 18 and 60, [...]

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Moving Blog

10 August 2005

My boss will be moving to Cologne this fall, and since he sees weblogs as the solution to all of life’s problems, he has started a moving blog.

Moving is somewhat like sex… Americans do it better and more often. I’ve moved 12 times in my adult life, including cross-country and trans-continental, and 8 times since [...]

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Bad Tickets

9 August 2005

My wife’s company has been sponsoring the local soccer team for I don’t know how many years now, and today for the first time she brought home match tickets. But somehow I don’t think the tickets are very good.

For one thing, the match is against Bayern München, a team they haven’t beaten in years and [...]

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Half Empty or Half Dead?

7 August 2005

BBC: Plane crash off Sicily kills 13

CNN: 23 saved after plane crashes in Mediterranean

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Billboards Without Faces

7 August 2005

Originally uploaded by eris23.

The campaign season started while we were away, and this billboard now stands in front of our local supermarket. “We stand for the courage to wage peace. But what do the others stand for?”

I’m not exactly sure which war the SPD is claiming to have prevented. If they mean Iraq, that certainly [...]

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Bomb. bay. doors. opened.

6 August 2005

Bomb. bay. doors. opened. Susan pauses her account of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima for 43 seconds.

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Vacation Impressions

5 August 2005

Since I skipped blogging while we were in Minnesota, I’ll list my impressions here (and keep adding new points as I think of them).

If you travel to the Midwest in July, you have to expect storms. Thunderstorms cancelled our flight from Chicago to Minneapolis, so we spent an unexpected 6 hours at O’Hare. A couple [...]

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Union/FDP loses majority

5 August 2005

Spiegel Online: Poll: Union/FDP loses majority. Infratest shows race at 48% (Black/Yellow) to 48% (Red/Red/Green), although the day before Forsa put Black/Yellow at 52%.

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We’re Back

4 August 2005

We’re back home from vacation, but we’re still sleeping off the jet lag. We’ll take the Do Not Disturb sign down from the front door tomorrow.

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