From the monthly archives:

December 2009

Double Digits!

27 December 2009

Christopher turns 10 today! He celebrated with a breakfast of pancake cake with whipped cream and strawberry jam á la Pettson and Findus and continued with the construction of the LEGO Emerald Night, which took just 2 hours. Next step is to motorize!

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He’s making a list, checking it twice…

23 December 2009

Merry Christmas from Frauke, Scott and Christopher!

As usual I arranged for our Christmas cards for the US to be printed and mailed by cardstore, saving time and postage. The typewriter picture from last February is our favorite this year. Here’s the printed message from inside… nothing new for our regular readers.

We’ve now been [...]

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Bad Translation

6 December 2009

I’ve been in Germany too long to be really shocked by anything anymore, but last night I had to let my jaw drop. Christopher was watching the Disney-owned TV channel SuperRTL, which was showing a Christmas special from the cartoon “Recess”. According to the German dub, this boy was dressed as a “Christmas Tree” (screenshot [...]

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What a Long Strange Trip It’s Been

5 December 2009

A tweet yesterday from Dave Winer reminded me that online blogging service editthispage.com opened to the public on that date in 1999, 10 years ago, thanks to Dave and his company at the time, Userland Software.

Which means that today, a day later (due to the time difference between California and Germany), www.papascott.de is 10 years [...]

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