I don’t know if you’re familiar with the Brain Age game for the Nintendo DS, but it was one of the wishes that I ‘granted’ for myself in the U.S. during our last vacation. (I’d link to the photos here, but we haven’t sorted them, yet. I feel bad about that.) The basic premise of [...]
I was making coffee this morning, and I realized that we have an American fridge. Most Germans, I think, would consider an ‘American’ fridge one of the huge ones that can hold enough food to feed an army for two weeks. . . and where there never seems to be quite enough space. But ours [...]
I just watched a video I thought worth sharing: it’s called “The Story of Stuff” and, yeah, it’s pretty-hippie-anti-corporate, but it’s about the way our consumerism works, and it’s worth watching. I thought I had a pretty fast connection, but the streaming video didn’t work for me, I had to go to the downloads page [...]
“There’s A Forest In The City” sounds like the title of a poem, doesn’t it? You could go a lot of different ways with it: the ‘urban jungle’ thing, spin a cliché around and accuse someone of ‘missing the city for the buildings.’ Or, you could not define it, but play on it. Things like [...]
When the traffic program on the radio reports the radar-cameras (they call them ‘flashes’ in German, because of the flash you see when it’s too late to slow back down), they call them “expensive photos.” (“There are expensive photos on the Autobahn thirteen between exits three and four. . .”) I never really listen to [...]