Archive 'Generalosity' Category



Witty I

Published on Friday, October 12th, 2007

nouveau méthode en affaires
Found via TheFunniest.info by Randall Munroe.
For the video by Improv Everywhere at You Tube click on the picture …
… or read the whole Aspen Story at Improv Everywhere: We cause scenes.


Multum legere …

Published on Thursday, August 23rd, 2007

The Strand - Supposedly the greatest antiquarian bookstore of the
world, founded in 1927, nowadays storing eighteen miles of books.


Quote III

Published on Wednesday, July 11th, 2007

“Nach meinem Research war ich speziell auf Mais und Weizen bullish (…)” (Hufeisen, Mark, 2007: ABN AMRO marketindex magazin, Nr. 07, S.33.)
By chance I found this sentence in the above indicated magazine while riding the train back home from the University of Bayreuth today. I don’t know why, but I directly had to take a […]


Quote II

Published on Saturday, July 7th, 2007

“Anyone who flaunts a portable phone as a symbol of power is, on the contrary, announcing to all and sundry his desperate, subaltern position, in which he is obliged to snap to attention, even when making love (…)”.
(Eco, Umberto, 1994: How to Travel With a Salmon and Other Essays. London. Original 1992: Il secondo diario […]


Quote I

Published on Wednesday, June 27th, 2007

“Das ist schön bei uns Deutschen: Keiner ist so verrückt, dass er nicht einen noch Verrückteren fände, der ihn versteht.”
(Heine, Heinrich, 1824/26: Reisebilder: Die Harzreise. )
“This is nice about us Germans: Nobody is that crazy that he wouldn’t find someone even crazier, who understands him.”
(Heine, Heinrich, 1826: The Harz Journey. )


Bored with the Internet

Published on Monday, May 7th, 2007

“Bored with the Internet” by Randall Munroe found at his webcomic site xkcd - A Wecomic of Romance, Sarcasm, Math, and Language - also known for his latest approach of a Map of Online Communities.
… in a detour via Savage Minds
… and boing boing.


New Features 2

Published on Sunday, April 8th, 2007

Once again some time passed by to test new plugins for my weblog. Here are the changes:
1) “Link Harvest” by Alex King: to provide a linkroll for my used external and internal links based on the actual linking activity in my posts and pages.
2) “WP-Print” by Lester Chan: to provide visitors a printable version […]


Knut

Published on Saturday, March 24th, 2007

Sorry, but I couldn’t resist. Visit Knut at his blog and see his friends …


“How to eat white sausage”

Published on Tuesday, March 20th, 2007

“Why is Bavaria famous everywhere throughout the world for its Bratwurst?” I ask myself in a previous entry on the Oktoberfest a couple of weeks ago. Not only for its Bratwurst in general but also for its Weißwurst in particular.
The 22nd of February 1857 the beer cellar “Zum ewigen Licht” at the Marien- platz […]


Rallye Allgäu - Orient

Published on Wednesday, February 7th, 2007

“Cultural Rallye for Oldies and Youngtimers from the Allgäu to the Orient” !
Start: Oberstaufen, Germany. Destination: Amman, Jordan(ia).

Rules:
1) Vehicles of twenty years and older.
2) Vehicles of 2.000 Euros and less.
3) Vehicles stay in Jordan(ia) for the good cause or will be scrapped along the route.
4) Entry fee is 111,11 Euros.
5) Nights are spent in tents […]