TQE | That Queer Expatriate

Expatriate, not ex-patriot: I'm a progressive liberal and queer American in Berlin, Germany. My roots in include 18 years in Denver, 6 in Laramie, Wyoming, 6 in Bloomington, Indiana, and 6 in Weimar, Germany. Sense a pattern? Don't want to leave a comment on this blog? Email scintillatingme at gmail.com, username "elmadaeu"

Easter Apples?!

So I have two questions about the above Easter Apples:

1) Who came up with the crazy idea to put cute cartoon characters on apples?

and

2) Who is stupid enough to buy the apples because they have cute cartoon characters on them?

Oh wait…

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April 12th, 2011 | Tags: , , , | Category: Deutsche Kultur | 2 comments - (Comments are closed)

A Mismash of Many Things!

I’ve had a pretty busy week – Actually it’s been a fantastic week.

I can only think of two “negative” things: First, I banged my leg into a table Tuesday evening –pretty hard—it took me 2 minutes of cursing before I could move again—and it hurt enough to noticeably bother me through Friday. It’s still [...]

January 15th, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Berlin, Diary, movies, shopping, Travels & Moving, Working Out | One comment - (Comments are closed)

Customer Service Woes resolved with Twitter. Part 1: T-Mobile, Germany

I have to say that I am a bit disappointed in customer service, on both sides of the Atlantic. Although I’m not sure I can call the North American issue, “customer service”—but more on that in a day or two.

Meanwhile I have happy news to report: my iPhone 3G is, finally, unlocked.

Unfortunately it [...]

October 26th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: Deutsche Kultur | 9 comments - (Comments are closed)

I ran out of Internet.

Sorry about my silence over the weekend, but Saturday morning I downloaded two podcasts, enjoyed listening to them, and then Saturday evening found out that I had run into my 3GB surfing wall.

I suppose that on the plus side it took me 6 more days to reach the wall in August than it did [...]

August 30th, 2010 | Tags: , , | Category: Diary | 3 comments - (Comments are closed)

Not Gonna Buy It

June 12th, 2010 | Tags: , | Category: Deutsche Kultur | 8 comments - (Comments are closed)

iPhone, I MacBook, but I don’t iPad

Becoming an Apple addict has not been a direct and easy path for me.

My history with Apple products is rough—after Middle School and its Apple computer lab, I didn’t voluntarily touch an Apple product until 2005 or 2006—when I bought myself an iPod.

I really liked my iPod—and the iTunes interface for my music [...]

March 14th, 2010 | Tags: , , , | Category: Meta/Computing | 2 comments - (Comments are closed)

Please excuse my absence.

My apologies for not posting this week. I have plenty of material in my head but my MacBook is sick.

I noticed a couple of weeks ago that it’s fan was loud. Initially I thought I’d wait until I was some place with an Apple Store to get it checked out. I’d even made tentative [...]

January 6th, 2010 | Tags: , , | Category: Meta/Computing | 13 comments - (Comments are closed)

A Window on my Computing

The current hoopla about Microsoft Windows 7 has sent me spinning into my computing history—remembering days of yore.

I realize the history of computers and me is probably boring—and I will probably refer to some computers that some of you (the younger ones) have never heard of.

Enjoy.

Elementary School

In elementary school there was [...]

October 23rd, 2009 | Tags: , | Category: memories | 3 comments - (Comments are closed)

Adam & …

I’d realized from the time I first thought about my trip to Cincinnati that it was going to be a surreal experience. Other than the airport (yea Delta!), I’ve never given much thought to the city—and why would I? Larry Flint, of Hustler fame, had trouble selling his magazine there; Roger Mapplethorpe’s photos were banned; [...]

July 1st, 2007 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Trips | 8 comments - (Comments are closed)