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Happy Halloween!

Today is Reformation Day in Protestant Germany—celebrating the day that Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to the door in 1517.

Just a few random ramblings: First of all, I’m now a Pastafarian and have been touched by His Noodly Appendage. I’m disappointed that I did not learn about this religion sooner. If somebody would […]

DJ Kai Tracid

DJ Kai Tracid, uploaded by elmada.

Last night, as previously announced, I went to see Kai Tracid peform at DoubleSTRIKE in Erfurt.

Kai Tracid is my absolute favorite musician—as a DJ—who performs trance and acid music (tracid). Prior to my first encounter with a music video of “Life is too Short,” a bit […]

Fußball und Polizei

So, Saturday was Fußball day—I headed to Jena to meet with office colleagues for the football (fine: soccer for the Americans) match between FC Rot Weiß Erfurt and FC Carl Zeiss Jena.

I was told that there would be 600 police in attendance in order to prevent any problems, and based upon my personal observation, […]

Travel Lists 2

Countries I have visited (in order of visitation): United States, Mexico, Canada, Netherlands, Belgium, United Kingdom (England, Scotland, Wales), Germany, Switzerland, Lichtenstein, France, Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, Austria, Luxembourg, Estonia, Finland, Spain, Ireland, Hungary. (19 Countries)

US States not visited: Alaska, Hawaii, North Dakota, Rhode Island, South Carolina, and West Virginia (6).

Canadian provinces visited: […]

Airports and Airlines V

Freshly updated!

Airports I have flown in or out of: US: ABE; ALB; ATL, AUS; CVG; DCA; DEN1; DEN2; DFW; DRO; DTW; EWR; IAD; IAH; IND; JFK; LFT; LAS; LGA; MEM; MKE; MSP; MSY; ORD; ORF; PDX; PHX; RDU; SHV (29)

Non-US: AOC; BHX; AMS; BRS; BRU; BTS; BUD; DUB; EDI; EIV; ERF; FDH; FRA; […]

Two Friends

For some reason, my old friends from UW are on my mind and I feel like talking about two of the most important ones—which by inclusion of significant others, that makes four people.

What’s funny is that the two key people have switched places and roles in my life in part because of the person […]

Phone, Men, Hot Men, More

I just realized that I made a bigger boo-boo than I thought in The Netherlands.

I had put my mobile phone in my pocket and forgotten to lock it. When I do so, it manages to send the last SMS (text message) to a non-mobile phone—fortunately it sends it to my home phone number in […]

RIP

Rosa Parks, 1913-2005.

No Surprise Here.

You fit in with: Atheism

Your ideals mostly resemble those of an Atheist. You have very little faith and you are very focused on intellectual endeavors. You value objective proof over intuition or subjective thoughts. You enjoy talking about ideas and tend to have a lot of in depth conversations with people.

40% scientific. […]

Dan Savage

Dan Savage. Originally uploaded by cpb.

Dan Savage is arguably the most important and influential gay writer in the United States today. I say this having read all four of his books and regularly reading his weekly sex advice column, Savage Love.

I cannot really remember my first distinct encounter with Savage Love, […]