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Friday: Work, Nap, Read, Download, Buffy

Saturday: TAR, Leipzig, Download, TAR

I will expand on Leipzig tomorrow, but here is a brief summary: Leipzig is the best city I have visited in Germany so far, hands down. It is most unfortunate that the Leipzig 2012 Olympics bid was derailed because I think this city has […]

Good Friday?

it’s overcast, cool, and threatening to rain…

is this really a good friday?

Wyoming, Land of Opportunity -ies

Awhile back my sister sent me a notepad that she’d come across.

The notepad promoted the Wyoming Department of Workforce Service (a fancy name for “Labor” I suspect), proclaiming that they “link human and economic development for Wyoming’s future.”

Across the bottom of the pages they had four separate rotating factoids to consider as one […]

Scheiße!

Scheiße!

Originally uploaded by elmada.

It’s taken me a long while, but during my walk last Sunday, I encountered a second area in which the United States of America is, on average, better than Europe.

Dog Shit.

Yup, there is a marked difference between the United States and Europe on this count. In […]

Festive?!

“I can’t defend castration, whether it’s malicious or, you know, festive.”

Savage Love, 11 April 2006

City Dynamics

I often wonder what makes one particular city more livable than another—and what makes a city world class.

For a long time, I’ve kept a short list of five six US cities that I felt were as good as London, Prague, Budapest, and Madrid:

New York City San Francisco Chicago Boston Miami New Orleans (Reflecting […]

Used Underwear News

Awhile back I joined Naughtybids.Com just so that I could see some listings of what was for sale.

Consequently, I still get updates from Naughtybids regarding their policies. Considering the hottest topic on my blog in recent weeks, I thought that the following memo might be of interest.

Based on user comments we feel that […]

Three Weekend Things…

Three Wishes…

Originally uploaded by elmada.

Blue Jeans: Last night I went to Jena to celebrate a colleague’s birthday. He had a party at his flat which overlooks the Jena West-Weimar train tracks. Upon arrival at the party, another colleague noticed something across the room, so she decided to point it out.

“Adam! […]

taxis

Just a random observation: Since moving to Germany I have taken more taxis than I took in my entire life prior to moving to Germany.

It’s 6,50€ (tip included) from the Weimar Bahnhof to home.

Favorite Foods

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Originally uploaded by KakeLP.

At first glance one would think that I like a wide variety of food—and in fact, I do.

But I get into food ruts, and my rut of the month is creamed spinach.

Spinach is one of those foods I really love, but rarely buy. A few weeks […]