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Now for sale!

For sale at Edeka today… I bought Adam.

Up and Running…

The software is installed and running. The templates are misbehaving, as is the style applicator. I’ll mess with it tomorrow or on the weekend.

In the mean time, enjoy this awesome video–it’s very well done!

via stranger slog.

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Upgrading

I am upgrading the software for the blog. Hopefully nothing will go wrong, but if commenting doesn’t work for awhile, this is why.

Teachable Moment

In my educational career I’ve taken several seminar and classes on how to teach.

Personally I never had any doubt about my abilities to teach, but I can remember in many of these seminars that graduate students, both new and old, would ask questions that indicated that the thing they feared most was the prospect […]

This Week’s Odd Request

Every so often my Flickr Photos generate some interesting requests—permission for photos to be put on travel guide called Schmap, a bridge photo for promoting an international conference in Görlitz, as well as permission to publish two photos in the magazine Britain at War.

All of those requests were granted.

And then I get the […]

Weimar News

Considering how little time I’ve lived in Weimar (four years), this city keeps making the pages of The Economist at an unbelievable rate. Take this week: Weimar: Up from the ashes.

My previous homes of Denver, Laramie, and Bloomington, have either not made it in at all, or have appeared a number of times appropriate […]

I am not nuts.

So after getting 75% of the way through assembling my new Ikea bed last night, I realized that I misplaced the metal piece that goes from the headboard to the foot.

It’s right there in step 9: Take the metal bar, pull on it to extend it to the proper length, then put it in […]

Argh!

Despite the fact that I thought I was being careful and methodical, I have misplaced the piece of metal that goes from the headboard to the foot of the Ikea bed.

Don’t Believe

It’s a good thing that I opted against getting my Ikea bed delivered Thursday.

I had two specific activities to accomplish Thursday—one was somewhat important, legally speaking, and I got chastised, in German, because I should have done it two months ago (one must follow the rules in Germany), and the other was a hair […]

The Hunt

It’s been a long time since I’ve watched The Hunt for Red October.

Yesterday I found a copy on sale for 5.99€