May 9th, 2009

Badische Meile

Today is the day of the Badische Meile in Karlsruhe. This is an 8.88889 km run throughout the city of Karlsruhe. The distance is quite manageable; I haven’t run in some time but I have been on the bicycle a few times lately so I hope that I will be fit enough to do [...]

May 7th, 2009

When and Where to see Nine Inch Nails

Dear Internet:

I need your advise. Nine Inch Nails is touring Europe this summer and it the so-called “final tour”; at the very least, it should be the last tour NIN will do for a while. So I would like to see them.

Luckily, Europe is relatively small so I have a few options. [...]

March 31st, 2009

The Food Bank

Ladies and Gentlemen, please let me take a minute to write to you about the Food Bank.

The food bank helps people–families; children–get basic food supplies in the case of emergency and desperate need. In Ottawa thousands of people rely on the food bank every month, and in your local city I’m sure the [...]

March 22nd, 2009

RTF Badische Eröffnungsfahrt

Two pieces of whole-wheat toast with peanut butter; two hard-boiled eggs; one banana; three glasses of water; and, one glass of milk. Not a terribly unusual or different breakfast, but one that precedes something that is a bit extraordinary. Today I am participating in my first RTF, a distance bicycle tour.

The Badische Eröffnungsfahrt [...]

March 7th, 2009

Buying Votes with Fortune Cookies

It is municipal election time here in the city of Waldbronn. For some time now I’ve seen the faces of Herald Erhler and Franz Masino on signs and posters scattered about town. Based purely on the photos and design of the flyers I think Masino is my preferred candidate, not that I can vote.

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February 8th, 2009

“I Feel Like I Look Ten Years Younger”

“I feel like I look ten years younger.” It’s not me saying this–it’s my web log.

Some of my eldest readers might remember a time when I was using bBlog to publish my web log, using the default theme. Eventually I found a theme very similar to the theme I use today, only with [...]