Wednesday 30 November 2011
cloudy gray times, you are now a thing of the past
catagories: America, economic policy
holly, jolly and echo base
catagories: graphic design, holidays and observances, Star Wars
Tuesday 29 November 2011
parts of speech
H and I used to hold (though the frequency was semi-legendary) German Days, when I struggle to communicate exclusively auf Deutsch. We really ought to get back into that practice, as the struggle and frustration is more memorable when it is more personable than conveying pleasantries with strangers or what I want left out of my meal at restaurants. One of the more challenging grammatical constructs, universally, are the prepositions (Präpositionen oder Lagewörter), owing that there are no set or predictable rules to follow and that the rules, framework of grammar was developed and committed to study long after the Germanic languages splintered.
Monday 28 November 2011
polity
catagories: 🇪🇺, economic policy, foreign policy, philosophy
Sunday 27 November 2011
schwarzer freitag
catagories: 🇩🇪, holidays and observances, lifestyle, religion, revolution
Friday 25 November 2011
neugier or random walk
I tend to think the trending now sections of some web sites are pretty vacuous and off-putting, and whenever I glance a celebrity name, I always wonder who died, and I don't think that embedding a social media ticker, a feed that aggregates all and sundry over buzzwords yields much in the way of insight, an invitation to engage, or a point of departure for learning more. Those, I think, especially gum up the smooth operation of the internet. That being said, I do enjoy peeking at my own daily statistics, which Blogger compiles fairly astutely. Aside from visitors' locations and traffic sources, one also sees (without necessarily triangulating everything, but I suppose that's why there is a word from my sponsors on the side bar) the search terms that brought them there--mostly by accident rather than snare, I'm sure. Strange and funny combinations come up sometimes, and it is interesting to see how the apparent randomness is anything but, so I guess it's a good thing that I wrote about (some of) them and can maybe deliver what they were looking for.
- donkeys in pajamas
- heraclitus meme
- architectural bird house
- heisenberg vanity license plates
- mri scan
- christmas giraffe
- euro eypo
- confusing dial
- cheese venn diagram
catagories: 🦒, networking and blogging
Wednesday 23 November 2011
passivhaus
The poor old headquarters building where I work is a pretty solid structure, having been built to host another military force and having withstood several onslaughts, but is undergoing an eternal series of repairs and improvements that makes me wonder how much of the original construction is left, from flooring to re-wiring to support the paperless office of the future, to constant shuffling of workspaces, to vacillating (schwankend) on whether or not to gut the whole assembly over asbestos in the basement.
catagories: environment, lifestyle
Tuesday 22 November 2011
winner, winner turkey dinner or klatu, barda, nikto
catagories: 💡, 🔭, philosophy, religion