Picture of the Day Catch-Up: May 2011

Wow, how did I get over a month behind on posting these Pictures of the Day? I guess I was busy tweeting. In any case, here are the Pictures of the Day from May. Enjoy!

May 1: I know I already posted this picture of Cristina, Ruben, and Andy, but I wanted to post the whole month of May.

May 2: This is a huge moth that was hanging from the step on our back porch. It was pretty impressive.

May 3: A medallion of John Paul II that my friend Dario had. Also a star of David.

May 4: Some tasty cookies that I baked up.

May 5: This is the view of Orotina and San Mateo from our house. It's not exactly the best picture of the day, but I like it 'cause you can see the Gulf of Nicoya. Once again, we had a ridiculously, stupidly beautiful sunset here in Berlin.

May 6: It was a long day. I had to plan for my Saturday classes after I got back home from my Friday evening class.

May 7: I had noticed recently that my flickr account was close to 100,000 views (which is nothing, actually, compared to many people who use it). But for a non-professional who mainly puts up pictures of his food and his cat, it was kind of an impressive-looking number for me.

May 8: The day I stop laughing at fat, bug-eyed dogs is the day I give up everything I believe in. I took these pictures on a day-trip to Heredia. We went there with Angela's folks to visit two of her aunts.

May 9: Angela's cousin Luciano came over for a few days to do some finishing work on the Formerly Crappy Casita. We made a little storage area in the back, and it looks great now!

May 10: I was waiting for Angela's class to finish up, and had neither book nor computer for an hour. So I looked through every single option on both of my cameras. I actually learned quite a lot.

May 11: Andy made this delicious dinner. We decided it'd show up as something like the "Fiesta Platter" on a menu.

May 12: Getting closer to finishing "The Stand," my 1,200-page Stephen King behemoth in German (thus the name "Das Letzte Gefecht"). It's good, just really, really long.

May 13: My father-in-law Honorio with a lunch Angela made (complete with a "pollito"). He came over and he and I built a fence in the back and part of the side of our lot. It was hard work, I tell ya!

May 14: Some students in my Saturday afternoon class. I was looking for "S" pictures for my Weekly Picture Project. I should have set a higher ISO to combat the fuzziness, but at the time it looked OK. Oh well. In any case, I've taught this group 4 times, and they're some of my favorite and best students I've had!

May 15: Andy and I watched "The Limey," and for some reason I thought it'd be witty if I took a picture of the title screen with two limes. It wasn't really. Terrence Stamp would probably beat the crap out of me if he knew about it.

May 16: I spent a good part of the day with these two things, unfortunately. In fact, I read 30% of "Red Alert," the book that "Dr. Strangelove" was based on, while on the toilet (I only know this because the Kindle uses percentages rather than page numbers).
You can now make your own joke about "dropping bombs," but it wasn't funny at all at the time.

May 17: "My arsenal." Still not feeling very good.

May 18: This is likely the crappiest Picture of the Day I've taken in the last year and a half. I started the project a year and a half ago, so you're looking at the crappiest picture of the day EVER! In any case, it's a cracked tile between our garage and entry hall. The crack came during the recent tremor, a 6.0 one earlier in the week.

May 19: I was looking for "T" pictures, so I got one with time (and a tripod and a timer!).

May 20: I wrote a review of three albums, so I wanted an image to go with it. This is a reflection of me in my computer.

May 21: A basil plant in our kitchen.

May 22: My sister-in-law Antonieta (Toni). She's very nice, and she came over today to give us some tacos and breadsticks she'd made. They were delicious!

May 23: A fan that we have in our living room. I believe we got it in Madrid, strangely enough.

May 24: These two words are difficult for some English learners to pronounce correctly. Words like these two are called minimal pairs. Thanks to Andy for wearing the bag!

May 25: I read this book at the beginning of the year, but then I wanted to find what Klosterman mentioned about Garth Brooks. I ended up re-reading the book.

May 26: A Bougainvillea plant in our yard. Here it's called "veranera."

May 27: A roasry-type thing in a classroom at the school where I work. During the day there's a 5th grade class there, I think. Definitely no separation of church and state.

May 28: Angela's sitting at the end of this hall after teaching all day. It was a long day, and there was a childrens' fair (hence the used-car dealership-type ribbons).

May 29: Two pairs of shoes that recently got mold. Surely not the last pairs that will get mold before November/December. I hate this rainy season.

May 30: Some underwear. I was looking for "U" pictures this week, but had trouble. The leftover today is underexposed, too, so I guess that counts as another "U."

May 31: This bar stool that we have reminds me of a droid... or maybe it's Johnny 5. Either way, some robot from a movie.

So, that's it for today. Hopefully there was something interesting for you! Thanks for reading, and have a great day!

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Robyn

Lately I've been enjoying Robyn's latest album, Body Talk. I got it as an Amazon download, and it's got some great tracks. However, I'd not seen any of the videos until yesterday, when I came across this one:

I guess her outfit and haircut are a bit unfortunate, but her dancing's actually pretty great, and the song's as good as any Swedish girlydancepop that I've ever heard. So hopefully it'll make your Sunday a bit better!

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This Planted an Idea in My Head

The other day I was reading a bit of Stern.de. It's a German magazine that's sort of a cross between The Economist and US Weekly, in that it has both news stories and occasional pictures of boobs (it is German, after all).

In any case, I saw this article about Wayne Rooney. I don't really care about soccer, football, or fútbol, but in this particular case, Wayne Rooney turns out to be a soccer player in England (not a comedian, as I had previously imagined; that's Mickey Rooney). Nevertheless, the point of the article, and this post, is that Rooney got a hair transplant and put up a picture on the internet. And it doesn't look half bad.

Rooney before and after; Picture from article on stern.de

Now I'm wondering if I might be able to work out some sort of deal like this with my own head. After all, as part of my "Hair Plate Tectonics" theory I originally presented in the year 2002, I've got more hair than necessary on the back of my neck, but not nearly enough in the front. As I explained at an impromptu medical conference on a balcony in Regensburg, Germany, this is due to the shifting follicle plates on my skull. However, a transplant might be able to reverse that effect. 

So, if you know anything about this procedure, feel free to chime in in the comments (unless you're a blog spammer). I suppose that living in a so-called "medical tourism" country like Costa Rica could also turn out to be a blessing, but we'll have to see... Thanks for reading, and have a good one!

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"Denver International Airport" is an Anagram for "In An Introverted Proletarian"!!

I GUESS it could look like a swastika, but I'm just not seeing the penis.

I came across this interesting page the other day when I was reading Gizmodo. It's called "Proof That Denver Airport is one of the Most Evil Places on Earth." With a name like that one would almost expect traveler horror stories, but instead it's got quite a few videos about conspiracy theories related to DIA. It's a good way to kill some time on a lazy summer weekend (if it's summer where you are).

Personally, I've always liked DIA. In fact, my friend Mike and I once spent the night there while in high school, just for fun (Note: those freaking security advisories and "Warning! Moving walkway is coming to an end; please watch your step!" announcements keep going all damn night long). All of which makes me realize that we must have been pretty starved for fun in high school. 

Anyhow, one video talks about how the airport is full of phallic symbols, another talks about the evil blue horse statue with glowing red eyes (although that one is pretty well based on the truth), and there's also a great one with Jesse "The Body" Ventura investigating Masonic and New World Order connections to DIA. Yet another one talks about the "secret" tunnel to Concourse A, which helps travelers avoid long security lines (another point for truth). Still, these videos are worth checking out if only for the entertainment factor they offer. Then again, if these and some of the other sites are correct, come December 21, 2012, we'll all look like dumbasses if we get caught outside during the apocalyptic solar flare that starts the New World Order, while all our government leaders are safe and warm inside their deep underground base below DIA.

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Can't You Hear, Can't You Hear the Thunder?

Yesterday a woman from a land down under smiled an offered me a Vegemite sandwich.

Wait, why does this scenario seem so strangely familiar?

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Four Documentaries

I recently re-read the Chuck Klosterman book Eating the Dinosaur. I did this because I was looking for what he said about Garth Brooks, but then I just kept reading until I'd finished it again. I'm not sure if I can count this a second time on my Sitzbook book-a-week project, but that's beside the point. The reason I'm writing this post is because when I re-read the book, I noticed that it mentioned a few documentaries that sounded interesting. So, I watched them and I thought I'd mention them briefly here on the blog.

Documentary 1: Grizzly Man

This Werner Herzog-directed documentary was 20% interesting, 80% frustrating and strange. Briefly, it's about a guy named Timothy Treadwell, who followed and was eventually killed and eaten by grizzly bears in Alaska. Herzog's voice in the narration can account for a lot of that larger percentage, and the protagonist's personality can account for the rest. The "duh" factor is high in this documentary. In other words, you constantly think, "Well, of course he was killed by the grizzly bears. They're grizzly bears."

Documentary 2: Waco: The Rules of Engagement

This documentary was interesting but disturbing. In Klosterman's book, he mentioned the 1993 raid of the Branch Davidian compound and connected it to Nirvana's album In Utero (The connection is much too complicated to summarize here; you'll have to read the book if you want to understand it better). In any case, I realized that although I remembered hearing about the raid in Waco from the backseat of my neighbor's car on the way to junior high, I never really understood what happened that day. Now that I have a better understanding, I sort of wish I didn't, because the implications are a bit too disturbing to fully realize. 

Documentary 3: The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons From the Life of Robert S. McNamara

Klosterman mentioned this documentary when he was talking about why people answer interview questions. That section of the book is quite interesting, and it piqued my interest enough to check out this movie. I admittedly knew very little about McNamara, but I learned quite a bit about him by watching this. The format is basically McNamara answering questions and talking about his life, including his service in World War II, his role in the Cuban Missile Crisis, and his tenure as the Secretary of Defense during the Vietnam War. There were two parts of this documentary that I found very interesting.

The first interesting part was when McNamara was recalling his role in World War II. His superiors had authorized the firebombing of Tokyo and attacks which resulted in 50-90% destruction of over 60 other Japanese cities. The "lesson" in this section is that in war one must think proportionally; on the screen we see statistics of cities in Japan, along with the percentage that each city was destroyed. McNamara's voice-over compares a few of them, such as comparing Tokyo to New York. Then for each subsequent city, it shows the name of a Japanese city, along with the percentage of destruction in that city. Then the Japanese city's name disappears and the name of a similarly-sized American city shows up. It's a pretty dramatic point in the film, and the fact that it's McNamara himself coming to terms with the destruction makes it even more powerful.

The second part that caught my attention was when McNamara was talking about America's role in the Vietnam War. He says:

"We are the strongest nation in the world today. I do not believe we should ever apply that economic, political, and military power unilaterally. If we had followed that rule in Vietnam, we wouldn't have been there. None of our allies supported us. Not Japan, not Germany, not Britain nor France. If we can't persuade nations with comparable values of the merit of our cause, we'd better re-examine our reason."

Coming from a former Secretary of Defense, especially one who seems to be associated with being the "architect" of the Vietnam War, those were powerful words. Oh yeah, and the documentary's score was by Philip Glass, which is always a good thing for a documentary.

Documentary 4: An Unreasonable Man

This documentary is about Ralph Nader. I can't quite remember, but I believe the reason Klosterman mentioned Nader was because he claimed that Nader was one of the least-ironic people ever. The movie opens up with this quote from George Bernard Shaw:


"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man."

Once that had caught my attention, it maintained it basically until the end. I knew a little about Ralph Nader, and that he'd written the book Unsafe At Any Speed, which gave him a reputation as a defender of consumer rights. However, I hadn't realized that he'd had such a prominent influence in Washington over the decades.

I know that these days, Nader has many detractors, among both Republicans and Democrats (for supposedly "making" Al Gore lose the election in 2000). The documentary examines that part of his life, of course, and convincingly demonstrates that Al Gore did just fine losing the election by himself, without Nader's help (or to paraphrase Nader, Al Gore made Nader lose the election). In any case, I definitely came away from this film with a heightened respect and admiration for Nader. Even if you don't like his convictions, he does seem to stand by them consistently, and he seems to have always been concerned about the general welfare of his fellow Americans. Of the four documentaries I talked about here, I'd recommend this one the most.

So, thanks for reading, and have a good day!

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Weekly Picture Project: Weeks 18-20 (R,S,T)

It's been a few weeks since I've updated my Weekly Picture Project, so I've got the letters R, S, and T for you today. If you want to see a larger version of any of them, just click on the picture. Hope you enjoy them!

R

Ridiculous: This is a fat dog that I saw in Heredia when we went to visit two of Angela's aunts.

Rose: A rose at Angela's aunt's house.

Religions: My coworker Dario had this John Paul II medal, as well as the Star of David.

Really?: My flickr got to over 100,000 views. I thought that was cool, although I know a lot of people have a LOT more views than that. Still, I guess it's a milestone.

S

The Stand: I finally got through this whole book. Check here for a review.

Students: This picture is blurry, unfortunately, but it's a Saturday afternoon class that I've taught quite a few times. They're one of my favorite groups.

Scattered Showers: It's started raining a lot more recently.

Self-Portrait: A picture I took of myself while waiting for Angela to finish class one evening.

T

Time/Tripod/Timer: I took this with a tripod and a timer to reduce shaking. It seems to have worked.

Toilet: I was reading Red Alert while I was sick this week.

Toni: My sister-in-law Antonieta came by and brought us some tasty food she'd made.

Tunes: An extra picture I took of myself looking at the itunes on my computer. I was writing a music review.

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Sitzbook 300-Word Review: "Red Alert"

Before I found it on Amazon.com’s free downloads page, I had actually never heard of this book, which was the basis of the movie “Dr. Strangelove.” In fact, I’d not seen the movie, either, but although I just saw it yesterday, I did have a general idea of what it was about.

This book was a very quick read (I managed to read a large percentage of it while in the bathroom; I’m not sure whether I should be proud or ashamed of this point, but since I’ve been sick this week, I suppose it’s understandable). The main difference between this book and the Stanley Kubrick movie is the tone. Of course, there are a few different plot points (The character of Dr. Strangelove doesn’t even exist in the novel, for example), but whereas the movie is satirical, the book is quite serious.

If you don’t know about the book or movie, it’s basically a story about a B-52 bomber crew in the late 50s or early 60s. The crew gets an order from a rogue general to carry its bomb to its target in Russia, and the main bulk of the story revolves around the efforts by the government to call back the bomber, the efforts by the general to justify his decision, and the efforts of the crew to carry out their mission. It was a little bit suspenseful, but although I know I probably shouldn’t feel this way, the threat of a nuclear war just doesn’t seem as scary in this day and age.

In any case, the book is no longer on Amazon’s free list, but you may be able to find the digital copy for cheap elsewhere. It’s definitely worth following Amazon’s free page, however, since gems like this can crop up now and again.

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300-Word Music Review Hat Trick: Rise Against, Radiohead, and R.E.M.

This, along with all the pictures in this post, are obviously taken of me looking at
itunes, and therefore a bit crappy. I kind of like this one, though.

These three groups have a couple things in common, among them the fact that they all start with the letter R, and they all recently released an album that I’m having trouble coming to terms with. Instead of just thinking about them, I’m putting down three quick reviews and commentaries on these albums. I’d love to hear what you think if you’ve listened to any of these groups’ new offerings.

Rise Against: Endgame

I got this album from amazon.com. It came with a digital booklet, which is basically a PDF of the liner notes. That went a long way to helping me appreciate this album, since I’m normally horrible at understanding lyrics. (Another interesting point from the liner notes: Apparently this album was recorded in Fort Collins? Who knew?) 

Sonically, this album is in the same vein as the group’s album Appeal to Reason. I must say that I really like Appeal, and although that may immediately mark me as a sell-out or a “Lite” version of a Rise Against fan, so be it. It’s never been my aspiration to be a hardcore fan of this group. Where this album differs from Appeal, though, is in its lack of constant musical hooks. All of the songs on Endgame are very competent and sound good, but there are only one or two points where a specific song pulls me in. With Appeal to Reason, that happened on almost every song, and the hooks were different enough to help me separate each song into an individual entity. Endgame flows well from song to song and is better appreciated as a unit.

For me the highlight of this album is a spoken word segment on “Survivor Guilt” (which says a lot, since spoken word overlays and skits are often the stupidest part of some albums). Apparently, the dialogue is from the movie Catch-22, which I’ve somehow never seen, despite the novel being my favorite book. One man says, “It’s better to die on your feet than to live on your knees,” to which the other responds, “You have it backwards; It’s better to live on your feet than to die on your knees.” I think I’ll spend the rest of the day thinking about that, now.

Radiohead: King of Limbs

I’ve had a small email “conversation” with my brother Paul in response to these albums. His comment on Limbs was that since it’s a digital release, maybe it’s not being held to the same standards as a widely-released, conventional album. He compared it to NIN’s Ghosts, saying that they seemed more experimental. I think he was right on.

I’ve listened to this album at least 10 times, and each time it’s been underwhelming. It’s the musical equivalent of Costa Rican cuisine: You’re hungry, so you hotly anticipate it, and it looks good from afar. When you sit down to consume it, it’s not quite what you expected. After all, you’ve tried Mexican tacos and they were great, so what are these weird, fried cylinders that they call tacos? (Track 2, “Morning Mr Magpie,” is the taco.) And what’s with all this damn rice? Plain, white rice (Tracks 1, 4, 6, and 7, “Bloom,” “Feral,” “Codex,” and “Give Up The Ghost,” respectively)?? Well, that depressing, defeatist rice is what holds the meal together. It’s basically filling. It’ll keep you alive if necessary, but it’s not going to do it with any pomp or circumstance.

The possible highlight is track 3 (“Little By Little,” aka a surprisingly tasty tamal prepared only for a special occasion), but it’s so overshadowed by all the rice and the raw, chopped cabbage that you’ve previously forced down, that you hardly notice that it’s good. And to finish, there’s a mediocre dessert (obviously, coconut flan or if you’re lucky, arroz con leche; that’s “Separator,” which is partially only good because it’s got so much sugar added to it, which makes a good contrast to the previously salty offerings).

It’s not bad, but this is surely Radiohead’s most unremarkable album (and yes, I’m including Pablo Honey and Amnesiac).

R.E.M.: Collapse Into Now

Full Disclosure: R.E.M. is likely my favorite band. But so are Guns N’ Roses and Radiohead. Because of that, I’m likely holding R.E.M. to an unrealistically-high standard. Nevertheless, I enjoyed this album, but not as much as I hoped I would.

There seems to be a general consensus that the band’s preceding album, Accelerate, was great. I form part of that consensus. It picked you up right at the beginning and carried you all the way to the end. Collapse starts off strong with “Discoverer” and keeps the momentum going through track 2, but by track 3, “ÜBerlin,” it’s already winded (although I’m willing to forgive it, since I heartily endorse umlauts in almost any form).

Then there are a couple of songs that don’t really stand out. By the time you get to track 7, “Mine Smell Like Honey,” you’re ready for an up-tempo song. It delivers, although the chorus comes out a bit nasal and strange. The following track, “Walk It Back,” literally walks back the momentum that the previous track just spent so much effort building up. Two other good songs follow, and then you’re at the final two songs. The last two, “Me, Marlon Brando, And I” and “Blue” are OK, but they seem to be going for a strong, melodic finish á la Automatic For The People, but neither of these two songs are the type of song I’d ever consciously put on a playlist, because they simply aren’t interesting.

Well, that’s my R.E.M. fangirl rant, so you can take it or leave it. The album is good, but if you’re looking to get into R.E.M., check out Automatic For The People, Accelerate, or even their recent live offering, Live at the Olympia, which has a nice mix of their newer and more traditional sounds.

So, there you have it: three 300-word reviews, a musical criticism hat trick, if you will. If you have heard any of these albums and agree or disagree, I’d love to hear your comments. Thanks for reading, and have a great day!

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Sitzbook: "Das letzte Gefecht"/"The Stand"

I had thought of writing this as a 300-word review, but for a book that can't limit itself to 300 pages, that seemed a bit much to wish for. In fact, this book has 1,200 pages, which I’m pretty sure makes it longer than both the Bible and War and Peace. That, combined with the fact that I was reading it in German (hence the subtitle "Das letzte Gefecht," meaning "The Last Battle/Encounter"), goes a long way in explaining why I’ve not mentioned Sitzbook in a month or so.

So, The Stand. Its plot is basic but intriguing: A virus wipes out over 99% of the world’s population, and the reader follows the survivors in the U.S. as they try to rebuild society. The "good” people group together in Boulder (yes, that Boulder), and the "bad" ones go to Las Vegas. I’ve not read a lot of Stephen King’s books, but this one seems marked by the fact that he really takes his time with the story, although that’s a good thing. He gives us a lot of time to get to know his characters, which helps us empathize with them--and sometimes even with the “bad” ones. 

This is an important and positive aspect of the story, in my opinion. The book never actually calls the “good” or “bad” people good or bad, and that’s why I put the words in quotation marks. It seems to indicate that anyone has the potential to be good or bad, and where we go in life depends on the decisions we make, along with a healthy dose of fate (as seen in the form of the indiscriminate virus, as well as other plot points). 

I had actually read this book about 14 years ago on the recommendation of Shannon, who worked at my dad’s clinic. She said that it was one of her favorites, and I remember reading it very quickly during a trip I took to Germany in 1997. Some parts of the book were still in my head all these years later, which is pretty remarkable, since I often forget things that happened just yesterday. I guess that speaks to King’s ability to describe a scene or to flesh out a character’s personality. In any case, it was a nice, new experience to sort of “re-discover” this story and its characters, since I don’t normally read books more than once. 

Plus, one aspect that I really liked about this reading was the Boulder setting. The first time I read it, I hadn’t even been to Boulder, which is kind of strange, seeing that it’s only an hour away from Fort Collins, where I grew up. But in the meantime I spent about 6 or 7 years there studying at the university, driving buses, and delivering flowers. Having that geographical context and “insider” knowledge was great for me, since it really helped me visualize the story. King used all sorts of real-life Boulder settings such as various streets, Muenzinger Auditorium at CU, the Table Mesa shopping area/strip-mall, and even Eben G. Fine Park at the end of Arapahoe Avenue. Although I guess it’s not universally a positive thing (I suppose it may "kill imagination" or something), having these real-life landmarks sure made a big difference when I drew a mental picture of the story in my head.

In any case, that’s about all I’m going to say about this book. If you like Stephen King and haven’t read this book for some reason, then you definitely should. If you don’t like Stephen King, then there’s likely nothing I can do to convince you otherwise, and trying to force this lovely doorstop of a book on you would only be counter-productive. So, to conclude this review, I’m going to throw out some of the quotes that I liked the best. Obviously, they’re in German, since I read it in German, but if you don’t speak German, then can you really call yourself “educated”? I’d say no. 

Anyhow, here we go:

(From p. 407; Larry Underwood is remembering Glen Bateman’s words):

Soll ich Ihnen sagen, was uns die Soziologie über die menschliche Rasse lehrt? Ich fasse mich kurz. Zeigen Sie mir einen einzelnen Mann oder eine Frau, und Sie werden einen Heiligen oder eine Heilige sehen. Zeigen Sie mir zwei Menschen, und sie werden sich ineinander verlieben. Geben Sie mir drei, und sie werden das bezaubernde Ding erfinden, das wir „Gesellschaft“ nennen. Geben Sie mir vier, und sie werden eine Pyramide bauen. Geben Sie mir fünf, und sie werden einen zum Paria stempeln. Geben Sie mir sechs, und sie werden das Vorurteil neu erfinden. Geben Sie mir sieben, und in sieben Jahren erfinden sie den Krieg neu. Der Mensch mag nach Gottes Ebenbild erschaffen worden sein, die menschliche Gesellschaft aber ganz sicherlich nach dem Ebenbild seines Gegenspielers, und sie will immer wieder nach Hause.

(From p. 612; Not really a big plot point, but at least it slams on Nebraska):

Mit Nebraska war etwas nicht in Ordnung, ganz und gar nicht in Ordnung. Etwas, das ihm angst machte. Nebraska sah so aus wie Iowa... aber es war nicht so.

(From p. 679; Funny because what Glen doesn't want to accept, is exactly what's happening):

Glen schüttelte den Kopf. „Nein, ich kann den Gedanken nicht akzeptieren, daß wir alle Figuren in einem post-apokalyptischen Spiel zwischen Gut und Böse sind, Träume hin, Träume her. Verdammt, das ist irrational!“

So, that's it for this review. Thanks for reading, and have a great day!

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Pictures From Henni's Visit

I've put up a set of pictures from Henni's visit on my flickr page. We went to Playa Tambor with her (and Andy) for a few days, so some of the pictures may be interesting for you. Please feel free to check them out!

Thanks for reading, and have a great day!

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