September 2009
27 posts
Berlin -> Boston, New York -> Berlin
For €330.01, all together. Thank you Lufthansa.
"The most famous is never get involved in a land...
The Princess Bride is my perfect sick-in-bed movie.
Things for Mac →
This task management program (which syncs with the iPhone app of the same name) is actively changing my life.
Also, I need to make money so that I can buy that...
And, you know, maybe food and shampoo.
What I'm about to admit could be taken as...
Today I played Super Mario World for the first time, ever.
It was a really good afternoon :)
The exhausting tale of this afternoon →
All I wanted was chocolate chip cookies.
I went out and bought everything to make chocolate chip cookies and was so excited and then I got back here and looked at the oven and realized that the knob is broken and I’ve never used a gas stove and I don’t want to start a fire and now my cookie making adventure is ruined so I’m going to eat some Ritter that was supposed to be for cookies and frown.
I'm sitting in a warm bed drinking grape soda
It’s a pretty good morning
Biked to KaDeWe and back
and bought you something special :)
So now I return to frantically seeking employment. Awesome, huh?
This week at Netto, you can get a crate of beer...
Which means that each beer costs €0.18, which at the current exchange rate is $0.26.
Berlin wins.
“We can no longer afford to take that which was good in the past and simply call...”
– Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
“It is about the real value of a real education, which has almost nothing to do...”
– DFW
Eckbert is usually win
But the pasta with pesto that I had tonight was not.
I did, however, have an awesome bike ride to Tiergarten and back today, and will be seeing Philip Glass tomorrow night.
Also, this weekend was excellent. Saturday Adventure Club didn’t let us down, and we re-met a guy we met in March (and whom I drunk dialed in April) and he remembered us, somehow. It was a bigger silly than I can...
booking flights
sup
Quick way to brighten your day: Tom Lehrer's The... →
In less than half an hour, all 22 chapters of...
You could say I’m excited.
A brief conversation, transpired from this link →
Me: Some guy in Florida was caught trying to shoplift three pounds of bacon that he had hidden in his pants J: That’s a really old story Me: It’s new, as of today, on Consumerist J: Then he’s not the first guy to shove bacon down his pants
“Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.”
– Nietzsche
Mac and TI-84+ will not talk to one another...
Am not amused
Really digging 10.6
Especially the way in which screenshots are now saved as “Screen shot (date) at (time)” instead of “Picture (number)”. Fantastic, Apple.
I'm failing at the Internet
On the U1 right now, headed to Schöneberg (briefly) then onto Charlottenberg to pick up mail and my computer mouse from the old flat. Hitting whatever drug store is most convenient. Back home to Kreuzberg.
I’ve been missing in action from the Internet lately, though. It’s interesting - there is a lot going on in my head, but I don’t really want to share it with everyone, and as...