three piece lawn zombie

Tuesday was beautiful and sunny. Wednesday was beautiful and sunny. Today the fog hasn’t quite lifted over my house yet but I predict flawless skies and perfect temperatures. Super sociable couple of days in combination with research meetings and lab stuff and paperwork: breakfasts at Homemade and Saul’s, lunches at Naan and Curry and Jamba Juice, dinners from Cheeseboard and Sushi Ko--notice!! ...

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heavy petting zoo

Sunday I went to a benefit concert for the Hessen Gifted and Talented Children’s Fund, which was Tchaikovsky piano concerto #1 and Beethoven 7th symphony which if you know the two pieces you see that they make no sense in a single evening, and the piano player was too young to have any appreciation of this concerto so he played it clumsily and with obvious mistakes. Also his encore was a Gershwin...

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no more snuggles? [Stuttgart]

Saturday James and I went to the Staatsgallerie in Stuttgart to see the special exhibit of Henri Matisse portraits. It turns out that Matisse was a lecherous and artistic Frenchman who had affairs with all his models and expressed his infatuation by painting adoring portraits of them in between stints as a still life and landscape artist. I regret to report that my absolute ...

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Are there nachos in there, little tree?

This week is Oktoberfest in the student cafeteria, so in their half hearted quest for Community Spirit they are serving beer and pretzels every day at lunch, and at one of the counters they are even serving sausages twisted in a pretzel for bonus authenticity. I also want to publicly recant any time in the past I may have said I didn’t like chocolate, because what I meant was, I didn’t like ...

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Pique nique niche / pic nic area / Pick Nick Platz / Area per el Pic nic [Oktoberfest]

Saturday Hermann and I went to the Römishces-Germanisches Zentralmuseum for their special exhibit on the Koblenz dig, where they found all that armor and had to reconstruct helmets from boxes and boxes of corroded iron chips. It was still warm enough to go to the outdoor wine bars so we did, and bought a German paperback edition of the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (Per Anhalter durch die ...

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Last weekend, Kate and I met in Zagreb, Croatia to continue our Europe-wide research project, which asks the question, "How much wine should we drink in an evening between the two of us in order to (a) keep the conversation interesting, and (b) still remain conscious?" She has written a detailed detailed three-part summary of what we did, with pictures, so I don't have to: Day 1 - Day 2 - ...

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That request just became an order, soldier.

Today I report on an email conversation going back and forth in the Chemistry department. Dear group members, it is not allowed to store gas bombs and containers with inflammable chemicals in our basement. Whoever is responsible for this, please remove it as soon as possible! Cheers Dear group members, because some people had some problems to open the pressure reducing valve at the H-gas ...

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it’s a trick, get an axe! [Samobor and back to Zagreb]

Sunday morning it was San Francisco level foggy while we packed up and detoured through the Tkalčićeva fruit and flower market on our way to the bus station. For breakfast there was coffee with an inch and a half of whipped cream and at the station there was a patient and friendly ticket seller who was very insistent that I use the accusative when asking for roundtrip tickets and corrected me ...

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No Trespassing. Violators will be shot. Survivors will be shot again. [day trip to Vareždin]

Croatia is a chevron-shaped province of the former Yugoslavia that got all the good real estate when they broke up. The two halves of the country are really pretty distinct, with the inland half basically a copy of Hungary in both culture and geography and the coastal half an Adriatic paradise with Illyrian/Roman ruins and all the Italian tourists you can stand. Chronologically from 9 B....

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Dinamo volim te [Zagreb, Croatia]

Thursday late evening I boarded the sleeper train to go to Zagreb, Croatia. I transferred in Frankfurt where I had enough time to get sandwich ingredients at the beer-and-socks Tchibo and to buy a Lonely Planet at the bookstore that always endears itself to me by having all its porn in the “Hobby” section right next to snooty equestrian publications. I had a couchette cabin to myself and read and...

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