Every Friday Dennis Prager dedicates the second hour of his show to the “Happiness Hour”. On October 3rd he discussed “The Missing Tile Syndrome”. What is meant by that?
When you walk into a beautiful new home with fancy tile flooring and notice that there is one tile missing; all you then notice is that missing [...]
17. September 2008 – 21:16
Today is „Men in trees“ day, 22:05 h on VOX. I mentioned earlier that all I know about Alaska is from watching this TV-series ;-) For those of you who do not know “Men in trees”, here is the plot I found on the Internet Movie Database:
A relationship-advice guru, upon learning that her fiancé is [...]
After having installed underfloor heating (no air-conditioning ;-) all over in my house, I would show some of the entrepreneurial spirit that Germany is lacking so badly and employ an assistant (computer specialist, broad shoulders ;-) to do all the technical stuff regarding my blog. Because I do not like doing this. And this.
Update July [...]
And I swear I have not done anything! But apparently it is something Wordpress has done:
We’ve gone through great lengths to make this as painless as possible for theme authors.
Thank you!
You don’t need to know anything about Subversion (our back end magic takes care of all that for you), just login with your WordPress.org username [...]
Spain is the winner of the Euro 2008 and we ended up second. Ending up first would have been nicer, but I am glad we lost to Spain and not to Russia. Talking about Russia: I went to the Wiesbaden Army Airfield for the 60th anniversary of the Berlin Airlift today and had a great [...]
Breaking news: President Ahmadinejad shows his wife! You have to have a look at this picture I found on page 1 of Friday`s BILD-Zeitung (June 27, 2008): “Herr Ahmadinedschad zeigt seine Frau”. Because all you can see on this pic is President Ahmadinejad on the left and next to him a person all covered in [...]
Thomas Schmid über “Das vergessene Wunder der Luftbrücke” und die Frage: “Können wir Amerika verzeihen, dass es uns geholfen hat?” in der WELT, 27.06.2008:
(…) War das nur Care-Paket-Opportunismus? Das war es sicher auch. Und doch viel mehr. Praktisch erlebten die Berliner - und in nicht minder nachdrücklicher Weise die Bewohner der amerikanisch besetzten Zone Westdeutschlands [...]
Tonight is the match of all matches: Germany against Turkey, or Krautland vs Kebapland ;-)
Of course I hope the German team is going to win, but at least, if we loose I get one döner (=doner kebab) and one ayran (=a drink made of yoghurt, water and salt) for free at my favorite döner-kebap shop, [...]
Before this blog gets too philosophical, here are some of the simple things in life that can make you happy:
- eating the first cherries of the year (I love them when they are dark red, almost black)
- strawberry-yogurt-cream-cake - oh, I have some left in the fridge ;-)
- getting email from a friend who has [...]
I find American optimism irresistable. But who knows maybe I have only met conservative Americans so far?
According to studies Conservatives tend to be happier than Liberals. Not entirely new, but here is the beginning of an article I have loved reading:
“Smile if (and Only if) You`re Conservative” by George F. Will, washingtonpost.com, February 23, 2006:
To [...]