Hey all,

Just a reminder that I'm now doing my blogging at http://berlinniversary.blogspot.com/, if anybody cares to follow me on over there. Things I've written about lately ( Read more... )

I've posted a couple times lately on the new blog (http://berlinniversary.blogspot.com/), particularly about the Poetry Rain, a night when 100,000 poems fell from the sky (actually from a helicopter) over Berlin!

So folks, as of now I'm switching my blogging over to my new blog called Berlinniversary (at Blogspot). The next couple times I post there, I'll leave a reminder here, but at some point you'll be on your own to find your way over to the new one (if you want to), so maybe go ahead and bookmark it or add it to your blog readers, or whatever it is you ( Read more... )

This photo album from my recent U.S. trip includes such gems as the bathing suit centrifuge, soccer games in bars (with actual Germans!), friends, cats, sights in Boston and its beautiful harbor, Ithaca, my cousin's wedding and a women's biker convention!


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Just when you thought the one guy couldn't get any more terrifyingly ridiculous or the other any more just ridiculously ridiculous... they combined forces: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad attacks Paul the Psychic Octopus.

Also, this happened ( Read more... )

It's been a while, so I guess you'll get the summarized version ( Read more... )

I just went through some boxes of papers from Oberlin, on a quest for my notes from the two college courses I most often wish I still had at my fingertips: "History and Structure of the English Language" and my private reading with a geology professor about the science of the moon. Those are probably the two arcane and wonderful subjects I most ( Read more... )

And you thought only the South got this hot... Ithaca is apparently now experiencing a heat wave (defined as "a period when temperatures of 90 degrees or more are predicted for at least three days") and our county has issued a "heat advisory ( Read more... )

This is a heads up, folks, that I've pretty definitively decided to move this blog over from Livejournal to Blogger, reasonably soon. I will keep you well-informed when this happens. (I'll at least finish out this current US trip at this address ( Read more... )