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April 16, 2006
Frohe Ostern / Happy Easter
Ein Ostergruss von unserem Tim zumindest an alle deutschsprachigen Leser ;)
Everybody else: Happy Easter! (so how exactly was the resurrection linked to egg-laying bunnies?)
Posted by marco at 10:55 AM | Comments (0)
April 9, 2006
Nato Speller
For the life of me, I can't remember all those phonetic alphabet words, when I need them on the phone to spell something over a bad line (or because people don't understand my accent).
ALPHA, BRAVO, CHARLIE, DELTA, ECHO, FOXTROT, GOLF, HOTEL, INDIA, JULIET, KILO, LIMA, MIKE, NOVEMBER, OSCAR, PAPA, QUEBEC, ROMEO, SIERRA, TANGO, UNIFORM, VICTOR, WHISKY, X-RAY, YANKEE, ZULU
To avoid this problem in the future, here is a JavaScript speller for my convenience.
Posted by marco at 9:46 PM | Comments (1)
April 4, 2006
Related links from Google
I'm checking out one of Google's newest features, Related Links. Sometimes these little automated searches produce funny results ;)
That one time I was writing about how I liked little moles and Google would surface mole trap ads....shame on you, Google ;)
It looks like this:
Posted by marco at 4:45 PM | Comments (0)
April 3, 2006
Prejudice against Germans
It is so hard, living as a German in the US as you constantly have to face the prejudice of the natives, I mean Americans. And companies like VW even aggrevate the situation!
Anyway, prejudice number one is: All Germans love David Hasselhoff.
Let me confess: I did like him.... when I was about 12 years old... I did watch Knight Rider. OK, I thought KIT was way cooler then Michael. But as soon as I heard him singing, that was over! Now look at this clip (70sec) from E!'s The Soup:
Flash or Windows Media (3MB).
If you didn't catch that, the "German" says Danke Schön, Hassel-Off!
Here is a nother site dealing with predjudice about Germany: The truth about Germany
Posted by marco at 11:16 PM | Comments (0)