Ethan graduated on Tuesday, and is headed off to Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in the fall. I’m a bit sad that my little brother is so grown up! I feel like I missed an important part of his growing up when I went off to college, as he’s gotten a lot more mature since [...]
I definitely wasn’t paying attention when I volunteered to report on the photographer Helmut Newton for my photography class. 90% of his work seems to be debatable whether it’s pornography or art, and I try to stay away from artists like that. Nonetheless, the research for my report has been interesting, seeing in what ways [...]
Saturday I biked out 15km to Wörlitz for the day with Janine. Dessau and Wörlitz are in the “Gartenreich,” a UNESCO park where the rich lords used to go strolling or on vacation or whatever. The park at Wörlitz has a bunch of mansions and churches and little romantic-looking buildings. In fact, everything looks like [...]
Shown at left, I finished the Myst meme (finally – it took me most of a year!) that’s been circling among the Myst fans on DeviantART. I also talked to Ben very briefly today on Skype, it sounds like Swine Flu made it interesting getting into China. We went to ask at the local bike [...]
I shot for my project over the weekend — this week we’re doing “literary portraits” — a scene from Dorian Gray. Here are a few pictures that didn’t make the cut. Herr Berg said that the ones that did were the best of what he saw in class this evening. ^.^ Everybody agrees that the [...]
I find it fascinating how people treat the social networking aspects of the internet. On the one extreme, you have 4chan and Anonymous, and on the other, you have paranoid people who hide from the internet and worry that their name will turn up in a Google search. Since everything is posted on the internet [...]
I found out why Janine is so much easier to understand than 80% of the Germans I’ve talked to — there is a huge range of dialects, full of contractions and mispronounced letters, and every village has a different one evidently. Janine makes a big effort to speak in high German for me, and it [...]
The German government evidently thinks I’m male, according to the ID paper they sent me in the mail recently. Also, buying medicine in German is a bit nervewracking, as things are called totally different things. “Chicken eye” is what a corn is called, and “horny skin” is callus, which makes it a bit difficult to [...]
I went to a square dance meetup thing in our neighbor state to the south, Thüringen, on Saturday evening. I’m not clear what area it covered (probably middle Germany or something), but there seemed to be about six or seven clubs there. It was fun, at least once it got later in the evening and [...]
