Funds for Highways Plummet As Drivers Cut Gasoline Use
A report to be released Monday by the Transportation Department shows that over the past seven months, Americans have reduced their driving by more than 40 billion miles. Because of high gasoline prices, they drove 3.7% fewer miles in May than they did a year earlier, the [...]
I thought the heat in Berlin was bad at the end of May and beginning of June, but it was nothing compared to the humidity here in the Midwest. Wow. Running in the morning, softball in the evening, going somewhere in the afternoon: it’s all miserable. In Germany, a long run would cause me to [...]
“Obama didn’t do anything for German unification … That’s not a criticism, but as a result there is no reason to grant him such a privilege.” So says Erwin Huber. Chancellor Merkel has made similar comments about the Obama campaign’s desire to have their candidate make an appearance at the Brandenburg Gate.
Apparently I’m forgetting the [...]
This is a list not of those things I miss most, or of those outrageous things I would wish to have but know I won’t (iPhone, TiVo HD, etc.) Rather, it’s a list of simple things I hope will be waiting for me when I get home home from Germany.
pancake mix
Honey Bunches of Oats and [...]
Precipitate is a pretty nifty new open source tool that makes Google Docs and Google bookmarks searchable via Spotlight on your Mac. The only problem? I tend to find everything using Quicksilver.
Solution: add /Users/[user]/Library/Caches/Metadata/Precipitate to your custom sources in the Quicksilver catalog (or add the next folder down, if you like.) Under source options set [...]
I went to karaoke last night with some friends. Same place I went four years ago with some other friends, actually. Last time around one of the people in my group was a little drunk and serenading men and women up close, and another was very drunk and passed out in the restroom.
This time was [...]
Apparently Berlin is where it’s at. As an American in Europe, Berlin was, if I’m not mistaken, one of the places I could have caught a fireworks display on Independence Day (in conjunction with the opening of the new US embassy, built on the same lot where the US embassy was located before World War [...]
In the past five years I have been home for Independence Day one time: last year. This year, of course, I’m in Germany. Two years ago I was in Kenya. The year before that I was in Germany, and the same goes for the year before that.
So I’m home for July 4th 20% of the [...]
Eating breakfast this morning (and every other morning I’ve been in Magdeburg, really) I noticed Niko’s spoons have a slightly elongated bowl. Unfortunately he only has one type of spoon, so I’m stuck with them. In Berlin the kitchen had a variety of spoons and I’d settled on one type in particular for my daily [...]