An Exercise in Avoiding Boredom

Sent to me by a friend, presumably a photo of a German residential high-rise. I guess the Euro soccer championship brought this out.

This could, of course, also be an old photo. In this Internet day and age you never know when someone decided to recirculate old stuff for whatever purpose.

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The 2007 SAP Research Report is out… Subtitled: thinking out of the box… Wished they had asked a native speaker. At least my thinking doesn’t come out of a box. It sure is unique! I hope the readers of this blog can attest to it.
If you use Google as an oracle, it shows to be [...]

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As an experiment, I micro-blogged Josef Joffe’s lecture-turned-seminar at the German Stanford Association annual gathering in Heidelberg. Here the live(!) tweets, FWIW:
Josef Joffe turned lecture into seminar in Alte Aula. — 08:05 AM June 07, 2008 from TwitterBerry
Joffe: Does the world need the U.S. as a sheriff? — 08:07 AM June 07, 2008 from TwitterBerry
Joffe: [...]

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The conference I attended in Leipzig, Germany, overlapped with the world-wide gathering of Goth people. Some were quite beautiful, actually, and certainly elaborate, as the photo below shows (courtesy of Wilhelm Schäfer).

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From the YouTube “lost and found” department, a video from Berlin. I’ll spare you the lyrics—you can probably imagine what they are…

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