Domain Shuffling

There will be maintainance on this domain over the next few days, so the page might be unavailable intermittently. My ocrana.com email address is currently down as well.

Ding

As of today, I have been allowed to drink alcohol (legally!) for half of my life.

In Germany, that is. In the US, with its backwater, Puritan “You are responsible enough to die and vote for your country 3 years before you can be trusted to handle a glass of beer” I wouldn’t reach this mark for another 10 years. God bless good olde Europe

Hessen

Ganz egal, wie die Regierung in Hessen letztendlich ausgeht – emotional gebunden bin ich aufgrund meines Wohnortes eher an die amerikanischer Politik – aber wenn unverantwortlicher Populismus wie der von Roland Koch so deutlich abgestraft wird wie heute ist das auch fuer mich ein Grund zur Freude. Jetzt bitte noch ein klares Wahlergebnis fuer Barack Obama im November!

R.I.P. Suzanne Pleshette

Actress Suzanne Pleshette died today . She was 70 years old. I would have found out about this by reading the news, anyway, but I’d already noticed earlier today when checking my site stats. I keep getting Google search hits for “Suzanne Pleshette” and “Birds”, which is somewhat unusual When I checked her Wikipedia entry it all made sense…
Just for the record, I don’t have any information (or pictures) on Suzanne on my page. The newpost from last September, in which I detailed my field trip to Bodega Bay and the Birds schoolhouse, mentioned her name, and I guess the search engines associated the name with one of the pictures. I’m not sure where exactly the links is, I can’t find it when I do the search myself. Interesting how those things work… I’ll think of Suzanne the next time we go to Bodega Bay. May she rest in peace.

Flickr Page

I have started a travel log of sorts on Flickr where I’ll upload photos from wherever Victoria and I might have ventured. Check it out! Just for fun, very random, it’s generally in low quality (iPhone camera). But being on a trail somewhere, taking a picture of something cool and uploading it to the net on the spot is kinda cool. I added some pictures from Bodega Bay today.

USA erklaert

By Gunnar gesehen, hier mal gleich fix fuer alle Familienmitglieder wiederhold: USA Erklaert…aeh…erklaert die USA. Genauer gesagt die Sitten, (Wahl)Ablaeufe und Strukturen. Alles ist auf deutsch, ausfuehrlich, und generell verstaendlich. Reinschauen lohnt sich, auch wenn der naechste Besuch erst in ein paar Jahren ist!