big brother is watching you

I seriously feel a bit paranoid on occasions.. I finally start to be able to read Russian letters... and, what happens?? I now get Russian Spam!! Jeez, wonder how they found out... especially as I'm not a frequent user of .ru domains... Spooky

a flavour of brighton

I will be back...

for some of you, I was - yesterday...
for some of you, I will be tomorrow.
for some of you, it will take me more than that.
but when it is time, I will be back.

if you are bored...

.... play games, feed the world, and improve your vocabulary HERE.

Life is full of surprises

There is this difficult trade-off in life: either you try to never make plans and let everything come to you, but still feel you're not satisfied because there is no goal and aim and only random things happening. On the other hand it seems that, no matter what plan you make up, it is very likely to be crossed by some event that you couldn't possibly have imagined. And this unpreparedness can turn to incredible frustration. In these cases, however, it is lucky if you are able to find that this unthought of possibility opens up entirely new ways to you. It might not be enough to compensate for the loss of your plans though, at least initially. So what is the result of this? I just wonder, if the only way to get by is to make your choice and then see what life offers you and if things go differently to repeat the procedure?

I want a pink elephant!!!

or maybe this?

Mirrors

For a long time, I have been startled by the phenomenon that people I know reacted so differently when interacting with different people around them. Recently, however, I've come to meet or better know some people very different to me and I've come to realise that my own behaviour changes rapidly according to theirs. It is a bit similar to (how we always enjoyed as kids) someone being without voice and wispering and suddenly everybody is talking silently. They still send more or less the same messages but the tone is entirely different. Now I could experience the same thing on myself, and on some occasions I hardly recognise myself, suddenly being more straightforward, softer, more aggressive... Now I just wonder how this reaction is balanced... if it is even, so both characters influence the mood of the situation or if one or the other forces itself on the other one? In a sort of hierarchy of moods or attitudes..? Who is the mirror and who the one being reflected?

Led Zepling - Stay away from haven

or what people do to disguise good music... It is not the first example of nice spelling of music titles but this seemed a really stunning example to how people percieve foreign language texts, slogans and lyrics...
In Germany, recently a survey was conducted to find out, how much people were understanding of the fancy English advertisement lines. The result was - how to put this? - spectacular.
One example is the following article, 'Life by Gorgeus - Leben in Georgien'
As a result of these findings, the trend now seems to move to a re-germanizing of the marketing scene ('Come in and find out').
We'll see how things will continue, just "Kommen Sie rein und finden Sie wieder raus" :) Enjoy!

curiosities

rhodes or rodez? (german)

liebe im internet (wise guys) ok, these are the lyrics of some song, google it on amazon for listening in :)

old joke

Jana kommt zu spät in die Schule: "Entschuldigung, Herr Lehrer, mein Pferd ist auf halber Strecke liegen geblieben."
Kommt Linus, ebenfalls zu spät: "Entschuldigung, Herr Lehrer, mein Pferd ist auf halber Strecke liegen geblieben."
Als Karo ebenfalls zu spät kommt, sagt der Lehrer: "Lass mich raten, dein Pferd ist auf halber Strecke umgefallen?".
"Nein, aber mein Vater musste einen großen Umweg fahren, weil zwei Pferde auf halber Strecke umgekippt waren."