Joe's Blög

OK so this will be my last entry using this format for my blog…I’m attempting to switch to a wordpress blog so you can leave comments etc.

So the week ending photo clearout is such:

Share on Facebook

In my continuing effort to learn Italian I watched the movie ‘Delicatessen’ in Italian with english subtitles…It’s a French movie from the early 90′s, and I really really liked it.
So far the Italian isn’t really sticking yet…

Share on Facebook

Two interesting articles I read today…
One on Detroit.
http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=cecbd59f-ab0c-4bd6-9f78-bf9f99cd5c80&p=1

and one on the Lowlands…
http://www.wired.com/science/planetearth/magazine/17-01/ff_dutch_delta?currentPage=all

Share on Facebook

what’s with all the albums lately that are 37 minutes long…this is annoying.

The market is gone and I can now move more than 1 meter per minute…I miss it when it’s gone…sort of…
Probably my last christmas overlooking paulsplatz…this place I will definitely miss when it’s gone…

Share on Facebook

Me: statement statement statement
Berger: OK Wolverine

Me: statement statement statement
Mexico: OK wolverine.

Me: statement statement statement
Phong: OK wolverine.

Me: statement statement statement
Matt: OK wolverine.

I’m so glad the collective pop culture memory of todays youth goes back about 3 months…

the Emperor: Something something something sideburns,
Something something something wolverine…

Share on Facebook

The great burnout of ’08…
So last night there was a fire in the building. Nothing like a little panic to bring the neighbours together…We heard the alarm and then panic as people started ringing every doorbell in the building to tell everyone else to evacuate.
Me not thinking anything of it. Grab my PC, camera, put on fresh socks take my time, and as I come down to the bottom my neighbour says something like ”du bist ganz cool”…I do my usual confused look when I’m trying to translate and he says again in english ”you are so cool”. OK…I was just trying to have a glass of wine and watch a movie…I didn’t realize it was an actual situation. I figured someone just burned thier pizza or something…
anyways the fire trucks arrive and it doesn’t seem like they’re going to let anyone back in for a while, so after calling several people to try to find a place to stay (it’s after midnight by now) Julia and I just got a hotel. A single bed which was not comfy.
we’re back, and I’m not sure anyone else is yet.

apparently someone died…he probably didn’t realize last christmas was his last…so there’s the lesson learned…
Party like it’s 1999, be excellent to one another, what’s so great about peace, love and understanding?
Enjoy your friends and family like they won’t be here next year this time…

Share on Facebook

Saffa on my sideburns: I don’t really mind them
Matt on my sideburns: Those are some mighty choppers you have going on there…
Kat on my sideburns: what the hell is this? (touching face
Pete: I’m more of an accordion type of guy…

Share on Facebook

I obviously didn’t get my copy of teen Beat this month…

Bike was stolen last night. Locked up and everything…Frankfurt as the crime capital of Europe…
that’s two bikes in a month…heh….

Share on Facebook

2,0: Have you ever heard of blah blah blah?
me: no
2,0: that’s cuz you’re an unsuperior being.
this was at pub quiz and even though 2,0 invented the word unsuperior we still managed to win…Our team name ,,Monkies with slingshots”…the team name the quizmistress heard ,,Monkey with cling shots”…which might be funny in it’s own right…didn’t matter. Winner!!!

email thread…
saffa: Not even God knows what Squires means sometimes!!!!!!
kat: ya, but he spoke aramaic.
me: lalalalalalaayayayayayayayalalalalalalalalalalalalalyyiiiiiiiaiiaiiayayyaya
kat: squires, you have to put the predicate in the latter part of the compound sentence. almost grammatical well formed though. well done!
see, i have to read in order to speak it.

Share on Facebook

my English was corrected by a German colleague today. One colleague asked me how to ask for a favour in an email…My suggestion was something like “can you help me by…blah blah blah”.
Other colleague overhears and says “use could instead of can…it’s more polite”…
so I pose the question to you dear English speakers…Is could really more polite than can????

The word ,,queue” must be one of those mysterious English words that all the non-native english speakers complain about…apparently english as a second language is difficult…who knew

also mysterious…why brenden fraser keeps getting work…and why sean young ever got work…

Share on Facebook