Lupin III
A colleague said I looked like this guy. They seemed surprised I’ve never heard of this cartoon. I guess it’s Japanese. My first thought on seeing him was “He looks like a monkey”…which is actually the 2nd time this month I’ve been told I look like a monkey…first time was a bit surreal 😉 (Munich)…
The written word
I bought 3 books when I was in München. Luckily the english book selection at Hugendubel is better than any airport I’ve been to (which is usually where I have to buy books). I’ve already finished one of the three books (The death of Bunny Monroe – Nick Cave). It was short n sweet. Kind of amusing.
Now I’ve started “The Wind-up Bird Chronicles” by Murakami. I think this is the 3rd or 4th book I’ve read by him. GREAT author. Probably my favourite author at the moment. He’s Japanese and the book is translated. Which is actually the second foreign language book (translated) I’ll read in the past few months.
Am possibly heading to London in October for a couple of friends wedding. geez! Haven’t been to London in ages. Prob my favourite city…probably my favourite cuz I’ve only ever gone as a tourist…not sure if I’d really want to live there tho.
London has size issues…
A stolen post…
I saw this online so I can’t take any credit, but it’s pretty funny…
Osama bin Laden has just released a new tv message to prove he is still alive. He said that the England Team performance on Friday was complete rubbish. British intelligence has dismissed the claim, stating that the message could have been recorded anytime in the last 44 years.
way to go america…
I thought I would feel patriotic or something if the yanks won their football match, but it’s not happening (I may have had a tinge on election day 2008). At least they have a nice path to the semis…
What’s the capital of Paraguay?
Bringing up Paraguay everytime Uruguay is mentioned is about as cool as saying “I didn’t even know he was sick” when you hear that so and so died…yet I can’t stop doing it…
At least when you do it in a foreign country it seems that the local citizens blame themselves for not getting the joke 😉 They haven’t yet comprehended that I have nothing funny to say…
An Italian Beauty Without Foreign Suitors
So the commie bastardos at the NYTimes seem to have published an article on my favourite place…
http://travel.nytimes.com/2010/06/20/travel/20next.html?hpw
I just can’t approve of this…
In case nooone noticed (noone has), I’ve put up all the Munich pics here
http://www.joesquires.com/munchen-deutschland-june-2010/
Eric you can send me your pics now…
Some links…
Article on english as the globish language
http://www.newsweek.com/2010/06/12/glob-ish.html
Also on the Geekspeak podcast there was a good interview with the editor of Make magazine. A sort of DIY-Hacker mag.
http://makezine.com/
and the same guy is behind boingboing.net.
back from München.
I probably can’t remember all the things I should.
I took the overnight train from Florence to Munich. It cost more than either a car rental or flight, but I wanted to try the train. Theoretically it sounds great and I used to love taking the train to Seattle, but it was never an overnight train.
This was quite uncomfortable. I barely slept due to 5 adults 1 child, and 1 newborn sharing a room. It was really stuffy and no sort of cooling except opening the window (which the dad did everytime we had to stop in the night. I don’t think he slept either).
Anyways arrive at 6:30 am in Munich and nothing much to do until Eric arrives since it’s his hotel I’m staying in. I figured he would arrive about 7 or 8 PM, but it was actually 3-ish so that was a pleasant surprise.
As bad as the ride to there was it might have been worse coming back. There was a random train strike in Tuscany so it took waaay too long to get back. A lot of the regional trains were cancelled so I had to sort of make my own way back to Carrara. What a nightmare!
2,0: I know a thousand people with PHDs and bachelors that are dumber than you…
Not sure if that’s a compliment or not, but OK 🙂
I’ll probably update this later, but gotta run to the footy right now. I’ll also put up more pics later for Munich on it’s own page, but for now here’s a few…
