Always greener

Because, contrary to the title of this blog, the g...

2012-04-27T08:54:04.522+02:00

Because, contrary to the title of this blog, the grass is not always greener, and I am doing fine in Freiburg right now ;-)

Why wait for a next life? Do it in this life. I...

2012-04-27T03:05:07.677+02:00

Why wait for a next life? Do it in this life. I'm currently contemplating a move down south to Georgia. Jekyll's Island to be exact. Big decision. Lots to consider.

Dear Craig, I couldn't agree more with you. No...

2012-04-23T15:31:37.018+02:00

Dear Craig,
I couldn't agree more with you. No matter how comfortable a desk chair may be, you will feel pain in your back and neck if you don't exercise after a long translation day. And for clearing the mind, there is nothing like a daily Viparita Karani!

Luciana E. Lovatto
@LucianaLovatto

There is software (or, I should say "freeware...

2012-04-08T00:44:38.921+02:00

There is software (or, I should say "freeware") to "rip" your DVDs into all kinds of file formats so you can carry them around with you. (Mac the Ripper is one example). I know, you posted this ages ago, but I got here from a link in a more recent post.

Jill, Germany is (as I recently told a colleague i...

2012-03-20T14:59:08.263+01:00

Jill, Germany is (as I recently told a colleague in an e-mail on the Fluke incident) a bastion of common decency compared to the US, where far more extreme statements are allowed to be aired. A German politician who says some of the things that US politicians easily get away with would be chased out of office within 48 hours.

The difference between what US politicians and German

Instead we have the Republicans conducting what li...

2012-03-20T14:46:57.072+01:00

Instead we have the Republicans conducting what liberals are calling a "War on Women." Some thing, but without the humor to cloak it. Passing laws insisting women get abdominal sonograms to have an abortion, laws that will publish the names of women who have abortions, etc. One lawmaker recently compared women to cows and pigs while introducing a law to force them to carry stillborn

Thanks for making me miss Wildgeschnetzeltes. Ther...

2012-03-12T03:29:01.323+01:00

Thanks for making me miss Wildgeschnetzeltes. There used be a wonderful Bäckerei-Metzgerei near my old office in Gernsbach that offered all kinds of Geschnetzeltes for lunch. Delicious! It's no wonder that a productivity slump typically followed by early afternoon. Ah, I miss German food.

Oh how I miss German breakfasts... BTW, cheese and...

2012-03-08T00:09:02.526+01:00

Oh how I miss German breakfasts... BTW, cheese and jam together is good. I learned about it in Norway. Meat and jam? Not so much...

uuhm, nope, it isn't. (i saw the real you on y...

2012-01-06T08:07:28.251+01:00

uuhm, nope, it isn't. (i saw the real you on youtube...) sorry. delete. :)

Is that you at 3:40?

2012-01-06T07:38:55.478+01:00

Is that you at 3:40?

Yes, that one is a classic. Merry Christmas, Craig...

2011-12-25T16:01:59.802+01:00

Yes, that one is a classic. Merry Christmas, Craig!

Who cares what Ron Paul looks like?? The media al...

2011-12-16T20:52:41.874+01:00

Who cares what Ron Paul looks like?? The media always says it wants to be more substantive, than focuses on silly little details like that!

Oh, that's just funny - or extremely sad. I pr...

2011-12-13T16:43:16.276+01:00

Oh, that's just funny - or extremely sad. I prefer to look at it as comedy gold. Guess that means everything on the Internet will soon be fair game, huh?

i imagine if a solid chunk of an article is based...

2011-12-11T07:10:35.505+01:00

i imagine if a solid chunk of an article is based on somebody else's work it should certainly be acknowledged -- and not just with a cavalier "auch ich habe mir da was rausgenommen", but with a proper (asterisk) and footnote, indicating the source. common courtesy. and if (40) per cent of the article is based on somebody else's work, a cheque ought to be in the mail, thanks to

Naaa, you just know about the two highlights ;-) ...

2011-11-25T14:57:35.712+01:00

Naaa, you just know about the two highlights ;-)

I suppose that Japanese lunch was my Thanksgiving dinner – or maybe it was the seafood pancake I had for supper:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pajeon

Anyway, happy holidays to you as well (we get to start saying that now, don't we?)

Wow, you certainly have had quite a year... Happy ...

2011-11-25T14:42:17.324+01:00

Wow, you certainly have had quite a year... Happy belated Thanksgiving, Craig, and enjoy Korea!

Plagiarism is enough to fail you out of a class in...

2011-11-09T08:30:06.349+01:00

Plagiarism is enough to fail you out of a class in college in the U.S. Plagiarism is stealing - plain and simple. Shame on them.

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2011-10-23T00:31:24.628+02:00

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2011-09-21T07:39:31.808+02:00

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Nice objective analysis! This is the way the US ...

2011-08-18T23:28:05.999+02:00

Nice objective analysis!

This is the way the US makes others pay their own spilling bills: sell your own shit as chocolate by putting it in a box with a gold-looking label on it.

I fully agree rating agencies are like maffia. From the moment of the outbreak of the credit crisis it was clear that they utterly misjudged the repackaged US mortgages that had been sold to

Thanks for the extremely helpful review. I am a Sw...

2011-07-12T17:00:09.745+02:00

Thanks for the extremely helpful review. I am a Swedish/Norwegian/Danish to English translator and I use Wordfast Classic and Pro with Dragon Naturally Speaking 9.x on a PC. I had been considering moving to a Mac, but it sounds as if Dragon Dictate's "golden rule" would seriously interfere with my work. By the way, I find that DNS works faster with WF Pro than with WF Classic + Word

"Purge cash" indeed! Heise (c't mag...

2011-07-11T13:28:28.536+02:00

"Purge cash" indeed!

Heise (c't magazine) told me recently (I have business contacts with them) that the upcoming Lion OS might include some interesting changes pertaining to speech recognition. As you may know, Dragon is already available as an app, and users seem to be relatively satisfied with it. And Lion OS is expected to make Apple computers feel a bit more like the

Hi (already commented on your YouTube channel). -...

2011-07-11T13:05:32.923+02:00

Hi (already commented on your YouTube channel).

- "Purge cash": I assume you mean "purge cache" (= clear computer memory); purging cash is what happens when you enter an Apple Store!

- As a fairly recent switcher to the Mac (about 2 years), I notice that there are certain "blank spots": financial, home-banking and now it seems also dictation

Hey G, You may be a visual person, so I'll tr...

2011-06-15T22:27:28.937+02:00

Hey G,

You may be a visual person, so I'll try this with a direct quote presented differently:

"Merkel's visit just barely warrants a mention alongside:

1) all the wars the US is fighting and
2) a number of things that seem trivial from abroad."

I'm not sure how you missed that.

You seem to assume that the Germans

Hmm, I can. Perhaps your writing is so unclear tha...

2011-06-10T01:53:30.615+02:00

Hmm, I can. Perhaps your writing is so unclear that I don't understand your point? Which could have been rectified by explaining it- or by not posting my moderated comment if you felt that it was so clear what I was not understanding?
But your choice is the snark. Hmm.