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Entries from September 2008

A relaxing weekend away

September 29th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Even after two years living abroad, somethings still strike me as odd. At lunch on Saturday, Ryan said ‘… last weekend when we were in Lisbon …’ and I followed with ‘… when I was in Istanbul a couple of weeks ago …’. Somehow those thoughts and realities sometimes just don’t seem right or something […]

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Tags: Friends · Life · Travel

High latitude images

September 26th, 2008 · Comments Off

Sebastian has been up on Svalbard virtually all summer working on his PhD research.  This week, he sent back a few images taken with his thermal infrared camera.  No need to describe how these came about, I just think they are pretty fun to look at. The light colors on the reindeer are the only […]

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Tags: AWI · Friends · weather

Escape from the Krank Haus

September 26th, 2008 · Comments Off

(and now a slight bit of back-blogging) On my way home from Istanbul, I began to feel like something was not quite right with my throat.  By mid-week, I (along with everyone else in Potsdam) was down for the count.  On Wednesday, it felt like nobody on the campus was at work.  I went home […]

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Tags: Berlin · Germany · Life · Potsdam

A nice surprise

September 17th, 2008 · Comments Off

I arrived to this at work yesterday. Thanks Julia!

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Tags: AWI · Friends

SNL does Sarah Palin

September 14th, 2008 · Comments Off

Very funny.

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Tags: politics

Quick trip to Istanbul

September 14th, 2008 · Comments Off

Following Edward to his European layovers, I found myself in Istanbul this past weekend. Ed is on his way to a couple of the *-istan countries to study a bit of language and exploring a bit over the next 5 or so weeks. We also met up with Ela, a friend that I met playing […]

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Tags: Friends · holidays · Life · Travel

How can I not be cynical?

September 5th, 2008 · Comments Off

It seems to me that that same people that are accusing supporters of Obama of drinking Kool-Aid are drinking from the same bucket. The coverage of Sarah Palin as John McCain’s running mate is completely unbelievable. The more I read and learn about her, the more frightened I become — and I am now very afraid. […]

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Tags: politics