http://hermann.blog.com Mon, 10 Aug 2009 20:38:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Not really. But no sidebar or comment control and no trouble ticket response from human administrators here anymore (I get tired of talking to machines, don’t you?). So please feel free to link up with me over at Observing Hermann. Maybe leave a comment there to let me know. The chances ... http://hermann.blog.com/2009/08/04/the-end-of-an-era-or-something/ In her only show to be held in Germany this year, Britney Spears fans in Berlin were less than impressed with her failure to ever actually get around to singing anything here last night (everything was lip-synced). But one understanding fan defended her by noting that at least they got to ... http://hermann.blog.com/2009/08/02/berlin-fans-disappointed-with-britney-or-something/ Beautiful German of the week – or of the month this time? Because somebody has to admire them. PS: I’m taking my sabbatical year now, for a few weeks. It’s time for a Schaffenspause (creative break). And no, it has nothing at all to do with those last few posts of mine. ... http://hermann.blog.com/2009/06/25/kerstin-k/ Not about nuclear power, here in Germany I mean. Two kids playing “nuclear power plant” put one of those radioactive sign things on their stuff on the sidewalk and then went inside to have some lunch.   Alarmed passers-by (and they are very easy to alarm here) immediately called the cops and ... http://hermann.blog.com/2009/06/24/don%e2%80%99t-even-joke-about-it/ Unglaubliches Video von der Autobahn!! from Kristoffe Kahn on Vimeo. http://hermann.blog.com/2009/06/23/strange-thing-happened-on-the-autobahn-the-other-day/ Sure. Not here in Germany. In comparison to the rest of the world, Germans are particularly shy when it comes to opening their own businesses. One international analysis indicates that only 1.4 percent of Germans are currently considering founding their own company. Some 2.4 percent actually did so sometime during the ... http://hermann.blog.com/2009/06/23/entrepreneur/ Borat was in Berlin yesterday, sort of. “It's hard to see what part of the German nationality Baron Cohen was attempting to illustrate, unless it was nudism.” Kommentare auf Deutsch? Logisch. http://hermann.blog.com/2009/06/22/pretty-in-pink/ Germans and their weapons issues. On the hand, it’s time to attempt a ban on evil American-style violent shoot em’ up computer games, yet again. On the other hand, it’s perfectly alright to sell tens of thousands of police service revolvers that are no longer needed. Hey, money doesn’t stink you ... http://hermann.blog.com/2009/06/20/get-your-weapons-here/ Beautiful German of the week. Because somebody has to admire them. Kommentare auf Deutsch? Logisch. http://hermann.blog.com/2009/06/19/jana-p/ Or at least that’s what most Germans think, if you ask them, in German. The latest survey says that 87% feel good about the German language, 47% even love the awful thing (just kidding, that was Mark Twain). They’re not too crazy about all the English or Genglish creeping into it, ... http://hermann.blog.com/2009/06/18/german-language-cool-language/