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I am becoming a frequent flyer. I had to fill in a questionnaire at the airport today and it turned out that I made 5 air travels last year. That's way too many. I used to travel only by rail...
All travels were from
Schönefeld, and all by Easyjet. Of course I told the guy that I like the airport as it is, its very ugly, but very handy. Everything goes very quick. You can't possibly want the enlargement for your own comfort. But nevertheless I think they should close down
Tempelhof, because it came to my mind: it's the perfect spot for the new
BND head quarters, there is enough space and they can offer a real runway to their friends of CIA, for any emergency case of CIA's European-flying-torture-planes. And we have the chance to keep the beach volleyball fields and the golf course in the city center.
Hundescheisse Award
That's how you should call the worst movie screened at the Berlin Film Festival. And this year's winner is... "Elementarteilchen" by Oskar Röhler. I never believed it was good, I just went to see it because it was partly
shot at our institute. (For those of you who don't know the place, but happen to be so misfortunate to watch the movie: That fancy institute in Ireland is in fact the
Physics institute of Humboldt University.)
Happily Röhler left out most of the pseudo intellectual blabla of Houllebecq, but still the story of the book is also very thin: the characters follow all cliches of a primitive Freudian and they are even very poorly adapted in the movie. Don't waste your money on this.
Here is a nice
story which I read in the current
UnAufgefordert
A student from Nicaragua arrives in Eastern Germany for her postgraduate studies.
Her German language teacher teases her with the fact that they live mostly of corn in Nicaragua which in the GDR is used for livestock only. "So what do you feed to your animals?", asks she.
"Bananas", says the girl.
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I am very much committed to the name of this blog: Even though I leave Berlin and Nordkapstrasse, I'll be moving closer to the real North Cape: I will go to
Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen for my PhD. But before this I'll participate in the Doctoral Training Programme at
ECT* in Trento. So by now my last days in Berlin really came along.
PS to the last two weeks:
Copenhagens M1 and M2 really is more stylish than ligne 14 in Paris. I went there just to find out. (Well, but once I was there, I did a sight seeing tour on ligne 14.)
Ich lebe in einem "Milijö Schutzgebiet". Irgendwie Döblinisch. Bei uns sind also
alle Spinnen und Silberfische und anderen Bewohner besonders wertvoll. Klar, sowieso, schliesslich habe ich eine High Tech Wohnung mit Ofenheizung fliessend Kaltwasser und Innenklo (Schande...)
