Language skills

In today’s world, the ability to command the English language has become a matter of necessity. The following videos document why.


German Coast Guard



A Day Trip

The Secret of My $ucce$$

Did replacing the letter S with a dollar sign ever go outta style? I say, "Hell no!" And as the daring pioneer and mastermind I am, I shall hence employ the Euro € to substitut€ th€ obsol€t€ Latin E.
Anyways, I've been adding some important details to my office door - a Calvin & Hobbes/Sinfest cartoon strip and an envelope for minutes. A perfect facade, highly deceptive (although I expect to find a considerable amount of candy wrappers and bottle caps in my envelope)!
Plus I now officially got office hours, every Tuesday from 5.00pm -5.30 pm. So if you feel the urge to see me (or just wanna get rid of some Mars wrapper), you know where it's at! I'm actually considering to put up some chairs and a table with some brochures outside my office, you know, for all the people waiting in line... It's gonna be legit!

Feasting of the co-worker

Yeah, well, to stick with the biblical reference, this guy here (who shall be known as the Fulk, one of my fellow colleagues) has an appetite for 5000 (obviously)... One of those food carrier pans we order for conferences somehow made its way into my office. It should have proven to be the last mistake it ever made.
Work is so much more fun, once you got your own office, you won't believe it.

Finders keepers...

...loosers weepers. Although originally the next item on my list was a computer (some of you might already know) I managed to get hold of a fully operational AC unit! In one of our storage rooms I found it abandoned and entrusted it in my care.

Awesome! My plan is now to sit in my office in a fur coat during the months of July and August. Which I can do, thanks to the Alaska 9000!!!! I'll keep you updated, as soon as a computer finds its way into my office.....

By the way...

Your Irish Name Is...

Peregrine Kennedy

What's your Irish Name?

St. Patrick's Day reloaded

Since Friday I knew this...

You Are Guinness

You know beer well, and you'll only drink the best beers in the world. Watered down beers disgust you, as do the people who drink them. When you drink, you tend to become a bit of a know it all - especially about subjects you don't know well. But your friends tolerate your drunken ways, because you introduce them to the best beers around.

What's Your Beer Personality?

Bronson's BombayTV Cameo

Just tried to do something funny with Bombay TV, too.
Didn't work out that well... you might still want to take a look:

Bronson's Comeback

Unfortunately the last word is missing, it's got to be "contract"...
and it's not funny at all...

(Phew... spent hours on that thing ;) )

Make your own Bombay TV

Here's another movie related link. If you're a secret admirer of the Bollywood movie industry and always wanted to get in on Indian filmmaking, here's your chance. This site gives you the unique opportunity of entering the subgenre of subtitling and put something you always wanted to hear from your favorite actors into their mouths. What fun! Of course, if you and your friends speak Hindi, it's pretty lame.....

Samples:

A movie by Dr. Funky
A second movie by Dr. Funky (debatable content)
A third movie by Dr. Funky (naughty naughty)
A movie by my fellow co-worker Ripper Bendix (naughty naughty)
Another movie from the Ripper man

World of Offline Gaming

Should you or your roomate look somthing like this, then click here and check what the world would look like, should he take his MMORPG behavior into the real world. It's is not that much fun, if you don't know what MMORPG stands for, though, it's just for hardcore gamers and those affected by hardcore gaming (like myself)...
Anyways, funny movie, I'll give it a 3.5 out of 5.

More pictures of even more merriness...

Pictures of merriness...

...taken with my VGA cell phone cam

"Everybody's Irish....

...on St. Patrick's Day!" Isn't that how the saying goes? Anyways, me and my leprechaun Zven represented Ireland to the fullest on Eire's national holiday in the local Irish pub R.P. McMurphy's... and the Guiness did flow! The night culminated in the traditional St.Patrick's Day raffles, where bodacious prizes where distributed among the mellow crowd, such as Guiness® hats and Guiness® wristbands. With the proverbial luck of the Irish the Zvenalizer and me managed to get hold of four hats and eight wristbands, before the nearby tables threatened to declare war on our Irish enclave of felicity out of pure greed.
Around 3am we were swept out of the pub, but we continued to spread Ireland's glory at a nearby Kebap house and our favorite Chinese place....

The Stone Fortress - dome of the Grand Bazaar

Tashkent Metro station

Tashkent street scene

This is one of the photos me and my buddy Zven took when roaming the picturesque country of Uzbekistan. It shows the main train station in Tashkent, Uzbekistan's legendary capital. It's really amazing how, in spite of the recent political upheavals, people manage to stay friendly and hospitable towards Europeans. Next on our list is the famous Silk Road, with highlights like Samarkand and Buchara. Stay tuned for more info to come....