Author Archives: cliff1976

Husten, wir haben ein Problem.

It’s been a surprisingly productive few weeks around our apartment. Sarah caught a cold (or so we thought — it was actually a bacterial infection) at a particularly inopportune time for a singer, and we fought back the invaders with … Continue reading

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Cheapo pre-paid USA SIM?

We’ve got a trip to the USA planned and coming up soon.  My somewhat nifty smartphone offers one feature most others don’t:  dual SIM cards (one for work, one for personal use). I’d like pre-paid flat rate GSM service for … Continue reading

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Apple Bread

This is another one of those “bread” (i.e., banana-, pumpkin-, zucchini-) recipes your German colleagues are going to love, but declare a cake.

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Flowers and Parking Lot Construction

Those “smarter” flowers from my previous post on local municipal projects are dark purple tulips.

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Raspberry Pi — credit-card sized Linux

Dang, that’s small.

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Bridge Report, April 2013

The bridge saga continues.

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Super-easy Rhubarb Compote

I learn a lot from Melissa Clark’s cooking videos from the New York Times. This is one of my favorites from her. You’re going to need: rhubarb and sugar. Yep. That’s it! A pinch of cinnamon and an eighth of … Continue reading

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Happy Easter

A local pal and mechanical and gadgetry expert made this cute video for us in his Workshop of Many Wondrous Things. Happy Easter! P.S. — CN Heidelberg, beat that penmanship if you can.

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Having some bridge work done

The work on Regensburg’s iconic Stone Bridge (“die steinerne Brücke”) trudges on. They must have made some major progress while we were out of the country, waiting out the winter. Now the auxiliary pedestrian bridge has been extended significantly and … Continue reading

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Q. What’s wrong with cornbread?

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