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Every once in a while, two systems interact in such a way that I, the casual observer, wondering if my still-baking cheesecake will emerge thoroughly baked when the timer rings, or whether it will need more time to finish in the oven, am moved to remark upon them. This often results in more than one blog post per evening.

It would appear the quantum physicists (the first system) also are also enjoying the anthropomorphization of their pets over at icanhascheezburger.com (the second system).

You gotta be a real physics nerd *and* spend way too much time online to get that joke. For a little help, visit this wikipedia article.

I have ur pantez

Originally uploaded by athenas_secret.

…they’re devious.

I stumbled upon this today at flickr.com and (still) can’t stop giggling.

We had a nice dinner with Matthias tonight at our favorite restaurant in Regensburg - Exil. On the way back after stopping off for ice cream and espresso (bummer that our favorite ice cream place closes up shop for the winter!), he revealed two secrets to American life to us:

1. When you’re in line at Starbucks, pay attention to what the guy ahead of you orders. If they’re out of it, they’ll make him fresh batch and offer it to him for free to thank him for his loyalty and patience. Then you just order the same thing and they’ll give it to you for free as well; after all, they have to treat all their customers the same way.
2. When you need to reschedule a flight you’ve already booked, call up the airline, but never accept their first offer to re-book. The first offer Matthias got on a recent re-booking request was something like $200. He told them he’d think about it. When he called back a couple days later, it was free to re-book.

Maybe I could develop this into a regular feature here on the ol’ Regensblog.

Hi Folks. This just in from the “I’m retired now, so I’m not too worried about burning bridges at work” department:
Hermosilloville

Enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXnO_FxmHes&eurl

I couldn’t decide whether to file this post under “politics” or “humor.”

“so, what’s your dad been doing now that he’s retired?”

Take a listen and hear for yourself. Or, if you’re a Linux person, here it is in Ogg Vorbis format, too.

While surfing my favorite old skool bulletin board system (ISCABBS) this morning, I stumbled across a comedian’s impression of George W. Bush. He picked up on a few of the CINC’s mannerisms that annoy Sarah and me so much.

You can check it out by clicking the link below and entering the username “George” and password “Bush” when prompted.

Here’s the file. You’ll need a video player capable of Windows Media to view it (should be no trouble for anyone on Windows…your mileage may vary with other operating systems).

Thanks to my dad for sending this video file to us. That’s kind of the way I feel when I have to use my Spanish — the other day I was having a conversation at work in German with a guy from Spain, and he closed the conversation with “¡Muchas Gracias!” I was in a German mindset and that totally bewildered me, though I did manage to recognize that he said something in Spanish. I replied with “¿Cómo?” and he laughed at me before repeating his expression of thanks. Boy, did I feel like a schmuck.