What’s Next To The Moon?

I’m posting this mashup because the main character in A Clockwork Orange uses a giant appendage as a weapon.

After The Night Falls; Before The Dawn Breaks

A quick post for this evening letting everyone know that I’m adding a new site to my blogroll. The Oil Drum is a blog/community concerned about energy issues. It is well written and a recommended read for anyone interested in those issues

„We do not take pictures with our cameras. We make them with our hearts, we make them with our minds.“ – Arnold Newman

They develop like moths drawn to a flame.

I can’t wait until August when I can take a vacation.

Werder am beliebtesten, Klasnic trainiert wieder.

From Der Spiegel

Der Sport-Vermarkter Sportfive hat laut „Bild“ 2000 Personen nach dem sympathischsten Club der Bundesliga gefragt. Werder Bremen rangiert demnach deutlich vor Schalke 04 und dem FC Bayern. Der deutsche Meister VfB Stuttgart landete nur auf Platz sechs, das Schlusslicht ist Arminia Bielefeld. Bei den ausländischen Lieblingsclubs landete der FC Barcelona ganz vorn, es folgen der FC Chelsea und Real Madrid.
Werder-Stürmer Ivan Klasnic bereitet sich auf sein mögliches Bundesliga-Comeback vor. Der 27-Jährige absolvierte gestern erstmals seit seiner Nierentransplantation im März eine Trainingseinheit mit einem Physiotherapeuten. Klasnic war – nach einer fehlgeschlagenen Operation – eine Niere seines Vaters eingepflanzt worden. Werder nimmt am 2. Juli das Training wieder auf. Klasnic’ Vertrag in Bremen läuft Ende Juni aus. Werder hatte ihm bereits im Januar eine Verlängerung angeboten, doch der Stürmer hat bislang nicht unterschrieben.

So Ivan Klasnic is going to be back at Bremen sooner rather than later. It should shape up as another exciting Bundesliga season next year.

Just your usual June 18th.

It’s my birthday today, so posting will be light.

There’s something wrong with me; I’m a cuckoo.

A quick update for the past few days:

1) I officially graduated university on Thursday. It was certainly nice to have to wear layers of formal clothes and a gown in an auditorium with fairly ineffective air conditioning. However, the ceremony went well and I even got proposed to by a girl. Also, I learned that people think I’m a cheerful person, which was a bit of a surprise to me.

2) I finally got a CD I ordered on Friday. I had ordered „Nichts Muss“ by Barbara Morgenstern because I had been unable to find it anywhere local. However, that wasn’t surprising. It’s almost completely in German, so I wasn’t really expecting to find it around here.  It is quite excellent.

3) It’s my birthday, yet again, on Monday. Other than school, I’m not sure that too much is planned, but things always seem to come up.

Bon Voyage.

I have my university convocation tomorrow morning. In some way that makes me feel old. It will be nice to see some friends again, but will be kinda sad in seeing the university life go.

Moskau.

Disco is bad. Eurovision is bad. Both of those combined with space costumes and some sort of Santa-like man is basically what you would expect it to be. Watch it for yourself.

The First Big Weekend.

For those of you that have watched the original film, enjoy.

Papuan independence in Irian Jaya.

On July 6, 1998, just before dawn, soldiers opened fire on a group of some two hundred demonstrators, in Biak City, on Biak Island, in Biak-Numfor Regency, in the Indonesian province of Irian Jaya. For four days, the demonstrators had been guarding a flag that flew on top of a water tower between the regency’s main market and the port. They had raised the flag before dawn on July 2. Later that morning, at an open forum, their leader, a young civil servant named Philip Karma, read an oath of allegiance to West Papua, the name of the sovereign nation that Karma and others would like Irian Jaya to become. On behalf of the Papuan people, Karma vowed not to abandon the flag and urged Kofi Annan to come to Biak to hear their case. That afternoon, when the security forces attempted to break up the demonstration, the followers wounded several policemen and burned a military truck. On July 5, after negotiations with the demonstrators broke down, authorities issued an ultimatum. If the crowd did not lower the flag voluntarily, troops would remove it by force.

The shooting is said to have lasted from 5:30 to 7:00 a.m. Just how many people were injured and killed in the operation remains unclear. Colonel Edyono, the armed forces commander in Biak, initially announced that there were twenty-one casualties and no fatalities. Other sources have put the death toll between five and a hundred; reports of torture and disappearances abound.

Source: Danilyn Rutherford. „Waiting for the End in Biak: Violence, Order, and a Flag Raising.“ Indonesia, Vol. 67. (Apr., 1999), pp. 39-59.