A new year and another 11foot8 boxtruck canopener: This one is a “classic canopener” – the crash beam just peels back the roof of the box and drops it behind the truck. This is truck crash # 82 since April 2008. All the videos are posted on my website 11foot8.com
2014 brought us many changes: new jobs, new critters and a new school for Jacob. 2014 also was the year when both our kids officially grew over our heads. Jacob is now taller than I am, and Julia is taller than Laura. Right at the beginning of the year, Henry the cat moved in with […]
We hope you all had a great start for 2015! We gave the old year a nice send-off with a big bonfire. We sat around the fire with the neighbors until well after midnight, grilling hot dogs and potatoes and drinking beers.
This year, I spent a lot of time listening to Ambrose Akinmusire’s album The Imagined Savior Is Far Easier to Paint. Gorgeous album. In this live performance the quintet plays some songs from that album, and some other songs. Relax. Enjoy.
Our driveway on a crisp, sunny evening in November. Unsere Einfahrt an einem sonnigen Novemberabend. Julia and Cleo getting ready to ride out. Julia und Cleo bereiten sich auf einen Ausritt vor.
Very lucid, well-written story by Gorge Packer in the New Yorker about the German chancellor: German politics was entering a new era. As the country became more “normal,” it no longer needed domineering father figures as leaders. “Merkel was lucky to live in a period when macho was in decline,” Ulrich said. “The men didn’t […]
This one’s a little bit out there … fun, harmolodic interpretations of some Thelonius Monk classics. Happy Friday! Harmolodic Monk – at Why Not Room, NYC – Oct 5 2014 Matt Lavelle – alto clarinet, trumpet, flugelhorn John Pietaro – vibraphone, frame drum, percussion
(DEUTSCH) Last weekend was super busy and fun. Saturday, Laura and I went to a Bar Mitzvah – or rather a B’nai Mizvah (plural) for the twin boys of one of the professors I work for. We attended the service in the morning, and then returned for the party in the evening. Great fun! Sunday, […]
Breaking News from the Telegraph’s Alan Tyers: Hell will host the 2026 football World Cup after a Fifa report found “no reason” to overturn the controversial underworld destination’s successful bid. A 666-page report seen by The Telegraph concluded that Fifa had acted ethically in awarding its showpiece tournament, and suggested Lucifer be compensated with “a […]
Today is the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall – one of the most important historic events in my generation’s lifetime. Ironically, this watershed event was precipitated by a simple, clerical error. To me, the events of November 9, 1989 are profoundly German: a tired, overwhelmed official – Günter Schabowski – reads […]
Let me introduce you to Sassy and Snoopy. They are our two female goats. The brown one is Sassy and the white one is Snoopy. Sassy was born March 10 and she is a Kiko/Spanish goat mix and her sister Snoopy was born March 18 and she is a Boer/Spanish goat mix. I bought them […]
(Auf Deutsch) Sunday, I ran a half marathon (21.0975 KM/ 13.1094 mi) at the second annual Bull City Race Fest here in Durham. It was a beautiful fall weekend and when I arrived at the venue at 6:30 AM, temperatures were just below 50F/10C and temps had gone up to around 60F/16C by the time I left […]
The state of North Carolina can no longer prohibit two consenting adults from getting married. Not because they are of different race or ethnicity, nor because they are the same sex. U.S. District Judge Max Cogburn ruled today that the state laws prohibiting same-sex marriage are unconstitutional. “The issue before this court is neither a […]
All About that Bass …. Meghan Trainor Cover Kate Davis – vocals and upright bass Dave Tedeschi – drums Scott Bradlee – piano [Update]Check out Kate’s amazing version of Just One Of Those Things
So … it’s Labor Day and the gas grill is busted. What to do? Fire up the hobo grill, of course! My half-barrel burn barrel came in really handy today. We lit a fire in the barrel and chucked some charcoal on top and grilled our chicken kebabs and sweet corn – old school. This […]
The sailing stones of Death Valley were one of natures curious and vexing riddles. How do the stones move to leave their distinctive trails? I wrote about this phenomenon a few years ago. Now I found the answer in this YT video published today:
Germany wins the U20 Women’s Soccer Worldcup! Deutschland’s U20 Auswahl der Frauen hat in Kanada die Auswahl Nigeria’s knapp besiegt und damit den dritten großen internationalen Titel dieses Jahres für den deutschen Fußball ergattert! Super Leistung!
Today, I cooked my 120th bath of biodiesel. With every batch I convert 50 gallons/200 liters of used fryer oil to fuel for my vehicles. So at this point I have converted roughly 6,000 gallons/24,000 liters of used fryer oil to fuel. Recently, I have been cooking a lot more frequently – almost every other […]
Another Championship! Germany’s U19 Mannschaft is UEFA Champion! They defeated Portugal’s U19 team 1:0 today in Hungary in the final. Fortsetzung! Die deutsche U19 Nationalmannschaft ist Europameister! Die Jungs haben heute Portugal im Finale in Ungarn 1:0 geschlagen. Ganz tolle Leistung!
Here are some new records and interesting numbers from Germany’s 2014 Worldcup appearance Germany now has won FOUR Association Football (Soccer) World championships: 1954, 1974, 1990 and 2014 This ties them with Italy and is one less than Brazil. Germany now has had the most Final appearances (8), most top-three spots (12) and most consecutive […]
