The topic of week 7 in Sari’s Projekt 52:
Flowerage
At first, I had thought about my Christmas star (Poinsettia) which still has most of its red bracts – but it doesn’t look that great and wouldn’t live up to its Latin name part pulcherrima. So instead of wandering around and shooting flowerage in other people’s gardens which is still a little sparse around here, I decided to take a closeup:
333? Yes, this is the 333rd post on this blog. And just as I was starting to prepare it, “The Number Of The Beast” by Iron Maiden was playing on the radio – referring to 666, of course, often attributed to the “devil” or the “antichrist” (not that I’d believe in stuff like that, of course); hence the image at the side. Quite a coincidence… 
More about this nonsense number mysticism can be found in Wikipedia, of course.
“3-3-3”? Wasn’t there something in history class at school? Well, at least in German, there’s a mnemonic going “3-3-3, bei Issos Keilerei” (“3-3-3, at … … barney”), where the two-syllable location of that battle doesn’t follow directly from the rhyme, and I wasn’t able to remember that back then… it was at Issus, one of Alexander the Great’s most important battles.
Well, I’ll have three schnappses now – y’know, numbers with all identical digits are called “Schnapszahlen” (schnapps numbers) in German…
Short and sweet:
The rest is German only:
The quote in the title is from an exclusive interview with Geller on prosieben.de which forms the basis for this article (in German – all quotes are my (re-)translations).
The introduction says:
For almost 40 years, he is a closed book for the public. […]
Or he’s trying to. For a “general public”, a “broad mass”, which corresponds to the target audience of the private TV stations and tabloid papers, this may hold true. Thanks to the internet, and YouTube & co. in particular, he can’t keep up his hard course that included many unfounded lawsuits against critics.
For instance the suit over 4 million US dollars in 1992 against book authors which was dismissed after two years with a (much smaller) punishment against Geller, which he had refused to pay, or a suit over 15 million against CSICOP (now CSI, Committee for Skeptical Inquiry) because of a statement by James Randi who said he had found a trick that Geller used to fool even respected scientists on a cornflake box.
(In German, you can read this and much more on the GWUP’s page, the German equivalent to CSICOP.)
Of course this doesn’t keep ProSieben from the brainwashing track of “all real powers, no tricks”, for which they rightfully got the (unfortunately too unknown) “Dodo of the Month” (German), an award for brainwashing of the people.
So is there a logical, scientific explanation for where your supernatural powers originate?
No explanation, but there is evidence for my powers. […]
The topic of week 6 in Sari’s Projekt 52:
Song interpretation
At first, I had 1½ ideas for Queen songs, but somehow that wasn’t good yet… the alternative was found quickly, though, and this way yesterday’s football match Germany – Austria had something good in it after all:
My photo idea for the slightly ambiguous title “Big Balls” by AC/DC…
He’s got big balls
She’s got big balls
But we’ve got the biggest balls of them all
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