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Space-time problem

2007-11-04

Or better: Zeit(=time) space problem, ;) because I had to find space for the 20-volume ZEIT lexicon – which is already almost three years old, but now, as the WELT will soon release their own lexicon, of course at a discount for 139,- (in the “bild der wissenschaft shop”), i.e. basically for 1 cent per page (and thus clearly cheaper than the competition, and with more pages, more words, but less images and without DVD-ROM).

Pictured here not yet on the bookshelf, but on the floor in front of my comic shelf:

Zeit lexicon

Basic Rights and Freedom of the Press

2007-11-03

Title of today’s Donaukurier (Ingolstadt) and its local editions:

black title of PK

Translation: We object to the restrictions of basic rights and freedom of the press!

:applaus:

And here’s the main article (German): “Massiver Eingriff in die Grundrechte der Bürger” (massive inteference in the citizens’ basic rights). Quote (in my translation):

“Today the democracy, thanks to govenrmental reglementation fury, sits at the edge of dissolution. Society, media and journalists, too, are watching magnetized and often also inertially what the gravediggers of basic rights and freedom in Munich, Berlin and also Brussels are devising.”

Mix-up (2)

2007-11-03

A local computer and telecommunications service company must have been a little confused to have flyers distributed this morning or last night advertising “Offer of the Month October 2007” and “Our highlights in October 2007″…

Anghela 4.1

2007-11-02

Fortsetzung: Anghelas Fünfte

Hello my favorite friend bitch fraud!!!

First you send me a single-line mail that I should tell more about myself – so you apparently noticed the small size of my mails, though not their content – and now you send me the same cheat prattle as last time, except that this time you managed to insert my nickname into the text.

As the antispammers report (German), you are now switching from travel-cost grifting to money laundering. And that’s supposed to make you more likeable??

Therefore you will only have?

Continued: Anghela’s Fifth

Mix-up

2007-11-02

My experiences with Amazon have been – and still are – positive regarding reliability, delivery time etc. It’s just that the estimated delivery dates can be amusing sometimes (you might think otherwise, but at least it gave me something to write about :P ):

On Tuesday at 11:39, I ordered a book and a CD (and specified complete delivery for saving p&p), and they specified 1 Nov as dispatch estimate.

Already at 14:47, the dispatch mail for the book arrived, delivery estimate Thu 1 Nov (which, however, is a public holiday in my federal state). At 20:16, the dispatch mail for the CD came and specified a very optimistic delivery estimate of Wed 31 Oct.

When did they arrive? Of course, the book came “too early” on Wednesdey, but the CD not until today… :)

By the way, they came from the same city but with different postcodes – seems they have separate storage/shipping facilities for different types of goods.