Auswanderer Quatsch

So, “Angie” gets to stay in place, change a couple contacts in her Blackberry (?!) to integrate Guido and the FDP guys and continue her politic the way it was modulo a few roundups here and there (taxes and social security for example) to please the new friends.

Among other things, I find the “majority rule of alliances” most interesting in the german’s system. Theoretically, one Partei could gets 49% of the votes and nevertheless never be able to govern (ok, that would require all other Partei to form an alliance which is not practically feasible… but still). Anyway, the coalition that will finally govern got the majority of the votes and represents half of the nation.
Exit having a president elected with only 31.18% of the votes… If you see what I mean. Ok, N.Sarkozy included many representatives from the opposition to form an “opening government” (or at least make it look like one) but still, just try to imagine how our actual President’s politic would be if his legitimity was 2/5th due to the PS or the Modem…

Anyway the most aw-some thing I learned during this campaign must be that being colorblind in Germany during the Bundestagwahl must be fracking horrible. Every “Partei” has its color (Union is black, SPD red, FDP yellow, die Grune are… green and die Linke dark red) and discussing of the alliances most of the time sounded like an argument of two year-olds over a box of colored pencils >_<‘

Those of you following me on twitter or facebook know it already, I’m in vacation for 3 days, sick, tired, but happy anyway.

I slept 12 hours each of the past 2 nights, spent at least 5 hours napping during the day and did nothing constructive beside reading “the cryptonomicon”, avoiding nasty falling glands (is that the correct translation?) and preparing a nice campfire to host chicken legs, potatoes and chestnuts… yeap, that’s what I call vacations

But what I was really looking forward to was to gather enough strength to ride the heavy iron-made canoe a couple hundred meters away towards Switzerland (I’m at the Constance Lake – “Bodensee” in german), rest there as long as I can, take a few pictures, play with my iPhone and (hopefuly) never have to come back.

Well I am back – unfortunately – but that was at least as nice as expected. I’ll go out again tonight.

In the meantime, posting from the iPhone is nice but not as easy and convinient as it could be so… I’ll cut the internet connection, lay back and enjoy the lake while you look at those pictures and (hopefuly) curse me for sending this while you’re stuck at work…

Ps: any comments regarding the new form of this blog or the format of the posts written from the iphone are good to take, fire at will

Geometry behind bars is one of the first picture i took in France during the summer vacations (near Granville, 15km away from the Mt St Michel).

Le but de ce blog était – et est toujours – de partager une partie de ma vie avec tous ceux qui m’entourent. Alors qu’en ce mois de septembre, j’entame le début de la fin de ma troisième année à Nuremberg, je crois qu’il était plus que grand temps de me rendre compte que mon cercle d’amis s’est largement agrandi vers l’Est et qu’il serait bon de prendre les membres du dit cercle aussi en considération. C’est la raison pour laquelle “Diatribes” va, dès le prochain paragraphe du présent billet, cesser de charcuter la langue de Molière. N’y voyez là aucune envie de ma part de vous complexifier la tâche de me lire chers lecteurs, juste une envie de pouvoir enfin partager mes écrits avec une autre partie de mon entourage qui en était jusqu’à présent exclu.

Since some of you don’t speak German too well so I’ll spare you the learning effort (and the grammar writing disaster for me as well bytheway) and will simply switch to a language that most of us know: Esperanto English.

Welcome to all of you, friends from the “other side of the border” who could not read this before and simply got to look at the pictures and guess for the rest. I hope you’ll enjoy what you find here and help me go further with your comments and feedback – although that counts also for you “old” readers :]

Some other changes occured here, you may have noticed that the name of the blog also got its (very) personal internationalization. The look of the blog itself (you RSS readers will need to move here to notice it) switched back to the old-but-actually-nice “kubrik” style. The sidebar got a little cleaned-up, the homepage (that many of you might simply never have seen) got its little update too. The “Info” page disappeared and the “About” page got refreshed. The RSS link stays the same, don’t need to update folks!

“Auswanderer Quatsch from (pas trop) far away”, here we go!

Pour une raison complètement débile j’ai un poil dépassé la limite de trafic de mon hébergeur (vidéo mise sur le FTP pour servir de transit entre Nürnberg et Düsseldorf qui a non pas été téléchargée comme je le pensais mais regardée… 60 fois… en streaming >_<). Je disais donc que les 20Go auxquels j’ai droit sont déjà dépassés et que donc suivant l’humeur de mon hébergeur, il se peut que la lumière se retrouve éteinte quelques jours.

Voila, comme ça vous êtes prévenus… ah non… comme un lecteur prévenu en vaut deux ça risque de faire péter ma bande passante encore plus vite… bon disons que vous êtes au courant alors!