Autumn Winterwind

Marburg an der Lahn, Germany

nobody@vox.com(Autumn) — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 14:32:47 -0400

(May 26-27, 2005) Marburg is a lovely old town in Hessen. I did my study abroad year in Marburg, at Philipps-universität. Marburg was one of the seats of the Duchy of Hessen-Kassel. Cool things that happened there: Philipp called a meeting of Pr...

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Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Germany

nobody@vox.com(Autumn) — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 14:24:40 -0400

(May 25, 2005) Rothenburg ob der Tauber is the only city in Germany with its entire medieval wall intact. Though it's not the original wall... but I'll get to that later. I'll also get to the why part later. We stayed in a converted old house on...

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Neuschwanstein

nobody@vox.com(Autumn) — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 14:18:16 -0400

(May 20, 2005) Neuschwanstein was built by King Ludwig II of Bavaria around 1860. He was obsessed with Wagner and Germanic folklore, like Siegfried and Lohengrin the Swan-knight. Ludwig died, under mysterious circumstances, before the castle was...

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München, Germany

nobody@vox.com(Autumn) — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 14:16:36 -0400

(May 19-22, 2005) Munich was our second stop. It's the capital of the state of Bavaria, and the former seat of the royal family of Bavaria, the Wittelsbachs. The Residenz was in use until about 1920 as the royal domicile; now it's museums. We ar...

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Tübingen, Germany

nobody@vox.com(Autumn) — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 14:12:16 -0400

(May 17-18, 2005) Tübingen was the first stop after our arrival in Germany. We flew into the Frankfurt Rhein-Main airport, which is ridiculously huge and has a very convenient train station inside. After validating our railpass, we hopped a trai...

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Desktop, fall 2007

nobody@vox.com(Autumn) — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 19:49:35 -0400

This is for the annual intro-and-desktop-screencap for COUP.

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Doing.

nobody@vox.com(Autumn) — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 16:26:34 -0400

First 90-minute sewing block: traced and cut pattern pieces. Next up: putting them together. My main complaint with this particular pattern is that the direcitons are a single paragraph, as opposed to a numbered/bulleted list. I'm going to have t...

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Book review: The Gun Seller

nobody@vox.com(Autumn) — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 19:29:39 -0400

It's set in modern-day Britain, starring a spy, the Ministry of Defence, the CIA, assorted Britons and Americans, and the military-industrial complex. Sort of a spy, conspiracy-theory spoof. Some of the blurbs compare it to the Naked Gun, but thi...

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Book review: A Brother's Price

nobody@vox.com(Autumn) — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 19:15:56 -0400

A Brother's Price by Wen Spencer. 310 pp. 1st ed 2005. (Not adding the book to my library, because I sold it to a used book store.) This book purports to be science fiction, but it's really a romance novel. I also couldn't help reading it with a ...

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Book review: Never Let Me Go

nobody@vox.com(Autumn) — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 19:44:29 -0500

This book is hard to summarize. It's told as a memoir, set in a semi-alternate universe early-90's Britain. Kathy, the narrator, is a student at Hailsham, a private school of sorts. There are hints dropped early on that not all is as it seems. At...

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