I guess I could get into Opera.

I’ve been listening to some Pantera again. Just thought I’d explain today’s title. I’ve also been listening to lots of Swervedriver because I just got the double CD “Juggernaut Rides” and have been featuring it prominently in my immediate surroundings. It’s good to hear a lot of those tracks again.

I’ve had really bad jet lag this week trying to get readjusted to CET. Going westward is no problem. Coming back, I find, is a bitch. But I discovered a cure for eastward travel induced jet lag; Alcohol. Yes, applying copious amounts to the affected area, the brain, via the mouth seems to do the trick. If you get to bed around 10pm and wake up around 6 or 7pm, you ease right into local time. Side effects can include mild to strong headaches, dry mouth, bad breath and agitation.

I hope to get some pictures online soon from our trip. Until then I present this picture that non-Americans find amusing.

Got back to Hamburg/Lüneburg this morning. We have to stay up till a reasonable hour tonight in the battle against jet-lag. I am not looking forward to work tomorrow. It was a good trip. We got to see lots of friends and family and see lots of the US. As with every trip there were some people I wanted to see but the amount of time and distance just didn’t pan out. So, I’m sorry if you hate me now and have crossed me off of your christmas card list.

Will be heading out to our final destination today. We spent the night in Marion, OH, where we performed 10 years ago with UWP.

Amarillo: Big Texan Motel is worth a visit for the kitsch factor alone. Home of the 72 oz steak.

Dallas: We stayed with John and Elise. Reverted to immature high school behavior, rocked out, drank lots of margaritas and had a great time.

St. Louis: Got to see aunts, uncles, cousins and grandma. It is good to be with family. And we got a tent.

We went to see the Grand Canyon today. Our hostel, the Grand Canyon Hostel in Flagstaff, AZ, offered all day tours and our guide Michael was really cool. I took lots of pictures but they just don’t do it justice. It is amazing there. I’ll put some pictures online soon.

Flagstaff is a cool town. Wish we could stay longer. Tomorrow we are off to Amarillo, Texas.

Tucson was great. A little expensive but that is a different story. UWP reunion was good. The most important thing was to see old friends again. Today we check out and drive to Flagstaff. Tomorrow we will go and see the Grand Canyon. I’m in my room right now at the Marriott and I’m stealing wifi from the Refuge Baptist Ministry across the street. There always seems to be an open hotspot wherever you go here. Cool.

More to come…

Crazy?

Yes.

Tuesday we are flying to Tucson AZ for our UWP reunion. On August 1st we will be driving from Tucson to Stamford Connecticut. We will be stopping at a few places in between to visit friends and family. There will be periodic updates from the road accompanied by pictures and perhaps even small movies. I have one more day of work left tomorrow before we split.

Pre 9/11 called. They want their civil liberties back.

Wow. It’s really amazing to hear and see what is happening over there. Every time I go back, people seem to be more and more scared. I’m curious what I’ll experience next week when I go back. I don’t understand why there isn’t more outrage. Don’t be scared. Don’t you see? That’s what the terrorists and the government want. The terrorists want you to be scared because, well, their terrorists. That’s what they do. They want you to live in fear and terror. The government wants you to be scared because that is how they control you. That is exactly what Bush and Co. based the last campaign on. They want you to be scared so they stay in power. Think about it. If you voted for him, you probably did it because you were scared. I mean c’mon, how else could he have won. It certainly wasn’t brains and charisma. And according to the latest polls most of you are not happy with the way he’s doing his job and probably wouldn’t vote for him today.

Think about this… Starting soon, if a cop in the NYC subway wants to search you and you resist, you get arrested even though the fourth amendment forbids illegal search and seizure. These are the things that so many people before us fought and died for. Poof! Gone. And if you just willingly go along with it, you are just giving up. And then they already control you. It is little steps, one at a time. The further it goes in that direction, the harder and more violent it will be to turn it around.

Or something.

J: All of my roommates are sluts!

Me: (Choking on beer) What?! Then what are we doing here? What do you mean?

J: I mean they are dirty sluts. Schlampen! Their dishes are all over the kitchen. They don’t clean up their crap. It’s a mess.

Me: Oh, right. I think you mean slobs. Slut is like Hure or Nutte. You don’t want to be throwing that word around too much, especially not in the company of women.

J: Oh, that’s a big difference.

Me: Yeah, huge.

The German word for Smurfs is also very similar to the untrained ear. I accidentally called two female roommates Schlampen once when they were trying on a pair of funny hats. I meant to say Schlümpfe. Oops. You only make that mistake once.

I had a problem where Netscape wasn’t properly rendering the print stylesheet. It would only print out the first page of any page that had multiple pages. Huh?

The trick is to put… float: none !important; …in your print stylesheet for any content wrapper that spans multiple pages.

Once again, A List Apart saves the day.

Here is some google bait so other people with the same problem can find the answer:

Netscape Mozilla Gecko only prints one page only prints the first page