Freitag, Januar 28, 2005

Here's a funny little story I laughed at which probably none of you will: A Romanian tabloid printed a story that a couple named their baby "Yahoo" because they had met at a Yahoo dating service web page. It turned out this was just a prank.
What I laughed at was the East European directness of the editor-in-chief:

"It was the reporter's child's birth certificate, which he modified," said Simona Ionescu, Libertatea's deputy editor-in-chief. "We fired him."

:-) Yeah, I know, I have weird humor. I just love the care-free sound of "We fired him".
She then goes on to say: "If it were real, it would have been a good story indeed".

But it wasn't...so [Russian accent]we fired him[/Russian accent]. :D

Freitag, Januar 21, 2005

Here's a short transcript from Bush's inaugural speech yesterday:

There is only one force of history that can break the reign of hatred and resentment and expose the pretensions of tyrants and reward the hopes of the decent and tolerant. And that is the force of human freedom.

[...] The best hope for peace in our world is the expansion of freedom in all the world.

Awww...inspiring isn't it? Well, it's wrong, too.
The only force of history that can do that is the love of Jesus Christ. Sorry, but human freedom is NOT the fix-it-all. Humans, given freedom, will NOT automatically go to peace together. That'd be nice, but it just won't happen. The problem is that Bush is apparently assuming humans are actually peaceful by nature, and so just give them enough freedom, and there'll be peace.
Don't get me wrong, freedom is definetly necessary for peace, but that's not what Bush is saying - he's going beyond that, putting human political freedom up as salvation for mankind. And that's what's wrong.

Donnerstag, Januar 20, 2005

Woohoo!!!
I just found out that I got a 1.0 on my Bachelor
thesis!!! That's definetly better than I had expected!
All in all, that puts me at an end grade of 2.0, which is awesome! Thanks for all your prayers and support! Gotta get back to work now... :)
P.S. On Friday, February 11th is my official graduation, where I get my degree and all of that good stuff - as many of you out there as can make it, I'd love to have you there!
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Juhuuu!!!
Hab gerade rausgefunden, dass ich eine 1,0 für meine Bachelor-Arbeit bekommen habe!!! Weit besser, als ich erwartet hatte!
Alles in allem habe ich also eine Abschlussnote von 2,0, was klasse ist! Danke für eure Gebete und für eure Unterstützung! So, jetzt sollte ich mal wieder an die Arbeit... :)
P.S. Am Freitag, dem 11. Februar findet während der Semesterabschlussfeier die offizielle Zeugnisübergabe statt - wer auch immer von euch da sein kann, ich würd mich echt freuen euch dabei zu haben!

Mittwoch, Januar 12, 2005

Watched "The Incredibles" yesterday. That is one awesome movie I definetly want on DVD. Once again, Pixar (makers of Toy Story, Finding Nemo, etc.) blows away everybody.
I know you'll laugh at me for this, but whatever: Something I found very thought-provoking was the line Dash (the little boy) says some time early in the movie: "Yeah, I know: Everyone's special - which is just another way of saying noone is."
That, ladies and gentlemen, has got to be one of the deepest lines ever spoken in a cartoon. Check out this article in the New York Times for a deeper look at that thought.
I'll leave it at that, my thoughts go a lot further (think "predestination"), but would take too long (and could be misunderstood too easily) to go into them. ;)
Anyways, the movie gets a 9.50 from me - in fact, I'd be up for watching it again at the theaters, I'll have to see if I can get Stephi to do that (she loved it, too, BTW)...