You schtick me so, bitter Herr Stachelbeer

Longing for those refreshing Rheinland-Pfalz rain showers which dance playfully with the sun and refreshing breezes.

from Alter’s “Author’s Note” to “The Defining Moment”, about FDR and the 100 Days: “I wrote this book to better understand a few timeless questions about the nature of crisis leadership and the meaning of the American experiment in self-government. What is government for? How can it be mobilized in an emergency to secure safety and ease suffering? Where do hope and inspiration come from, and what might they accomplish?

Getting closer to firming up employment for this fall…

oh Doctor! oh Donna! oh David Tennant! my heart is breaking! (oh: and oh Rose! oh Billie Piper!)

“Good god, what kind of potato-head yokels have you hooked me up with!?”

Explaining can’t be done by looking at the past. The past is dead, filthy causist. If you try, the past retroactively becomes a series of events that were occurring towards a goal which, at the time, they are not.

“Captain, you are not married to the entire production line.”
President Roslin to Helo (married to the Cylon Sharon), in reference to his insistence that the Cylons would not try to keep the path to earth or the identity of the final 5 to themselves. (Battlestar Galactica)

Fit Brains relaunched with new & funchallenging games! http://ping.fm/RR33Z Facebook-like in it’s ability to cause addiction…

Registered at Plurk for the heck of it. Why not? Seems to have a more international userdom…