Friday, December 21, 2007
Diy Bikini Scope Covers
I decided to give just ONE random "before" example for they all look the same (except, of course for the title)
so here we have random before pic and a quick peek at the progress in the fight against the yellowness:
I decided to do the pimping in alphabetical order. this is A (Anzengruber) to B (Büchner):
Anzengruber - Der Meineidbauer:
Beer-Hofmann - the death of George:
Sebastian Brant - The Ship of Fools:
Georg Büchner - Lenz - The Hessian Courier:
Georg Büchner - Woyzeck:
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
What Hair Did Mary J Blige Wear In The Movie
because I can not and will stand not any longer to look at those piss-colored book spines I decided to do a pimp my reclam session. results will be posted here. featuring before / after pics. YAY!
I know they are cheap and I shouldn't complain and I COULD buy expensive editions of SOME (not all) of those. but I have to buy about say 50 books each semester so I really cannot afford to buy other editions.
this is the not so lovely look of my ever growing reclam-collection:
[EDIT: the one peeking out in a black-ish colour is already pimped, did that one a year or so ago]
Old Wood Boats For Sale
these all are to be read till January 29th *le sigh*
and this is just ONE list for ONE of my exams...
title | author | year | read | own |
Das Narrenschiff | Sebastian Brant | 1494 | ✔ | ✔ |
Ode to Apollo (Ode ad Apolline) | Konrad Celtis | 1486 | ✔ | ✔ |
The Praise of Folly (Encomium moria / louse stultitia) | Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam | 1511 | | |
The Freedom of a Christian man / Send letter of interpretation | Martin Luther | 1520 | ✔ | ✔ |
A Mighty Fortress is vnser God (the XLVI. Psalm) | Martin Luther | 1529 | ✔ | ✔ |
The Wittenberg Nightingale | Hans Sachs | 1523 | | ✔ |
The Walt | Hans Sachs | 1523 | | ✔ |
Historia von D. Johann Faustus | anonymous | 1587 | | |
Geschichtklitterung | Johannes Fischart | 1575 | ✔ | ✔ |
Vom Außgelaßnen Wütigen Teuffelsheer | Johannes Fischart | 1581 | | ✔ |
Book of the German poetry | Martin Opitz | 1624 | | ✔ |
baroque poetry | various | | | ✔ |
Catherine of Georgia | Andreas Gryphius | 1647 | | |
Herr Peter Squentz | Andreas Gryphius | 1658 | | |
Lesevorrede zu „Trojanerinnen“ | Martin Opitz | 1624 | | ✔ |
The itinerant student in Paradise | Hans Sachs | 1550 | | ✔ |
The adventurous Simplicissimus | Hans Jacob Christoph von Grimmelshausen | 1668 | | ✔ |
The Alps | Albrecht von Haller | 1729 | | ✔ |
poetry of the Enlightenment and the sensitivity | various | | | ✔ |
Critischen attempt at poetry before the Germans | Johann Christoph Gottsched | 1730 | | |
letters, the latest literature on | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing | 1759 | | ✔ |
Miss Sarah Sampson | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing | 1755 | | ✔ |
Minna by Minna | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing | 1767 | | ✔ |
essay on the novel | Frederick of Blacksburg | 1774 | | ✔ |
history of Agathon | Christoph Martin Wieland | 1766 | | ✔ |
Poetry the Sturm und Drang | various | | | ✔ |
comments over the theater | Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz | 1774 | | |
The tutor or advantages of private education | Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz | 1774 | | |
Sunday, December 16, 2007
Best Currency To Invest In
I finished book 1 ( Northern Lights/ The Golden Compass ) and I did really enjoy it. Intriguing world-building, rich imagination, highly interesting philosophy and many many secrets to be revealed. The characters are nicely drawn and there is no recoiling romance that might put you off the story.
then I went on to read the 2nd book ( The Subtle Knife ) and I finished it too and was even more impressed and intrigued and astonished by the talent that this author possesses to place such a complex philosophical theory in a children's book. amazing and quite refreshing. and they say Harry Potter would be a threat to the church. HA, what will they make of the Golden Compass that openly condemns the Magisterium (read: Church) to be all cause and origin of EVIL or approving of evil and holding back knowledge about the nature of the world or doing cruel experiments on children. (and you might have heard that they even burned such natural creatures as witches...)? as I said: intriguing.
now I will start the 3rd book ( The Amber Spyglass ) and I am very curious how it all will unfurl. [EDIT: oh no! oh woe! *sigh sob sob sigh* I knew this would happen. but why oh why so soon?!?! -
and maybe I will finally have to read Milton's Lost Paradise .
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Driver For Extigy Sound Card For Windows Vista
yet again the postman awoke me at 7:35 a.m. if I did get an amazon-package everyday he could be my very personal human alarm-clock. but alas I don't have to get up that early, which is why I tend to greet mr. postman wearing nothing but my quickly whipped on dressing gown and a bleary-eyed expression... poor lad, but he doesn't seem to mind that. how can he be so cheerful that early in the morning anyway?
on to the book. (I orderd more than one but for some strange reason they split up the package so that I got one today and will get the next one (four books) tomorrow, so my guess is I'll be woken again at 7:35, I could also get up at 7:00 a.m. and surprise him with being fully awake and maybe even some smell of freshly brewed coffee... but the way I know myself and my love for sleeping I probably won't do that...)
It's German (my first language btw., but I'm not German)
Dictionary of
castles, palaces
and fortresses
Monday, December 10, 2007
Marg Helgenberger Plastic Surgery
the year is closing in and I've been lazy even with noting which book I read when and how many I actually read. at least I think I've noted the dates in the books (1st page: date started, last page: date finished, it's as easy as that). so I can search all those tomes of lore and wisdom now for those dates and make my list complete. am curious if I actually read 50 books this year. have to make sure that I WILL keep an eye on my reading during 2008. makes the remembering so much easier and I need a little more awareness for books I read for university. should even force myself to write summaries, even if short and make sense to me only...
maybe I'll post the list here, together with the lists from 2000 up to now.
on another note: ordered the following (amazon.de) and looking very much forward to read them:
- Wörterbuch der Burgen, Schlösser und Festungen - Horst W. Böhme
- Burgenkunde - Otto Piper
- Die Welt des Mittelalters. Barbaren, Ketzer und Artisten - Arno Borst
- Lebensformen im Mittelalter - Arno Borst