Suspended

"Suspended" - Haengend, schwebend; suspendiert.



The Walker Picture System, exactly what I was looking for: fun, flexible, minimalistic.

Lorem Ipsum

"Lorem Ipsum" (Dummy text, kind of...) - Eine Art von Attrappentext.

"Neque porro quisquam est qui dolorem ipsum quia dolor sit amet, consectetur, adipisci velit..." - "There is no one who loves pain itself, who seeks after it and wants to have it, simply because it is pain..."

I stumbled over "Lorem Ipsum" today while discussing aspects of layout algorithms, it is dummy text often used by the printing and typesetting industry. More...

Smoking Gun

"Smoking Gun" (incontrovertible evidence of guilt) - Unbestreitbarer Schuldbeweis.

Must I forgive you
Each time
And say you don't know what your're doing
There are no victimless crimes
I know of
Out here in these graffiti ruins
My love

Oh I am not old
I'm told
But I am not young
Oh and nothing can be done
Don't start
My heart
Is a smoking gun
Oh and nothing can be done

I heard you leaving
Late last night
I heard you screaming down the mountain
Like you were running red lights
(Red lights)
You had some trash-can-rock-band pounding

Oh I am not old
I'm told
But I am not young
Oh and nothing can be done
Don't start
My heart
Is a smoking gun
Oh and nothing can be done

Must I surrender
With grace
The things I loved when I was younger
(Sweet embrace)
Must I remember your face
So well
What do I do here with this hunger

Oh I am not old
I'm told
But I am not young
Oh and nothing can be done
Don't start
My heart
Is a smoking gun
Oh and nothing can be done

Nothing can be done
Nothing can be done
Oh nothing can be done...

These are the lyrics of "Nothing Can Be Done" (Music by Larry Klein, words by Joni Mitchell). Joni Mitchell is a genius, both as a writer and a musician. This one example, there are many more, fits today's mood.

Plug

"Plug" - Stecker; Zapfen; Pfropfen, Stöpsel; Zündkerze; Spülvorrichtung.

"Japan's Konica Minolta Holdings Inc. said on Thursday it would withdraw from the camera and color film businesses, marking the end to one of the best known brands in the photography world." More here and here.

Sad. I had happily used a Minolta SLR system for about 10 years before I switched to a digital Canon SLR setup.

Coffee, No Cigarettes

"Coffee, No Cigarettes" - Kaffee, Keine Zigaretten.

Applause

"Applause" - Beifall, Applaus.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, in an interview published days before her first visit to the United States, said Washington should close its Guantanamo Bay prison camp and find other ways of dealing with terror suspects.

Finally something agreeable from Fr. Merkel.