<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-242317451824146060</id><updated>2011-07-14T06:59:44.758-04:00</updated><category term='Flight'/><category term='first day'/><category term='New York'/><category term='apple pie'/><category term='beach'/><category term='politics'/><category term='stuff'/><category term='culture'/><category term='music'/><category term='Foto'/><category term='museum'/><category term='book'/><category term='war'/><category term='life'/><category term='economics'/><category term='smile'/><category term='Area'/><category term='Travel'/><category term='food'/><category term='drink'/><category term='Hudson'/><category term='Work'/><category term='subway'/><category term='fun'/><category term='film'/><category term='love'/><title type='text'>Borni in the USA</title><subtitle type='html'>331W 85th, New York, NY 10024</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://borni-in-the-usa.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/242317451824146060/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://borni-in-the-usa.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>borkus</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>33</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-242317451824146060.post-1436564847490679480</id><published>2009-06-28T15:03:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2009-06-28T15:03:58.898-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Ich bin umgezogen</title><content type='html'>Neues aus Magdeburg gibt es jetzt wieder unter http://lebenssplitter.blogspot.com/&lt;br /&gt;Kommentieren ist unbedingt erwünscht :)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/242317451824146060-1436564847490679480?l=borni-in-the-usa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://borni-in-the-usa.blogspot.com/feeds/1436564847490679480/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=242317451824146060&amp;postID=1436564847490679480' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/242317451824146060/posts/default/1436564847490679480'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/242317451824146060/posts/default/1436564847490679480'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://borni-in-the-usa.blogspot.com/2009/06/ich-bin-umgezogen.html' title='Ich bin umgezogen'/><author><name>borkus</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-242317451824146060.post-6009733619922661153</id><published>2009-02-21T00:20:00.004-05:00</published><updated>2009-02-21T01:29:39.518-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='New York'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Area'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Foto'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='life'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Travel'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='love'/><title type='text'>I very proudly present</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;pictures taken with my Canon EOS 300. I collected 6 films so far and wanted to wait for development till I'm back in Germany. But 3 days ago I looked at the film boxes and got very excited about the undeveloped pictures. I wanted to see them so badly that I decided to get them developed. So I finished work early on Wednesday and went to Duane Reade at Port Authority. The girl working there was very happy to get six films at once. After I picked them up today, I could understand why she was so happy. Two reasons: I payed $91.06 for developing, index print, one printed picture and a photo CD for the 6 films. (Well, I know I wrote some weeks ago that I want to scan them by myself, but after I saw the pictures I was glad that I invested the $2.99 per film) 90 bucks are nearly one fifth of a new Digital Singe Lens Reflex (DSLR) at Circuit City (going out of business these days so they offer about 30% discount (excluding discount caused by a strong Euro)) But as always in the last month, the problem is having the money at one time. Taking a credit is not worth it for now, not if you already got a big credit line from some friends for being able to go to NYC...&lt;br /&gt;The second reason, especially why she was so friendly today while picking up the pictures was maybe that she was very excited about some pictures. It's not like in Germany where they ship the films to a big laboratory. Here they have their machines right in the shop, so you can pic them up an hour or a day later. I thought about to offer her some pictures but i didn't. Maybe cause I was shocked by the price ;)&lt;br /&gt;After picking up the pictures I went to McDonalds on Times Square and had the Medium Angus Beacon &amp;amp; Cheese Meal with Coke. I finished it in 5 minutes. On the one hand cause I was very hungry because I didn't had much to eat during the day and on the other hand because I wanted to get the one hundred bucks full. No, not really. Maybe I was upset with the noodles I already had the last 2 days and were waiting in the fridge again today...&lt;br /&gt;I uploaded some pictures I took on Christmas, while walking downtwon along the East River,just walking through town and from Jersey City looking to Manhattan. Please feel free to leave some comments under the pictures. You don't have to register, German is allowed of course and critics are always highly appreciated. Just maximize the pictures by clicking the box ot comment by clicking the small speech balloon in the lower left corner:-)&lt;br /&gt;Anyway, there aren't that many pictures I'm ashamed of like on the films from last year. But especially with my new focal length lens I need some more practice because it's not that easy to deal with the bigger aperture (Blendenoeffnung). Nevertheless I'm very happy about the quality of some pictures. I can't describe the feeling having pictures of 6 films in your hand and beeing so highly excited before fetching out the next pic :D&lt;br /&gt;And now please enjoy it some of the pics:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://picasaweb.google.com/s/c/bin/slideshow.swf" flashvars="host=picasaweb.google.com&amp;amp;captions=1&amp;amp;RGB=0x000000&amp;amp;feed=http%3A%2F%2Fpicasaweb.google.com%2Fdata%2Ffeed%2Fapi%2Fuser%2Ftycoon83%2Falbumid%2F5305115318731739105%3Fkind%3Dphoto%26alt%3Drss" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" width="400" height="267"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/242317451824146060-6009733619922661153?l=borni-in-the-usa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://borni-in-the-usa.blogspot.com/feeds/6009733619922661153/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=242317451824146060&amp;postID=6009733619922661153' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/242317451824146060/posts/default/6009733619922661153'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/242317451824146060/posts/default/6009733619922661153'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://borni-in-the-usa.blogspot.com/2009/02/i-very-proudly-present.html' title='I very proudly present'/><author><name>borkus</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-242317451824146060.post-8425893671541858347</id><published>2009-02-05T20:26:00.006-05:00</published><updated>2009-02-05T22:17:33.878-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='culture'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Work'/><title type='text'>MBUSA und Management Style</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Heute war einer der Tage wo man mich haette fragen koennen ob ich denn gerne eine Festanstellung beim Daimler haben moechte und ich JA gesagt haette. Diesen Moment hatte ich schon des oefteren, allerdings auch mindestens so viele Momente wo ich einen Vogel gezeigt und auf der Stelle kehrt gemacht haette. Dieser Konzern ist so vielfaeltig inder Auspraegung der Umgansformen, Arbeitsstile, Aufgaben und herausforderungen dass es fuer mich nicht leicht wird, in nicht allzu ferner Zukunft, zu entscheiden, ob ich einen Einstieg versuchen oder doch (vorerst) dankend meinen Hut nehme...&lt;br /&gt;Nunja, zum heutigen Tag:&lt;br /&gt;Heute gab es bei &lt;a href="http://www.mbusa.com/mercedes/"&gt;MBUSA&lt;/a&gt; die President's Reception - Empfang des Praesidenten und CEO (Chief Execute Officer). Der Chef von MBUSA ist Ernst Lieb. Sehr umgaenglich, natuerlich, offen, sympathisch, locker, kompetent und in der Lage sich kurz zu fassen :)&lt;br /&gt;Der Empfang fand in einem Hotel, ca. 1Meile vom MBUSA Headquarter in Montvale entfernt, statt und hatte zum Ziel einen Ueberblick ueber 2008 zu geben, einen Ausblick auf 2009 und ausserdem konnten Mitarbeiter Fragen an die komplette Fuehrungsmannschaft stellen. Es sind Shuttlebusse gefahren die allerdings kaum genutzt wurden da die meisten Mitarbeiter mit em auto gefahren sind um danach gleich nach Hause fahren zu koennen. So gab es dann eine lange Kolonne von mehreren Hundert Mercedes-Benz-Autos (durchsetzt mit einigen Fremdmarken) - vom neuen C-300(in dem ich saß ;)  ) ueber den neuen &lt;a href="http://www.mercedes-glk.com/"&gt;GLK&lt;/a&gt; bis hin zum AMG63 war alles mehrfach vertreten. Und wie sich das fuer einen richigen Amerikaner gehoert sind wir natuerlich auch mit Navi gefahren *lol*&lt;br /&gt;Der Saal war bis zum letzten Platz gefuellt und Punkt 4pm fing dann der Spass auch an. Wobei Spass vielleicht etwas uebertrieben ist, es war eher ein Trauerspiel. Auf selbiges waren aber so gut wie alle eingestellt, denn ueber die Startseite im Intranet werden minutengenau die aktuellen Verkaufszahlen kommuniziert, sowie aktuelle Nachrichten und News praesentiert. Ich habe zudem durch regelmaessige Updates meiner Kollegen und monatliche Department-Meetings einen ziemlich guten Einblick in vieles was gerade so passiert, sei es bei den Dealern (Vertragshaendlern), PDCs (Parts Distribution Center - fuenf grosse Teilelager und -umschlagplaetze) oder Carriern (Speditionsunternehmen).&lt;br /&gt;So ging es denn nach einer kurzen aufmunternden Einfuehrung des Moderators gleich zur Sache. Ziele fuer 2008 nicht erreicht, Absatzzahlen insbesondere in den letzten Monaten von 2008 hinter den Erwartungen. ABER: Trotz sinkender Absatzzahlen konnte Merzees-Benz den Marktanteil erhoehen. Wie das? Nun ja, das laesst sich einfach erklaeren. Andere Automobilhersteller haben noch hoehere Verkaufszahlrueckgaenge zu verbuchen als wir und somit am gesamten Marktvolumen weniger Anteil. Dieser Aspekt wird bei vielen berichten gerne unterschlagen. 100.000 Autos weniger pro Jahr verkauft ist fuer die grossen drei in den USA (General Motors, Chrysler, Ford) nicht so wild wie fuer Mercedes, die 2008 "nur" 225.000 Auos verkauft haben.&lt;br /&gt;Im Januar 2009 sah das ganze dann schon schlechter aus. Hier ist ein Rueckgang gegenueber &lt;a href="http://www.emercedesbenz.com/Feb09/03_001577_Mercedes_Benz_USA_Sales_Drop_42_Percent_In_January_2009.html"&gt;Januar 2008&lt;/a&gt; um 42.9% zu verzeichnen. Einer der staerksten Rueckgaenge im vergleich zu anderen Herstellern, und das ganze trotz des neu (und gut, auch wenn hinter den Erwartungen) gestarteten GLK. Selbst wenn man beruecksichtigt, dass der Januar 2008 ein Rekordabsatzmonat war, ist dieser Rueckgang immer noch erschreckend. Anschliessend gab es einen Ausblick auf die prognostizierten Absatzzahlen fuer das aktuelle Jahr. Im Vergleich zu dem schon schlechter gelaufenen 2008 nochmal ein Rueckgang um einige 10.000 Autos :(&lt;br /&gt;Was bringt mich nun dazu das alles hier aufzuzaehlen obwohl es die meisten wohl doch nicht sooo genau interessiert? Nun, ich moechte zeigen was mich heute begeistert hat.&lt;br /&gt;Zum einen durfte ich bei einem Vertragsverhandlungen mit einem Carrier dabei sein. Der Chef kam hoechst persoenlich um die Details zu besprechen. Das Treffen war gepraegt von Freundlichkeit, Offenheit und nicht nur oberflaechlichem Smalltalk. Beide Seiten haben offen ihre Probleme diskutiert (auch di,e die nicht unmittelbar was mit dem Vertrag zu tun hatten), haben ihre Meinungen zu Trends ausgetauscht und sich versichert, gemeinsam durch die Krise gehen zu wollen. Das ist nicht selbstverstaendlich wie sich am Nachmittag bei der Fragerunde an das Management gezeigt hat. Die Manager haben berichtet wie es zugeht, wenn sich die Grossen der verschiedenen Unternehmen treffen. Es wird gejammert, geblockt, getreten und Pessimismus in Mengen an jeden verteilt. Es geht allerdings auch anders: Durch offene und selbstkritische, intensive Kommunkation der Probleme durch das Management an die Mitarbeiter in einem ungezwungenen Rahmen und eine, unter Anwesenheit aller Betroffenen, Auswertung von Fragen wie: Wie empfinden sie das Arbeitsklima? Denken Sie dass ihre Anregungen und Vorschlaege ernsthaft diskutiert werden? Wie bewerten Sie das Weiterbildungsangebot? Hinzu kommt dass man sich ernsthaft Gedanken dazu macht, wie man mit ALLEN Mitarbeitern durch die Krise kommt, wie man die Dealer unterstuetzen kann, wie die Zusammenarbeit mit dem Carrier intensiviert/verbessert werden kann, wie die Zufriedenheit der eigenen Mitarbeiter und vor allem wie die Kundenzufriedenheit erhoeht werden kann. Dazu kommt eine gehoerige Portion Lob fuer gutes Teamwork, fuer Steigerung in bestimmten Bereichen und der Hinweis auf spezielle Problemstellen an denen intensiv gearbeitet werden muss. Denn nur wenn das ganze Raederwerk reibungslos funktioniert und keiner zurueckgelassen wird (Phrasen vom Autor eingefuegt ;) ) koennen wir gestaerkt aus der Krise hervorgehen (nein, das war jetzt kein Zitat von Fr. Dr. Merkel :-P).&lt;br /&gt;Ich habe noch nie erlebt, dass ein Chef solchen Klartext zu seinen Mitarbeitern redet, geschweige denn Entscheidungen begruendet, moegliche Strategien oder Hintergruende detailliert erlaeutert. Trotz hierarchischen Strukturen hatte ich das Gefuehl dass es eigentlich nur eine Ebene gibt: den MB-Mitarbeiter. (hoert sich propagandistischer an als es gemeint ist ;-) )&lt;br /&gt;Das ist fuer mich Unternehmenskultur wie sie so schoen ueberall gepriesen wird. Hier wird sie auch gelebt. In dieser company ist ein Wir- und Zusammengehoerigkeitsgefuehl vorhanden, welches ich im Mutterkonzern kaum gefunden habe bis jetzt - mit Ausnahme bei den Daimler Financial Services vielleicht. Einen Manager/Chef zu erleben, der um die tausend Mitarbeiter, die trotz taeglichen Negativschlagzeilen in der Presse,  stuendlich auftretenden, auf den ersten Blick kaum zu bewaeltigenden Problemen,  veraergerten Kunden und drohender Arbeitslosigkeit motivieren, sie auf ein Ziel fokussieren und in so nie erlebten schwierigen Zeiten als Team zusammenhalten kann, ist einfach faszinierend.&lt;br /&gt;Um zum Ende zu kommen. Die Zahlen waren erschuetternd, die Aussichten sind beschissen aber viele/die meisten sind trotzdem mit Zuversicht und Motivation nach Hause gegangen, und das lag nicht (nur) an den leckeren Kaesehappen und den Getraenken die es danach gab....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, der Artikel ist nun doch nicht so geworden wie ich mir das vorgestellt habe aber, was naja, ich bin ja noch am ueben :-P Vlt konnte sich der ein oder andere ja einen kleinen Eindruck verschaffen. Das kann dann gerne in den comments festgehalten werden ^^&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/242317451824146060-8425893671541858347?l=borni-in-the-usa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://borni-in-the-usa.blogspot.com/feeds/8425893671541858347/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=242317451824146060&amp;postID=8425893671541858347' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/242317451824146060/posts/default/8425893671541858347'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/242317451824146060/posts/default/8425893671541858347'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://borni-in-the-usa.blogspot.com/2009/02/mbusa-und-management-style.html' title='MBUSA und Management Style'/><author><name>borkus</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-242317451824146060.post-4477496308641857326</id><published>2009-02-01T21:33:00.007-05:00</published><updated>2009-02-01T23:34:00.141-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='New York'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='culture'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Foto'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fun'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='life'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Travel'/><title type='text'>Chinese New Year</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Heute gab es die offizielle Chinese New Years Parade zur Begruessung des neuen Jahres nach dem gregorianischen Kalenders, das Jahr des Erd-Rindes. Das letzte war btw. das Jahr der Ratte.&lt;br /&gt;Traditionell wird das ganze mit einer Parade, unter anderem in Chinatown, befeiert.&lt;br /&gt;Das Wetter war super. Sonne, strahlend blauer Himmel und angenehme Temperaturen (ichs chaetze mal um die 10°C. So verwundert es auch nicht dass ich 6 Batterien verbraucht, ueber 220 (scharfe) digitale und ca. 50 analoge Bilder gemacht habe. Nicht nur von der Parade sondern auch von Chinatown im Allgemeinen und von Brooklyn, der Brooklyn Bridge und Manhattan beim anschliessenden Gang ueber die Manhattan Bridge.&lt;br /&gt;Ausgwaehlte Eindruecke von der Parade habe gibt es hier als Video zu beschauen:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="320" height="265"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/x_5ABBzuGbU&amp;amp;hl=de&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/x_5ABBzuGbU&amp;amp;hl=de&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="320" height="265"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="320" height="265"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/KP2z3I8GQD8&amp;amp;hl=de&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/KP2z3I8GQD8&amp;amp;hl=de&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="320" height="265"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Das ganze war eine einzige Werbeshow von Versicherungen, Banken, Restaurants und Kuenstlergruppen. Das ganze durchsetzt mit Kampfkunstvorfuehrungen, der Miss New Year oder so aehnlich ;) ) und Drachentaenzen.&lt;br /&gt;Ich habe gerade ein neues feature von Picasa entdeckt: Eine Slideshow der Bilder direkt in den blog eingebettet. Plz give a short hint wenn's nicht funzt.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://picasaweb.google.com/s/c/bin/slideshow.swf" flashvars="host=picasaweb.google.com&amp;amp;captions=1&amp;amp;RGB=0x000000&amp;amp;feed=http%3A%2F%2Fpicasaweb.google.com%2Fdata%2Ffeed%2Fapi%2Fuser%2Ftycoon83%2Falbumid%2F5298011423403550609%3Fkind%3Dphoto%26alt%3Drss%26authkey%3DvTUpVBmPg9w" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" width="400" height="267"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Einige Bilder habe ich rausgenommen und in ein &lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/tycoon83/20090201ChineseNewYearsParadeOuttakes?authkey=zp8Uh51rsf8&amp;amp;feat=directlink"&gt;gesondertes Album&lt;/a&gt; gepackt. Zu sehen sind haengende Huehner und lebende Froesche. Letztere in einem muelleimeraehnlichen Behaeltnis. Ich habe hautnah miterlebt wie eine chinesische Familie kam und sich drei Froesche ausgesucht hat. Der Verkaeufer hat in den Eimer reingegriffen, nen zappelnden, handgrossen Frosch gegriffen und das zappelnde Vieh in eine Fruehstueckstuete gesteckt. Bis zu diesem Moment hatte ich tierischen Knast, denn bis Mittag gab es nur nen kleinen Joghurt, nen O-Saft und einen extrastarken Kaffee. Nach der Frosch-Aktion bin ich aber in keinen Laden mehr rein der angebratenes Fleisch angeboten hat. (Ein Video vom Strassen-Fischladen gibt es fuer starke Nerven &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tp6xXKv3u84"&gt;hier&lt;/a&gt; zu sehen. Die Fische haben vor und nach dem Filmen gezappelt, waehrend dessen leider nicht *hmpf*) Irgendwie war mir danach nur noch schlecht. Das hat sich erst nach einem weiteren Coffee-2-go und einem Ananas-Broetchen gegeben. Das gab es waehrend der Manhattan-Bridge-Begehung:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://picasaweb.google.com/s/c/bin/slideshow.swf" flashvars="host=picasaweb.google.com&amp;amp;captions=1&amp;amp;RGB=0x000000&amp;amp;feed=http%3A%2F%2Fpicasaweb.google.com%2Fdata%2Ffeed%2Fapi%2Fuser%2Ftycoon83%2Falbumid%2F5298019711924023057%3Fkind%3Dphoto%26alt%3Drss%26authkey%3D_A1w7T8dhyM" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" width="400" height="267"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Die Aussicht von da war einach atemberaubend. Die Sonne ging direkt hinter der Brooklyn Bridge und dem Financial District unter. Besonders fanszinierend fand ich, dass man auf viele Hausdaecher schauen konnte. Unter anderem gab es da Spielplaetze und einen Tennisplatz zu entdecken. Platzmangel macht halt erfinderisch - auch wenn Spielplaetze in New York prinzipiell aus Plaste und zubetoniert sind.&lt;br /&gt;Waehrend ich die Aussicht genossen habe und staendig zwischen meiner Canon EOS 300 und der kleinen Kodak EasyShare C613 (Nochmal viielen lieben Dank an Andrea dass sie mir das Geraet ausgeliehen hat :-* ) hin und her gewechselt habe, bin ich ins Gruebeln gekommen ob es denn wirklich richtig war den Aufenthalt hier um nen Monat zu verkuerzen ("Wie jetze?" fragt ein Teil sich wohl gerade. "Verkuerzen will er??" Ne, nicht wollen tut er, sondern werden wird er. Warum, wieso, weshalb gibt es innem extra Update in den naechsten Tagen). Nunja, ich war jedenfalls ziemlich ueberwaeltigt von der Aussicht - ich hoffe die ausgewaehlten Bilder bringen das ansatzweise rueber. Die Canon-Bilder muessen leider erst noch entwickelt werden - ich bin echt mal gespannt wie die geworden sind. Als ich gestern auf dem Weg anch Brooklyn eine Stunde mit der U-Bahn gefahren bin, hab ich ein Buch ueber die Kamera foermlich verschlungen und heute viele neue Einstellungen ausprobiert. Ich bin hin und weg muss ich sagen. Das Buchkapitel ueber Blendenzahl und Tiefenschaerfe habe ich heute gleich in der Praxis getestet und bin schon allein von dem Sucherbild in der Spiegelreflexkamera ueberwaeltigt. Ich hoffe die entwickelten Bilder sind genauso ausdrucksstark. Ich habe mir ueberlegt ein digitales Fotobuch zu erstellen - nachdem ich wieder in Dtld bin, nen Rechner habe und ne Vorrichtung um die Negative einzuscannen. Das ganze koennte also eine Weile dauern. Vielleicht fange ich doch mit einem Fotoalbum an *gg* Ein Vorteil der Analogkamera ist in meinen Augen allerdings, dass man (insbes. ich ^^) sich mehr Gedanken ueber das Motiv und die zu verwendenden Einstellungen macht und nicht einfach drei mal drauf los knippst und die beiden schlechtesten dann loescht...&lt;br /&gt;Auf der Rueckfahrt habe ich wieder versucht durch cleveres U-Bahn-Hopping die Fahrtzeit zu verkuerzen. Das ist am Wochenende, wo es auf jeder Linie mindestens eine Fahrplanaenderung gibt (local statt express, Auslassen von Baltestellen, Bus statt U-Bahn etc.) gar nicht so einfach. Macht aber tierisch Spass und verhindert das all zu lange Doesen in ein und der selben Bahn. Das Super Bowl Spiel habe ich mir dann auch zu Hause per Online-Stream angeschaut an statt in eine Bar zu gehen - ich war einfach zu fertig von dem Tag.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/242317451824146060-4477496308641857326?l=borni-in-the-usa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://borni-in-the-usa.blogspot.com/feeds/4477496308641857326/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=242317451824146060&amp;postID=4477496308641857326' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/242317451824146060/posts/default/4477496308641857326'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/242317451824146060/posts/default/4477496308641857326'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://borni-in-the-usa.blogspot.com/2009/02/chinese-new-year.html' title='Chinese New Year'/><author><name>borkus</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-242317451824146060.post-4318828259441784037</id><published>2009-01-30T14:43:00.004-05:00</published><updated>2009-01-30T14:50:50.349-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='New York'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='culture'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Hudson'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='drink'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Travel'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='food'/><title type='text'>My week</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;will finish with chicken wings, spicy BBQ-sauce and soda for free *mjam*&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_U4SaUz9TE-4/SYNYo0uYuJI/AAAAAAAAD0U/qCVnZaA_iQI/s1600-h/102_0788.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5297175045089048722" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 213px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_U4SaUz9TE-4/SYNYo0uYuJI/AAAAAAAAD0U/qCVnZaA_iQI/s320/102_0788.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And allt hat just because on sunday there's the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_bowl"&gt;Super Bowl&lt;/a&gt; in Tampa, Florida. Actually I'm thinking about going out to a bar on sunday evening to have some beer and real american football flair. The bars will be crowded but maybe I get a chance in :)&lt;br /&gt;And hopefully I have such a beautiful skyline on my way home like the last days:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_U4SaUz9TE-4/SYNZxQf_C7I/AAAAAAAAD0k/M6hqZN-leN0/s1600-h/102_0778.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5297176289495419826" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 213px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_U4SaUz9TE-4/SYNZxQf_C7I/AAAAAAAAD0k/M6hqZN-leN0/s320/102_0778.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_U4SaUz9TE-4/SYNZxVzHTEI/AAAAAAAAD0c/RXrCAjJZgoU/s1600-h/102_0773.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5297176290917829698" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 213px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_U4SaUz9TE-4/SYNZxVzHTEI/AAAAAAAAD0c/RXrCAjJZgoU/s320/102_0773.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/242317451824146060-4318828259441784037?l=borni-in-the-usa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://borni-in-the-usa.blogspot.com/feeds/4318828259441784037/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=242317451824146060&amp;postID=4318828259441784037' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/242317451824146060/posts/default/4318828259441784037'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/242317451824146060/posts/default/4318828259441784037'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://borni-in-the-usa.blogspot.com/2009/01/my-week.html' title='My week'/><author><name>borkus</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_U4SaUz9TE-4/SYNYo0uYuJI/AAAAAAAAD0U/qCVnZaA_iQI/s72-c/102_0788.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-242317451824146060.post-1251617531189123553</id><published>2009-01-29T15:20:00.004-05:00</published><updated>2009-01-30T13:14:51.863-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='New York'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='culture'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='life'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='subway'/><title type='text'>How is it going?</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bei meiner taeglichen Lektuere der world-news bin ich auf einen Artikel der New York Times gestossen: &lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/27/nyregion/27arrival.html?pagewanted=all"&gt;Link&lt;/a&gt; Dort geht es darum, wie und wann sich Neu-New-Yorker mit der Stadt identifizieren, oder auch nicht.&lt;br /&gt;Ich kann nicht genau sagen wann ich "meinen Moment" hatte. Ich glaube ich hatte mehrere kleine ;) &lt;br /&gt;Frei nach Scrubs:&lt;br /&gt;Dr.Cox (zu J.D.): "Ich liebe diesen Moment so sehr, dass ich mit ihm schlafen will!"&lt;br /&gt;[5 Minuten später]&lt;br /&gt;Dr.Cox (zu J.D.): "Dieser Moment gefällt mir sowas von gut, dass ich den von vorhin mit ihm betrügen würde, um ihn zu heiraten und viele kleine Momente mit ihm zu bekommen."&lt;br /&gt;Nach dem Lesen des Artikels ist mir bewusst geworden: Ich denke schon seit einiger Zeit nicht mehr ueber gewisse Dinge nach weil sie fuer mich sehr schnell zur Selbstverstaendlichkeit geworden sind. Der Blick nach hinten, wenn man durch eine Tuer geht um sie evtl. dem Nachfolger aufzuhalten, das "Excuse me, please" wenn man sich an jemandem in einem Laden vorbeidraengelt oder auf den Fuss tritt, der Sprung von einer U-Bahn zur naechsten, mit dem Ziel, eine Minute eher am Ziel zu sein, die stoische Ruhe wenn 3 Minuten lang keine U-Bahn kommt (da man es eh nicht aendern kann und der Anschlusszug auch mindestens alle 10 Minuten faehrt). Hinzu kommt, dass ich einfach in einen nett aussehenden Laden gehe um was zu Essen zu kaufen und nicht mehr Ewigkeiten die Avenue hochtigere, in der Hoffnung, noch einen besseren/guenstigeren Laden zu finden als den soeben gesehenen (denn es wird definitiv einen geben innerhalb der naechsten 2 blocks^^).&lt;br /&gt;Ich bin traurig, wenn der Schifferklavierspieler morgens nicht seine melancholisch schoenen Melodien in der Unterfuehrung zwischen 42nd Street und Port Authority spielt, ich rege mich nicht mehr ueber Langsamlatscher und Im-Weg-Rumsteher auf (meistens jedenfalls ;-) ), schaue nur noch zu einer Seite wenn es heisst bei Rot ueber die Strasse zu rushen (weil die meisten Strassen Einbahnstrassen sind - gekennzeichnet durch ein "One Way"-Schild und nur in eine Richtung parkende Autos) und sage schon automatisch "No, thank you" an Stelle von "Ne, danke" wenn man wieder ne Zeitung oder nen Flyer in die Hand gedrueckt bekommt. Manchmal greife ich aber dann doch zu - entweder aus Mitleid, aus Langeweile, aus Interesse am Flyer oder einfach nur weil die Person die selbigen verteilt interessant aussieht ;) Man hoert auf, anderen Leuten in der Metro auf den BlackBerry zu schauen (weil irgendwie interessiert's einen irgendwann dann doch nicht mehr *lol*). Statt dessen fange ich an mich fuer die Buecher zu interessieren, die die Leute so lesen, starre mich selber in der gegenueberliegenden Scheibe an (wenn die Bahn denn mal leer ist) oder beobachte Leute wie sie dasitzen und sich selber anstarren, vor sich hin traeumen, lachen, traurig sind oder schlafen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Watch some short videos about people living and working in New York and their story: http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/nyregion/1-in-8-million/index.html#&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/242317451824146060-1251617531189123553?l=borni-in-the-usa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://borni-in-the-usa.blogspot.com/feeds/1251617531189123553/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=242317451824146060&amp;postID=1251617531189123553' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/242317451824146060/posts/default/1251617531189123553'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/242317451824146060/posts/default/1251617531189123553'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://borni-in-the-usa.blogspot.com/2009/01/how-is-it-going.html' title='How is it going?'/><author><name>borkus</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-242317451824146060.post-9161138178578057879</id><published>2009-01-29T01:04:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2009-01-29T01:18:38.125-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='New York'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='culture'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Area'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='life'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='music'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='film'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='love'/><title type='text'>American Evening</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;This evening 3 interns and one career student went to McDonalds to have some lunch (Angus-Burger with Bacon &amp;amp; Cheese with french fries and Cola - delicious *mjam*) and afterwards to the cinema watching &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notorious_%282009_film%29"&gt;Notorious B.I.G.&lt;/a&gt; ("Bi Ei Dschi"). It's a biograpic film about the rapper &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Notorious_B.I.G."&gt;Christopher George Latore Wallace&lt;/a&gt; (1972 - 1997).&lt;br /&gt;We were at the AMC cinema at Times Square - they had about 25 show-rooms. One intern told me that it's famous for visitors being not that silent during some movies. And we really didn't become disappointed. About three of four people were afro-american guys. There was much talking from one end to the other during the whole film, especially if you saw some people kissing or making love. The synonym, the well known f-word, was used in nearly every second sentence. And it was not piep-ed out as you may know it from Southpark, for example. The movie rating was 13 years, btw. So they are afraid of showing nipples during some music-contest after the breaking news in the evening but let their children watch much harder movies in the cinema. Strange way of life ^^&lt;br /&gt;Well, the funniest scene was when the mother of B.I.G. slapped her son (being 19 at this time I think) into the face und die gesammte versammelte schwarze Gemeinde lies unisono ein "Ooouuuhhhhh" verlauten. Ganz grosses Kino sag ich da nur *gg*&lt;br /&gt;Stellenweise war der Film echt schwer zu verstehen, insbesondere bei den gerappten Texten hatte ich so meine Schwierigkeiten - aber die Reaktion des mitgroovenden Publikums lies den Inhalt erahnen :)&lt;br /&gt;Schaut euch den Film unbedingt in Englisch an - auch wenn man nur die Haelfte versteht, die (Aus-)Sprache der Schauspieler und die Texte und Situationen kommen viel beser rueber als im Deutschen.&lt;br /&gt;Was ich außerdem total faszinierend fand war, dass der Film zum Großteil in New York gedreht wurde und ich so gut wie alle Plaetze wieder erkannt habe. Vom Times Square, ueber die Plaetze von denen aus die Manhattan Skyline gefilmt wurde, ueber die Brooklyn Bridge, U-Bahn-Haltestellen, Fulton Avenue in Brooklyn oder Kreuzungen in Manhattan. Es ist ein ganz anderes Kinoerlebnis weil man die Stadt foermlich riechen kann waehrend man in seinem urstig bequemen, bis ueber den Kopf gehenden, Ledersessel luemmelt.&lt;br /&gt;Am Ende wurde der Film doch etwas dolle schmalzig, da der Regisseur krampfhaft versucht hat dem zuschauer zu zeigen dass der Chris doch eigentlich ein ganz lieber war (vergessen all die Drogen, Kaempfe und Ehebrueche vom ersten Teil) . Aber das war vielleicht auch besser so ansonsten haetten die Leute noch das Kino zerlegt nach der Vorstellung :D Was in meinen Augen hingegen besonders gut rueber kam war, wie B.I.G. durch seinen Erfolg vielen Freunden, Bekannten oder Nachbarn Hoffnung gegeben hat dass man es auch ganz nach oben schaffen kann selbst wenn man als Kind nur der kleine dicke Junge mit der Hornbrille ist der von allen gemobbt wird ("No dream is too big").&lt;br /&gt;Im Nachbarkino fing gerade Gran Torrino (allein schon wegen dem Filmplakat moechte ich den sehen) an als unser Film zu Ende war. Statt gleich rein zu gehen sind wir erst noch eien Etage tiefer gefahren um zu schauen was da noch so laeuft. Da fing natuerlich an dem Abend kein weiterer Film mehr an. Hoch zu unserem urspruenglichen Kinosaal kamen wir nicht mehr und die Säle 9-25 waren sowieso nicht erreichbar mit unserem Ticket. Also ging es nach Hause. Dolle weh getan hat es nicht da wir dank Firmenrabatt 1/3 guenstiger reingekommen sind *jippie* Aber beim naechsten Mal werden wir den ersten interessanten Film nehmen den wir kriegen koennen. Weil zwei Filme zum Preis 2/3 eines Films ist einfach noch unschlagbarer *hihi*&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/242317451824146060-9161138178578057879?l=borni-in-the-usa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://borni-in-the-usa.blogspot.com/feeds/9161138178578057879/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=242317451824146060&amp;postID=9161138178578057879' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/242317451824146060/posts/default/9161138178578057879'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/242317451824146060/posts/default/9161138178578057879'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://borni-in-the-usa.blogspot.com/2009/01/american-evening.html' title='American Evening'/><author><name>borkus</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-242317451824146060.post-687220139884079709</id><published>2009-01-26T15:19:00.009-05:00</published><updated>2009-01-26T23:44:21.397-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='New York'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='economics'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='culture'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Foto'/><title type='text'>Eindeutig doppeldeutig?</title><content type='html'>Bei meiner Lektuere meiner ueber den Google news-Reader abonnierten Seiten bin ich auf folgendes Bild gestossen:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_U4SaUz9TE-4/SX4bSEqYwiI/AAAAAAAADzU/-VphZY2i7Zc/s1600-h/Madonna.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 314px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_U4SaUz9TE-4/SX4bSEqYwiI/AAAAAAAADzU/-VphZY2i7Zc/s320/Madonna.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5295700209137402402" border="0" /&gt;Quelle:www.mylalalaland.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Die Anordnung der Madonna und des Playboys ist offensichtlich eine Konstruktion, entweder eine des Fotographen oder eine zufaellige die nach der Entstehung jemandem quasie vor die Linse gefallen ist.&lt;br /&gt;Dieses Bild hat mich jedenfalls an den 30.12.2008 erinnert. An dem Tag bin ich mit meinen beiden Besuchern durch New York gestromert, auf der Suche nach schoenen Plaetzen fuer ein paar Poserbilder bei strahlendem Sonnenschein ;)&lt;br /&gt;Auf unserem Weg durch Lower-Manhattan, Financial District sind wir an der Trinity Church vorbeigekommen:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" src="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&amp;amp;source=s_q&amp;amp;hl=de&amp;amp;geocode=&amp;amp;q=89+Broadway,+New+York&amp;amp;sll=40.708045,-74.012282&amp;amp;sspn=0.011012,0.019226&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;ll=40.717404,-74.007511&amp;amp;spn=0.011402,0.019226&amp;amp;t=h&amp;amp;z=14&amp;amp;iwloc=addr&amp;amp;output=embed&amp;amp;s=AARTsJqzntyFHRch7acRc6WZrbw5ouaf4w" scrolling="no" width="400" frameborder="0" height="320"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;small&gt;&lt;a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&amp;amp;source=embed&amp;amp;hl=de&amp;amp;geocode=&amp;amp;q=89+Broadway,+New+York&amp;amp;sll=40.708045,-74.012282&amp;amp;sspn=0.011012,0.019226&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;ll=40.717404,-74.007511&amp;amp;spn=0.011402,0.019226&amp;amp;t=h&amp;amp;z=14&amp;amp;iwloc=addr" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); text-align: left;"&gt;Größere Kartenansicht&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wie man schoen erkennen kann endet die Wall Street direkt am Eingang der Kirche, nur mal am Rande ;)&lt;br /&gt;In der Kirche ist mir dann am offiziellen Souvernirverkaufsstand folgendes Buch aufgefallen:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_U4SaUz9TE-4/SX4dRtgy-pI/AAAAAAAADzc/Y54PBN9rTYc/s1600-h/100_4145.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_U4SaUz9TE-4/SX4dRtgy-pI/AAAAAAAADzc/Y54PBN9rTYc/s320/100_4145.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5295702401946417810" border="0" /&gt;The Little Chapel That Stood&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ja, und dieses Bild ist definitiv kein Zufall, da hat sich auch keiner einen boesen Scherz erlaubt und es einfach mal so neben die Bibel zum Verkauf gestellt.&lt;br /&gt;Wenn man nur das Bild vor Augen hat ist es schwer zu glauben dass ein Buch mit solch einem schadenfroh grinsenden Cover neben der Ausmalbibel fuer Kinder verkauft wird.&lt;br /&gt;Nach dem Lesen des &lt;a href="http://www.abcurtiss.com/graphics/books2/l_chapel/little_chapel1.htm"&gt;bebilderten Inhalts&lt;/a&gt; wird einem zwar klar dass es darum geht wie viel Glueck bzw "Schutz von oben" die Kirche am 11. September hatte und wie tapfer sie sich doch geschlagen hat in der ganzen Panik und dem Tumult. Den Beigeschmack einer gewissen Selbstverherrlichung werde ich trotzdem nicht los... comments please :)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/242317451824146060-687220139884079709?l=borni-in-the-usa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://borni-in-the-usa.blogspot.com/feeds/687220139884079709/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=242317451824146060&amp;postID=687220139884079709' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/242317451824146060/posts/default/687220139884079709'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/242317451824146060/posts/default/687220139884079709'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://borni-in-the-usa.blogspot.com/2009/01/eindeutig-doppeldeutig.html' title='Eindeutig doppeldeutig?'/><author><name>borkus</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_U4SaUz9TE-4/SX4bSEqYwiI/AAAAAAAADzU/-VphZY2i7Zc/s72-c/Madonna.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-242317451824146060.post-835529025127225585</id><published>2009-01-25T22:19:00.007-05:00</published><updated>2009-01-25T23:16:06.001-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='New York'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Area'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Hudson'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='life'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Travel'/><title type='text'>Mal wieder unterwegs</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;jepp, ich hab's mal wieder getan. Das Bett verlassen um neue Stadtteile zu erkunden - immer noch ohne Stadtplan. So hab ich mir am Samstag ueberlegt mal nach Queens zu fahren. Also raus aus dem Bett und rein in die U-Bahn. Mit der 1 von der 86th zur 42nd. Eigentlich wollte ich ja schon zwei Haltestellen frueher raus, aber da standen mir zu viele Leute vor der Tuer und die Musik die gerade lief lud auch zum Verweilen ein ;) Die Auswirkungen die das auf meinen Reise"plan" hatte wurden mir erst so nach und nach bewusst. Weil von der 42nd ist es nur mit mehrmaligem Umsteigen moeglich zur Rockefeller-Station zu kommen um von da aus den F-Train anch Queens zu nehmen. Also hab ich mich spontan fuer den N-Train entschieden und bin bis zur 39 Ave in Queens gefahren. Was am Ende eine ganz gute Entscheidung war, da die Bahn oberirdisch ankam und somit einen schoenen Ausblick ermoeglicht hat. Mal wieder ein Punkt fuer mit ohne Stadtplan fahren :D&lt;br /&gt;Dann ging es zu Fuss weiter, noerdlich am East-River entlang. Da sind dann auch die meisten der folgenden Fotos entstanden:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table style="width: 194px; text-align: left; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="background: transparent url(http://picasaweb.google.com/f/img/transparent_album_background.gif) no-repeat scroll left center; height: 194px; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/tycoon83/20090124Queens?authkey=h-b6-Wp6m5s&amp;amp;feat=embedwebsite"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_U4SaUz9TE-4/SX0aMj8hyhE/AAAAAAAADto/tmqYJwPJsI4/s160-c/20090124Queens.jpg" style="margin: 1px 0pt 0pt 4px;" width="160" height="160" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/tycoon83/20090124Queens?authkey=h-b6-Wp6m5s&amp;amp;feat=embedwebsite" style="color: rgb(77, 77, 77); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"&gt;2009-01-24 Queens&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Heute, am Sonntag ging es dann rueber nach Jersey City. Well, I've to say die Existenz der facebook-Gruppe: &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/group.php?gid=2212912709"&gt;Every day when I wake up, I thank God that I'm not from New Jersey&lt;/a&gt; hat sich wieder als berechtigt herausgestellt ^^ Das Schoenste an Jersey City ist nämlich der Blick auf Manhattan (Eine Adaption der Ulmer Weisheit: "Das Schoenste an Neu-Ulm ist der Blick auf Ulm") *gg* Ok, ich muss sagen das Haus neben der Uhr gefaellt mir schon ziemlich gut - allerdings ist der Eindruck wenn man von Manhattan aus rueber schaut um einiges beeindruckender als wenn man direkt davor steht: &lt;/div&gt;&lt;table style="width: auto; text-align: left; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/NKG1B_GF-1g-IIq_4SD5iw?feat=embedwebsite"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_U4SaUz9TE-4/SSoluISE3KI/AAAAAAAACoQ/_ETeYMYDryE/s144/100_3450.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: right;"&gt;From &lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/tycoon83/20081123LowerWestManhattan?feat=embedwebsite"&gt;2008-11-23 Lower West Manhattan&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Die gesammelten (ausgewaehlten) Eindruecke des heutigen Tages gibt es hier zu begutachten :) &lt;/div&gt;&lt;table style="width: 194px; text-align: left; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="background: transparent url(http://picasaweb.google.com/f/img/transparent_album_background.gif) no-repeat scroll left center; height: 194px; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/tycoon83/20090125JerseyCityAndLowerManhattan?authkey=tdSkbM9P7ck&amp;amp;feat=embedwebsite"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_U4SaUz9TE-4/SX0bcy7ZhvE/AAAAAAAADx0/5FSu260PHZg/s160-c/20090125JerseyCityAndLowerManhattan.jpg" style="margin: 1px 0pt 0pt 4px;" width="160" height="160" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/tycoon83/20090125JerseyCityAndLowerManhattan?authkey=tdSkbM9P7ck&amp;amp;feat=embedwebsite" style="color: rgb(77, 77, 77); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"&gt;2009-01-25 Jersey City and Lower Manhattan&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Eigentlich wollte ich um 4pm zu einem Orgelkonzert gehen welches bestimmt stattgefunden hat, allerdings ohne mich, da ich West 10th Street war und nicht East 10th Street. Naja, so bin ich eine Runde durch Chelsea geschlendert - wer das mal bei &lt;a href="http://maps.google.com/"&gt;google maps&lt;/a&gt; nachschlagen moechte sucht nach Bleecker Street, Christopher Street und 8th Ave - so in der Gegend war das ;)&lt;br /&gt;Dabei bin ich, eigentlich auf der Suche nach einem gemuetlichen Café, im Chelsea Market gelandet. Chelsea Market ist eine urgemuetliche Hinterhof-Einkaufsmeile mit backsteinen Waenden,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table style="width: auto; text-align: left; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/wEe_PfbRxTLXlsNS3UOkcQ?authkey=tdSkbM9P7ck&amp;amp;feat=embedwebsite"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_U4SaUz9TE-4/SX0cGUI5BuI/AAAAAAAADxI/Hp0_8rPiXVo/s144/102_0757.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: right;"&gt;From &lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/tycoon83/20090125JerseyCityAndLowerManhattan?authkey=tdSkbM9P7ck&amp;amp;feat=embedwebsite"&gt;2009-01-25 Jersey City and Lower Manhattan&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; unverkleideten Rohren an den Decken, vielen Sitzgelegenheiten&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table style="width: auto; text-align: left; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/XryHU6ivbLEwxX35mn1S9A?authkey=tdSkbM9P7ck&amp;amp;feat=embedwebsite"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_U4SaUz9TE-4/SX0cJx2W5GI/AAAAAAAADxY/iT3Hp64ay4c/s144/102_0761.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: right;"&gt;From &lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/tycoon83/20090125JerseyCityAndLowerManhattan?authkey=tdSkbM9P7ck&amp;amp;feat=embedwebsite"&gt;2009-01-25 Jersey City and Lower Manhattan&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; und Wasser &lt;/div&gt;&lt;table style="width: auto; text-align: left; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/39f9_E4so19pCtK-o_ug6w?authkey=tdSkbM9P7ck&amp;amp;feat=embedwebsite"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_U4SaUz9TE-4/SX0cIBRKXUI/AAAAAAAADxQ/GhBBimzgRoI/s144/102_0759.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: right;"&gt;From &lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/tycoon83/20090125JerseyCityAndLowerManhattan?authkey=tdSkbM9P7ck&amp;amp;feat=embedwebsite"&gt;2009-01-25 Jersey City and Lower Manhattan&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dort gab es u. a. einen &lt;a href="http://privedesignersales.com/"&gt;Designer Sample Sale&lt;/a&gt;. Hier wurden die ersten Stuecke von Designern verkauft die sie haben anfertigen lassen bevor es 8wenn denn ueberhaupt^^) in die Produktion geht. Da ich am Freitag Abend durch den Verzicht auf ein &lt;a href="http://www.lastfm.de/event/859076"&gt;Konzert&lt;/a&gt; $30 (ohne Getraenke) gespart habe, habe ich mir spontan eine echt coole Jacke zugelegt (Nein, Foto ist noch nicht vorhanden :-P). $20 instead of $160 wenn man sie in der aktuellen Kollektion kaufen wuerde - das ist mal nen unschlagbarer Preis :D Vom Designer bzw der Company (Bureau) hab ich zwar noch nie was gehoert, ist aber auch egal, weil mir gefaellt das gute Stueck *gg* Am Bei-wieviel-Grad-darf-man-waschen-und-woraus-besteht-die-Jacke-Schild haben sie zwar gespart, aber darueber seh ich gerne hinweg ^^&lt;br /&gt;Das Café in dem ich mich schliesslich auf eine leckere große heiße Schokolade niedergelassen habe war das Paradise Café&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" src="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&amp;amp;source=s_q&amp;amp;hl=de&amp;amp;geocode=&amp;amp;q=paradise+cafe,+new+york&amp;amp;sll=40.735551,-74.001739&amp;amp;sspn=0.007463,0.013819&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;t=h&amp;amp;cid=40741654,-74001160,8867348442183718200&amp;amp;s=AARTsJpruGRuttSnnoVgQ8d5Cek3VkOXMA&amp;amp;ll=40.742884,-74.000795&amp;amp;spn=0.00569,0.00912&amp;amp;z=16&amp;amp;iwloc=A&amp;amp;output=embed" scrolling="no" width="400" frameborder="0" height="330"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;small&gt;&lt;a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&amp;amp;source=embed&amp;amp;hl=de&amp;amp;geocode=&amp;amp;q=paradise+cafe,+new+york&amp;amp;sll=40.735551,-74.001739&amp;amp;sspn=0.007463,0.013819&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;t=h&amp;amp;cid=40741654,-74001160,8867348442183718200&amp;amp;ll=40.742884,-74.000795&amp;amp;spn=0.00569,0.00912&amp;amp;z=16&amp;amp;iwloc=A" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); text-align: left;"&gt;Größere Kartenansicht&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Davon gibt es mindestens zwei in der Ecke. Die Leute dort sind ziemlich entspannt, die Bedienung sehr freundlich, das Ambiente sehr warm und die Preise ok (fuer den Preis fuer die große heiße Schokolade haett ich beim Starbucks gegenueber nichtmal nen kleinen Café bekommen ^^)&lt;br /&gt;So, nu isses doch mehr geworden als geplant - sorry for that ;)&lt;br /&gt;Ich werd dann mal noch nen chapter von meinem sehr interessanten und spannenden Buch "Pillars of the earth" lesen und dann is morgen auch schon wieder Montag *hmpf* Bzw die ersten von euch muessen in 1-2h schon wieder raus *mitfuehl*&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/242317451824146060-835529025127225585?l=borni-in-the-usa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://borni-in-the-usa.blogspot.com/feeds/835529025127225585/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=242317451824146060&amp;postID=835529025127225585' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/242317451824146060/posts/default/835529025127225585'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/242317451824146060/posts/default/835529025127225585'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://borni-in-the-usa.blogspot.com/2009/01/mal-wieder-unterwegs.html' title='Mal wieder unterwegs'/><author><name>borkus</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://lh4.ggpht.com/_U4SaUz9TE-4/SX0aMj8hyhE/AAAAAAAADto/tmqYJwPJsI4/s72-c/20090124Queens.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-242317451824146060.post-2928601722344029939</id><published>2009-01-24T13:47:00.005-05:00</published><updated>2009-01-24T14:16:34.639-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='life'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='war'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='film'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='love'/><title type='text'>Les Fronzosen</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Thx 2 &lt;a href="http://valeri-in-scotland.blogspot.com/"&gt;Larry&lt;/a&gt; fuer den Link auf &lt;a href="http://www.frog-blog.ch/frogblog/"&gt;frog-blog&lt;/a&gt;. Ich hab mal nen drin rumgestoebert und das folgende Video gefunden. es wurde von 4 Studenten einer franzoesichen Kunsthochschule produziert. Sehr gut gemacht wie ich finde und ohne viel Drumherum einfach die Aussage ziemlich genau auf den Punkt gebracht. Keine lueckenfuellenden Dialoge wenn man das ganze auch mit passender Musik unterlegen kann. Ausserdem hat mich die Uebersetzung der franzoesischen Dialoge ins Englische fasziniert. Sehr gut gelungen wie ich finde.&lt;br /&gt;Enjoy it:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="400" height="320"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/-JnMKKDUfjs&amp;amp;hl=de&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/-JnMKKDUfjs&amp;amp;hl=de&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="400" height="320"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Das Ende erinnert mich an einen anderen sehr sehenswerten Film: Zug des Lebens vom Regisseur Radu Mihaileanu. Den wikipedia-Link empfehle ich nicht zu lesen, der verraet das Ende :( Einfach anschauen. Ich leih die DVD auch gerne aus :) &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/242317451824146060-2928601722344029939?l=borni-in-the-usa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://borni-in-the-usa.blogspot.com/feeds/2928601722344029939/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=242317451824146060&amp;postID=2928601722344029939' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/242317451824146060/posts/default/2928601722344029939'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/242317451824146060/posts/default/2928601722344029939'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://borni-in-the-usa.blogspot.com/2009/01/les-fronzosen.html' title='Les Fronzosen'/><author><name>borkus</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-242317451824146060.post-4268492228795816072</id><published>2009-01-22T22:13:00.005-05:00</published><updated>2009-01-22T22:24:45.641-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='culture'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='life'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='film'/><title type='text'>9 by Tom Burton</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Beim surfen bin ich gerade ueber folgenden Kurzfilm gestolpert:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="400" height="300"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.filmroster.com/player/embed.swf?xml=http://www.filmroster.com/eplaylist/228&amp;amp;autostart=0"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.filmroster.com/player/embed.swf?xml=http://www.filmroster.com/eplaylist/228&amp;amp;autostart=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="400" height="300"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Er hat mich an die Werbung vor dem Film The Spirit erinnert den ich vor 2 Wochen im Kino gesehen habe. Ich find die puppen einfach nur knuffig :)&lt;br /&gt;Hier ein Trailer zum Film "9":&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="400" height="260"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/JIpZxBczWUg&amp;amp;hl=de&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/JIpZxBczWUg&amp;amp;hl=de&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="400" height="260"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Laut &lt;a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0472033/"&gt;imdb.com&lt;/a&gt; kommt der Film im September 2009 in die Kinos. Ich freu mich drauf :) Wer noch keinen Tim Burton Film gesehen hat sollte sich unbedingt mal einen anschauen. Sehr schoen in Szene gesetzt, Auf einer meiner vielen ICE-Fahrten in den letzten 2 Jahren hab ich mir mal &lt;a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corpse_Bride_%E2%80%93_Hochzeit_mit_einer_Leiche"&gt;Corpse Bride&lt;/a&gt; angeschaut und hatte waehrend dessen gleich 3 Kinder um mich drumrum ^^&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/242317451824146060-4268492228795816072?l=borni-in-the-usa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://borni-in-the-usa.blogspot.com/feeds/4268492228795816072/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=242317451824146060&amp;postID=4268492228795816072' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/242317451824146060/posts/default/4268492228795816072'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/242317451824146060/posts/default/4268492228795816072'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://borni-in-the-usa.blogspot.com/2009/01/9-by-tom-burton.html' title='9 by Tom Burton'/><author><name>borkus</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-242317451824146060.post-1032982858528697189</id><published>2009-01-22T10:25:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2009-01-22T10:50:55.443-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='economics'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='politics'/><title type='text'>My yesterday's day...</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;...beschreib ich heut mal auf deutsch :)&lt;br /&gt;Gross was zu tun gibt es immer noch nicht, aber man sucht sich so seine Beschaeftigung ^^ Danke an den &lt;a href="http://aneurysm.twoday.net/"&gt;Herrn von nebenan&lt;/a&gt; fuer gelegentliche (?unbewusste?) Denkanstoesse :-* Zum Beispiel fuer die Freundschaftseinladung bei Myspace die mich dazu gebracht hat meinen Account wieder zu reaktivieren. Und da der Video-Dienst von Google demnaechst seine Pforten fuer neue Videos schliessen wird (laengst faellig, weil wozu sonst haben die Herrschaften youtube gekauft) bin ich am ueberlegen neue vids einfach zu myspacen anstatt zu youtuben. Ein Vergleich der beiden Dienste fuer meine Zwecke ist das Projekt fuer die naechste Woche.&lt;br /&gt;Neben dem Ueblichen last.fm-en, twittern, facebooken, studivz-en, online-spiegeln, New-York-Times-en und Intranet-en klicke ich mich nebenbei noch durch einige sehr interessante blogs.&lt;br /&gt;Vor einigen Tagen ist mir &lt;a href="http://blog.andyharless.com/"&gt;Andy Harless&lt;/a&gt; vor den Mauszeiger gekommen und gleich in meine To-Read-Liste gewandert. Er ist Harvard-Absolvent (was nun nichts heissen muss) und Chef-Volkswirt in einem Unternehmen (was auch nichts heissen muss ;) ) Nun, er schreibt zur Zeit fast taeglich zum Thema: "Wie helfen uns aktelle Wirtschaftstheorien aus der Krise?" Was nun nicht sonderlich spannend erscheinen mag da es zu Hauf Experten gibt die DIE Loesung parat haben (ich war versucht zu schreiben "Die Endloesung", aber dann waer ich garantiert im Schaeubleschen Raster haengen geblieben *rofl*) Allerdings schreibt er nicht fuer Gott und die Welt sondern nimmt direkten Bezug zu anderen Wissenschaftlern oder Volkswirten die sich mit der gleichen Thematik rumschlagen. Viele von ihnen argumentieren mit den gleichen Argumenten, interpretieren das Ergebnis aber anders, so dass viele interessante Meinungen bei rauskommen. Meine Meinung bisher ist, dass keiner wirklich weiss was zu tun ist. Checks an die Bevoelkerung verteilen, Steuern senken oder die Arbeiter doch lieber gleich vom Staat bezahlen lassen um hoehere Beschaeftigungszahlen zu suggerieren. Und selbst wenn die Entscheidung zu Gunsten hoeherer Staatsinvestitionen getroffen wurde bleibt die Frage worin denn investiert werden soll. Z. B.: Neue Strassen bauen oder doch lieber alte wieder in Stand setzen? Lohnt es sich Autobahnen ins Nirvana (zum Beispel Mecklenburg-Vorpommern) zu bauen in der Hoffnung dass sich dort in naher Zukunft Industrie ansiedelt? Und selbst wenn: Wer sich jemals mit einem Planfeststellungsverfahren beschaeftigt hat weiss, dass es gut und gerne 10 Jahre braucht bis alle Genehmigungen und Planungen unter Dach und Fach sind. Das selbe gilt fuer Schulrenovierungen oder Investitionen in alternative Energieproduktionen... In diesem Punkt sind sich alelrdings alle einig: Wenn, wie auch immer geartet, nicht vorhandenes Geld investiert werden soll, dann schnell. Das heisst innerhalb von 2009 - moeglichst in der ersten Haelfte (utopisch, aber welche Forderung ist das nicht zur Zeit ;) )&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://voxeu.org/index.php?q=node/729"&gt;Barry Eichengreen&lt;/a&gt; ist auch nicht verkehrt. Sein Spezialgebiet ist die Eurozone, besonders interessant sind dabei seine Ausfuehrungen zum Thema: Was passiert wenn ein Land wieder seine alte Waehrung einfuehren wuerde. Das Ergebnis: Es macht keinen Sinn, weil es in Zukunft von allen anderen Laendern (mit Ausnahme von Russland vielleicht) aufs Uebelste gemobbt werden wuerde. Keine auslaendischen Investitionen mehr und zu politischen Spassempfaengen wuerden seine Politiker auch nicht mehr eingeladen werden. Da heisst es wohl: "Mitgehangen mitgefangen." Sorry liebe Griechen und Italiener ;)&lt;br /&gt;Apropos Italiener. Nachdem die Daimler AG Ende 2007 80,1% von Chrysler an Ceberus verkauft hat, hat sich jetzt der Fiat-Konzern (Fiat, Alfa Romeo, Lancia, Ferrari, Maserati) 35% von Chrysler gegoennt - ohne das auch nur ein Cent geflossen ist. Wie das? Nun, Fiat moechte auf dem amerikanischen Markt Fuss fassen und dafuer das Chrysler-Vertiebsnetz nutzen. Im Gegenzug findet ein (wohl einseitiger, will heissen von Fiat zu Chrysler) Technologieaustausch in Bezug auf die Entwicklung spritsparender Autos statt. Aber das war noch nicht alles. Es geht das Geruecht dass Fiat auch an einer Beteiligung an PSA Peugeot-Citroen interessiert ist. Welche hehren Ziele die Herren aus Turin verfolgen bleibt wohl erstmal der eigenen Fantasie belassen ^^&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/242317451824146060-1032982858528697189?l=borni-in-the-usa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://borni-in-the-usa.blogspot.com/feeds/1032982858528697189/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=242317451824146060&amp;postID=1032982858528697189' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/242317451824146060/posts/default/1032982858528697189'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/242317451824146060/posts/default/1032982858528697189'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://borni-in-the-usa.blogspot.com/2009/01/my-yesterdays-day.html' title='My yesterday&apos;s day...'/><author><name>borkus</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-242317451824146060.post-9084437130649032906</id><published>2009-01-20T22:11:00.006-05:00</published><updated>2009-01-21T08:44:57.255-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='New York'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='culture'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Area'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Foto'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='beach'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='life'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Travel'/><title type='text'>Coney Island</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;After I spent 80% of the last saturday and sunday in my bed, watching Scrubs, The Legend of the Seeker,Battlestar Galactica 2003, reading my new book The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett and thinking about the upcoming year.&lt;br /&gt;On monday I decided to go to &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coney_island"&gt;Coney Island&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe width="425" height="350" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" src="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;hl=de&amp;amp;t=h&amp;amp;source=embed&amp;amp;msa=0&amp;amp;msid=112295002696706336266.000460f5b3bc2ef07cb1f&amp;amp;ll=40.571987,-73.984755&amp;amp;spn=0.005713,0.009613&amp;amp;output=embed&amp;amp;s=AARTsJqt5XN5j-1bLWDXSkmWwpq3tsDPSA"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;small&gt;&lt;a href="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;hl=de&amp;amp;t=h&amp;amp;source=embed&amp;amp;msa=0&amp;amp;msid=112295002696706336266.000460f5b3bc2ef07cb1f&amp;amp;ll=40.571987,-73.984755&amp;amp;spn=0.005713,0.009613" style="color:#0000FF;text-align:left"&gt;Größere Kartenansicht&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I've never been there but I read a lot about it. It's the last borough of New York City being like it was built dozens of years ago including a big amusement park and the New York Aquarium.&lt;br /&gt;Enjoy some pictures :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table style="width: 194px; text-align: left; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="background: transparent url(http://picasaweb.google.com/f/img/transparent_album_background.gif) no-repeat scroll left center; height: 194px; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/tycoon83/20090119ConeyIsland?authkey=XJZPvc3yCgU&amp;amp;feat=embedwebsite"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_U4SaUz9TE-4/SXaOrSNB-6E/AAAAAAAADlo/8q7HfHUIoqQ/s160-c/20090119ConeyIsland.jpg" style="margin: 1px 0pt 0pt 4px;" width="160" height="160" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/tycoon83/20090119ConeyIsland?authkey=XJZPvc3yCgU&amp;amp;feat=embedwebsite" style="color: rgb(77, 77, 77); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"&gt;2009-01-19 Coney Island&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A man talked to me while I took some pictures and started to tell me something about how this places looked like 2 or 3 years ago. There are many Russians in this area, as you can ee on two of the pictures, too.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On Saturday I've been at the Hudson River.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" src="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;hl=de&amp;amp;msa=0&amp;amp;ll=40.71559,-74.016598&amp;amp;spn=0.003733,0.006909&amp;amp;t=h&amp;amp;msid=112295002696706336266.000460f5ae55150e7df18&amp;amp;output=embed&amp;amp;s=AARTsJqG2D9qqMY5POnduPqoEeCGeFm6fQ" scrolling="no" width="400" frameborder="0" height="330"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;small&gt;&lt;a href="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;hl=de&amp;amp;msa=0&amp;amp;ll=40.71559,-74.016598&amp;amp;spn=0.003733,0.006909&amp;amp;t=h&amp;amp;msid=112295002696706336266.000460f5ae55150e7df18&amp;amp;source=embed" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); text-align: left;"&gt;Größere Kartenansicht&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I was interested in how they will take the airplane out of the water. Unfortunately they were not able to make it in time. So I left the scene after waiting about an hour. It was really cold and so I decided to go home and watch it on youtube. But nevertheless I took some pictures.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table style="width: 194px; text-align: left; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="background: transparent url(http://picasaweb.google.com/f/img/transparent_album_background.gif) no-repeat scroll left center; height: 194px; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/tycoon83/20090117AirplaneInHudsonriver?authkey=FIMV-JAz71Y&amp;amp;feat=embedwebsite"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_U4SaUz9TE-4/SXaQE5Af13E/AAAAAAAADm0/cPme1MUre9s/s160-c/20090117AirplaneInHudsonriver.jpg" style="margin: 1px 0pt 0pt 4px;" width="160" height="160" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/tycoon83/20090117AirplaneInHudsonriver?authkey=FIMV-JAz71Y&amp;amp;feat=embedwebsite" style="color: rgb(77, 77, 77); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"&gt;2009-01-17 Airplane in Hudsonriver&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/242317451824146060-9084437130649032906?l=borni-in-the-usa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://borni-in-the-usa.blogspot.com/feeds/9084437130649032906/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=242317451824146060&amp;postID=9084437130649032906' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/242317451824146060/posts/default/9084437130649032906'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/242317451824146060/posts/default/9084437130649032906'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://borni-in-the-usa.blogspot.com/2009/01/coney-island.html' title='Coney Island'/><author><name>borkus</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://lh4.ggpht.com/_U4SaUz9TE-4/SXaOrSNB-6E/AAAAAAAADlo/8q7HfHUIoqQ/s72-c/20090119ConeyIsland.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-242317451824146060.post-30976596410228481</id><published>2009-01-18T21:21:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2009-01-19T19:33:35.826-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fun'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Flight'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='stuff'/><title type='text'>Larry the goose</title><content type='html'>That's hilarious :D&lt;br /&gt;The crash of the airplane into the Hudson River from the view of a "participating" bird&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="400" height="250"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.hulu.com/embed/vZrFP5KIrRnB-JhPa1fqpg"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.hulu.com/embed/vZrFP5KIrRnB-JhPa1fqpg" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowFullScreen="true"  width="400" height="250"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Update:&lt;/span&gt; Fuer alle die sich nicht den Aufwand machen moechten einen amerikanische Proxy zwischen zu schalten hier das youtube-vid dazu: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-j01E7kBgKI&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/242317451824146060-30976596410228481?l=borni-in-the-usa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://borni-in-the-usa.blogspot.com/feeds/30976596410228481/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=242317451824146060&amp;postID=30976596410228481' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/242317451824146060/posts/default/30976596410228481'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/242317451824146060/posts/default/30976596410228481'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://borni-in-the-usa.blogspot.com/2009/01/thats-hilarious-d-crash-of-airplane.html' title='Larry the goose'/><author><name>borkus</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-242317451824146060.post-7591886318824745245</id><published>2009-01-18T16:41:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2009-01-18T16:43:27.276-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='music'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='stuff'/><title type='text'>Save Broadway</title><content type='html'>found at www.hulu.com, produced by Saturday Night Live. Sorry for the advertisement in the beginning.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="400" height="200"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.hulu.com/embed/r2t9YCDBfEFFSoNBfsg8TQ"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.hulu.com/embed/r2t9YCDBfEFFSoNBfsg8TQ" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowFullScreen="true"  width="400" height="200"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/242317451824146060-7591886318824745245?l=borni-in-the-usa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://borni-in-the-usa.blogspot.com/feeds/7591886318824745245/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=242317451824146060&amp;postID=7591886318824745245' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/242317451824146060/posts/default/7591886318824745245'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/242317451824146060/posts/default/7591886318824745245'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://borni-in-the-usa.blogspot.com/2009/01/save-broadway.html' title='Save Broadway'/><author><name>borkus</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-242317451824146060.post-2041753351005339189</id><published>2009-01-16T12:48:00.005-05:00</published><updated>2009-01-16T21:10:30.867-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Travel'/><title type='text'>The Smart on the Street</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Yesterday I went to Social Security Office to apply for my Social Security Card again. However, the postman was not able to deliver it to my mailbox. That's why I had to go there one more time to receive the number in person and apply for a new card they will send me during 10 days - hopefully.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_U4SaUz9TE-4/SXDJiMKO_HI/AAAAAAAADcQ/bABf2oGQ28E/s1600-h/102_0569.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291951151377218674" style="margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; float: left; width: 200px; height: 133px;" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_U4SaUz9TE-4/SXDJiMKO_HI/AAAAAAAADcQ/bABf2oGQ28E/s200/102_0569.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;That was my car - a Smart. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Nice to drive in German towns but not on American streets cause there are too many holes in the streets and the suspension of the Smart is really hard (maybe cause there's no place in this small car for a real suspensuion ^^) The automaticgearbox is very slow but you can drive also in semi-automatic. This is a vid from the trip. Enjoy it ;) Sorry for the quality and small "interruptions" but I'm not able to cut it cause of missing hardware and software.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;embed id="VideoPlayback" src="http://video.google.de/googleplayer.swf?docid=2274048519034625320&amp;hl=de&amp;fs=true" style="width:400px;height:326px" allowFullScreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"&gt; &lt;/embed&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Und ich ess mich jetzt weiter durch die &lt;a href="https://www.dunkindonuts.com/"&gt;Dunkin' Donuts&lt;/a&gt; Produktpalette. Ist zwar noch nicht mal ein indirekter Mitbewerber und ich bin schon voellig ueberzuckert aber ich bleib trotzdem dran ^^&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/242317451824146060-2041753351005339189?l=borni-in-the-usa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://borni-in-the-usa.blogspot.com/feeds/2041753351005339189/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=242317451824146060&amp;postID=2041753351005339189' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/242317451824146060/posts/default/2041753351005339189'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/242317451824146060/posts/default/2041753351005339189'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://borni-in-the-usa.blogspot.com/2009/01/smart-on-street.html' title='The Smart on the Street'/><author><name>borkus</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_U4SaUz9TE-4/SXDJiMKO_HI/AAAAAAAADcQ/bABf2oGQ28E/s72-c/102_0569.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-242317451824146060.post-4977415123779454505</id><published>2009-01-13T20:39:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2009-01-13T20:41:46.359-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='music'/><title type='text'>Music is Therapy</title><content type='html'>Found at http://dekku.blogspot.com/&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="350" height="300"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/KTXBhyyXsds&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/KTXBhyyXsds&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="350" height="300"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/242317451824146060-4977415123779454505?l=borni-in-the-usa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://borni-in-the-usa.blogspot.com/feeds/4977415123779454505/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=242317451824146060&amp;postID=4977415123779454505' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/242317451824146060/posts/default/4977415123779454505'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/242317451824146060/posts/default/4977415123779454505'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://borni-in-the-usa.blogspot.com/2009/01/music-is-therapy.html' title='Music is Therapy'/><author><name>borkus</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-242317451824146060.post-2076499257611226514</id><published>2009-01-13T12:47:00.004-05:00</published><updated>2009-01-13T13:02:01.746-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='culture'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='life'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='music'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='stuff'/><title type='text'>Stuff</title><content type='html'>Nachdem der gestrige Tag mit Arbeit gefuellt war - ok, ich hatte nebenbei genug Zeit auf &lt;a href="http://www.lastfm.de/user/tycoon"&gt;last.fm&lt;/a&gt; Musik zu hoeren und mich mit dem &lt;a href="http://aneurysm.twoday.net/"&gt;Herrn von nebenan&lt;/a&gt; ueber anstehende Projekte zu unterhalten - ist das heutige Projekt mal wieder initiative Tagesgestaltung.&lt;br /&gt;Die sah bis jetzt so aus dass ich meine 950 ungelesenen E-Mails sortiert, und nachdem eine Mail von meinem kleinen Bruder rein kam spontan zu Hause angerufen habe. Nebenbei gab es News, sinnfrei und -voll, ne gute Mischung halt ;)&lt;br /&gt;Was ich sehr empfehlen kann ist ein interview mit Roger Willemsen anlaesslich der Buchmesse 2008: &lt;a href="http://www.literaturcafe.de/rubrik/podcast/"&gt;Link&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wobei ich auf die Seite des &lt;a href="http://www.literaturcafe.de/"&gt;Literatur-Cafes&lt;/a&gt; auch nur durch diesen Artikel gestossen bin: &lt;a href="http://www.literaturcafe.de/offenbarung-des-johannes-666-video/"&gt;Link&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Die Seite ist gleich in meine Favoriten gewandert - fuer den unwahrscheinlichen Fall dass ich mal wieder was zum lesen brauche ^^&lt;br /&gt;Ausserdem geht die Suche nach einem Plattenspieler (turntable) jetzt in die entscheidende Phase. Nachdem ich mich nun entschieden habe einen gebrauchten zu kaufen und die turntables in den An-und Verkaeufen gleichzeitig ausverkauft sind, muss das Internet herhalten. Die erste Adresse ist hier &lt;a href="http://newyork.craigslist.org/"&gt;craigslist.org&lt;/a&gt;. Auf ebay nachzuschauen kommt mir erst jetzt in den Sinn. Naja - is ja auch erst Mittag ;)&lt;br /&gt;Ich werd mir einfach noch nen kaffee besorgen, dann nochmal nach Deutschland telefonieren und dann hochmotiviert ind en nachmittag starten *raeusper*&lt;br /&gt;Kepp up to date :)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/242317451824146060-2076499257611226514?l=borni-in-the-usa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://borni-in-the-usa.blogspot.com/feeds/2076499257611226514/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=242317451824146060&amp;postID=2076499257611226514' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/242317451824146060/posts/default/2076499257611226514'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/242317451824146060/posts/default/2076499257611226514'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://borni-in-the-usa.blogspot.com/2009/01/stuff.html' title='Stuff'/><author><name>borkus</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-242317451824146060.post-769601511908930339</id><published>2009-01-11T15:03:00.006-05:00</published><updated>2009-01-11T15:36:58.805-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Foto'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='life'/><title type='text'>Happy New Year</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Hi folks,&lt;br /&gt;sorry for beeing a bit to late. But nevertheless I want to wish you all a happy and healthy New Year :-)&lt;br /&gt;I know, it has been a long time ago that I wrote something. But maybe you can imagine how hard it is to write a blog if there are three internet-junkies and just one laptop *hihi* But I also have to say that I enjoyed the last 2 weeks so much that I wasn't in the mood to write something - except some notes on twitter. Well, atm I don't feel like writing but after sorting some pictures I kicked my ass to open my blog account and feed you with some words - I know how hungry some of you guys are *rofl*&lt;br /&gt;Btw - Rammstein with his song Seeman is set as "repeat this song". I should change it to "repeat the whole playlist". Above all I like the version with Nina Hagen more then the original one although I don't like Ms. Hagen that much. While I'm writing about this: Do you remember the talk-show where Joachim Bublath left cause Nina was talking strange stuff? You don't? Well - I do ;)&lt;br /&gt;Ok, let's go back to topic.&lt;br /&gt;I had two of my best friends visiting me on christmas till mid of this week. We had such a great time that I don't know where to start to report. Besides I can't write down all my thoughts I had the last two days cause this would decrease the number of readers at, let's say, 90% ;) So maybe in one or two weeks I will give you a small insight if I made any decisions until then. So stay in contact :-)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yesterday I just left my bed because it was snowing outside. So I took the chance to go out for a walk. I'm looking for a turntable to listen to my new records like La Rondine by Puccini, Abba, organ concerts, some jazz or The Chipmunks, to mention just some of my new inventory. I found all stores where I saw some turntables at a price between $10 and $50. But all of them were sold out. What a pity. So one of the first lections I learned this year is: If you see something what you like and you want to have, buy it immediatly. Cause if you don't there will be some other guy doing it.&lt;br /&gt;But I got some nice pictures while going uptown to 125th and Lexington Ave:&lt;br /&gt;The first is the view from right in front of the entrance to the house I live in.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_U4SaUz9TE-4/SWpWMMZeWfI/AAAAAAAADb4/Lg39_u9yCf4/s1600-h/102_0556.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_U4SaUz9TE-4/SWpWMMZeWfI/AAAAAAAADb4/Lg39_u9yCf4/s320/102_0556.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290135479786559986" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;The second one is the view down the broadway:&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_U4SaUz9TE-4/SWpWMjH268I/AAAAAAAADcA/1774TXvmvCQ/s1600-h/102_0558.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_U4SaUz9TE-4/SWpWMjH268I/AAAAAAAADcA/1774TXvmvCQ/s320/102_0558.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290135485886688194" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;And the last one is my favorite:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_U4SaUz9TE-4/SWpWMwDXxRI/AAAAAAAADcI/PWGJ1y6PZos/s1600-h/102_0559.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_U4SaUz9TE-4/SWpWMwDXxRI/AAAAAAAADcI/PWGJ1y6PZos/s320/102_0559.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290135489357530386" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;I took it at 125th Street in Manhattan. It looks like a painting or a scene from a comic I think. I like it very much.&lt;br /&gt;Ok, this was it for now. Tomorrow I have to go to work again. Let's see what happened there during my two and a half week absence.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Enjoy your evening and have a great week :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/242317451824146060-769601511908930339?l=borni-in-the-usa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://borni-in-the-usa.blogspot.com/feeds/769601511908930339/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=242317451824146060&amp;postID=769601511908930339' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/242317451824146060/posts/default/769601511908930339'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/242317451824146060/posts/default/769601511908930339'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://borni-in-the-usa.blogspot.com/2009/01/happy-new-year.html' title='Happy New Year'/><author><name>borkus</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_U4SaUz9TE-4/SWpWMMZeWfI/AAAAAAAADb4/Lg39_u9yCf4/s72-c/102_0556.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-242317451824146060.post-5655536698044809228</id><published>2008-12-24T00:17:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2008-12-24T00:28:16.373-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Merry Christmas</title><content type='html'>Today my first visitor arrived. I could quit work early at 3pm and we were able to drive in a new record time home: 45minutes from Montvale to New York City, 8th Ave @42nd. And it was probably the last time with the e-class because the guy who owned the car has to give it back in january :( But we will see what the next year brings... I was not able to pick him up at the airport because I was at work nd his plane landed around noon. But my roommate was so nice to let him in. Thank you so much for this :-)&lt;br /&gt;We introduced him to the very delicious drink egg-nok. It's made with milk, rum, brandy and cinnamon. Now he sleeps in my bed cause he's really tired cause of the flight and the interesting evening with &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cluedo"&gt;Clue&lt;/a&gt;. Meanwhile I make some "internet-research" and watch the new episode of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison_break"&gt;Prison Break&lt;/a&gt; before I join him - no, I'm kiddin'. Not today, there I will sleep on the couch. Maybe tomorrow ^^&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So enjoy your christmas time, have fun with your family and be happy about Gluehwein (or mulled wine in AE).&lt;br /&gt;Stay in contact and keep up to date :-)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All the best,&lt;br /&gt;Markus&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/242317451824146060-5655536698044809228?l=borni-in-the-usa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://borni-in-the-usa.blogspot.com/feeds/5655536698044809228/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=242317451824146060&amp;postID=5655536698044809228' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/242317451824146060/posts/default/5655536698044809228'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/242317451824146060/posts/default/5655536698044809228'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://borni-in-the-usa.blogspot.com/2008/12/merry-christmas.html' title='Merry Christmas'/><author><name>borkus</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-242317451824146060.post-3693214383831277131</id><published>2008-12-21T22:28:00.004-05:00</published><updated>2008-12-21T23:03:32.199-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='culture'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='life'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='music'/><title type='text'>My 4th Advent</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;und diesmal wirklich - glaub ich zumindest ^^&lt;br /&gt;Kostenfreie Weihnachtskonzerte sind in NYC kaum zu finden - jedenfalls nicht ueber's Internet. Da muss man schon wie ich an einer Kirche vorbeistolpern und spontan reingehen. In dieser dann 2 andere MBUSA-Praktikanten treffen und noch den Schlusston des Orgelkonzerts mitbekommen. Schade - aber immerhin bin ich in den genuss einer 32' Orgelpfeiffe gekommen. Ich glaub die Haelfte der Leute die da sass hat den Ton garnicht mehr gehoert so tief war er ;)&lt;br /&gt;Ansonsten war die letzte Woche ziemlich durchwachsen. Von uebergluecklich bis deprimiert war alles dabei. Mittlerweile bin ich wieder ganz ausgeglichen :)&lt;br /&gt;Das liegt unter anderem an der Freude ueber den ersten Schnee. Zum Glueck hatten wir am Freitag ein Auto um von der Arbeit nach Hause zu kommen. Statt einer haben wir ueber drei Stunden gebraucht weil der highway so voll mit Schnee und Autos war. JA, es war wie man das in den Filmen immer gezeigt bekommt ;) Mittlerweile hat es zu tauen angefangen. Allerdings wurde es heute abend dann doch wieder kuehler und wer hat sich in downtown Manhattan in einer schwungvollen Parade von der Konsistenz des Strasssenbelages ueberzeug? Right - that was me. Zum Glueck hatte ich meine Kamera, den Martini Bianco und den Rotwein im Rucksack und meine Haende nicht in der Tasche, so ging das ganze nochmal glimpflich aus, zumal ich mal wieder am Traeumen und deshalb nicht ganz so reaktionsschnell war, aber meien hand war zuerst auf dem Boden um das Schlimmste zu verhindern ^^&lt;br /&gt;Am Freitag war ich mit meiner Mitbewohnerin und ihrem Freund zu einer kleinen Feier in der 105-ten Ecke Broadway. Ich habe dort einige ziemlich interessante leute kennengelernt. Vom Musiker bis zum konservativen Amerikaner war alles dabei. Zum ersten Mal gab es Gebspraeche ueber amerikanische Politik mir Amerikanern. Bei Bier, leckeren Appetithappen, nem liebevoll geschmueckten Weihnachtsbaum und schlechtem Gluehwein. Sowas sollten sie echt uns Deutschen ueberlassen *gg*&lt;br /&gt;Whatever, am Samstag bin ich dann durch die Stadt gelaufen auf der Suche nach nem Plattenspieler. Statt dessen habe ich den Bruderladen (Schwesterladen hoert sich besser an, passt aber glaub ich nich wegen dem Geschlecht von laden ;) ) von meinem Lieblingsbuchladen am Broadway gefunden. Der hat mindestens 3x so viele LPs, CDs, Kassetten und Song- und Notenhefte wie der Buchladen. Von unten bis oben alles voll mit LPs, und auf die auch noch 30% Rabatt. Ich stand kurz davor die original Lord of the rings Musik auf LP zu kaufen, war dann aber doch zu geizig. Ich glaube ich sollte da naechste Woche nochmal hingehen ^^ Am Ende hab ich mich jedenfalls noch ueber ne Stunde mit dem Verkaeufer und seinem Kumpel der gerade da abhing unterhalten. Was fuer coole Typen. Das war quasi meine zweite Lektion in Sachen american way of live. Sie haben relativ schnell eingesehen dass es in Dtld allein schon deswegen besser ist weil wir Bier in 0,5l-Flaschen haben und dieses auch direkt nachdem wir den laden verlassen haben auch aufmachen uerfen sofern uns danach ist. Und mal ehrlich - wem war noch nie danach :)) Der eine war Musiker und totaler Fan von deutschen Komponisten. Ok, seiner Meinung nach gibt es nur Komponisten aus Deutschland die gute klassische Musik machen (konnten), aber nach eingehender Diskussion haben wir uns dann darauf geeinigt dass die Italiener auch garnicht so schlecht waren (siehe Paganini und Verdi). Und ausserdem war der dritte im Bunde Italiener, also war das ganze nur gerecht ;)&lt;br /&gt;Heute abend wollte ich mir eigentlich Giants vs. Carolina in einer Sportsbar anschauen, aber dann habe ich mal grob die Ausgaben fuer die naechsten zwei Wochen ueberschlagen und mir statt dessen ne kleine Pizza und Chickenwings fuer den Ofen gekauft. Man war das lecker *mjam* Nun brauche ich aber immer noch einen Plattenspieler um in die Platten reinhoeren zu koennen die cih mir bereits fuer nen Dollar gekauft habe - darunter ein Punk-Album der Chipmunks, Orgelmusik von Bach, ein Abba-Album und ein Album von Glenn Miller.&lt;br /&gt;Geniesst die Vorweihnachtstage und lasst euch nicht stressen :)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/242317451824146060-3693214383831277131?l=borni-in-the-usa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://borni-in-the-usa.blogspot.com/feeds/3693214383831277131/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=242317451824146060&amp;postID=3693214383831277131' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/242317451824146060/posts/default/3693214383831277131'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/242317451824146060/posts/default/3693214383831277131'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://borni-in-the-usa.blogspot.com/2008/12/my-4th-advent_21.html' title='My 4th Advent'/><author><name>borkus</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-242317451824146060.post-7563192691874442710</id><published>2008-12-17T20:51:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-12-17T20:52:35.046-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='culture'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='life'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='music'/><title type='text'>Playing for change</title><content type='html'>&lt;object width="400" height="267"&gt;&lt;param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=2539741&amp;amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;amp;show_title=1&amp;amp;show_byline=1&amp;amp;show_portrait=0&amp;amp;color=&amp;amp;fullscreen=1" /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=2539741&amp;amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;amp;show_title=1&amp;amp;show_byline=1&amp;amp;show_portrait=0&amp;amp;color=&amp;amp;fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="267"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://vimeo.com/2539741"&gt;Playing For Change: Song Around the World | Stand By Me&lt;/a&gt; from &lt;a href="http://vimeo.com/concord"&gt;Concord Music Group&lt;/a&gt; on &lt;a href="http://vimeo.com"&gt;Vimeo&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/242317451824146060-7563192691874442710?l=borni-in-the-usa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://borni-in-the-usa.blogspot.com/feeds/7563192691874442710/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=242317451824146060&amp;postID=7563192691874442710' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/242317451824146060/posts/default/7563192691874442710'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/242317451824146060/posts/default/7563192691874442710'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://borni-in-the-usa.blogspot.com/2008/12/playing-for-change.html' title='Playing for change'/><author><name>borkus</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-242317451824146060.post-5344891247293629392</id><published>2008-12-16T22:25:00.007-05:00</published><updated>2008-12-17T11:23:20.366-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='culture'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='drink'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='music'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='smile'/><title type='text'>My 3rd Advent</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;took place in an bavarian restaurant called &lt;a href="http://www.zumschneider.com/"&gt;"Zum Schneider"&lt;/a&gt; with german service, german Weissbier and Gluehwein. They invited to a Christmas Caroling at 1pm. And we had a lot of fun singing german weihnachtslieder with american guys :)) They were so excited to sing on this afternoon. It was amazing to watch and listen. Some songs we first sang in german and after this one more time in english. Sometimes - many didn't knew wether the German nor the English text *hihi*&lt;br /&gt;But after the first Weissbier or Gluehwein it doesn't matters ^^&lt;br /&gt;For lunch I had my first O'Baza (unter Obatzda findet man's dann auch im Netz ^^): It's different kind of cheese with some bred. Well, it was ok but next time I'll have Sauerkraut this tastes much better ;)&lt;br /&gt;The band was great. The two guys played accordeon and guitar and made a great show :)&lt;br /&gt;See the following pictures:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table style="width: 194px; text-align: left; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="background: transparent url(http://picasaweb.google.com/f/img/transparent_album_background.gif) no-repeat scroll left center; height: 194px; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/tycoon83/20081214ChristmasCaroling?authkey=ffqNHx2V_WQ#"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_U4SaUz9TE-4/SUhxIo5IH3E/AAAAAAAADbM/VXSYIuAZcNM/s160-c/20081214ChristmasCaroling.jpg" style="margin: 1px 0pt 0pt 4px;" width="160" height="160" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/tycoon83/20081214ChristmasCaroling?authkey=ffqNHx2V_WQ#" style="color: rgb(77, 77, 77); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"&gt;2008-12-14 Christmas Caroling&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At 9pm I had to leave because I was out of money. On my way home I discovered the Manhattan Bridge and the arc standing in front of and filled a whole film. We'll see how pictures look like if they are  developed :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" src="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&amp;amp;hl=de&amp;amp;q=Manhattan+Bridge,+New+York,+New+York&amp;amp;sll=37.0625,-95.677068&amp;amp;sspn=31.977057,56.601563&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;cd=1&amp;amp;geocode=FV8jbQId3v6W-w&amp;amp;ll=40.716103,-73.986225&amp;amp;spn=0.003733,0.006909&amp;amp;t=k&amp;amp;z=14&amp;amp;output=embed&amp;amp;s=AARTsJqsz1Jz8j27zaD6GuaGwYM96edtXA" scrolling="no" width="425" frameborder="0" height="350"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;small&gt;&lt;a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&amp;amp;hl=de&amp;amp;q=Manhattan+Bridge,+New+York,+New+York&amp;amp;sll=37.0625,-95.677068&amp;amp;sspn=31.977057,56.601563&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;cd=1&amp;amp;geocode=FV8jbQId3v6W-w&amp;amp;ll=40.716103,-73.986225&amp;amp;spn=0.003733,0.006909&amp;amp;t=k&amp;amp;z=14&amp;amp;source=embed" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); text-align: left;"&gt;Größere Kartenansicht&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At home the boyfriend of my roommate offered me a very delicious drink made of some fat milk, rum, liqueur and cinnamon. We had a great discussion about life in general and in particular.&lt;br /&gt;All in all it was a great day. At least I had a wonderful ICQ-conversation in the morning, lasting about 3 hours :) so i went to work on monday morning and had a smile all over the face the whole day cause of the great weekend.&lt;br /&gt;Enjoy the last week before Santa Claus is coming.&lt;br /&gt;Btw - my Santa was here today for the first time and delivered a paket from Amazon-Germany. I was able to figure out that it was from my lovely dad, but I didn't open it yet ;) &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/242317451824146060-5344891247293629392?l=borni-in-the-usa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://borni-in-the-usa.blogspot.com/feeds/5344891247293629392/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=242317451824146060&amp;postID=5344891247293629392' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/242317451824146060/posts/default/5344891247293629392'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/242317451824146060/posts/default/5344891247293629392'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://borni-in-the-usa.blogspot.com/2008/12/my-4th-advent.html' title='My 3rd Advent'/><author><name>borkus</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://lh6.ggpht.com/_U4SaUz9TE-4/SUhxIo5IH3E/AAAAAAAADbM/VXSYIuAZcNM/s72-c/20081214ChristmasCaroling.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-242317451824146060.post-1099736173972665467</id><published>2008-12-10T21:22:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2008-12-16T22:35:20.768-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='smile'/><title type='text'>Take you 16 minutes to smile</title><content type='html'>&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Cbk980jV7Ao&amp;hl=de&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Cbk980jV7Ao&amp;hl=de&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/242317451824146060-1099736173972665467?l=borni-in-the-usa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://borni-in-the-usa.blogspot.com/feeds/1099736173972665467/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=242317451824146060&amp;postID=1099736173972665467' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/242317451824146060/posts/default/1099736173972665467'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/242317451824146060/posts/default/1099736173972665467'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://borni-in-the-usa.blogspot.com/2008/12/take-you-16-minutes-to-smile.html' title='Take you 16 minutes to smile'/><author><name>borkus</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-242317451824146060.post-4441959947665461762</id><published>2008-12-09T22:55:00.005-05:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T23:34:20.375-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='New York'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='life'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='music'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='museum'/><title type='text'>Brief news</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;As a member of Bank of America you are allowed to visit some museums in the USA for free on every first weekend a year - some of them, like the &lt;a href="http://www.amnh.org/"&gt;American Museum of Natural History&lt;/a&gt;, the &lt;a href="http://www.metmuseum.org/"&gt;Metropolitan Museum of Arts&lt;/a&gt; and the &lt;a href="http://www.icp.org/museum"&gt;Museum in the International Center of Photography&lt;/a&gt; are in New York. These I visited on saturday and sunday. I liked the Museum of Photography most. The pictures were very impressive and touching. Furthermore I liked it because I saw what you can do without using photoshop and such kind of tools. That motivated me ome more time to continue to take photos with my SLR EOS 300. But these you will just see if you meet me in person one day, because they are non-digital ;)&lt;br /&gt;Following some impressions from the AMNH &lt;/div&gt;&lt;table style="width: 194px; text-align: left; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="background: transparent url(http://picasaweb.google.com/f/img/transparent_album_background.gif) no-repeat scroll left center; height: 194px; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/tycoon83/20081207MuseumOfNaturalHistory#"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_U4SaUz9TE-4/ST830HrH10E/AAAAAAAADXw/qMfPzDlM26Y/s160-c/20081207MuseumOfNaturalHistory.jpg" style="margin: 1px 0pt 0pt 4px;" width="160" height="160" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/tycoon83/20081207MuseumOfNaturalHistory#" style="color: rgb(77, 77, 77); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"&gt;2008-12-07 Museum of Natural History&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In Please give attention to my spleen for Spongebob Squarepants *hihi*&lt;br /&gt;Catching the scallop you can see in this video is one of his extrem hobbies ^^&lt;br /&gt;&lt;embed id="VideoPlayback" src="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docid=2231600746985834731&amp;amp;hl=de&amp;amp;fs=true" style="width: 400px; height: 326px;" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On sunday evening I was to a concert of &lt;a href="http://www.nadasurf.com"&gt;Nada Surf&lt;/a&gt;. There were two pre-bands. both I like very very much - although I listened to their music the first time. The bands were Bear Hands and Delta Spirit. The music was sooo awesome. The floor of the Webster Hall was made of wood which carries the sound, specifically the basses, really really good. Most of the time I was not able to swallow because the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palatine_uvula"&gt;uvula&lt;/a&gt; (or &lt;a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uvula"&gt;Zaepfchen&lt;/a&gt; in german) in the throat went up and down all the time and made it really hart to swallow. my whole body felt like a big beat box all the time. It was amazing :) Well, how ever, today I have pain in my throat - maybe I'm getting a cold or it's because of the concert. Comments please :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Caws"&gt;Matthew&lt;/a&gt;, the singer of Nada Surf gave a short privat concert with hbis guitar after the real one. He's a pretty nice guy. Really down-to-earth and very likeable.&lt;br /&gt;Feel free to watch some pictures:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table style="width:194px;"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="center" style="height:194px;background:url(http://picasaweb.google.com/f/img/transparent_album_background.gif) no-repeat left"&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/tycoon83/20081207NadaSurfInWebsterHall#"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_U4SaUz9TE-4/ST83PFyI3XE/AAAAAAAADYU/muPcgo2m_-Q/s160-c/20081207NadaSurfInWebsterHall.jpg" width="160" height="160" style="margin:1px 0 0 4px;"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align:center;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:11px"&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/tycoon83/20081207NadaSurfInWebsterHall#" style="color:#4D4D4D;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;"&gt;2008-12-07 Nada Surf in Webster Hall&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The picture of the month is this one. I toke it in the Museum of American History. I like the intention of the first sentence. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_U4SaUz9TE-4/ST9Fwe8xENI/AAAAAAAADYY/auyHvQCEyCw/s1600-h/100_3703.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_U4SaUz9TE-4/ST9Fwe8xENI/AAAAAAAADYY/auyHvQCEyCw/s320/100_3703.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5278013987545485522" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I name it: One sentence - two meanings&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/242317451824146060-4441959947665461762?l=borni-in-the-usa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://borni-in-the-usa.blogspot.com/feeds/4441959947665461762/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=242317451824146060&amp;postID=4441959947665461762' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/242317451824146060/posts/default/4441959947665461762'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/242317451824146060/posts/default/4441959947665461762'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://borni-in-the-usa.blogspot.com/2008/12/brief-news.html' title='Brief news'/><author><name>borkus</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://lh6.ggpht.com/_U4SaUz9TE-4/ST830HrH10E/AAAAAAAADXw/qMfPzDlM26Y/s72-c/20081207MuseumOfNaturalHistory.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-242317451824146060.post-1613288076979427717</id><published>2008-12-04T23:27:00.006-05:00</published><updated>2008-12-05T00:07:55.631-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Work'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='music'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='food'/><title type='text'>Nothing left to do</title><content type='html'>Today was one of the days where I had nothing to do. I mean really nothing. I started my day with reading some news. After this i organised my email-contacts, filtered my inbox, created new labels for incomming mails and wrote some to people from whome I heard nothing for a long time. After this I started reading news and digging some, reading stuff on facebook and making some intranet-research. After this I went to the gym to make a workout.&lt;br /&gt;I'm really interested in what's going on on the market for automobiles in the US. The situation of the "Three Big" (GM, Ford, Chrysler) is very bad. I like one comment another reader wrote under one article: "The predicted volume for next year produced by the Three Big is about 16Mio cars. The demand is approximately at 11Mio cars. So the only logical way is that at most 2 can survive." Well, Chrysler probably will be out of money until end of this year. So either they get bought by another company or they or they go bankrupt. Some people say this will effect all other companies as well because in may cases they use the same supplieres. So the other two will go bankrupt, too. This is an argument for a bailout by he government. Because if they don't pay about $25Billion for the companies they have to pay much more for all the unemployed people and pension fonds etc. So in my eyes it's like: vom Regen in die Trauffe. Because if the government pays the money this month, they will have to pay some more during the following years. Although there's no garanty that despite they payed a lot of money the one or other company goes bankrupt. And if they don't pay the money it's the same. I don't think that all tree will go down. All have a more or less strong will to survive. Because the economy is really bad at the moment. So everybody, including the Union, will be motivated to aggree to any kind of compromise to survive....&lt;br /&gt;Well, my own financial situation is not as bad as the one of the car-companies. But I agreed to some cutbacks. I try to survive with max. $5 a day for foot. that means no buying of coffee, foot or candies in the MBUSA-Cafeteria. No Starbucks-Coffee/Hot Chocolate, no Burger, Sandwiches etc from the street. Just hand-made ones - all the ingredients have to be bought in the cheapest grocerie-store on manhattan-island, of course ;)&lt;br /&gt;I think it's possible to survive on this way. Next week I will look what i payed or foot on this week. That was my evening meal today:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_U4SaUz9TE-4/STiz0wIMRWI/AAAAAAAADPE/rLCbAL0wd74/s1600-h/2008-12-04+Noodles+and+Martini.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 133px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_U4SaUz9TE-4/STiz0wIMRWI/AAAAAAAADPE/rLCbAL0wd74/s200/2008-12-04+Noodles+and+Martini.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5276164682318366050" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Noodles, tomatoe-sauce including sausage made of chicken because chicken is 3 times less expensive then sausage made of real meat. Turckey is between them but not that tasty. I use it just for the sandwiches because there you don't taste it so much ;)&lt;br /&gt;It looks not that great because the plate is a bit to small but it was sooo delicious. I payed about $6 and it's all enough for about three days ;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On the right side of the plate you see a glas. well, I have to confess that this is Martini (red) - the original one. I was in my favorite &lt;a href="http://www.astorwines.com"&gt;wine store&lt;/a&gt; and wanted to buy a bottle of great tasting red wine. Instead of this I saw russian vodka- reduced to $12 from $34 a litre. But I don't want to be drunk every evening (or can't be - depends on ;) )  so I walked thorugh the store and saw the 1l bottle Martini for about $8,50. I think this is a fair price for a fan like me. So I had an intalian meal this evening ^^&lt;br /&gt;There ws some music in the underground, too. Maybe you remember these two guys. I walked through the subway station with maximum "Weezer" on my ears and although I could hear the great sound of this guys. Have fun :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;embed id="VideoPlayback" src="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docid=-1175992648611895711&amp;hl=de&amp;fs=true" style="width:400px;height:326px" allowFullScreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"&gt; &lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;embed id="VideoPlayback" src="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docid=-6934769407698783775&amp;hl=de&amp;fs=true" style="width:400px;height:326px" allowFullScreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"&gt; &lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Please see the new links on the right side- the one about the one &lt;a href="http://www.goingundernyc.com/"&gt;Going Under NYC&lt;/a&gt; is really funny :)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/242317451824146060-1613288076979427717?l=borni-in-the-usa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://borni-in-the-usa.blogspot.com/feeds/1613288076979427717/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=242317451824146060&amp;postID=1613288076979427717' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/242317451824146060/posts/default/1613288076979427717'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/242317451824146060/posts/default/1613288076979427717'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://borni-in-the-usa.blogspot.com/2008/12/today-was-one-of-days-where-i-had.html' title='Nothing left to do'/><author><name>borkus</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_U4SaUz9TE-4/STiz0wIMRWI/AAAAAAAADPE/rLCbAL0wd74/s72-c/2008-12-04+Noodles+and+Martini.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-242317451824146060.post-3365887341869813767</id><published>2008-11-30T22:11:00.012-05:00</published><updated>2008-12-03T22:25:28.251-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='New York'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='apple pie'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='museum'/><title type='text'>Culture in Brooklyn</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Yesterday I wanted to visit the Brooklyn Museum specifically the &lt;a href="http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/gilbert_and_george/"&gt;exhibition Gilbert &amp;amp; George&lt;/a&gt;. It was for free and started at 1:30pm. So I decided to leave at 12:30 to take the express train to brooklyn, I thought I should arrive at about 1:15pm. But the express train was a local train on this cold but sunny saturday. So I arrived at something past 1:30pm. Because I've never been in Brooklyn I decided to make a trip through the district. And i've to say that i loved it. It's such a beautiful area with so many different kind of people livin' there. It was really interesting to move along the Fulton Mall, listen to so many different musics like gospels, hip hop or mainstreamstuff. Everybody was target as 'Bro' or 'Ey man'. And it was really cheap there. I bought some doughnuts (2 for $1) filled with strawberrys. It was so awesome delicious I was motivated to went in the store again and buy more of this great food. But then I remembered my the empty wallet and decided to go ahead ;-)&lt;br /&gt;I went into a small museum, called &lt;a href="http://www.mocada.org/"&gt;Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts&lt;/a&gt;. It was a very nice place with very friendly and open minded people. I connected to a to an artist, called Russell Frederick. I'm very sad that the homepage written on his business card does not work, but I want you to welcome him as a new reader of this blog ;-) &lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;[update 12/03/2008:&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;it's working: &lt;a href="www.kamoinge.com"&gt;kamoinge&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; I was very impressed of the exhibition. It telled the story of the movement "I AM A MAN", taking place in the 60's of the last century. It was among other things about the perception of the white man to the black man. well, it's hard to express it in English. The goal of this movement (connected with Martin Luther King) was to remind all people that black men are not only 'Bro's', gangster, hip hopper or well-equipped lovers but also philosophs, teachers, hard workers and fathers.&lt;br /&gt;See the following description for further information:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_U4SaUz9TE-4/STNmLuYvefI/AAAAAAAADN0/NxVa3m8MdZo/s1600-h/100_3633.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 132px; height: 200px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_U4SaUz9TE-4/STNmLuYvefI/AAAAAAAADN0/NxVa3m8MdZo/s200/100_3633.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5274671940197382642" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;The pictures were all very impressive and expressive. The best one was "iMAN Divine" by Rah Crawford: &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_U4SaUz9TE-4/STNmq9pO4FI/AAAAAAAADN8/FA4s3Ok-I_s/s1600-h/iMAN_3+Divine.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 133px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_U4SaUz9TE-4/STNmq9pO4FI/AAAAAAAADN8/FA4s3Ok-I_s/s200/iMAN_3+Divine.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5274672476869025874" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;and the most impressive was "Freedom or Else" by Jarnett Shabazz:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_U4SaUz9TE-4/STNoDypaiBI/AAAAAAAADOM/EnJlpUQIWj4/s1600-h/Freedom+or+Else.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 132px; height: 200px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_U4SaUz9TE-4/STNoDypaiBI/AAAAAAAADOM/EnJlpUQIWj4/s200/Freedom+or+Else.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5274674002925357074" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_U4SaUz9TE-4/STNopaRJqHI/AAAAAAAADOc/DBdTqLFGklQ/s1600-h/Lorenzo+Steele.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 132px; height: 200px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_U4SaUz9TE-4/STNopaRJqHI/AAAAAAAADOc/DBdTqLFGklQ/s200/Lorenzo+Steele.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5274674649216166002" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;This text was very interesting ,too. Maybe you want to take a deeper look at it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you want to go to Brooklyn the next weeks, take a look at this exhibition. It informs you in a very interesting way about the american history, with pictures, a movie and sounds.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the evening my roommate arrived with some aother guys and we had noodles with peanut butter, apple-pie with ice-cream, chocolade-cake and american beer. We were so filled up after eating the whole evening - it was great :D Bedides eating we played an very exciting game called &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cluedo"&gt;Clue(do)&lt;/a&gt;. While playing the game I learned some new (important) words like rope (Strick zum Erhaengen) or wrench (Schraubstock). There's also a film named &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clue_%28film%29"&gt;Clue&lt;/a&gt;, published in 1985, which I will watch during the next month i think :)&lt;br /&gt;Tomorrow I will go to work again - after I had 4 free days in a row :) I slept about 40 hours, discovered a museum, went over the Brooklyn Bridge &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_U4SaUz9TE-4/STNskLB8zHI/AAAAAAAADOk/bD1jeklHFmQ/s1600-h/Brooklyn+Bridge+01.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 132px; height: 200px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_U4SaUz9TE-4/STNskLB8zHI/AAAAAAAADOk/bD1jeklHFmQ/s200/Brooklyn+Bridge+01.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5274678957273042034" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;was very happy about some wishes for a happy first advent by my dad :), had some very sweet candies, american beer ..................... and started to read The Silmarillion written by J. R. R. Tolkien. It's so fascinating to read it - I need two more days off to finish it *gg* I'm so happy that I have some time to read, listen to music, walking around and thinking and dreaming about different stuff after the really tough last months - it's almost beyond words :-)&lt;br /&gt;Have a great week and thanks for joining the blog - hope you enjoyed it.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/242317451824146060-3365887341869813767?l=borni-in-the-usa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://borni-in-the-usa.blogspot.com/feeds/3365887341869813767/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=242317451824146060&amp;postID=3365887341869813767' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/242317451824146060/posts/default/3365887341869813767'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/242317451824146060/posts/default/3365887341869813767'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://borni-in-the-usa.blogspot.com/2008/11/crowd-mocada-brooklyn.html' title='Culture in Brooklyn'/><author><name>borkus</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_U4SaUz9TE-4/STNmLuYvefI/AAAAAAAADN0/NxVa3m8MdZo/s72-c/100_3633.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-242317451824146060.post-4388631444078796672</id><published>2008-11-28T23:20:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2008-11-28T23:49:47.037-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='New York'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='apple pie'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='book'/><title type='text'>Apple Pie Made My Day</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;First time I made &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_pie#Apple_pie_in_American_culture"&gt;it&lt;/a&gt; by myself. I tasted it in Ulm when I was invented to my american neighboors Meg and Patrick. Today i had a day off because of Day After Thanksgiving (and yesterday, too because of Thanksgiving (an update on this day is in progress)) So I decided to drive to Harlem to find the cheap grocery store. But I was not able to locate it, so I went back to 86th/Brdwy and checked out Gricedes. It was as cheap as I read in my new book &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/Broke-Ass-Stuarts-Guide-Living-Cheaply/dp/097881780X/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;s=books&amp;amp;qid=1227931519&amp;amp;sr=8-2"&gt;"Broke-Ass Stuart's Guide to Living Cheaply in New York"&lt;/a&gt;. And so I bought sugar, foul, apples, pie-paste, milk and some salad because I needed more cheap stuff for my sandwiches ;)&lt;br /&gt;After arriving at home I found out, that there is no springform in the household. So I left the house again and went downtown to find a hardware-store. After I reached 72th street without any usefull store I toke the express-train north to walk the Broadway down from uptown. The moment I left the subway station I saw a big hardware-shop with a very friendly salesman. Five minutes later I had a re-usable pie-springform and some shoe-polish. Back at home I started my first american baker-experience:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_U4SaUz9TE-4/STDCLV3hMkI/AAAAAAAADNc/YRk8-yBRHZU/s1600-h/100_3617.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_U4SaUz9TE-4/STDCLV3hMkI/AAAAAAAADNc/YRk8-yBRHZU/s320/100_3617.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5273928663755207234" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I've to say that it was very very delicious to taste the filling. It was undescribable appetezingly. I made it with sugar, foul, cinnamon (Zimt) and thinly slided apples *mjam*&lt;br /&gt;This was the situation before the 30 minutes in the gas oven:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_U4SaUz9TE-4/STDCLlDtbFI/AAAAAAAADNk/DQFAFglraDI/s1600-h/100_3622.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_U4SaUz9TE-4/STDCLlDtbFI/AAAAAAAADNk/DQFAFglraDI/s320/100_3622.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5273928667832872018" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And that's the result:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_U4SaUz9TE-4/STDCMW3JesI/AAAAAAAADNs/tvc_9u15sf4/s1600-h/100_3626.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_U4SaUz9TE-4/STDCMW3JesI/AAAAAAAADNs/tvc_9u15sf4/s320/100_3626.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5273928681201957570" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, I can't say how it tastes because I want to try it together with my roommate, who has birthday today but didn't showed up this day - not when I was at home, anyway. So I give her a last try tomorrow. If she's not there until I come back in the evening, I will eat it all alone - I'm really looking forward to it ;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Earlier this day I went to the &lt;a href="http://www.moma.org/"&gt;Museum of Modern Arts&lt;/a&gt; because every friday you can go in for free between 4pm and 8pm. But as I arrived at 5pm there was such a crowd in front of the entrance that I moved 180° right and went back to the city. The whole city was flooded by thousends of people with cameras, black-friday-shopping-bags, standing around on the sidewalks, the streets -just everywhere. It was horrible. So i decided to try two other locations which were mentioned in the book. One I will write about later, exactly when I used the thing I bought there, the second one was a small bookstore at 81th/Brdwy. It was filled over and over with used books. The room was as high as 2 floors and all walls were covered with books. Right at the entrance I saw J. R. R. Tolkin's book "The Return of the King". In the end I didn't bought, because I couldn't find the other two books from The Lord of the Rings. So I spent 8 bucks for &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hobbit"&gt;The Hobbit&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Silmarillion"&gt;The Silmarillion&lt;/a&gt;. I think I should read a short description of the last mentioned book first because seems to be not that easy to read and understand it in english. But if I read everytime I'm pissed off of the people standing around in da hood I will get it *rofl*&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/242317451824146060-4388631444078796672?l=borni-in-the-usa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://borni-in-the-usa.blogspot.com/feeds/4388631444078796672/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=242317451824146060&amp;postID=4388631444078796672' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/242317451824146060/posts/default/4388631444078796672'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/242317451824146060/posts/default/4388631444078796672'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://borni-in-the-usa.blogspot.com/2008/11/apple-pie.html' title='Apple Pie Made My Day'/><author><name>borkus</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_U4SaUz9TE-4/STDCLV3hMkI/AAAAAAAADNc/YRk8-yBRHZU/s72-c/100_3617.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-242317451824146060.post-4308215608150660361</id><published>2008-11-23T23:34:00.006-05:00</published><updated>2008-11-26T10:02:35.513-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='New York'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Foto'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Hudson'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Travel'/><title type='text'>Sunshine in NY</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"&gt;Today was a beautiful day. The sun was shining, the sky was blue- and the air was freakin' cold. But I had my earpads with me, so the wind could blow through my hair and although I was not cold. Ok,I was a bit cold, but it was ok because the skyline and the area of Lower west Manhattan between 42nd/12th Ave und World Financial Center was awesome. See link below for more impressions:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0px; WIDTH: 194px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; HEIGHT: 230px; TEXT-ALIGN: left"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr align="left"&gt;&lt;td style="BACKGROUND: url(http://picasaweb.google.com/f/img/transparent_album_background.gif) no-repeat left center; HEIGHT: 194px; TEXT-ALIGN: center; moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial"&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/tycoon83/20081123LowerWestManhattan?authkey=EvCbZa-mIfw#"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 1px 0pt 0pt 4px" height="160" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_U4SaUz9TE-4/SSolIwpbukE/AAAAAAAACq0/k6cFrJeH_OA/s160-c/20081123LowerWestManhattan.jpg" width="160" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: top"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="FONT-SIZE: 11px; FONT-FAMILY: arial,sans-serif; TEXT-ALIGN: center"&gt;&lt;a style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; COLOR: rgb(77,77,77); TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://picasaweb.google.com/tycoon83/20081123LowerWestManhattan?authkey=EvCbZa-mIfw#"&gt;2008-11-23 Lower West Manhattan&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: top"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I've to say that I don't like the pictures that much - they donÄt show exactly how the atmosphaere was. But I made some pictures with my Canon, too so one day you will see some really good ones - I promise :)&lt;br /&gt;I saw the Statue of Liberty the first time in my life -ok, she was very far away but I saw her :-P And the telescope which wa sinstalled on one peer was for free - in contrast to the ones standing around in Germany ;-)&lt;br /&gt;I was very angry about myself because I lost my tripod at home. Next time I will take it with me, even if I should think that I wouldn't need it....&lt;br /&gt;I planned to go to a concert in Brooklyn this evening,but I canceled it because of non-existing money :-( So I had some music at home - in combination with a half chicken I bought very cheap in my favorite store on Broadway: Fairways.&lt;br /&gt;I hope i read some comments from you guys ;-) Would make me very happy :-)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cyaz&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;digg_url = 'WEBSITE_URL';&lt;br /&gt;digg_bgcolor = '#ff9900';&lt;br /&gt;digg_skin = 'compact';&lt;br /&gt;digg_window = 'new';&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script src="http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js" type="text/javascript"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/242317451824146060-4308215608150660361?l=borni-in-the-usa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://borni-in-the-usa.blogspot.com/feeds/4308215608150660361/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=242317451824146060&amp;postID=4308215608150660361' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/242317451824146060/posts/default/4308215608150660361'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/242317451824146060/posts/default/4308215608150660361'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://borni-in-the-usa.blogspot.com/2008/11/sunshine-in-ny.html' title='Sunshine in NY'/><author><name>borkus</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://lh4.ggpht.com/_U4SaUz9TE-4/SSolIwpbukE/AAAAAAAACq0/k6cFrJeH_OA/s72-c/20081123LowerWestManhattan.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-242317451824146060.post-7818773894516357412</id><published>2008-11-22T23:30:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2008-11-23T00:36:13.019-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='New York'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='music'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='subway'/><title type='text'>He's still alive</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Last week was very interesting. I did some things I's done never before - in NY ^^&lt;br /&gt;At first, I cleaned some clothings because I ran off of clean panties, socks and such stuff. So I started to look for a laundromat with self-service. I found one at 86th/Columbus Ave. I went there one evening after work and made the experience that it's possible to be an american unable to speak english. Well, my spoken one is not the best, too bus this of the guy in the laundromat was horrible - to put it buntly, the number of words he was able to pronounce in english was about four This four words were: What, do, you and mean. But I figured out that you have to pay in quarter-coins, specificly 16 quarters per machine - no credit-cards or bills accepted. Yeah, I left the store wishing him all the best for his future (even if he was not able to understand it ^^) and gave the stuff to the chinese laundromat in my street, West 85th :) 1pd, $6 that was worth it, because when I arrive from work at about 7:30PM most of the self-laundromats are closed.&lt;br /&gt;On friday I signed in to the gym at MBUSA. It's awesome. You just need some shoes - all the other stuff you pay about $11 per 2 weeks. This includes T-Shirt, pants, socks, towels, shower, shower-gel, cream, and the use of the gym. I think the price is better then the one of germany's McFit :D So I started to burn the first 400cal in 40 minutes by ryding the bike. On monday I will get an introduction to all the sports equipment. It will be a very short week just till wednesday because on thursday there's Thanksgiving and on friday is the day after Thanksgiving *gg*&lt;br /&gt;On wednesday eve we will discover some new bars in manhattan like we did last night. we found something like a Hartz-IV-bar on 42th/9th Avenue. One beer (0.4l) was $2,50 and hot Dogs were for free. It was a nice location with interesting people and good music, even if it was a bit to loud. After this we went into another club, called Zansibar. I decided to drink nothing because there a beer was about $7, a Gin-Tonic for example costs $10. And I had to spent about $60 to start to like the music. Today I was very happy that I saved the money, because on my way through Manhattan I discovered a new shop, called Filene's Basement. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_U4SaUz9TE-4/SSjhBmgv_CI/AAAAAAAACkQ/Va9j_ZEPBHg/s1600-h/2008-11-22+Shopping.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_U4SaUz9TE-4/SSjhBmgv_CI/AAAAAAAACkQ/Va9j_ZEPBHg/s320/2008-11-22+Shopping.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5271710781471194146" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They sold different clothes, stuff for the bathroom and for traveling (da fallen mir an dieser Stelle die Durchsagen in den nur noch selten fahrenden ICEs ein: Thänk yu for träwölling wis deutsche bahn *hihi*) with a discount of up to 70%. The last two weeks I was looking for something like a business-pant because I have just one with me in the USA and you are just allowed to wear jeans on the so called causal friday. So I bought a pant and a new shirt (compatible to the pant I thought, and my roommate agreed to my opinion after she looked into my bags after coming home - that made me a bit proud because sometimes I have some really small problems to match colors as some of you might remember ;-)).&lt;br /&gt;Furthermore I bought some earlaps. That's pretty nice, because everytime I use one of my caps my hair looks really confused. But my hair is that plump that I just need something to warm my ears. I thought about buying a headset produced by Bose, but this is not possible during the next month because of not existing money :( So earlaps are a good alternative :-) They had a lot of nice caps there, too - but I was not able to decide which one I like most, so I bought none of them. Maybe I will take the guys visiting me on christmas and new year to this store to give me some advise (Hi there guys ;-) ). And for the first time i had some kebab from a guy selling it on the street - like on every corner in the town. It was very tasty - see the following foto: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_U4SaUz9TE-4/SSjgqv4CjHI/AAAAAAAACkI/8HAjKHGDdTY/s1600-h/2008-11-22+Kebab.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_U4SaUz9TE-4/SSjgqv4CjHI/AAAAAAAACkI/8HAjKHGDdTY/s320/2008-11-22+Kebab.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5271710388847807602" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On thursday I had the most funniest workday ever. I registered for a class called Introduction to Cognos. Cognos is a web-based controlling tool. The description sound interesting, I think that maybe one day I could use the stuff you learn thereand it was also sponsored by MBUSA and so I decided to take part on this event (more classes will follow the next weeks ;) ) We were three people. One from Washingto, he was the supervisor of some dealers in this area, one from a team working on a similar stuff like my team (the same day I arranged a meeting with him during the next 2 weeks to learn more about his work :) ) We had so much fun together on joking around, listening to crazy storys from  the work with the dealers and company-members - it was just amazing. Besides we were working very hard so that I could take the bus at 4:15PM instead of the one at 5:30PM ;) - first time since I'm in the US btw :)&lt;br /&gt;The ride is another one then the one at 5:30PM so that I was remembered by this advertisement that the recession already arrived in NY:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_U4SaUz9TE-4/SSjhixIAovI/AAAAAAAACkY/AuvmjNPselA/s1600-h/Recession+Special.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_U4SaUz9TE-4/SSjhixIAovI/AAAAAAAACkY/AuvmjNPselA/s320/Recession+Special.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5271711351255900914" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As response I would quote Funny van Dannen with Kleine geile Firmen: &lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/TZ2MT4FSOFA&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/TZ2MT4FSOFA&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To come to an end I want to present a new subway-video. I filmed it at 34th St - Herald Square Station. The woman you can see in the video (if you turn your head to the left - sorry, but I'm not able to rotate it because therefor I need a good computer) was singing some great songs - this one is Michael Jackson as you would discover by yourself of cause, too ;-)&lt;br /&gt;She had some more great songs from other famous songwriters, too - but this is the only one i filmed. Have fun with it:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;embed id="VideoPlayback" src="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docid=-5783689592961668122&amp;amp;hl=de&amp;amp;fs=true" style="width: 400px; height: 326px;" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/242317451824146060-7818773894516357412?l=borni-in-the-usa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://borni-in-the-usa.blogspot.com/feeds/7818773894516357412/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=242317451824146060&amp;postID=7818773894516357412' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/242317451824146060/posts/default/7818773894516357412'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/242317451824146060/posts/default/7818773894516357412'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://borni-in-the-usa.blogspot.com/2008/11/hes-still-alive.html' title='He&apos;s still alive'/><author><name>borkus</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_U4SaUz9TE-4/SSjhBmgv_CI/AAAAAAAACkQ/Va9j_ZEPBHg/s72-c/2008-11-22+Shopping.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-242317451824146060.post-101340537145279759</id><published>2008-11-16T04:58:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-11-16T02:00:55.031-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='beach'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='music'/><title type='text'>Kicked my ass</title><content type='html'>yeaaahhh&lt;br /&gt;Yesterday in the evening, I was so tired that I decided to go to bed right after coming home at about 10pm.&lt;br /&gt;The next day, saturday, I slept till 10am, then I woke up by the alarm-clock. But, right, I stayed in my bed, like the weekend before - no motivation to move ^^&lt;br /&gt;There was so much rain outside that I was not sure if I really want to go out - to the beach. But after a nice smalltalk via ITzeKuhI kicked me out of my bed, had some cornflakes (without milk, because milk was off :( ), a shower, packed my backpack with a towel, a camera and a book and started the day.&lt;br /&gt;That was my first goal: The beach of the atlantic ocean.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" src="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;hl=de&amp;amp;msa=0&amp;amp;ll=40.58795,-73.761778&amp;amp;spn=0.029787,0.055275&amp;amp;t=h&amp;amp;msid=112295002696706336266.00045bc7155eb309091a0&amp;amp;output=embed&amp;amp;s=AARTsJpECiWtiR1HB-tn6r9pB2N6hmQriQ" frameborder="0" height="350" scrolling="no" width="425"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;small&gt;&lt;a href="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;hl=de&amp;amp;msa=0&amp;amp;ll=40.58795,-73.761778&amp;amp;spn=0.029787,0.055275&amp;amp;t=h&amp;amp;msid=112295002696706336266.00045bc7155eb309091a0&amp;amp;source=embed" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); text-align: left;"&gt;Größere Kartenansicht&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It took me about an hour to reach it via the express-subway, train A. But it was worth it. I had time to read my book - The last lecture by Randy Pausch. A fascinating book with so many truths and pieces of wisdom - it's a totally exciting book. After the arrival I saw on the right side the beach, on the other side some houses. I was really hungry, but i decided to go at first to the beach, because it was nearly 4pm, not so much time to the darkness because of the unpresent sun. It was such a long time ago that I saw the beach and the waves... I was the only person there - it was very windy, but not that cold. There were so big scallops (Muscheln) which I've never seen before :-o&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_U4SaUz9TE-4/SR-urAILUcI/AAAAAAAACb4/Jb2yed8YH_g/s1600-h/100_3402.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_U4SaUz9TE-4/SR-urAILUcI/AAAAAAAACb4/Jb2yed8YH_g/s320/100_3402.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5269122142838673858" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Please feel free to discover more pictures following this link:&lt;table style="width: 194px;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="background: transparent url(http://picasaweb.google.com/f/img/transparent_album_background.gif) no-repeat scroll left center; height: 194px; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/tycoon83/20081115Beach?authkey=V2triQ6elXI#"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_U4SaUz9TE-4/SR-wBIhz06E/AAAAAAAACd4/kv3mQX5DqZg/s160-c/20081115Beach.jpg" style="margin: 1px 0pt 0pt 4px;" height="160" width="160" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/tycoon83/20081115Beach?authkey=V2triQ6elXI#" style="color: rgb(77, 77, 77); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"&gt;2008-11-15 Beach&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here's a short impression of the beach:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;embed id="VideoPlayback" src="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docid=-164388576644676739&amp;amp;hl=de&amp;amp;fs=true" style="width: 400px; height: 326px;" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After the walk along the beach I went to "town" and stopped at a supermarket. There I was really surprised because the prices for food were so much lower than the one in Manhattan :-| Cheese slides were $1 compared to $5. Salad and most of the other stuff was cheaper, too. So I bought some cheese and 3 bagel for $1 and had lunch on my way to the subway station.&lt;br /&gt;After 1.5 hours I arrived at 158 Bleecker Street. There was a beautiful concert of The Calder Quartet and &lt;a href="http://www.lastfm.de/music/Andrew+W.K."&gt;Andrew W. K.&lt;/a&gt; in the club &lt;a href="http://lepoissonrouge.com/"&gt;Le Poisson Rouge&lt;/a&gt;. the mixture of modern classic and hand made rock was overwhelming. It was great to listen to Andrew W. K. who is a freak in playing the piano, drums and in singing, crying and dancing - most of this at the same time. His song I love NYC is my new Ohrwurm ;-) It was performed together with the Calder Quartet- first time ever. And it was really exciting. I found the song with a good quality:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="344" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/J_wi5IhvkKo&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/J_wi5IhvkKo&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="344" width="425"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I don't have so much (good) pictures because the concert was so great that I had no time for more :D&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table style="width: 194px;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="background: transparent url(http://picasaweb.google.com/f/img/transparent_album_background.gif) no-repeat scroll left center; height: 194px; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/tycoon83/20081115TheCalderQuartetFeatAndrewWK?authkey=5PURrqakftI#"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_U4SaUz9TE-4/SR-z87gsadE/AAAAAAAACfk/q8SX7HDLLEM/s160-c/20081115TheCalderQuartetFeatAndrewWK.jpg" style="margin: 1px 0pt 0pt 4px;" height="160" width="160" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/tycoon83/20081115TheCalderQuartetFeatAndrewWK?authkey=5PURrqakftI#" style="color: rgb(77, 77, 77); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"&gt;2008-11-15 The Calder Quartet feat. Andrew W. K&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Und zum Schluss noch kurz das Pogramm :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;The Tone Cluster C#, D, D#, E. F. and F#&lt;br /&gt;'Let Us Get Physical' - AWK with TCQ&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Interface (Tristan Perich) - TCQ&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Brandenburg Hej Hej Hej (J. S. Bach, AWK) - AWK&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Honey Flyers I - III (Christine Southworth) - TCQ with Bot(i)Cello&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Company I - IV (Philip Glass) - TCQ&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Spontaneous Improvisations - AWK with Bot(i)Cello&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;I get wet&lt;br /&gt;Party Hard&lt;br /&gt;I Love New York City&lt;br /&gt;Dance Party&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;4'33 I - III (John Cage) - AWK with TCQ&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;Aufgabe: Finde das Stück, welches am leisesten gespielt wurde!?! :)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/242317451824146060-101340537145279759?l=borni-in-the-usa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://borni-in-the-usa.blogspot.com/feeds/101340537145279759/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=242317451824146060&amp;postID=101340537145279759' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/242317451824146060/posts/default/101340537145279759'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/242317451824146060/posts/default/101340537145279759'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://borni-in-the-usa.blogspot.com/2008/11/kicked-my-ass.html' title='Kicked my ass'/><author><name>borkus</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_U4SaUz9TE-4/SR-urAILUcI/AAAAAAAACb4/Jb2yed8YH_g/s72-c/100_3402.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-242317451824146060.post-1760393987767280931</id><published>2008-11-13T02:17:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-11-12T23:30:31.847-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='New York'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='music'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='subway'/><title type='text'>Music feat. New York</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Because I can't get my ass up to write about the last week I present some stuff from right this day.&lt;br /&gt;At first, I'm really pissed of that the american wireless is so slow. It doesn't depend on the WLAN because all networks I tried are that slow. It's really boring to watch videos or even to listen to some onlinemusic. So while the video is loading I have some time to write some lines. I found some music on the borought notebook. It's almost 3 to five years ago that I listened to Subway to Sally - Julia und die Räuber:&lt;object height="344" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/lQ9_ji-ydro&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/lQ9_ji-ydro&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="344" width="425"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nicht dass die Band nicht mehr tolle Lieder auf Lager hätte - aber Placebo ist hier auch auf dem Rechner, und da kann ich dann natürlich nicht widerstehen, zumal ich jetzt endlich mein 5.1-headset angeschlossen habe - mit Surround und ordentlichem Subwoofer flattert's da bis in die letzten Gehirnwinkel, WAHNSINN :))&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="344" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/R-fJ9ROrW08&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/R-fJ9ROrW08&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="344" width="425"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But now back to the roots: New York :D&lt;br /&gt;Today there's AC/DC playing at Madison's Square Garden. Well, once in the lifetime you shoud have visited a concert powered by AC/DC, I think. The performance is great, some other interns told us newbees. But after looking up the prices I had to think about it again. $70 one ticket, last row in the auditorium. That's not worth it I said to me. Well, and I think I was right. If the first salary not arrives till friday I would be out of money. I mean, totally out of money. No liquid credit line, no backups, nothing to sell (at any rate nothing that I own ^^). Out of money means, no food, no busticket to work, that means especially no money, that means - you know ;-)&lt;br /&gt;Ok, so I klicked from page to page, arrived at lastfm.de and logged in to my &lt;a href="http://www.lastfm.de/user/tycoon"&gt;profile&lt;/a&gt;. One possibility on this page is, to inform about concerts in the area you live. Well - one is &lt;a href="http://www.lastfm.de/music/Nada+Surf"&gt;Nada Surf&lt;/a&gt; this weekend - for $20. Nice band, nice price. So let's see if I can get some tickets :)&lt;br /&gt;Ok, at this point I want to introduce some of the NYMs - the newyorkian musicians (Anm. d. Red. *gg* Achja - bitte laut mitsprechen: "newyorkian musicians" Zwecks Verbesserung der Aussprache und so, ihr wisst schon *hihi*) But more important than the spelling is the music they make. In nearly every subway station somebody sits and makes music - sometimes mehr schlecht als recht, but sometimes they are great performers - like in the following vid:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;embed id="VideoPlayback" src="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docid=1701043588284116470&amp;amp;hl=de&amp;amp;fs=true" style="width: 400px; height: 326px;" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's difficult to decide wether to spend some money or not. In most cases the wallet decides, but sometimes they make such a great performance that is doesn't matters. I will try to catch some more impressions. One girl told me (here name is Sina "Hallo Sina :-*") there's a man, running through NY in underpants and playing the guitar. I have to say that i never met him, but maybe somebody is so nice to post the video - I'm a bit to tired to start a search. Thank you so much :-*&lt;br /&gt;Stay informed :)&lt;br /&gt;Nachtrag: folgendes hab ich beim prae-zubettgehen-im-netz-stöbern noch gefunden :-))&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.spiegel.de/img/0,1020,1353449,00.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 295px; height: 217px;" src="http://www.spiegel.de/img/0,1020,1353449,00.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/242317451824146060-1760393987767280931?l=borni-in-the-usa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://borni-in-the-usa.blogspot.com/feeds/1760393987767280931/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=242317451824146060&amp;postID=1760393987767280931' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/242317451824146060/posts/default/1760393987767280931'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/242317451824146060/posts/default/1760393987767280931'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://borni-in-the-usa.blogspot.com/2008/11/because-i-cant-get-my-ass-up-to-write.html' title='Music feat. New York'/><author><name>borkus</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-242317451824146060.post-3036837976346629760</id><published>2008-11-01T21:39:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-11-10T23:18:12.152-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Area'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='first day'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Flight'/><title type='text'>The Arrival</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Well, what to say about the arrival. It was awesome to fly :) I like the feeling so much that you have sitting in a starting airplane. It's like the big "Schaukel" in the "Heidepark Soltau" where you can sit right at the end of the ship *gg*&lt;br /&gt;I left my dear hostel mom and &lt;a href="http://www.aneurysm.twoday.net/"&gt;dad&lt;/a&gt; the day before, on october 30th and arrived in Berlin at 10:15PM. I had about 30 minutes delay because we had to change the train in Brandenburg - something was wrong with the locomotive.&lt;br /&gt;The evening I spent with a girlfriend in Berlin - next to the Alexanderplatz. We went out to have some Martini in two different bars along the Charlottenburger Straße. It was a very nice evening with a lot of discussion. One was about her digital camera and the small laptop. After she convinced me to take the camera with me, we called her boyfriend to discuss the notebook-situation with him. Well, I'm sitting right in front of the notebook, so everybody should be able to make aguess about the end.&lt;br /&gt;Following some videos I made on the flight.&lt;br /&gt;I arrived at 7AM at Berlin - Tegel. I had to wait about 2 hours to check in. After I did this, I walked araound the airport looking for some interesting stuff -instead of  this I heard my name. Markus Bornfleth and blablabla please came immediatly to the Check-In-point. Shit, dachte ich - da is was schief gelaufen. Aber nix da - da ich über Internet gebucht hatte konnt ich gleich wieder gehen- Alles ok meinte die nette Dame. Frau blablabla, die nicht übers Internet gebucht hatte konnte nach einem kurzen Blick auf ihre Tickets aber auch wieder gehen. War wohl doch alles nur ein Versehen ^^&lt;br /&gt;With a delay of approximately 15 minutes the big journey started. About one hour to Duesseldorf. There I had to change the airplane. All went well because all was organized very well. So that I had some time to call some people - 50% (that means one ;) ) was not reachable),also bin ich durch den riesigen Flughafen geschlendert und hab mit von meinen letzten Euros nen Kaffee geholt.&lt;br /&gt;At 13:20, again with a delay of appr. 20 minutes we left Duesseldorf:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;embed id="VideoPlayback" src="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docid=6136090923057284789&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=true" style="width: 400px; height: 326px;" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After a very relaxing flight with King of Queens and Mr. Bean on TV we reached New York 30 minutes before the predicted time.&lt;br /&gt;Damit ich jetzt nicht jedes Bild einzeln einfügen muss schaut einfach mal hier vorbei: &lt;/div&gt;&lt;table style="width: 194px; text-align: left; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="background: transparent url(http://picasaweb.google.com/f/img/transparent_album_background.gif) no-repeat scroll left center; height: 194px; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" align="left"&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/tycoon83/20081031Flight#"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_U4SaUz9TE-4/SRj5cL_Fq_E/AAAAAAAACaI/2rkyVGlchH4/s160-c/20081031Flight.jpg" style="margin: 1px 0pt 0pt 4px;" height="160" width="160" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: right; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/tycoon83/20081031Flight#" style="color: rgb(77, 77, 77); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"&gt;2008-10-31 Flight&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Die Landung auf JFK und das Roll-Out gibt es &lt;a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3450227514144484133&amp;amp;hl=en"&gt;hier&lt;/a&gt; zu beschauen.  JA, das Wetter war toll :)) War ja auch erst 17:00 als ich den Flughafen da verlassen habe. Die Sommerzeit wurde btw erst eine Woche später zurückgestellt. Was ein Glück für mich, wo ich soo gerne länger schlafe *dream*&lt;br /&gt;Abgeholt wurde ich von einem extra bestellten LimoService. Aus der versprochenen S-Klasse wurde leider nichts, dafür gab es einen GL&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_U4SaUz9TE-4/SRj9TSatriI/AAAAAAAACaQ/b30VLVV_BcQ/s1600-h/mercedes-benz-gl-class-art-side-tuning.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 100px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_U4SaUz9TE-4/SRj9TSatriI/AAAAAAAACaQ/b30VLVV_BcQ/s200/mercedes-benz-gl-class-art-side-tuning.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5267238272013020706" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_U4SaUz9TE-4/SRj9TV0uWAI/AAAAAAAACaY/k_zNS_t3RYA/s1600-h/20080323192155%21Mercedes_GL_320_CDI_4Matic_rear.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 142px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_U4SaUz9TE-4/SRj9TV0uWAI/AAAAAAAACaY/k_zNS_t3RYA/s200/20080323192155%21Mercedes_GL_320_CDI_4Matic_rear.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5267238272927422466" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Auch ein feines Auto, zumal wenn man über eine Stunde nach Manhattan reinfährt und durch die dunklen Scheiben alle Leute beobachten kann ;).&lt;br /&gt;Der erste Sonnenuntergang in NY war wunderschön - hier der Versuch einer Momentaufnahme die etwas splitscreenhaftes hat da ich nicht vorni sitzen durfte *schnieff* Naja, so hatte ich den Fahrer gleich mit im Auge. Fetzt schon zu sehen wie  sich einige Leute über Stau aufregen können - nur schade dass ich die ganzen Wörter noch nicht beherrsche *harrrr*:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;embed id="VideoPlayback" src="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docid=3645210221770317838&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=true" style="width: 400px; height: 326px;" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Zu Hause angekommen hat mich eine deutschsprechende Nachbarin zur Schlüsselübergabe erwartet, da meine Mitbewohnerin, &lt;a href="http://www.ninanegri.com/"&gt;Nina&lt;/a&gt;, das We über außer Haus war. Anschließend bin ich gleich zwei Blocks weiterauf den Broadway gelaufen,auf der Suche nach was Essbarem. Das problem war, dass es da sooo viel im Angebot gab, dass ich mich nicht entscheiden konnte und nach 2 Stunden immer noch hungrig und langsam taterig werden die Straße langgetigert bin. Der letzte Ausweg waren zwei Cheesburger bei MacDonalds. Nicht unbedingt lecker, aber immerhin hatte ich was lauwarmes im magen :-|&lt;br /&gt;Mit der Whg bin ich sehr zufrieen. Sehr ruhige Lage, trotzdem kann man in wenigen Minuten in ganz Manhattan sein: Die Metro sowie hunderte von Bars, Restaurants, Pubs, Theatern, Shops sind gleich um die Ecke:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" src="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;geocode=&amp;amp;q=331+W+85th,+NY+10024&amp;amp;sll=37.0625,-95.677068&amp;amp;sspn=62.443704,113.203125&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;ll=40.798672,-73.975153&amp;amp;spn=0.029698,0.087891&amp;amp;t=h&amp;amp;z=14&amp;amp;output=embed&amp;amp;s=AARTsJqZLyuXg9px_Y30nwJ4rfzNM9EU6Q" frameborder="0" height="350" scrolling="no" width="425"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;small&gt;&lt;a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;geocode=&amp;amp;q=331+W+85th,+NY+10024&amp;amp;sll=37.0625,-95.677068&amp;amp;sspn=62.443704,113.203125&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;ll=40.798672,-73.975153&amp;amp;spn=0.029698,0.087891&amp;amp;t=h&amp;amp;z=14&amp;amp;source=embed" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); text-align: left;"&gt;View Larger Map&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Btw könnt ihr die Karte vergrößern und mit StreetView direkt vor meine Haustür wandern - hab das mal vorbereitet für die die keine Lust haben durch Upper Manhattan zu wandern oder eh über Weihnachten/Neujahr vorbeikommen *mit dem Zaunpfahl wink*&lt;br /&gt;Es ist genau der Eingang in der Mitte, das Fenster über der Tür ist meins, das links daneben das vom Wohnzimmer:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_U4SaUz9TE-4/SRkCE_NU8CI/AAAAAAAACag/0Aij12zO0Fo/s1600-h/331W+85th+Street.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 190px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_U4SaUz9TE-4/SRkCE_NU8CI/AAAAAAAACag/0Aij12zO0Fo/s320/331W+85th+Street.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5267243523896569890" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, das war's dann erstmal von hinterm Teich. Nicht vergessen: Fleißig kommentieren, ist ohne Registrieren möglich -also ran an die tasten :-P&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/242317451824146060-3036837976346629760?l=borni-in-the-usa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://borni-in-the-usa.blogspot.com/feeds/3036837976346629760/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=242317451824146060&amp;postID=3036837976346629760' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/242317451824146060/posts/default/3036837976346629760'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/242317451824146060/posts/default/3036837976346629760'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://borni-in-the-usa.blogspot.com/2008/11/arrival.html' title='The Arrival'/><author><name>borkus</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://lh5.ggpht.com/_U4SaUz9TE-4/SRj5cL_Fq_E/AAAAAAAACaI/2rkyVGlchH4/s72-c/20081031Flight.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry></feed>
