It’s officially Friday on this continent, which means my Thanksgiving-longing is over and it’s FRT time.
I believe I’ve mentioned this before, but I have a wee obsession with Knut, the kleiner Eisbar of the Berlin Zoo. I don’t think I’ll be getting around to seeing him this weekend, but I’m excited just to be sharing some air with the adorable little guy. So this FRT is for him:
1. Bebel Gilberto – Tanto Tiempo
2. The Clash – Janie Jones
3. Girl Talk – Too Deep
4. The Notwist – Off the Rails
5. Tom Waits – Swordfishtrombone
6. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Lucy
7. Minutemen – West Germany
8. The Kinks - Big Sky
9. Pissed Jean – Don’t Need To Smoke To Make Myself Disappear
10. Des Ark – It’s a Hard World Sometimes for the Little Things
And while I’m not a huge Streets fan, this song has been all over ze German MTV and now it’s stuck in my head.
Aww. Those paws! Those huge, fumbling paws!
How precious he is!
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Sorry, this has nothing to do with your post (I love Knut too), but I just read this very disturbing article in the BBC news –
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7108676.stm
Apparently this isn’t the first time this kind of thing happened either. Un-bloody-believeable. Brazil is known for it’s objectification of women (in my eyes anyway) but this takes it to a whole new level. It’s like throwing a mouse in a pit of snakes. Shocking.
From the latest pics of Knut I’ve seen, he’s more of an unruly teenager now, I’m afraid. Don’t expect super-cuteness.
Oh, and pick up a Euro keyboard ;)
åäö
Ha. I know, I’m still trying to figure out how to do the vowels with the little dots on this keyboard… I’d pick up a German one, but they’re all wrong — the Y and the Z are reversed.
Oh, the memories!
Y/Z! Hell to learn when you get there. Hell to unlearn when you get home.
And where is that dang colon hiding itself!
Off-topic: We know every blog dealing with womens’ issues is about to go apeshit (justifiably) over the emerging Harrison Norris/sex slaves story. Just be careful jumping to conclusions, folks. Don’t forget the lessons of the Duke rape hoax. (Yes, Knut is totally cute).
I know what you mean, re: the y and z. A solution could be a Swedish keyboard, not that you’d ever use an å.
Luckily I had retrained myself on keyboards a couple of times before I got here, so it was relatively simple to pick up.
Hurrah for Knut!
If you’re using a Macintosh computer, you can make an umlaut (the a’s, o’s, and u’s with the two dots over them), by pressing option+u and then the letter of the umlaut.
I’ve always wanted to know how to make an umlaut without breaking eggs.
Here is my Random Ten:
01. Hoedown [03:40] — Emerson, Lake & Palmer
02. Hey Jude [07:07] — Beatles
03. Glad/Freedom Rider [12:20] — Traffic
04. Paranoid [02:47] — Black Sabbath
05. Dazz [03:22] — Brick
06. The Waiting [03:59] — Tom Petty
07. Comfrotably Numb [06:24] — Pink Floyd
08. Sugar On My Tongue [02:36] — Taking Heads
09. Signed, Sealed, Delivered (I’m Yours) [02:38] — Stevie Wonder
10. Stairway to Heaven [10:55] — Led Zeppelin
Ledasmom: Har de har. :)
Ha, German/English/US, trivial (says she who had to switch back and forth at work and was buzzing instead of buying stuff for the better part of the first week). Any of the above vs French, that’s where it gets difficult. Yeah, that’s right, pressing shift to get digits. Plus some more swapped letters. To get funny letters on a keyboard that doesn’t have them, it should be Compose-key, diacritical marks, base letter. Compose is the same one that turns three periods into an ellipsis and stuff (yes, there’s a silly joke in there somewhere). Lastly, if all else fails, you can also enter them in ISO 14755 mode, but that’s such a hassle. That’s the one that’s activated with Control-Shift and lets you input the really arcane characters (like “lesbian”, ⚢, 26a2) by number.
That said, for German umlauts, it’s perfectly fine to use an “e” instead, so instead of äöüß, you use ae oe ue ss.
PS, hence the song, Zesterdaz (all mz troubles seemed so far awaz).
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