Traveler | 4. April 2012
Looking at this picture, the nerd in me is doing an extensive happy dance. Can you imagine any other resident of the Oval Office being this epic? Actually, I can. My heavily biased list includes both Roosevelts, Eisenhower and Kennedy. People who looked at this item also looked at… Nazi Ponies from the Dark Side [...]
Traveler | 27. März 2012
The rhetoric between Israel and Iran has once again reached a fever-pitch and it is not looking good right now. However, an Israeli graphics designer has used the internet to spread a powerful message: This is so beautiful, and it shows one thing: The people are tired of block-headed politicians risking everybody’s life but their [...]
Traveler | 27. Januar 2012
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Traveler | 18. Januar 2012
And therefore, I share this video with you: People who looked at this item also looked at… Are you praying to Cthulhu? Steampunk and Cthulhu – another Example Teslapunk Steampunk Gear for daily use Post-Apocalypse little girl Related items Tokio Hacker Space requests assistance Non-Steampunk update: I despair! Help Japan! The Truth on Friday [...]
Traveler | 18. Dezember 2011
This has been a terrible week, mankind has lost two great thinkers. First, Christopher Hitchens passed on and today, Václav Havel followed. Václav Havel, dissident, playwright, politician, leader, central figure of the Velvet Revolution. Few people have shaped post-Cold War Europe like he did. Few have been held in such high regard by so many, [...]
Traveler | 25. November 2011
“RichardDawkins: Fox News Viewers Know Less Than People Who Don’t Watch Any News: Study – – – Huff Post Media – http://t.co/dZHwWU1T http://t.co/QEeujK2B” –http://twitter.com/RichardDawkins/status/139865615656689664“ And some people keep wondering why sarcasm, despair and some light misanthropy are among my favourite hobbies… People who looked at this item also looked at… More Steampunk Interior Design Post-Apocalypse [...]
Traveler | 11. November 2011
Today is Armistice Day. In the US it’s Veterans Day and Remembrace Day in the Commonwealth nations. In Germany it also marks (for reasons that have elduded me since forever) the beginning of the Carnival Season. It starts November 11th at 11:11 am (that is 11/11, 11:11) . Why I bring up the Carnival Season [...]
Traveler | 11. September 2011
We all know about the Apollo Program which brought a number of US astronauts to the moon. At the same time, the USSR also had a manned space program going (for my younger readers: The USSR was a state that existed from 1922 to 1991 and comprised areas of what is now Russia, Ukrania, Belarus, [...]
Traveler | 16. August 2011
Personally I think the politicans of the recent decades lack a certain something. But then maybe the presidents we consider heroic and badass today were just regular guys and acquired an aura of the superhuman through the course of history. Well, recently I came across the marvelous artwork of SharpWriter on DeviantArt and he has [...]
Traveler | 18. Juli 2011
John Glenn, a living legend, celebrates his 90th birthday today. In case you actually do not know who John Glenn is (please feel really ashamed): He is the first American to orbit the earth and also, and far more impressively, the oldest man ever to go into space. In 1998, when he was 77 years [...]
I am an anthropologist and in this capacity a minor scholar of the Cthulhu Mythos and H.P. Lovecraft. I am also quite obviously heavily into Steampunk and Dieselpunk and like travelling.
More about me can be found here and also here (in German).
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