just john

My car's speedometer only reads in km/hr. There's a little gauge that tells me how many liters per hundred kilometers I'm using. I lift 20kg plates at the gym and all the meat prices are per 100g. All this is considered normal. Strange how the U.S. is still stuck with imperial units. All of our engineers are introduced to imperial unit problem solving and then swap over to the sensible method:  Using the metric system.

I wonder if people would think it strange if 16 dimes equalled a dollar?

I caved in to economic pressure and purchased a dvd tonight. My first, I think, in the 21st century. All my others were either rented or given to me. Still without local channels on tv, I need something to switch back and forth between English and German to tune my ear.

Kara, of Frank and Kara, is going to the hospital tonight to give birth to their second child. Wish them well. Frank's at frank (dot) pochiro (at) us (dot) bosch (dot) com.

It's unbelievable how net bots will scrounge for email adresses. I've even had one leave "hoodia diet," which sucks and you should ignore, as a comment on this blog.

Drinking a bottle of Rothchild red tonight, not an old one as a friend coincidentally had last week, but real damn good nonetheless.

Would you believe Snoop Dogg speaks a few words of German? He's in concert here this week and advertising with P. Diddy on the radio. Aside from that the big headlines are a proposal to RAISE the drinking age to 18. Some kid in Berlin drank himself into a coma. The other political hot headline is a proposal to cap the Autobahn speed limit at 200km/hr. Is that really necessary? I just got here and 125mph seems like an unreasonable restriction. I mentioned in a conversation today, to an American, and the reply was "Is that to save gas?" I can only hold the football up people. Maybe 135mph would be a reasonable compromise until I can afford a faster car...