Everybody look, I am eating Jack Kennedy.
I spent the last weekend in Konstanz with the largest group of interns yet since Cologne. Eight such hoodlums came along, including myself. Pictures of fountains and flowers to follow.
As always, do enjoy.
BHK
posted by Ben @ 10:28 AM
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A quick word about the Hofbrauhaus on a Friday morning. More specifically, a quick word about the band at the Hofbrauhaus, who keep the place a happily polka-ing mecca of merriment every day of the week. Along with the countless polkas and marches they do play, and the compulsory "Ein Prosit!", they have one more crowd pleaser up their sleeve.
They play the happiest, bounciest, and drunkest version of John Denver's "Take Me Home, Country Roads" that you will ever witness.
It draws the wildest cheers, the most raised glasses, and the most boisterous singing of them all, beating even "Ein Prosit", and even from the Germans. The Japanese do very little other than take photos (bad ones, to be sure, after ein Mass), but the picture of hundreds of Germans, Americans, Canadians and Australians happily roaring "West Virginiaaaaa!" is one of the most beautiful things I have seen.
As always, do enjoy.
Misty taste of moonshine,
BHK
posted by Ben @ 9:15 AM
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A measured interest has existed in certain arenas regarding my roommate, the truly endearing Berliner properly referred to as "Markus", and improperly referred to as pretty much anything else.
Say hi, Markus.
(He says hi.)
As always, do enjoy.
BHK
posted by Ben @ 1:22 PM
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I left the office late last night, just on the verge of 9:00PM. No, thanks, I was not working that late, but I take well advantage of the presence of the internet here, plus it is just a nice place, and it was raining. Note to those who will undoubtedly yell at me for not going out and seeing Munich: I have seen plenty of Munich. I regret nothing.
Anyways, I started off leaving the office at 21:00. Having therefore missed dinner hours at the Kolpinghaus - the place where I live, if you missed this post; yes, they feed me, but only within specific hours - I decided to venture down to Nymphenburgerstrasse to investigate an Italian looking restaurant with a pleasant looking terrace. Granted, the terrace would not be an option on account of the rain, but all a boy needs in order to eat is a chair and a table and food - chair and table optional. This boy would have been happy to just find pasta or some pizza and a beer or something.
This boy found "rustic Italian atmosphere, chandeliers, mosaic floors, stylish table-settings and efficient service", at least according to the Michelin Review, who saw fit to give it a "comfortable" rating. Now, myself, being one more than willing to trade a pizza for pasta with calamari and vegetables, did exactly that, with a bit of buschetta and white wine. And espresso.
Mmm.
So, moral of the story is to be careful in Europe, or else you may end up in a critically acclaimed restaurant.
As always, do enjoy. Best believe I am.
BHK
posted by Ben @ 10:00 AM
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I went to Paris a week ago. Pictures from this experience can all be found here. I will abstain from posting most of these pictures to this blog (excepting, of course, for the dark picture of me in front of Gustave Eiffel's tower) for reasons transcending mere reasoning. Do not ask me how reasons can transcend their own nature. I do not know either. It ma have something to do with me not having the time to effectively caption a whirlwind tour of a city that is a legend in its own right. Paris has been there for 2200 years, and I suspect that it takes nearly that long to actually see everything that one should in order to claim a full experience.
The pictures attempt, however. View and enjoy, and be confused due to the lack of explanation.
But for now, I think I am off again to the biergarten.
As always, do enjoy.
BHK
posted by Ben @ 4:52 PM
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So, I finally found that this formatting looks awfully mashed up for those of you running Internet Explorer (If you are not sure what browser you use, you use IE. If you just asked what a browser was, you use IE. Note to my parents: you are excluded, because you do not use IE.) - this is due to a bit of strangeness in the template that I am trying to rectify, but it is taking some amount of time due to the fact that 1.) I am not a web designer, and 2.) I am playing with the raw HTML, which is fun but confusing, and 3.) I honestly do have better things to do with much of my time - according to my boss, anyways.
For the moment, I can only offer you this:
This page best viewed using Mozilla Firefox.
As always, do enjoy.
BHK
posted by Ben @ 6:10 PM
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I was in Paris. Just thought you all should know.
An actual post is to follow, once I resize the 110 other pictures (of which, maybe a dozen are actually good/focused/well lit/not crooked) for general consumption.
That, and once my right pinky and ring fingers stop tingling from hitting my right funny bone on the bunkhead of a boat tour ship while wildly sliding down a ladder.
But I did have escargots.
=)
As always, do enjoy.
BHK
posted by Ben @ 10:20 PM
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Yesterday, may I begin by saying, my roommate Marcus decided to change the channel to which his clock radio was set. Previously, it had been set to Energie Muenchen!, a top-40 type station that was so terribly hip it couldn't walk. I say a top-40 "type" because, as extended listening would reveal, their total playlist was not nearly long enough to contain forty full songs. It was, as they constantly reminded all of us Muencheners, Hit Music Only!, but unfortunately anything that is not Melanie C's Next Best Superstar does not count as Hit Music.
So anyways, Marcus changed the radio. I have not yet figured out what the station name is, but I know that in the first half hour of listening I heard both Bo Diddly and MC Hammer. I may be able to get out of therapy by the time I leave Germany, but that is looking on the optimistic side.
More on the topic of fouled up things in Germany: I got my card yesterday from the Bundesversicherungsanstalt fuer Angestellte, which is to say I got something guaranteeing social medical care for the low, low price of probably damn near half my wages. They misspelled my name. I am known to the Federal -amt as Kienman, Banjamin Henry.
They misspelled Ben.
They misspelled the *easy* part of my name.
So now I have the distinct honor of paying for postage to mail this back to them, along with a photocopy of my Passport. I came here for the experience, right?
So anyways, back to last weekend. For lack of anything else to do, I expected to have an open weekend to maybe lay around a bit, do some laundry, come up with theories as to how to solve Goodstein's Theorem using Peano Arithmetic, but instead a group of hooligans showed up in our beautiful little Munich, and I do indeed mean hooligans in a sense most severe.
More CDS people, come to terrorize Bayern. I, of course, am a CDS person rather blessing the region with my presence.
Much touring was done, much fun was had, and some pictures were taken, all of which may be viewed here. Munich is, however, where I live - I felt not the urge to take that many. Most are of the hooligans in various postures.
The boy on the field says hi.
As always, do enjoy.
BHK
posted by Ben @ 10:30 AM
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A preamble: notes upon of a life of notes, both musical and post-it.
I am a simple twentysomething with a predisposition to Oreos and the color blue.
