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David is an occasional blogger, software engineer, Nintendo fanboy, liberal, news magazine addict, voracious TiVo user, and bibliophile. He was born in St. Louis, grew up in southern Indiana, and returned to St. Louis to attend Washington University. He hasn't managed to escape yet. He's a fan of free wine tastings, too many tv shows to name, and eating out. David makes his living developing web applications used internally by his employer. He doesn't blog about work because he's heard too many stories about that causing workplace troubles. There's more on the about page. |
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20 November 2001 - 10:00 pm
When I was taking German classes in middle school, we would spend one Friday a month studying German "culture." While this doesn't sound all that bad, when I mention that studying "culture" actually meant looking at slides of Frau Doud's last trip to Germany, you might revise your opinion. Needless to say, these slideshows came complete with commentary. My favorite was her story about driving on the autobahn, the notorious German highway with no speed limit. She showed us a slide of a speedometer indicating that they (Frau Doud and her husband) were travelling at the exciting speed of 120 km/h. She then told us they were driving in the super-fast lane, where only the fastest cars on the autobahn were supposed to drive, when they attained this speed. She followed that up with her belief that she had never driven that fast in an automobile before, and doubted she would ever go that fast again. For those of you following along at home, 120 km/h is about 75 mph.
I'm home for the first time this semester. I wish I'd come back sooner.
Posted by on 20 November 2001 at 9:54 PM
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