John Berkey

John Berkey.

Berlin and Her Wonderful People

Thanks for the good times my dear friends.

Nightsky

Galactic Center of Milky Way Rises over Texas Star Party from William Castleman on Vimeo.

Lights

The soccer stadium has a pretty epic lighting system. Straight outta the GDR.

Surprises

This morning I was pouring out a bowl of cereal when a LIGHTSABER WHISTLE fell into the bowl. Eat it Dave. I'll let you play with it when I get back. Trust me its worth the wait.


I have started to attempt to learn Japanese. This is only one of the three alphabets that one needs to learn. Hopefully by the time I'm 55 I will be able to speak it. The actually alphabet table in the photo was made and given to me by a Japanese woman who I am helping learn English.

Lazy Sunday

Went to the river to read a bit. While I was there I met a moth whose wings had seen a bit too much action. It just fluttered on up and landed on my book. A few minutes later it decided to fly away. I read it a few sentence. Then there was a rustling in the woods to my left. I looked over and saw a dog flying into the river. The owner had run up to the bank while holding the small dog and chucked the thing right in and ran off. Im going to try that when i get back.

Spacetime means funtime

Source

The Space shuttle and its docking with the Hubble space telescope.

Wow. The photo was taken with a shutter speed of 1/8000th's of a second.

Options

I bought these chicken flavored instant noodles at the small asian goods store in the mall. When I payed for them I thought they were going to just be the noodles and the flavor packet. You know, just your typical Ramen. But nay. This pack came fully loaded. Bells and whistles. You got your noodles. Check. You got your flavor pack. Check. Whoa, whats that? Yep. That's the red chili pouch for when you want things to get a little interesting.

So I sat there and looked at all the options I had just uncovered. Well not too many actually, but more than I was used to when it comes to Ramen noodles. I then start to crush the pack of noodles. I don't really care for the long noodles dangling from my fork. Crushing them is the best solution. I make my way to the kitchen and pour them out into the bowl. Suprise.... Flavored oil (unfortunately not pictured). That's right! One final option pops out of the bag. These YumYum noodles are the Thai equivalent of Cracker jacks. And after finishing the meal I have to say they were the best instant noodles I have tasted.

A+

PARTY time

pizza pizza pizza. man I miss pizza. I could totally go for a thick supreme right now.

fireworks

Bread

So I have been eating so much bread over the course of my satay here. It has become my staple food. Not a bad thing by any means. I just find it interesting to eat so much bread. Thought I'd be eating more pasta. Nope, more bread. Little baguette thingies. Pastries in the morning. Cheap wheat loaf bread. Pigeon food. The list goes on...

Ive also begun scouring the city for the cities best bread in various categories keep tallied in my head. The categories range from the best damn tasting bread to the cheapest. I'm hoping to find a happy medium be tween the two in order to declare my bread of choice. Winner will be posted later.

some new vids from GER.

living on the trail

footballers showing off at the mall

I guess it was early in the morning but... no wait it was practically noon and the mall seemed a bit busy. I was there for the supermarket. I had to pick up some sour cream (for the baked potatoes i have yet to actually make), a tomato and some cheese. These soccer players were all over the place. I wonder if they actually mean anything to anybody. I suppose they do... there is a fellow American in a few of my language classes who has taken to wearing the Jena soccer club jersey every game day. Probably just has to support his team. I can't blame him though. I myself have a German soccer jersey back in America waiting til the 2010 world cup. Its probably going to stay there until then.