I don’t quite remember how it started, but today, after donating to some Earth-saving organisations, Marina and I though how it would suck, if our (great amount) money would be spend on saving a sea cucumber. I believe most of you have never seen or hear of this great animal (some even refer to it as the king of the sea animality). If I’m right - go and type ’sea cucumber’ into Google and I think the image results will be self-explaining.

At first Marina did not believe it was really an animal, but a synonym for “someone took a crap in the see”. However I could convince her with this very educational video about the sea cucumber defence mechanism. As you can read in the video description “as a defense mechanism a sea cucumber will shoot part of its resperatory system out of its body when bothered. Fish will go after the guts and give the cucumber time to scoot away and live another day.” I’m really amazed how nature has come up with that one!

And it turns out - sea cucumbers are a delicates in some parts of Asia… Yuck!

As probably all of you already noticed - today is World Earth Day!!! So happy Earth Day to you! I, however, wouldn’t have perceived what today is, if it wasn’t for Google’s official blog. There I read that you can donate to some Earth-saving organisation and… behold - you can tell all your friends that they should donate too and in the end, Google would create a map, where you can see all the people who have donated. Or to put it in their words “you can watch your generosity spread”. However it did not quite work as I imagined it. I could persuade only Marina (being obviously the only Earth-fan amongst my friends… the rest is obviously more into 70’s films about gladiators) to donate. For some reason today she was in Mexico so if you look at my generosity-map below, you will find her in Mexico (or at least close to Mexico).

My personal map of generosity

So shame on you all other persons I invited to donate and who did not donate!

After being undecided about buying a Wii for half a year now, recently my problem seemed to be solved by the fact that my telly broke down. So even if I had a Wii, I wouldn’t have been able to play it. And buying a new telly wasn’t that easy - nowadays you only get plasma and LCD ones, which are a bit too expensive, especially when you look at them as some sort of Wii accessory However, after a trip to Mediamarkt I found a great big old-school tube telly, so behold my new telly and Wii…

I almost forgot. Yesterday they played another pearl of the German house scene - ‘The girl with the red necklace’. It’s actually quite old, but I just want to share the lyrics with the non-German speaking world. Basically they sampled an 70’s or 80’s porn ad. If you want, you can watch the music video or the trailer for the film!!!! Following is a translation of the entire ad - priceless! (The highlighted parts can be heard in the song.) (more…)

Yesterday we went to a party in Zapatto (yes, exactly like last week). It was amazing how different the city was, because next to the unbelievable party we went to, there was also ‘the long night of the museums’ (you basically pay 12 Euro and you can visit all museums and galleries in Mannheim, Heidelberg and Ludwigshafen and you get free rides with public transport. It’s supposed to be quite cool, but I never considered going) and the Time Warp (the big “festival of modern music”). (more…)