There it is. When I was a kid, I learned that Jean-François Champollion was the name of the French scholar who had decoded the stone. From that point on, I imagined myself as a young Champollion, someday traveling to the sands of a far-away place and digging up some language fragment that I would then [...]
Posts Tagged ‘old times’
Ephesus
February 1st, 2009
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Ephesus – Originally uploaded by timbrauhn For as long as I can remember, I’ve been inspired by old things. It seemed like, as a little kid, I was always imagining myself as some knight of the realm or old pioneer, striding across the valleys of the world to pitch a tent in some far off [...]
I’ve made the switch
October 20th, 2008
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Well, I knew it would happen. For a long time, I was an Opera user. I liked using my mouse gestures, my Speed Dial, and my beautiful tab management. Then, for about 20 minutes, I flirted with IE 8. Then it was on to Chrome, which I still love. Believe me, it is a wondrous [...]
Espanol y Turkce
October 20th, 2008
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So my degree program here at the Korbel School involves proficiency in a foreign language. When I came out here, I just figured that it would be Turkish, since that’s what I had spent the most time working on when I was at Aurora University. OK, now that was about 14 months ago and I [...]
Quarter of a Tenth of a Millennium
October 12th, 2008
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So 25 years ago at 8:42 AM, just like it is now, I entered this world. Don’t remember much about it, to tell the truth. I think I’m having a lot more fun now than I was back then. Of course, in 1983 I didn’t even know what “crushing student loan debt” might be. But [...]
Nous, Naan, Nights
October 5th, 2008
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gliding past the bakery where, pan-adventurous, we’d take sugared bites of Francophone treasures after late nights sleeping soundly
Small Town America, Big Town America
October 2nd, 2008
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I grew up in a small town. The owners of a local restaurant (the only one in town) were Kosovars from Kosovo. This was all I ever really knew about them. When they moved away, the restaurant was taken over by…another Kosovar family. It seemed to be a trend. The food still tasted the same. [...]
Emelius Browne’s College of Witchcraft pt. 2
March 14th, 2008
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Seriously, the accordion work in that song is great. Call it a squeezebox, call it a concertina or a flutina, but the thing has got a real sound to it, doesn’t it? YEAH! ACCORDION!
Emelius Browne’s College of Witchcraft
March 14th, 2008
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I was meandering my way through London a few years ago and had the great fortune of visiting a place that had up until then only existed in my head and on VHS. Bedknobs and Broomsticks, the 1971 Disney musical based on Mary Norton’s book, had been an oft-viewed part of my childhood. It had [...]
