Archive for September 26th, 2007

Codes can be harsh

Wednesday, September 26th, 2007

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From his last conference in spain Tim brought back the typical conference presents, like notepads and informations about the region of Castro Urdiales. Well I am not so interested in settling down in Castro-Urdiales so I flipped only briefly through the infos about the real estate developments of the region. However what caught my attention was the above paper strip. It is an explanation of how to use a spanish fan (there was also a plastic fan among the presents) (Warning: I had never been to spain so my astonishment about the fan may appear ridiculous to some spain experts).

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short story

Wednesday, September 26th, 2007

again a short story from my classmate which she wants me to publish for her creative writing class (in german). this time the task was to contemplate about language use in advertisements.

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