Category Archives: Reality Wash

Producing Jobs

An economist visits China during the time of Mao. Party officials show him a new dam being build by thousands of workers with shovels. Being an economist he asks: “Why don’t you use machines to do the job?” One of … Continue reading

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Reality vs. Advertisment

This looks first very amusing and then very disgusting …

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21st century organization

I have to confess that until recently I was pretty out-dated in the organization of my private/professional life. I used a Filofax for Calendar and Todo-List and that was it. Forgotten birthdays, late fees for books, last minute working on … Continue reading

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Globalisation and Labour

The income of any country (measured as GDP) is divided into income from the three (classic) factors of production: capital, labour and land. Globalisation (free movement of capital and knowledge) makes it easier for any kind of labour (manual or … Continue reading

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Killersenf

Nachdem Emsdetten die steinalte Diskussion um Killerspiele mal wieder entfacht hat und es nun in einem Verbotsversuch umschlägt, muss ich schweren Herzens eingestehen: Auch ich (und ein paar Freunde) habe damals mit 15 meine Schule in einem Killerspiel (DOOM, was … Continue reading

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New York Post-Expectation Pre-Reality Review

New York is tough. Seriously. And different. Trashy, sometimes backwards, sometimes just plain annoying and sometimes it just hates you. It throws you around, tries to drive you nuts with noise, heat, cornering you with people, crazy people. And gives … Continue reading

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Blast from the Past

It is sometimes strange to meet people from the past again. Somebody you have hung out a lot at some place and some time, but you kind of slighted into different lives after that. It’s nice to hang out with … Continue reading

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Job

I actually have a job now!!!

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Festival Time

A lot to do this week, two festivals are in town. First the Pen World Voices 2006 literature festival started yesterday. And second the Tribeca Film Festival 2006 starts today. Only Problem: Tribeca costs $12 a movie – a bit … Continue reading

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New York Trouble (ongoing)

After this crazy first week, I kinda lost my enthusiasm of seeing even more small and/or strange and/or far away flats so I finally moved into the first one I saw. I officially live in Harlem now. 😉

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