I wish you Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2010!
Ich wünsche Euch allen Frohe Weihnachten und einen guten Start ins neue Jahr 2010!
The Flatirons
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Last Tuesday I finally received my official diploma from CU. So now, more than three month after the official graduation ceremony, all the paperwork is done and I hold a degree in Computer Science *yeah* 
. If you wonder how such a diploma looks like, here is a picture:
It’s somehow funny to read .
The next news: I’ve extended my blog with a Link-Page. I reactivated my del.icio.us account (didn’t use it for 2 years or so) to store my bookmarks and added a WordPress page which shows a del.icio.us tag cloud and a list of my links.
Last but not least I want to mention a new kind of search machine I’ve discovered recently. It’s called Oamos and it generates an interesting multimedia presentation from a google-like query. This is the result for the words “Boulder Colorado USA”. Have fun trying your own words!
I’m back in Germany for over 4 weeks now and my life starts to become normal again. I have spent the last weeks doing a lot of administrative stuff like transferring my classes from Boulder to my university here. Finally, the transfer is complete and I’m happy . I’m basically done with classwork now and have just one more exam and my final thesis before I (hopefully) get my masters degree here, too.
The last exam in Darmstadt is in social psychology, my minor subject. I already ordered a textbook and printed out the lecture slides; so I just have to start studying. But since the exam is at the beginning September there is still much time left, although exam dates tend to approach quite fast…
Meanwhile CU Boulder updated the transcripts and the degree is now officially shown.
The official diploma is sent by mail sometime soon but I guess it takes some more weeks since the mail from the US seems to be routed thru Auckland, New Zealand?!?
When driving thru Utah or Wyoming and trying to listen to a radio station, often only country music stations are receivable. Thus I listened to some songs, amongst others to “International Harvester” (in German: “Internationaler Mähdrescher”) from Craig Morgan. I think this song is quite funny when you take a look at the lyrics:
Chorus:
Cause I’m a son of a 3rd generation farmer
I’ve been married 10 years to a farmer’s daughter
I got 2 boys in the county 4-H
I’m a lifetime sponsor of the F.F.A.
Hay! That’s what I make
I make a lotta hay for a little pay
But I’m proud to say
I’m a God fearin’ hard workin’ combine driver
Hoggin’ up the road on my a p-p-p-plower
Chug a lug a lugin’ 5 miles an hour
On my International Harvester
International Harvester on YouTube
Anyway, I must admit I kind of like this song and I want to become an international harvester driver, maybe…
From beginning of May until beginning of June my parents visited me in the United States and we did trip thru the wild west. We started in Las Vegas, went to many national parks in Utah, Wyoming, Colorado and California. The whole trip was over 10000km and ended in San Francisco. After another 3 days in Boulder, CO, I finally left the US and went back to Germany.
During the trip I took about 2000 pictures – the best 300 can be found in the following Picasa Gallery:
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