If you are looking for the seaplane website – it will be down until further notice because it has been hacked.
So please contact me directly if you need anything in that matter.
Posted by hkl on 9. March 2013 at 16:30 under event. Tags: German Seaplane Day, Seaplane Comment on this post.
From www.heraldsun.com.au:
Travel agents are reporting a substantial increase in requests for seats at the back of the plane after a UK documentary showed these were the safest seats in a crash.Posted by hkl on 1. January 2013 at 13:36 under journalism. Tags: airplane, crash, journalism Comment on this post.
Usually the posts in my English blog differ from the German blog. But since there are always questions what I have done during the past months (since I came back from the US) – well, I wrote another non-fiction book. And this one was published by the end of the 2012 Frankfurt Bookfair. More about the Book: E-Books publizieren. (ISBN 978-3-645-60206-8)
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Posted by hkl on 21. September 2012 at 21:23 under A Picture and its Story, Book Publishing. Tags: author, Ebooks, publish, selfpublishing Comment on this post.
TV spots shown during a suspense-packed TV series are usually the time when I check my mail. There are two exceptions: Apple commercials and this Citibank spot (I have no relation whatsoever to this bank):
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Music: The singer is a charming female pop/rock artist named L.P. (Laura Pergolizzi), here is a another video to the music of “Somebody left the gate open”.
Also the rock climbers in the TV spot are not enhanced by any any digital means: Katie Brown and Alex Honnold are real life rock climbers, Katie Brown is ranked as one of the top free climbers in the world. In the commercial she is climbing one of the Fisher Towers near Moab, in the deserts of Utah. A GoPro Camera on her head took the short sequence where she looks on her feet. Girls Rock!
Posted by hkl on 16. May 2012 at 10:08 under A Picture and its Story, Disclaimer. Tags: Citibank commercial, girls rock, Katie Brown, L.P., Laura Pergolizzi, Moab, somebody left the gate open, Utah Comment on this post.
Posted by hkl on 15. May 2012 at 11:08 under A Picture and its Story, Choose your Marketing Idea, Disclaimer. Tags: 2012, Amundsen, Breivik, Gericht, Hero, justice, Norway, Oslo, Roald, schuld, Utoya Comment on this post.
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This country and its inhabitants are unbelievable.
One day in Athens and a book to write.
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You arrive at 2 am at the hotel on a Sunday morning and the hotel clerk hands you a bus schedule for the hotel bus going downtown. A few hours later, at 12 am, you wait for the bus. “Oh, this one does not go today”. Fine, you think, then we wait for the next one. “There is no bus going today, its Sunday.” Besides that the schedule says everyday, besides that she knew we would be departing Monday morning at 5 am and still had given us the schedule, besides that we had waited for two hours for this bus… …you are still in a good mood and make your way to the next public bus station, only to wait for another 25 minutes, to finally get transported by a squeaking, overloaded, overaged, undermaintained vehicle for another 45 minutes to the center of Athens. To the Akropolis. Because it is the great Greek and human history you are interested in. That seems to have been aeons ago.
When you buy your ticket (14 Euros!) they remind you that the Akropolis will close in an hour, at 3 pm. Closing at 3 pm on a warm, sunny, perfect Sunday. Lots of tourists, that still would like to hike up the hill and (maybe not like it but) still would pay good Euros for their visit to the Greek heritage. Still six hours of sunny daylight left. Looks like people in Athens and Greece do not need to earn money.
Half an hour later four lady clerks try to push you out of the fenced part of the hill. “We are closing.” Fine, they just want to leave 20 minutes early.
You think that cannot be topped until the taxi driver smiles at you and says: “Did you have a great time at the Akropolis? The entrance is free on Sundays, thats why so many people are there today…” Your (payed) ticket had been checked for validation three times…
Posted by hkl on 14. May 2012 at 19:50 under A Picture and its Story, Disclaimer. Tags: Akropolis, Athens, Euro, europe, Greece, success 1 Comment.
Finally I have (physically and mentally) arrived in Germany again. After a terrific year in the US (which I miss already and all my friends there, yes that means you and you…) my life focus is back on this side of the ocean, for the time being.
Posted by hkl on 7. May 2012 at 09:51 under Disclaimer. 1 Comment.
In 2005, Steve Jobs gave the commencement address (Youtube Video) to the graduating students at Stanford in which he reflected on his life, career and mortality.
…Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.More visually inspired statements at wired.com
Mr. Obama’s statement (excerpt):
… Steve was among the greatest of American innovators – brave enough to think differently, bold enough to believe he could change the world, and talented enough to do it. …By building one of the planet’s most successful companies from his garage, he exemplified the spirit of American ingenuity.Comment hkl:
If you would try to build a new company out of your garage today your neighbours would call the police because of your suspicious behaviour. Especially when working at night at your home. America, the US to be precise, needs more visionary thinking, more men who dare to invest their effort and dedicate their life to the future. Somebody who walks faster, thinks smarter and acts more intelligent is not a threat. He or she should be treated with respect and be supported. And not be considered a threat to the mass of average thinking and living humans.America has lost one of his very few inventors and a man who dared to think out of the ordinary. Who had visions about the future and made them into reality for all mankind. If they want(ed).
Posted by hkl on 6. October 2011 at 10:44 under Living in the US, a European's View. Tags: 10-05-11, 10-05-2011, Apple, stay foolish, stay hungry, Steve Jobs Comment on this post.