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By Perry, 4 years and 9 months ago

Communicating in the Digital Age I confess. I'...

Communicating in the Digital Age

I confess. I'm a junkie for things digital. I love «playing with» the technology so I can learn to use it. I often am guilty of using a technology, such as publishing this blog, just to see if I can do it, and then later I have to struggle to find something worth publishing. That's one reason my blog isn't as frequently-updated as others that I read regularly. They, it would appear, had something to communicate to begin with and then found the technology that gave them an easy way to communicate it. I, on the other hand, had found the technology to post items and then rarely had anything worth posting. «What I wore to work this morning» type posts don't attract many readers, and after a while, they become boring even to the poster.

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By Perry, 4 years and 9 months ago

Panoramic views of Berlin If anyone is still foll...

Panoramic views of Berlin

If anyone is still following this weblog and you are interested in more pictures of Berlin (albeit ones that I did not take), here are some wonderful panoramic views of Berlin. The links at the bottom of the page take you to images of specific sites and display those images in the QuickTime viewer. If you don't have that viewer on your computer, a link is provided where you can get it for free.

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By Perry, 4 years and 10 months ago

At home and back into the routine (a.k.a. the rut)...

At home and back into the routine (a.k.a. the rut)

Now that the great Berlin adventure is over, I have fallen back into the routine of going to work, coming home late at night, watching a little television and collapsing into the bed before getting up to repeat the process another day. I must confess that the experience of writing this blog was made more interesting by having something going on in my life worth reporting. The daily routine doesn't provide that much worth reporting to the world at large.

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By Perry, 4 years and 10 months ago

For my "fan," Alan Kegley Tonight I learned tha...

For my «fan,» Alan Kegley

Tonight I learned that the adventures chronicled in this weblog have captured the interest of one, Alan Kegley, the fifteen-year-old son of one of my associates at work, Diane Kegley. Diane tells me that as she was reading the weblog while I was in Germany, Alan asked her what she was reading and she explained that it was something that a friend of hers from work had written about his travel to Germany. The fact that I was in Germany caught Alan's interest, and he began to look forward to hearing what had happened when he came home from school each day. His interest stemmed, it seems, from the fact that the only familiarity he had with Germany was what he had learned from the war movies he had seen where the Germans were the enemy and someone like John Wayne was the hero. That got me to thinking that Alan's familiarity with Germany and the Germans probably isn't too different from that of many Americans. Movies are powerful shapers of perception, after all. But for you, Alan, I'd like to point out a few things.

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By Perry, 4 years and 10 months ago

My last few days in Germany Travel sure takes i...

My last few days in Germany

Travel sure takes it out of you. Though I'm beginning to recover, traveling halfway around the world sapped my energy for the last couple of days, so it is only now that I'm getting around to catching up my recollection and thoughts about my trip. And I have yet to write about two trips that Paul and I took during my last few days in Germany. So in the interest of chronological accuracy, I'll begin first with the trip we made on Tuesday, the 30th, to Quedlinburg. Paul suggested this trip so that I'd have a chance to see «old» Germany in contrast to the inner city of Berlin, that is undoubtedly on the other end of that scale. I'm glad he did because it provided a chance for some pictures of the picturesque old city. Because film costs are not nearly the issue they used to be (because of digital cameras), I made a lot of shots of different buildings that illustrated the architecture of the city, but because they are all so similar I've only chosen to put a few of them up at my gallery. It was during this trip that I had the chance to experience the Autobahn for the first time and to see the countryside for the first time.

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By Perry, 4 years and 10 months ago

Auf Wiedersehen, Berlin This will be my last en...

Auf Wiedersehen, Berlin

This will be my last entry from Berlin. I leave the city for home tomorrow, and as with all vacations, though I've had a lot of fun and seen a lot of things, I am looking forward to getting back to familiar surroundings and the comforts of having «my» things around me, in particular to regaining access to my own computer. The trip has been all that I had hoped and more, and my time visiting Paul is a memory that will last a lifetime.

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    • David Steele: Perry: Last week when I was in Las Vegas I had the opportunity to see your house. It is gorgeous! I understand it is on the National Register of Historic Places and the fact you can walk to work each day to our business incubator on campus will be wonderful. I have absolutely fallen...
    • Jeff Nelson: Wow!!! I am tickled to death about this opportunity that has come your way at this time in your I really should be helping you with all of the particulars that go along with such a move, but find myself trying to keep up with the train of my life as it moves down...
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    • Tom Wright: Perry: Didn't realize it was for 2 years--which doubles my chances I will get out there to see you. My friend Steve lives in Santa Fe and has extended an invite, so things are looking very New Mexico-ey for the future. Best of luck on this and everything.
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