Showing posts with label miscellaneous. Show all posts
Showing posts with label miscellaneous. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 23, 2010

What "The National" would sound like...

...at the Soccer World Cup 2010:

"I´m on a bloodbzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz,
yes I am,
I´m on a blood...
bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz..."

Friday, July 10, 2009

First Post - What this blog is about, NAQ´s, etc.

So. This is it, my new blog "The Fool on the Lake".

A few words about me, what I plan do here and what this blog is about:
I´ve started blogging in 2007 with my first blog named "No Sleep Till Konstanz". And after a while of blogging in my mother tongue German, I realized that people from all over the world got lost on my blog, but didn´t stay for long because they couldn´t understand what was written (or at least, that´s what I assume).
The language of the internet is (mostly) English and it happens to be one of the few foreign languages I (try to) speak.
Why shouldn´t I start a blog in English?
Another reason is that I´ve found out that there were some things I wanted to blog which wouldn´t have made sense
in German at all, but seemed to be perfect for an anglophone blog (I don´t quite remember what that was, but I assure you, it made sense back then).

I think I know now what Lothar Matthäus, who was a German soccer player, must have felt like when he told the media at a press conference in New York:
"My English is not so good, but my German is better."

What Lothar might have been trying to say was (or at least what I´m trying to say with that quote):
Please don´t bash me for my lousy English.

Last but not least some NAQ´s (never asked questions):

Why did you name your blog "The Fool on the Lake"?
- I live in Konstanz, Germany, which is at the Lake of Konstanz. And the thing about the Fool... aren´t we all fools, at least
sometimes?

What is "The Fool on the Lake" about?
- Well mostly the things I´m interested in, which is sometimes pretty much anything and sometimes rather nothing.
"The Fool on the Lake" will more or less be "No Sleep till Konstanz" in English. Less because I´m not going to translate everything I blog on "NSTK" and more because I´m going to post some things exclusively on this blog.

So, let´s start blogging!

P.S: I know the layout is somehow missing yet. I´m trying to find it on the weekend.