Minimalist poet, minimalist lifestyle

A Professor was giving a lecture on “Involuntary Muscular
Contractions” to his first year medical students. Realizing that
this was not the most riveting subject, the Professor decided to
lighten the mood slightly. He pointed to a young woman in the front
row and said, “Do you know what your asshole is doing while you’re
having an orgasm?”
She replied, “Probably deer hunting with his buddies.”
The professor laughed so hard he could not continue with the class.

A Berlin hotel is giving its guests a taste of communist East Germany.

Ostel takes its guests back to a pre-1989 era of ugly brown and orange wallpaper, spartan furnishings and Politburo portraits.

The hotel, which opened in Berlin in May, offers guests a choice of rooms in the style of the old eastern bloc, reports the BBC.

The hotel is a former East German Plattenbauwohnung - the kind of mass-produced concrete apartment building that came to symbolise life in the communist bloc.

In the reception four clocks show the time in Moscow, Berlin, Havana and Beijing.

The hotel was the brainchild of two former East German circus performers, Daniel Helbig and Guido Sand.

Their concept of retro chic continues a wave of 'Ostalgie' - nostalgia for some aspects of life in former East Germany, expressed in the cult status of Trabant cars and the hit film Goodbye Lenin.

The hotel founders managed to rescue communist-era furnishings from private homes and the dusty store rooms of furniture dealers.

A display case in the hotel lobby contains East German souvenirs such as plastic egg cups, chocolate GDR-Mark coins and even a rare roll of GDR toilet paper.

The inventor of the Harley Davidson Motorcycle Corporation, Arthur
Davidson, died and went to heaven. At the gates, St. Peter told
Arthur, “since you’ve been such a good man and your motorcycles have
changed the world, your reward is, you can hang out with anyone you
want in Heaven.”
Arthur thought about it for a minute and then said,”I want to hang out
with God.”
St. Peter took Arthur to the Throne Room, and introduced
him to God. God recognized Arthur and commented, “Okay, so you were
the one who invented motorcycles, eh?!”
Arthur said, “ya, that’s me…”
God commented, “well, what a big deal in inventing something that’s
pretty unstable, makes noise and pollution, and can’t run without a road!”
Arthur was apparently embarrassed, but finally spoke, “Excuse me but
aren’t you the inventor of woman???”
God said, “Ah, yes.”
“Well,” said Arthur, professional to professional, you have some major
design flaws in your invention.
1. There’s too much inconsistency in the front-end protrusion;
2. It
chatters constantly at high speeds;
3. Most of the rear ends are too
soft and wobble too much;
4. The intake is placed way too close to the
exhaust;
5. And the maintenance costs are outrageous!!
“Hmmmm, you may have some good points there,” replied God, “hold on.”
God went to his Celestial supercomputer, typed in a few words and
waited for the results. The computer printed out a slip of paper and
God read it. “Well, it may be true that my invention is flawed,” God
said to Arthur, “but according to these numbers, more men are riding
my invention than yours. !!!

Q: How many musicians does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
A: One, two, one, two, three, four!

We discussed some interesting subjects at my group therapy session this morning.

The origin of the phrase 'cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey'

Was the Norman Conquest good for Britain?

What do I admire [me personally] about the Romans?

PALATINE, Ill. (AP) - A mother of two in this suburb of Chicago doesn't have to turn on the news for an update on NASA's space mission. She just flips on her baby monitor. Since Sunday, Natalie Meilinger's baby monitor has been picking up black-and-white video from inside the space shuttle Atlantis.

"Whoever has a baby monitor knows what you'll usually see," said the elementary school science teacher. "No one would ever expect this."

Live video of the mission is available on NASA's Web site, so it's possible the monitor is picking up a signal from somewhere.

"It's not coming straight from the shuttle," NASA spokeswoman Brandi Dean said. "People here think this is very interesting and you don't hear of it often - if at all."

Meilinger silenced disbelieving co-workers by bringing in a video of the monitor to show her class on Tuesday, her students' last day of school. At home, 3-month-old Jack and 2-year-old Rachel don't quite understand what their parents are watching.

"I've been addicted to it and keep waiting to see what's next," Meilinger said.