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Soroosh Pezeshkihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11164051330531033925noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4472997275511398958.post-21105544885125259982018-05-12T13:24:00.000+01:002018-05-12T13:24:46.929+01:00Baby Bird<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Spring is here and everything is blossoming. Some weeks ago I have observed two birds collecting twigs and fling into a bush in my backyard. They were obviously building a nest. Soon they seemed finished and only one of the was flying in and out. After some time, I approached the nest carefully and picked a look. There were small baby birds with the mom in the nest. Some days later, I observed the dad bird flying around but not anymore to the nest. I had a bad feeling. And then he didn't come back again. So, I went to the nest and my fear turned out true. The baby birds were dead. The two birds are now buried in my backyard. I wished this post had a happy ending but it does not. Consider this an arbutiorier. Little Branda and Flamingo Joe, you had a short stay here.<br />
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Soroosh Pezeshkihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11164051330531033925noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4472997275511398958.post-10010143367537274352018-03-25T19:05:00.000+01:002018-03-25T19:05:01.901+01:00Central American Beauty <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Nicaragua in Central
America was the destination of my last travel. I left in a typical
winter day Hamburg and 36 hours later I reached Managua. The warm
weather felt very good. I didn’t have to put on a big jacket,
gloves, and hat to protect against the cold weather but instead put
on mosquito repellant and sun milk. There were not countless
mosquitoes there but according to several sources there were some
which carried serious viruses so you better take some measures to
protect yourself. And the sun exposure was also not to neglect. I
didn’t put enough sunscreen on and so I ended up with sunburn –
my shoulders, my chest, my face, my ears – o the red ears.<br />
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Nicaragua offers a
lot of fresh fruits that grow locally- Melons, Coconuts, Bananas,
Mangos, Avocados and a lot more. You can also see animals that you don't see in the European wildernis. I saw different Monkeys. There are a lot of different birds:<br />
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A morning in Nicaragua can sound like that<br />
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Nicaragua has a lot of volcanoes. Some of them active, some of them sleeping. We went to two different volcanoes. The first was Mombacho, where we were driven in trucks up. On the way up you can see the change in the vegetation. The top is a tropical cloud forest. The second volcano is Maderas which we hiked up - and it was a tough hike. Maderas is on the island Ometepe in Nicaragua sea.<br />
We started our hike early in the morning a steep climb. After a while, mud was added to the adventure. At first, I tried to avoid the mud. But after steeping two times into all the way up to my ankles, I didn't care anymore. And yes, it made exactly the sound that you imagine it to do. After four hours hike up and five hours down, I was tired and exhausted, dirty and full of pain. On our way back to the accomodation we passed a point where I had scenic view on Maderas, the volcano that destroyed me. I didn't have the drive to take a selfie so without any further ado, no photo:<br />
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The next morning I went back to that spot to take a picture but fog covered Maderas, and there was no way I could take a picture. So here again no photo:<br />
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But on the ferry back to the mainland I took a picture<br />
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That's Maderas,... on the right... behind the clouds. On the left is Concepcion. So there was only one opportunity for me to take a picture. Who have thought Maderas could be such a diva.<br />
What can I tell you beside that. Well there are a lot of beautiful spots, like the Apoyo laguna<br />
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Yes, I could finally swim in the Pacific. Last time I was at the Pacific coast, I only <a href="http://sopes2nd.blogspot.com/2010/11/la-exposed.html">dipped my toes in</a>. Bottom line Nicaragua has a lot of beautiful places and too many crazy bus drivers. But that's something I can't blog about.</div>
Soroosh Pezeshkihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11164051330531033925noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4472997275511398958.post-45435750071700764212018-03-17T21:25:00.000+01:002018-03-17T21:30:13.328+01:00A Travel to Two Cities<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I'm several months behind and have to catch up with new posts. 2017 was a Scandinavian year from the point of travels. There was my <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4472997275511398958#editor/target=post;postID=8905143273895970193;onPublishedMenu=allposts;onClosedMenu=allposts;postNum=5;src=postname">journey to Norway</a> last summer, but what I haven't wrote about till now is my travel to Sweden and Denmark at the end of the year. So, let me tell you what my brother Soheil and I have been up to.<br />
To be more specific, we went to the city of Malmo in south Sweden and Copenhagen in Denmark.<br />
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We took the train. The train ride included also a ferry that the train boards. Denmark and Sweden are connected through the Øresund Bridge.</div>
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We went to a museum in Malmo. The exhibition was interesting. It was interesting because it had a room with video games that you could play. Yay, best museum ever.<br />
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Malmo has a knotted Gun sculpture that we went to see. I was a little bit disappointed when I saw that it's pretty small. It appears bigger in pictures but it's about half a meter high.<br />
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In Copenhagen, we went to the usual sites. The famous mermaid was flooded by tourists who were shipped in by buses. They came in to see the little sculpture that is covered by bird poop and didn't care for the other sculptures nearby that were lonely.<br />
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Tourists are the worst. Only want to snap a selfie with the most popular and don't care for everything else. Well that's it for 2017. As I said 2017 was a Scandinavian year. The focus in 2018 will be somewhere else, but that's a story for another time.</div>
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If you are displeased because I haven't blogged for a while worry not. I have been working on my other blog lately. The blog "Of Mice and Quanta" which I started in 2013 and supposed to be a diary of my work as a computational scientist has been evolved now to a tech blog. Introducing "<a href="http://quantum.pezeshki.de/">Because we code</a>"*<br />
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Soroosh Pezeshkihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11164051330531033925noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4472997275511398958.post-9079846380287887942017-10-27T17:31:00.000+01:002017-11-22T22:47:03.614+01:00Party like it's 2000<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Time to take out your party hats from the closets. It's time to celebrate another odd event. As of today I am 2000 weeks old.<br />
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The G20
meeting was next to <a href="http://sopes2nd.blogspot.com/2015/07/front-window.html">my office</a> and I knew in advance that there
will be a lot of hassle. So, I thought it’s time to travel the world
again. Since, I was about to become 20 million minutes old I decided
to fulfill one of my <a href="http://sopes2nd.blogspot.com/2011/03/one-billion-second-man.html">bucket list goals</a> and travel to the polar
region. My destination was Troms<span style="font-family: "liberation" serif , serif;">ø/</span><span style="font-family: "liberation" serif , serif;">Norway.
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my <a href="http://sopes2nd.blogspot.com/2015/03/the-fleeting-frontier.html">bounding box</a>. </span><span style="font-family: "liberation" serif , serif;">One
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my <a href="https://pezeshki.de/?page=sunClock">website</a> shows there’s no dawn or dusk, no sunset and
sunrise in </span><span style="font-family: "liberation" serif , serif;">Troms</span><span style="font-family: "liberation" serif , serif;">ø.
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the midnightsun, there was a lot more, which I will not detail, like my quest for
Munch’s “Scream”, </span><span style="font-family: "liberation" serif , serif;">the
attack of a seag</span><span style="font-family: "liberation" serif , serif;">ul</span><span style="font-family: "liberation" serif , serif;">l,
and the masses of German tourists. </span><span style="font-family: "liberation" serif , serif;">O</span><span style="font-family: "liberation" serif , serif;">uugh
German tourists, they are the worst, I mean we are the
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Soroosh Pezeshkihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11164051330531033925noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4472997275511398958.post-15852251184295456842017-04-22T08:46:00.000+01:002017-08-16T20:36:23.667+01:00The Ant of Wall Street<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
My brother told me of a friend who buys one share of a company to get invited to the shareholder meetings. He does that for the free meals at the meetings. Back in Denver, I wanted to do the same thing and looked for publicly traded companies based in Denver. I found Einstein Bros and I bought shares. If a company would have a good meal at the shareholder meeting it has to be that bagel restaurant chain. But then when the meeting took place, I decided to go to work and not to take vacation just for that. Now, I had the possibility to go to a meeting again. This time to the meeting of Beiersdorf AG. Unlike Sina's friend, I don't just bought one share. That's cheap. No, I own shares...two of them.<br />
When I was an undergrad, I had a professor who was the owner of a house with a bakery as a tenant. Whenever he wanted to celebrate with us, he bought cake from that bakery to support his tenant. Naturally, I want to support the companies I have some shares from by praising their good products. I was afraid I would overdue. But thank god that didn't happen. It's actually not possible with Beiersdorf products. There products are already awesome - no adds needed. For example the dry air in Denver ruined my hands-the Eucerin lotion repaired the damage. Just knowing Hansaplast/Elastoplast is used on a wound, will take away the pain. Forget Scotch tape- it can't prevent Scotland to separate from Great Britain. Germans used Tesa tape to glue East and West Germany together and they stick together ever since. I would like to say Nivea is the secret behind <a href="http://sopes2nd.blogspot.com/2015/10/20-again.html">my young look</a>.<br />
The first surprise for me was the airport like security check at the entrance. As I said, I went to the meeting for the goodies: free lunch, product samples, maybe even a gift. I was not the only one who was there for the goodies. There were a lot of people who enjoyed free coffee and cake instead listen to the annual report. Those were mostly old people - or maybe young people who never used Nivea. So, that was one big group. Another group attended the meeting to ask for more dividend. There is a time in the meeting where shareholders can ask questions to the board. The first person asked several questions and ended with a request to think about paying more dividend. The second shareholder came up and demanded more dividend, it's the right thing to do. The third shareholder, I kid you not, threatened to sell his stocks if not more dividend is paid. How should he survive with what the board decided to pay.<br />
Yes, I get paid dividend by Beiersdorf. A part of the profits is paid to the shareholders. I want you to remember that the next time you take a round, blue can with lotion from the store shelve. There are 227 million shares and two of them are mine. So, 2/227 millionth of the profit goes from your pocket <strike>directly</strike> to my. I didn't wait for the fourth shareholder to ask for more dividend and left before they served lunch. Even though I didn't end up with a free lunch, I was not too upset because I got a gift bag with goodies.<br />
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Soroosh Pezeshkihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11164051330531033925noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4472997275511398958.post-77111243296098405292017-03-12T07:40:00.000+01:002017-03-26T08:56:31.545+01:00The Oracle of Hamburg<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
My <a href="http://sopes2nd.blogspot.com/2017/03/definitely-awake.html">last post</a> showed Ethna releasing gas. The title of the post was "Definitely Awake" and it is. Shortly after my post, Ethna decided it needs to blow more than just gases.<br />
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Soroosh Pezeshkihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11164051330531033925noreply@blogger.com0Sicily, Italy37.474858084971018 14.985351562535.86191958497102 12.4035645625 39.087796584971017 17.5671385625tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4472997275511398958.post-5798045928351360502017-02-11T20:52:00.000+01:002017-03-19T06:43:50.975+01:00Best of Narrow Side Streets <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Soroosh Pezeshkihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11164051330531033925noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4472997275511398958.post-36201209386122914012017-01-31T22:57:00.000+01:002017-03-26T08:56:31.538+01:00The Godbrother<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Let me start with: Mafia, Cosa Nostra, the mob, Stidda... I will come back to that later.<br />
My brother Soheil and I travelled to Sicily. I wrote already how he become a <a href="http://sopes2nd.blogspot.com/2016/07/soroosh-pezeshki-and-order-in-marburg.html">vivid reader of my blog</a>. Now, he wants to become a contributor. The title of this post was his suggestion. He also told me what I should write, but I declined because it was not my style. When I told Soheil, he replied I don't know how to write a good post. Yeah right, a blogger with tens of reader and multiple <a href="http://sopes2nd.blogspot.com/2015/12/the-1st-annual-blogbuster-award.html">Blogbuster awards</a> doesn't know how to write a good post...<br />
In one travel guide, it was recommended not to mention Mafia or other names for it when you travel through Sicily. It feels good to be able to say it again. That's the reason for the beginning of this post.<br />
In Sicily, there were a lot of lovely narrow side streets that I photographed. Soheil used to take pictures from narrow side streets, but not anymore. He lost the eye for what's picture worthy.<br />
On the volcano Etna, I saw fumes coming out of the top craters, but I couldn't smell any sulfur. In Palermo, the museums were expensive and uninteresting. And in Siracusa, it took sometime but than finally I could call out "Eureka, I have found an Archimedes statue". On our way back from Siracusa the bus was full. The bus driver stopped at each stop to tell the people at the stop, there is no seat available for them. At one stop a woman didn't want to wait for the next bus. She stood in front of our bus and blocked it Sicily style.<br />
I will post in the next weeks some pictures from the travel. For now, there is only this one.<br />
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Soroosh Pezeshkihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11164051330531033925noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4472997275511398958.post-64839074086430640662016-12-24T18:47:00.000+01:002017-03-12T07:44:33.478+01:00Yellow is the new black<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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In the dark time of the year I felt not safe on my bike and so I decided to wear a bright jacket. At the beginning of fall, I bought a yellow jacket that I have been wearing since and with that I feel safer. That’s great. But there is more to run as a human banana than I initially thought. When I go with a group to a crowded place, nobody gets lost because I will serve as a beacon. If I get lost I have to go to a visible spot and wait till someone in the group finds me.</div>
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<br />Another thing I noticed, people ask me more often for directions. They notice me more and I can’t hide. After all, a yellow submarine is a contradiction. </div>
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Soroosh Pezeshkihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11164051330531033925noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4472997275511398958.post-63376827178552502332016-11-19T09:49:00.000+01:002016-11-19T09:49:53.270+01:00Arches <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Soroosh Pezeshkihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11164051330531033925noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4472997275511398958.post-51521882340102627892016-11-04T12:31:00.001+01:002017-03-12T07:44:33.430+01:00The Forth Man<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Hello or <i>Grüß Gott </i>as they say in Austria. I was in Vienna for some days and I'm going to write about now. It's another travel post and it will contain some magic. But I promise not to post about <a href="http://sopes2nd.blogspot.de/search/label/Harry%20Potter">Harry Potter</a> again.<br />
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My friend Anies told me Austrians are more easy going than Germans. Germans are aware that there is Austria but sometimes ignore it. For the reader from the US: Austria is for Germany what Canada is for the US. O those Austrians!<br />
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Some weeks ago my brother Soheil and I longed-for some culture and we went to the opera, to the magic flute in Hamburg. I was not an opera guy but the magic flute did not change that. The word "but" was misplaced. I was not an opera guy and the magic flute did not change that. Weeks later I went to the city where Mozart composed this master piece.<br />
Mozart was born in Austria and lived and died in Vienna. To use the 'Canada equals Austria' metaphor again: Mozart is for Germany what Justin Bieber is for the US. (In this moment a fatwa against my live is issued by classical music muftis and by teenaged girls)<br />
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I reported from my travel to <a href="http://sopes2nd.blogspot.com/2016/10/the-bright-balloon.html">Madrid</a> where I couldn't understand the <a href="http://sopes2nd.blogspot.com/2016/10/what-does-it-say-spanish-edition.html">language</a>. And here again another language I don't understand. I'm just kidding or as the Viennese says: <i>Ich schob einen Wuchtel. </i>Actually, I was singing in Vienna with Austrians. I was adding the German accent to the else Austrian music.<br />
Bottom line, Vienna is a beautiful city with lovely people. Let me also give a shout-out to my host Anies. Goodbye or as the Austrians say <i>Servus. </i>Servus is not just goodbye but also a greeting like <i>Aloha</i> in Hawaii. Wait, did Austria just went from being Canada to being Hawaii?<br />
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Did you ever wake up early in the morning and while half asleep you let your gaze wonder around. Once it felts on your feet, you think you noticed six toes on one foot. Suddenly, you feel alerted and in panic mode you start to count the toes on each foot and feel relieved, when you find out noting changed over night. You still have the usual five on each of them. Did that ever happen to you? No! So, it's just me than.<br />
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Soroosh Pezeshkihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11164051330531033925noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4472997275511398958.post-57824965153453560362016-10-08T23:10:00.000+01:002017-03-12T07:44:33.449+01:00The Bright Balloon<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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In Madrid I attended a training for coordinating community building. The details of the training would be beyond the scope of this post. Nevertheless, I want to share one learning. A group of people playing with a bunch of balloons is all you need to explain the world.</div>
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The conference was attended by people from different European countries, and therefore, we had translations in all different directions. We didn't always need translation. We studied material, that was available in the different languages and when we read out load, we read in the language we had in front of us. So, one person read in English, the next continued in Spanish and the next in French and so on.<br />
Not everything was good. The food was bad. IT WAS BAD. We had freedom fries everyday. And everyday they were bad. Everyone was wondering how such a simple thing like fries can be done wrong. But the cook always managed to make them soft and tasteless. Tasteless was most of the food we got during the training.<br />
That's it for this trip. Now that the summer is over, I will post more often...I think.<br />
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PS: Bayern Munich lost the game against Atlético. Did I have to tell that: No. Did I want to tell it: You bet.</div>
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<span class="s1">Some years ago, I planned to go to Phoenix to a conference and write a post with the title “Soroosh Pezeshki and the Order in Phoenix” based on the title of one of a Harry Potter books. I went to the conference but, as you know, I never wrote the blog post. Instead, I’m going to use the title for my trip to Marburg. My brother Soheil lives in Marburg. He told me that the main building of the Philipps-Universität Marburg (University of Marburg brought to you by Phillips Electronics) is nicknamed Hogwarts. That’s why, I decided to give this post the title it has. I will also write about the connection of the Harry Potter books and Marburg…Marburg, you know, the city where the Grimm brothers lived and studied.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Soheil was making suggestions what I can write in my blog post. It’s funny, he didn’t use to read my blog. I think he finally turned around and become a blog reader - a Berader. Folks, is it okay if I call you Berader? …No? …I understand you think it’s to close to Justin’s Belieber, and you don’t want to be associate with them…Alright, I will not call you that.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Let’s come back to Harry Potter and Marburg. One of the first things I saw was Marburg’s version of the caretaker Argus Filch<i> </i>calling out a student not to run fast in the hallway or in Marburg’s case, two regulations officers telling a bicyclist not to ride his bike on the sideway. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">While we were side seeing, we saw an installation<i> </i> of a red pump. It has to be connected to the prom in the Goblet of Fire. Didn’t Hermione had red pumps. Next we saw also a mirror. That has to be the Mirror of Erised. I don’t know any story from the Grimm brothers with a magical mirror. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This slug has been jinxed by one of the Weasley twins</td></tr>
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