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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 "Because we code"*

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The Godbrother

Let me start with: Mafia, Cosa Nostra, the mob, Stidda... I will come back to that later.
My brother Soheil and I travelled to Sicily. I wrote already how he become a vivid reader of my blog. 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 Blogbuster awards doesn't know how to write a good post...
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.
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.
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.
I will post in the next weeks some pictures from the travel. For now, there is only this one.

Eureka, here he is

Soroosh Pezeshki and the Order in Marburg

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.

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.

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 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. 

While we were side seeing, we saw an installation  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. 

A pomp with some reference to a Harry Potter story

Mirror of Erised

A broom store. I'm sure they have the newest Firebolt

I have seen this...thing from the botanical gardens in a Harry Potter movie 

Captions with magical spells everywhere in the botanical gardens

This slug has been jinxed by one of the Weasley twins

The 1st Annual Blogbuster Award

Since, we had the annual review this year already, I’ve decided to end the blog year with an award ceremony post. You will find out the post I liked most, which picture you shouldn’t miss, and which makeup artist did the best job - just kidding, no makeup artist. Blogbuster was the original name of my blog and hence the name Blogbuster award.

If you don’t want to read all my posts, if you are not interested in how my wisdom teeth were removed or how I cast my vote, you will find out in a moment which post are worth to read. Those of you who read all posts and enjoyed them, will probably enjoy this review, and maybe read again the winning posts... and the nominees... before reading the teeth removing post again. 

Best Title

A good title represent the content without revealing to much and catches the interest of the reader. Blogbuster titles of written posts are based on movie titles.

Nominated for best title are:

Good Morning Germany

Badonkadonk 2

Lost in Torrent

Relax... It's Just Switzerland

And the winner is:

Good Morning Germany

Interactive Award

This year, the post What does it say in English? - German Train Station Edition is awarded with the Blogbuster Interactive Award.

Best Original Picture

Nominated are:

Acropolis Selfie from Big Athens

Sunset

Sunset 2

Pillars

It happened again!

And the winner is:

Pillars

The award ceremony will continue after a short break

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Best Retouched Picture

Nominated are:

"Selfie stick" from the post "The Job Interview" 

"Master of No Idiom" from the post "Interrelated" 

"Mixed Generations" from "20 again"

"Globetrotter" from the post "The Fleeting Frontier"

And the winner is 

"Mixed Generations" from "20 again"

Video Award

This year's Video Award goes to the video "London Tower Bridge" from the post "The Londonian" which has everything a great video needs: A bridge, boats, a prince, commentaries in a genuine British English, and a refreshing feet shot angle.

Best Post

Nominated are:

Rise of the Industrial Machines

"... I fool. In a few years these robot arms will learn to assemble legs for themselves and then they will rise against us..."

Interrelated

"... Difficult times will not last. 'Not last' is my standing in my last race..."

Front Window

"... The new office is awesome and there is nothing to be embarrassed about. See for yourself- visit my office next to Reeperbahn..."

Good Morning Germany

"... For the Millennial Generation: radio is a audio broadcast method that distributes live podcasts without the possibility to rewind or pause. It's like internet radio but without internet..."

Big Athens

"... The weather in Athens was just few degrees below room temperature, that's winter weather in Greece. All the natives were in the winter jackets, buttoned all the way up..."

The Job Interview

"... What are your hobbies?:
I take nude selfies. I love my new selfie stick. It made so many exciting shoots possible..."

And the winner is ...

Interrelated

This is the first award for "Interrelated". The clear front runner has shown an outstanding mix of humor and emotions. Surprisingly, "Big Athens" didn't win any awards.

This concludes this years award ceremony. Happy new year.

PS: Join us in the next award ceremony where we are going to honor posts that didn't make it to publication.

Good Morning Germany

New media is nothing new to me. I have been blogging here since 2007 and before that I had another blog. My website "Daily sope" went online 2001 and I work as a web developer. It's time for me to do old media.
The last months, I worked on a radio program. For the Millennial Generation: radio is a audio broadcast method that distributes live podcasts without the possibility to rewind or pause. It's like internet radio but without internet.
I write scripts and present. Several religions have airtime, each week another religion presents. My contributions are for the Baha'i Faith. The program is on air Saturday mornings 8 AM. I know what you are about to ask: "Hey Ira,  how many people listen radio Saturday morning anyway?" My answer is: "Maybe more people read my blog, maybe less."

  On Air  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Dey4ZPg0k

Bicycle Seat Thieves

I haven't posted for a long time. The usual summer break. But now I want to blog about a good and a bad news. the good news is that I started a new blog. It's a professional blog. I mean a blog about my professional life. The bad news is that my bicycle seat got stollen. Again. That reminds me on the old saying: "Steal my seat once, shame on you; steal my seat twice, darn it, stop doing that".

I posted a note on the board in my building just in case the thieve is in our building. The note says: "To the thieve who stole my bicycle seat, bring my seat back and no questions will be asked!".  I am writing this here just in case the thieve reads my blog!

Me, Myself & Blog

I am busy with the redesign of my blog and homepage. A lot is going to change. I will let you know once everything is done. Because of all that I don't have time to write a longer post. But you will not miss out on your weekly scoop of me. Here are some post from other people about me or where I am mentioned.
These post have been confirmed to be about myself:

• Married to ADD: The 15th step of the 5 step process 
• Rezalution: Sunshine on My Shoulders Makes Me Happy!

And this post is assumed to be about me; Affirmation is awaited:

• wired uk

I gone not wild

It's spring break again. But I'm not a student anymore. For me, it's business as usual. I can't go wild anymore.
Because there was always such a long time between my posts I decided to put some photo posts, so that you will see something new each time you visit my blog. The first photo will be me working instead spring breaking and flashing my man boobs.

Time Out

Es ist vieles passiert seit meinem letzten Bericht. Ich habe einen neuen Mitbewohner bekommen, der Alte ist ausgezogen, ich wurde wieder in dem Geistigen Rat gewählt... Ich habe von alldem nichts geschrieben. Ich hatte auch wieder einen Spring Break gehabt aber trotzdem gab es keinen "I gone wild III"-Post. Ich war wieder auf Sardinien und habe mir nichts für mein Blog einfallen lassen. Da ich jetzt mich intensiv mit meiner Doktorarbeit und mit Veröffentlichungen beschäftigen muss, habe ich keine kreative Zeit mehr für meinen Blog übrig. Ich werde aber, um diese "Schreibblockade" zu brechen, drei oder vier Sätze zu den Ereignissen am letzten Samstag schreiben.
In Bremen fanden die 32. Kirchentage statt. Innerhalb dieser Kirchentage fand auch eine Veranstaltung statt, an dem Studenten der Jacobs University von ihrem Glauben erzählen sollten. Ich dachte mir "ach wie nett- da kann ich ja von der Baha'i Religion erzählen" und habe mich gemeldet. Bei der Veranstaltung war ich sehr nervös. Als ich dann auf der Bühne stand und mir die Massen angesehen habe, hat das Lampenfieber zugeschlagen und ich habe für gefühlte 20 bis 30 Sekunden einen Aussetzer gehabt. Aber ich konnte zum Glück mich wieder zusammenreißen und anfangen zu erzählen. Ich habe die Baha'i Religion vorgestellt und auch berichtet, was mein Glaube für einen Einfluss auf mein tägliches Leben hat. Zum Schluss habe ich noch ein Gebet, "Gibt es einen Befreier...", gesagt. Die ganze Veranstaltung fand in englisch statt und mein Beitrag hat ca. 10 Minuten inklusive Aussetzer gedauert. Ich wurde vom Pastor Keller, der die Veranstaltung am Samstag organisiert und moderiert hat, zu einem Pop-Gottesdienst am 30. August eingeladen. Er will mich dort interviewen. Mal sehen ob ich meine 30 Sekunden dann überbieten kann.

PS: Ich werde bald einen Stipendium erhalten (2. Juni 2009, 21:00)

Working title

Kleine änderung. Ab jetzt, werde ich versuchen, passend zum Namen meines Blogs, die Titel der einzelnen Post in anlehnung an Kinofilmen zu schreiben. Und noch einen Zitat aus dem Film hinzu zu fügen. Die beiden ersten habe ich schon geändert. Leider, oder viel mehr zum glück, kenne ich die beiden Filme nur vom Namen her. Daher sind die Zitate vom imdb.
Wie das nunmal so ist, fählt mir nicht für diesen Post ein. Deshalb nur ein vorläufiges "Working title" und kein Zitat.

Nicht noch ein Soroosh-Blog!

"Dude, you can't start a slow clap at any time and expect everyone to join in"

Nach meinem sehr erfolgreichen ersten Blog, habe ich mich entschlossen noch ein Blog zu starten und ich zweifle nicht daran, dass es diesmal wieder so ein Aufsehen geben wird. Ihr erlebt gerade die Geburt eines historischen Ereignisses: meinen zweiten Blog. Mir zittern schon die Hände. Ich kann nicht mehr weiter schreiben. Ich bin zu sehr bewegt.