“We’ve got to make sure that people understand the choices that are at stake.” (Barack Obama)

Obama 2008 Presidential Campaign · photo by Barack Obama on flickr.com

With this clever quote I wish you an exciting last couple of days before an election that will make history, no matter how it turns out… So do you understand what’s at stake for you, lieber Reader?

The Perosn Who Doesn’t Make Mistakes is Unlikely to Make Anything.

vespa mistake · photo by jonshaft on flickr.com

Jon Shaft, one of my latest flickr favorite discoveries, writes as a citation for his “Happy Mistake”:

vespa mistake. this is what photographers call a “happy mistake”: I set up the xpan with the self timer set, and ran to sit next to erica, but forgot to change the timer from 2 seconds to 10 seconds. happy mistake.

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves · by Edmund Hillary.

The quote is as surreal as the picture, but true · photo by Ben on flickr

Part 5 of The Ultimate Guide To College

Looking for design and decoration ideas has never been easier. Thanks the internet. Plus, don’t you think when you are about to (re)paint your room or when you have to think of how to make a new home cosy and warm, you don’t have to go far to find inspiration. The design, the color scheme rather comes to you. Pops up in front of you and you just go “Oh, I want it and I want it badly”. You actually have an idea of what colors, what furniture and bits and peaces (like a full HD 45 inch flat screen), and you are already well aware of how you’d love to assemble things in your new space. Do it, jump.

This green just jumped at me. It would also go along well with my "That Green" of my blog · by Josh Leo (Our First House)

It’s been a year since I took off by plane to the Golden State. It’s been a year and I just can’t believe. A lot of things happened since then and this fact really proves that time flies. Working at Dynea, passing my community service and all the experiences that come along with it. At this time of the year I just wish I could board a plane that takes me somewhere else. The thought that I am trapped ALL summer is slightly stressing me out. Just slightly. Sarcasm End.

Not that I am sick of my life here in Austria, it is just that I am anticipating something that isn’t going to happen. Do you know that feeling. This year, no huge trip for poor Philipp. No vacation. Well, I’ll host an American friend for a week, so that should be fun, right? Touring Austria!

Thank you to my host family and all the new friends I made in California. I just wanted to thank you. Even after a year I keep thinking of you and I hope to be back soon. Promised. A YEAR, crazy!

Darker Than - This most certainly is a nice wallpaper opportunity - click to get enlarged version · by Thomas Hawk on flickr.com

Images like these of typical symbols like Las Vegas, San Francisco (Golden Gate, Transamerica Pyramid, etc.) and travel stuff keep following me. It looks like I can’t let go. No, I just can’t let go. 

Here the lines of a song that people who fell in love with The City would sign without further ado to proof the finesse of San Francisco… I Left my Heart In San Francisco by  Tony Bennett.

I left my heart in San Francisco, high on a hill it calls to me
To be where little cable cars climb halfway to the stars.
The morning fog may chill the air, I don’t care.
My love waits there in San Francisco, above the blue and windy sea,
When I come home to you, San Francisco, your golden sun will shine for me. 

Good to know that the golden sun will shine for anybody who goes to San Francisco.

In the unlikely event you feel the sudden urge to relieve your bladder’s pressure, make sure nobody catches you and most importantly can track you down to exact spot you committed the crime. For your information (FYI) only. The background story for the attached picture, after the jump.

Paris, je t’aime! · photo by arique on flickr.com