<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674530809360935127</id><updated>2011-04-21T19:09:07.669-04:00</updated><category term='deutsch'/><category term='english'/><category term='français'/><title type='text'>rice reist ...</title><subtitle type='html'>currently in phnom penh, cambodia</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ittenrice.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7674530809360935127/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ittenrice.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Michèle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06982347468023525064</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_SDTuQOLagrk/RlqkITxoc0I/AAAAAAAAAdw/BN9wQyBJnVQ/s320/DSC00055.JPG'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>43</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674530809360935127.post-3697142930384502438</id><published>2008-06-07T07:56:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2008-06-07T08:00:09.564-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='english'/><title type='text'>On the plane again</title><content type='html'>Before I even nearly documented the amazing year spent in Pittsburgh, lucky me is traveling yet again to a new continent, to work with my sweetheart Marc and a team of other students on a water filtering project in Cambodia.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To document the journey, we'll write two new blogs, firstly&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://mm-in-pp.blogspot.com/"&gt;http://mm-in-pp.blogspot.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;written by Marc and me, on our personal experiences over there and random comments worth being posted.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For more technical details on the progress of the project, all team members will be contributing towards&lt;br /&gt;      &lt;a href="http://khmer-bear.blogspot.com/"&gt;http://khmer-bear.blogspot.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;with (hopefully) up-to-date information on the latest discoveries and results.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;See you there,&lt;br /&gt;Michèle&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7674530809360935127-3697142930384502438?l=ittenrice.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ittenrice.blogspot.com/feeds/3697142930384502438/comments/default' title='Kommentare zum Post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7674530809360935127&amp;postID=3697142930384502438' title='0 Kommentare'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7674530809360935127/posts/default/3697142930384502438'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7674530809360935127/posts/default/3697142930384502438'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ittenrice.blogspot.com/2008/06/on-plane-again.html' title='On the plane again'/><author><name>Michèle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06982347468023525064</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_SDTuQOLagrk/RlqkITxoc0I/AAAAAAAAAdw/BN9wQyBJnVQ/s320/DSC00055.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674530809360935127.post-5008824353235931785</id><published>2008-06-07T07:48:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2008-06-07T07:55:55.932-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='français'/><title type='text'>Partante de nouveau</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Eh ben, qu'est-ce qu'il était court, cet arrêt en Suisse! Lundi déjà, je quitte le sol hélvetique pour trois autres mois à l'étranger, cette fois en direction opposé (faut pouvoir comparer les jet-lags :)), plus précisement pour la Thailande et ensuite le Cambodge.&lt;br /&gt;Pour tous vous tenir au courant, je vous introduit ici à deux nouveaux blogs (désolée de vous compliquer la vie :)). Le premier,&lt;br /&gt;            &lt;a href="http://mm-in-pp.blogspot.com/"&gt;http://mm-in-pp.blogspot.com&lt;/a&gt; ,&lt;br /&gt;sera écrit de moi et mon chéri Marc avec des impressions personnels sur le pays, le voyage et tout nos adventures là-bas. (Tout ceux qui ont déjà lu mon blog ne seront pas trompé par la formulation: On fera de mieux de vous écrire de certains... pour écouter le reste, il faudra bien sûr qu'on se donnera rendez-vous à la rentrée! :))&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ensuite, avec tous le team de cinq, on décrira le projet de filtration d'eau, notre occupation première, en plus de détails sur&lt;br /&gt;                 &lt;a href="http://khmer-bear.blogspot.com/"&gt;http://khmer-bear.blogspot.com&lt;/a&gt; .&lt;br /&gt;Ce blog sera uniquement en anglais mais heureusement que vous déchirez tous.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Et puis, no souci, je serai de retour en Septembre pour recommencer mes études comme une Suisse responsable. ;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;– A+,&lt;br /&gt;Michèle&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7674530809360935127-5008824353235931785?l=ittenrice.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ittenrice.blogspot.com/feeds/5008824353235931785/comments/default' title='Kommentare zum Post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7674530809360935127&amp;postID=5008824353235931785' title='0 Kommentare'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7674530809360935127/posts/default/5008824353235931785'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7674530809360935127/posts/default/5008824353235931785'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ittenrice.blogspot.com/2008/06/partante-de-nouveau.html' title='Partante de nouveau'/><author><name>Michèle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06982347468023525064</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_SDTuQOLagrk/RlqkITxoc0I/AAAAAAAAAdw/BN9wQyBJnVQ/s320/DSC00055.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674530809360935127.post-279159819432784471</id><published>2008-06-07T07:42:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2008-06-07T07:48:09.029-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='deutsch'/><title type='text'>Die Ferne ruft erneut</title><content type='html'>Hoppla, da ist meine Zeit in der Schweiz auch schon wieder um, kaum hat sie angefangen: Am Montag fliege ich nach Bangkok mit Endstation Phnom Penh, Kambodscha. Während drei Monaten werde ich, zusammen mit drei andern Studenten und meinem Chéri, an einem Wasserfilter-Projekt arbeiten.&lt;br /&gt;Um diese besondere Reise zu feiern, gibts gleich zwei neue Blogadressen:&lt;br /&gt;        &lt;a href="http://mm-in-pp.blogspot.com"&gt;http://mm-in-pp.blogspot.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;        &lt;a href="http://khmer-bear.blogspot.com"&gt;http://khmer-bear.blogspot.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Die erste der beiden Internetseiten widerspiegelt persönliche Eindrücke von Marc und mir, während der zweite ganz aufs Filterprojekt bezogen ist und ausschliesslich in Englisch geschrieben sein wird.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Falls jemand von euch bei neuen Updates auf irgendeiner der beiden Seiten benachrichtigt werden möchte, lasst es mich doch bitte wissen!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;– Herzliche Grüsse,&lt;br /&gt;Michèle&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7674530809360935127-279159819432784471?l=ittenrice.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ittenrice.blogspot.com/feeds/279159819432784471/comments/default' title='Kommentare zum Post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7674530809360935127&amp;postID=279159819432784471' title='0 Kommentare'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7674530809360935127/posts/default/279159819432784471'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7674530809360935127/posts/default/279159819432784471'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ittenrice.blogspot.com/2008/06/die-ferne-ruft-erneut.html' title='Die Ferne ruft erneut'/><author><name>Michèle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06982347468023525064</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_SDTuQOLagrk/RlqkITxoc0I/AAAAAAAAAdw/BN9wQyBJnVQ/s320/DSC00055.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674530809360935127.post-5574691458594111875</id><published>2008-05-04T13:43:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2008-05-04T13:48:00.999-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='deutsch'/><title type='text'>Grease in echt</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;table style="width: 194px;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="background: transparent url(http://picasaweb.google.com/f/img/transparent_album_background.gif) no-repeat scroll left center; height: 194px; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/michele.itten/Carnival"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/michele.itten/SB3zndzSRHE/AAAAAAAACis/mx5fzcUAiiQ/s160-c/Carnival.jpg" style="margin: 1px 0pt 0pt 4px;" height="160" width="160" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/michele.itten/Carnival" style="color: rgb(77, 77, 77); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"&gt;Carnival&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Jedes Jahr bauen die Studenten der CMU ihren eigenen Jahrmarkt, den &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Carnival&lt;/span&gt;. Und so kurz vor dem Abschluss meines Bachelorstudiums, eine "Chilbi" direkt auf dem Universitätsgelände, war für mich fast schon eine Verwirklichung des &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Grease&lt;/span&gt;-Musicals!&lt;br /&gt;– Auf jeden Fall war ich tiefst beeindruckt vom gestalterischen Talent der Studentenverbindungen!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7674530809360935127-5574691458594111875?l=ittenrice.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ittenrice.blogspot.com/feeds/5574691458594111875/comments/default' title='Kommentare zum Post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7674530809360935127&amp;postID=5574691458594111875' title='1 Kommentare'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7674530809360935127/posts/default/5574691458594111875'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7674530809360935127/posts/default/5574691458594111875'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ittenrice.blogspot.com/2008/05/grease-in-echt.html' title='Grease in echt'/><author><name>Michèle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06982347468023525064</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_SDTuQOLagrk/RlqkITxoc0I/AAAAAAAAAdw/BN9wQyBJnVQ/s320/DSC00055.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://lh4.ggpht.com/michele.itten/SB3zndzSRHE/AAAAAAAACis/mx5fzcUAiiQ/s72-c/Carnival.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674530809360935127.post-3727966122402975969</id><published>2008-05-01T22:42:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2008-12-13T04:59:45.956-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='français'/><title type='text'>Charmant</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SDTuQOLagrk/SBp_19zSRGI/AAAAAAAACf8/mIz91g0WNJM/s1600-h/Picture+1.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SDTuQOLagrk/SBp_19zSRGI/AAAAAAAACf8/mIz91g0WNJM/s400/Picture+1.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5195605685224752226" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;source: &lt;a href="http://sma.epfl.ch/FAQ.html.en"&gt;foyer aux questions de la section de mathématiques de l'epfl&lt;/a&gt;...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7674530809360935127-3727966122402975969?l=ittenrice.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ittenrice.blogspot.com/feeds/3727966122402975969/comments/default' title='Kommentare zum Post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7674530809360935127&amp;postID=3727966122402975969' title='1 Kommentare'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7674530809360935127/posts/default/3727966122402975969'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7674530809360935127/posts/default/3727966122402975969'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ittenrice.blogspot.com/2008/05/charmant.html' title='Charmant'/><author><name>Michèle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06982347468023525064</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_SDTuQOLagrk/RlqkITxoc0I/AAAAAAAAAdw/BN9wQyBJnVQ/s320/DSC00055.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SDTuQOLagrk/SBp_19zSRGI/AAAAAAAACf8/mIz91g0WNJM/s72-c/Picture+1.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674530809360935127.post-6785692522650081688</id><published>2008-04-06T15:56:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2008-04-06T16:11:29.412-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='english'/><title type='text'>Super pastors</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Every first Sunday of the month, we share communion at East Liberty Presbyterian Church: My monthly astonishment at the immense power of American pastors, whether male or female, young or old, sporty or full figured. You know how we Catholics have pre-cut hosts of about 1mm thickness, that must function much like a potato chip when it comes to break-resistance?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;– Well, not so here. Courageously, the pastor holds up a full two-pound loaf of bread, gives thanks, and breaks it, EFFORTLESSLY!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I regularly catch myself in sheer admiration for such superhuman strength instead of focusing on the spiritual significance of the event for my own life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And I remember the fundamental difference between our two continents: Crust-free bread!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7674530809360935127-6785692522650081688?l=ittenrice.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ittenrice.blogspot.com/feeds/6785692522650081688/comments/default' title='Kommentare zum Post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7674530809360935127&amp;postID=6785692522650081688' title='4 Kommentare'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7674530809360935127/posts/default/6785692522650081688'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7674530809360935127/posts/default/6785692522650081688'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ittenrice.blogspot.com/2008/04/super-pastors.html' title='Super pastors'/><author><name>Michèle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06982347468023525064</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_SDTuQOLagrk/RlqkITxoc0I/AAAAAAAAAdw/BN9wQyBJnVQ/s320/DSC00055.JPG'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674530809360935127.post-8717016081490118396</id><published>2008-03-09T23:38:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2008-03-09T23:40:27.427-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='english'/><title type='text'>Being a light</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" &gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;"It means living in such a way that our lives would not make sense if God did not exist."&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;(read on: &lt;a href="http://www.sacredspace.ie/en#advice"&gt;http://www.sacredspace.ie/en#advice&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7674530809360935127-8717016081490118396?l=ittenrice.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ittenrice.blogspot.com/feeds/8717016081490118396/comments/default' title='Kommentare zum Post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7674530809360935127&amp;postID=8717016081490118396' title='1 Kommentare'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7674530809360935127/posts/default/8717016081490118396'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7674530809360935127/posts/default/8717016081490118396'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ittenrice.blogspot.com/2008/03/being-light.html' title='Being a light'/><author><name>Michèle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06982347468023525064</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_SDTuQOLagrk/RlqkITxoc0I/AAAAAAAAAdw/BN9wQyBJnVQ/s320/DSC00055.JPG'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674530809360935127.post-1797386767013552634</id><published>2008-03-06T16:40:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2008-03-06T16:51:05.970-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='english'/><title type='text'>Pittsburgh Fast Facts</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;as taken from &lt;a href="http://my.cmu.edu/site/admission/page.fastfacts"&gt;http://my.cmu.edu/site/admission/page.fastfacts&lt;/a&gt; :&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Nickname:&lt;/b&gt; The Burgh&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Population:&lt;/b&gt; 1.26 million (Allegheny County)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Location, location, location:&lt;/b&gt; Pittsburgh is within 500 miles of more than half the U.S. population, and the city is less than 90 minutes flying time from 20 states and Canada.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Pittsburgh ranks in the top 10&lt;/b&gt; as the best place to start as a young professional and to grow personal wealth.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Pittsburgh has been ranked seventh in the nation&lt;/b&gt; as the home of Fortune 500 headquarters. (USX, ALCOA, Heinz and PPG are located here.)  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Entrepreneur&lt;/i&gt; magazine&lt;/b&gt; ranked Pittsburgh as the ninth best place in the country for small businesses.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;The Pittsburgh International Airport &lt;/b&gt;was rated the top airport in the country and second best in the world by J.D. Power and Conde Nast Traveler, respectively.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Per capita, Pittsburghers are said to drink more coffee&lt;/b&gt; than people in any other city in North America.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Pittsburgh has 723 bridges,&lt;/b&gt; more than any other city in the world except Venice, Italy.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;The David L. Lawrence Convention Center&lt;/b&gt; in downtown Pittsburgh is the first certified green convention center in the United States and the largest certified green building in the world. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;President George W. Bush &lt;/b&gt;has referred to Pittsburgh as the “Knowledge City.”  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Famous Pittsburghers &lt;/b&gt;include Christina Aguilera, Stephen Foster, Shirley Jones, Michael Keaton, Jimmy Stewart, Dan Marino, Joe Montana and Andy Warhol.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;The smiley :-) &lt;/b&gt;was created by a Carnegie Mellon computer scientist.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Several &lt;a href="http://www.pghfilm.org/about/about_filmography.jsp"&gt;Hollywood movies&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/b&gt;have been shot here, including the Academy Award-winning Silence of the Lambs, Lorenzo’s Oil and Hoffa - as well as Wonder Boys, Creepshow, Flashdance and Smart People which were filmed partly on Carnegie Mellon’s campus.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7674530809360935127-1797386767013552634?l=ittenrice.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ittenrice.blogspot.com/feeds/1797386767013552634/comments/default' title='Kommentare zum Post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7674530809360935127&amp;postID=1797386767013552634' title='1 Kommentare'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7674530809360935127/posts/default/1797386767013552634'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7674530809360935127/posts/default/1797386767013552634'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ittenrice.blogspot.com/2008/03/pittsburgh-fast-facts.html' title='Pittsburgh Fast Facts'/><author><name>Michèle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06982347468023525064</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_SDTuQOLagrk/RlqkITxoc0I/AAAAAAAAAdw/BN9wQyBJnVQ/s320/DSC00055.JPG'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674530809360935127.post-7094102059242889332</id><published>2008-03-05T21:50:00.014-05:00</published><updated>2008-12-13T04:59:46.662-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='deutsch'/><title type='text'>Ökonomische Beziehungsberatung</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Da mein letzter Eintrag zum Thema Game Theory einen so unglaublichen Erfolg genoss, und wegen dem tiefen Einblick in die Seele des unendlich rationalen Paares, beschloss ich mich zu diesem offenen, deutschen Liebesbrief an den Mann meiner Träume. (Je t'aime, chéri!)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;blockquote style="font-family: courier new;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SDTuQOLagrk/R89fmauWNDI/AAAAAAAACbo/u3CiqUrFQEw/s1600-h/Picture+7.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 243px; height: 209px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SDTuQOLagrk/R89fmauWNDI/AAAAAAAACbo/u3CiqUrFQEw/s320/Picture+7.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5174459610485371954" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Geliebter Marc,&lt;br /&gt;Ich sitze in der Vorlesung und denke an dich. Das ist soweit noch nichts Aussergewöhnliches, aber die neuen Ansätze zur Konfliktlösung eröffnen mir völlig neue Horizonte. Als simultanes Spiel mit inkompletter Information haben wir heute den Kampf der Geschlechter analysiert, und ich kann es kaum erwarten, diese bahnbrechenden Entdeckungen mit dir zu teilen.&lt;br /&gt;Natürlich haben wir diesen 'Battle of the Sexes' schon früher mal betrachtet, es ist ja nicht umsonst eines der berühmtesten Zwei-Spieler Partien. Die Ausgangslage ist simpel: Wir wollen gemeinsam in den Ausgang, nur würde ich lieber ein Ballett bewundern, und dich zieht es zu einem Boxkampf. Doch auch du hast keine Lust, alleine dort aufzukreuzen, und wir können deshalb unseren persönlichen Nutzen formal aufschreiben,&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SDTuQOLagrk/R89jFquWNEI/AAAAAAAACbw/ieRJggKJBKE/s1600-h/bsexes1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 288px; height: 79px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SDTuQOLagrk/R89jFquWNEI/AAAAAAAACbw/ieRJggKJBKE/s320/bsexes1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5174463445891167298" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;wobei deine Entscheidung in Kolonnen und meine in Zeilen notiert werden. Die erste Zahl ist jeweils meine Fröhlichkeit je nach Ausgang (ich bin glücklich mit dir beim Boxkampf, überglücklich beim gemeinsamen Ballettbesuch und vermisse dich, wenn ich alleine bin), und weil dein männliches Wesen ja eh vorhersehbarer ist, habe ich die zweiten Zahlen für dich gleich eingesetzt. :)&lt;br /&gt;Nun der wirklich innovative Ansatz ist die völlige Absenz jeglicher Kommunikation: Wir brauchen kein einziges Wort zu wechseln, sondern lassen uns beide überraschen, wo der Andere wohl aufkreuzt!&lt;br /&gt;Da wir ja im Laufe der Jahre immer wieder dem gleichen Konflikt begegnen werden, sieht die Game Theory drei langfristige Szenarien vor – wobei ich die Details hier ausser Acht lasse – :&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;du bist der dominante Teil der Beziehung, und ich finde mich zum wöchentlichen Boxkampf ein,&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;du bist der feministische Traum und schläfst mitten in Schwanensee ein,&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;ODER wir haben eine stabile, ausgewogene Beziehung und wählen doppelt so oft unsere Lieblingsvariante und konzentrieren uns bei den andern Gelegenheiten halt einfach auf den Enthusiasmus des andern.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;Nun, du denkst, das sei schon alles; doch diese Woche hat uns Professor Hafalir die höhere Kunst der guten Hausfrau gelehrt.&lt;br /&gt;In dieser neuen Situation, hast du gewisse Gemütsschwankungen, die ich absolut nicht nachvollziehen kann, welche aber von einem uns beiden bekannten Autor als "Gummibandeffekt" beschrieben wurden: Bist du in guter Stimmung, sehnst du dich wie bis anhin nach meiner Gesellschaft; doch kommt es vor, dass du an einem schlechten Tag einfach nur für dich alleine sein willst. Leider ist das für mich nicht immer vorhersehbar, doch im Laufe der Jahre habe ich erforscht, dass das ungefähr die Hälfte (!) der Zeit zutrifft. Natürlich brauchen wir immer noch nicht zu kommunizieren, und so kann ich nur raten, mit welcher Nutzen-Tabelle ich es heute zu tun habe.&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SDTuQOLagrk/R89o5auWNFI/AAAAAAAACb4/7KVpHxRqOqk/s1600-h/bsexes2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 349px; height: 72px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SDTuQOLagrk/R89o5auWNFI/AAAAAAAACb4/7KVpHxRqOqk/s400/bsexes2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5174469832507536466" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Da ich das ruhende Element dieser Beziehung bin, ändert sich an meiner Strategie nichts, in schlechter Stimmung wird jedoch ständig einer von uns beiden seine Entscheidung bereuen:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Sind wir zusammen, hättest du dich lieber aus dem Staub gemacht, selbst wenn dir als Rückzugsort nur das Ballett geblieben wäre,&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;sind wir jedoch getrennt, so wäre ich dir lieber nachgereist, selbst wenn dich das nur noch unglücklicher gemacht hätte. (Wir modeln hier ja treibende Marktkräfte, der Egoismus ist deshalb erklärbar.)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;In dieser Zwickmühle, in der ich mich befinde, bleibt mir nichts anderes übrig, als gemäss dem Erwartungswert meines Nutzens zu handeln. Du denkst, für dich sei die Sache einfacher, doch sei gewarnt, mein durchdachtes Handeln sollte auch deine Ortswahl beeinflussen oder du verlierst wertvolle Fröhlichkeitspunkte.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Glücklicherweise hat man das Rätsel für uns gelöst – es gibt doch tatsächlich eine Strategie, bei der wir im schlimmsten Fall resigniert einen ungemütlichen Abend verbringen; aber NIE mit dem mühsamen "Hätte ich doch nur.." leben müssen!&lt;br /&gt;Ich weiss, du kannst die Antwort kaum erwarten, und will dich auch gar nicht mehr länger auf die Folter spannen:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Ich kaufe mir ein Saisonticket fürs Ballett und lasse all das Rätseln über deine elastischen Gemütszustände hinter mir.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Du leistest mir Gesellschaft an guten Tagen, und trinkst ein Bier im Stadion an schlechten Tagen.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;Unglaublich, nicht wahr? Diese Langzeit-Beständigkeitsregel haben wir in so manchen Beziehungen schon beobachtet, und nun haben wir es sogar mathematisch optimiert.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vielleicht kommt es dann sogar vor, dass wir am Ende des Tages Lust haben, uns zu unterhalten – nicht, weil wir das für die Terminplanung benötigen wie mundäne Leute, sondern einfach so, zum blossen Vergnügen. Und dann wirst du mich sagen hören, in der Sprache des Herzens:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I liebe di, min Schatz!&lt;br /&gt;– Michèle&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;Ich weiss, ihr hofft jetzt alle, die Migrosklubschule biete bald GameTheory-Kurse an, damit ihr alle eure bessere Hälfte hinschicken könnt und nachher auch solche Briefe bekommt. :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7674530809360935127-7094102059242889332?l=ittenrice.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ittenrice.blogspot.com/feeds/7094102059242889332/comments/default' title='Kommentare zum Post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7674530809360935127&amp;postID=7094102059242889332' title='6 Kommentare'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7674530809360935127/posts/default/7094102059242889332'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7674530809360935127/posts/default/7094102059242889332'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ittenrice.blogspot.com/2008/03/konomische-beziehungsberatung.html' title='Ökonomische Beziehungsberatung'/><author><name>Michèle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06982347468023525064</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_SDTuQOLagrk/RlqkITxoc0I/AAAAAAAAAdw/BN9wQyBJnVQ/s320/DSC00055.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SDTuQOLagrk/R89fmauWNDI/AAAAAAAACbo/u3CiqUrFQEw/s72-c/Picture+7.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674530809360935127.post-5512534408639668960</id><published>2008-03-05T21:22:00.005-05:00</published><updated>2008-12-13T04:59:46.935-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='français'/><title type='text'>Génies de langue</title><content type='html'>Avec tout respect pour les urbanistes, de temps en temps, ils échouent lamentablement.  Et qui c'est qui ramasse? &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.cmu.edu/police/images/escort_new.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://www.cmu.edu/police/images/escort_new.JPG" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;– Les conducteurs des  'college shuttle', naviguant en leur tour préscrit chaque demie heure à travers les différentes voisinages autour l'université.  Ce post leur est donc dédié pour valoriser le génie énorme qu'ils montrent chaque jour.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Non seulement qu'ils maîtrisent de ne pas écraser les voitures qui s'arrêtent au milieu du croisement lors d'un feu rouge, mais ils montrent aussi une capacité linguistique énorme pour les dialectes du monde. &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SDTuQOLagrk/R89X56uWNCI/AAAAAAAACbg/1M6D_QuIJts/s1600-h/Picture+2.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 182px; height: 151px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SDTuQOLagrk/R89X56uWNCI/AAAAAAAACbg/1M6D_QuIJts/s320/Picture+2.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5174451149399798818" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Je m'explique: "Mon" shuttle, le &lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 255, 153); font-weight: bold;"&gt;B&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 255, 153);"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;(ou &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 102);"&gt;A/B&lt;/span&gt; selon les heures) traverse Oakland et Shadyside. Pour sortir à un croisement, l'étudiant crie simplement  le nom de la rue perpendiculaire, et le chauffeur s'arrête sur ca voie et ouvre les portes – un system fonctionnel et efficace, s'il n'y avait pas ce coup de génie des urbanistes Pittsburgheriens: Rue 'Morewood' est suivie de 'Melwood', et 'Ellsworth' précède 'Elmer' et 'Elwood'. Je vous jure qu'avec ces dialectes d'Indiens qui dominent sur le campus, je n'arrive pas à faire la distinction!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mais malgré tout, et à ma stupéfaction profonde, je ne les ai jamais vu s'arrêter à tort. Ça, c'est des vrai drivers, hein?!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7674530809360935127-5512534408639668960?l=ittenrice.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ittenrice.blogspot.com/feeds/5512534408639668960/comments/default' title='Kommentare zum Post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7674530809360935127&amp;postID=5512534408639668960' title='0 Kommentare'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7674530809360935127/posts/default/5512534408639668960'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7674530809360935127/posts/default/5512534408639668960'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ittenrice.blogspot.com/2008/03/gnies-de-langue.html' title='Génies de langue'/><author><name>Michèle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06982347468023525064</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_SDTuQOLagrk/RlqkITxoc0I/AAAAAAAAAdw/BN9wQyBJnVQ/s320/DSC00055.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SDTuQOLagrk/R89X56uWNCI/AAAAAAAACbg/1M6D_QuIJts/s72-c/Picture+2.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674530809360935127.post-2374367889991240586</id><published>2008-02-29T19:06:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2008-12-13T04:59:47.431-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='english'/><title type='text'>So sad.</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SDTuQOLagrk/R8ieFq9_0RI/AAAAAAAACas/1yBpdyPu2PI/s1600-h/Picture+1.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SDTuQOLagrk/R8ieFq9_0RI/AAAAAAAACas/1yBpdyPu2PI/s400/Picture+1.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5172557992305873170" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Okay, so I didn't check what exactly the content of that mail was.. but I can imagine. It makes me sad how far love has been misunderstood.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7674530809360935127-2374367889991240586?l=ittenrice.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ittenrice.blogspot.com/feeds/2374367889991240586/comments/default' title='Kommentare zum Post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7674530809360935127&amp;postID=2374367889991240586' title='3 Kommentare'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7674530809360935127/posts/default/2374367889991240586'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7674530809360935127/posts/default/2374367889991240586'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ittenrice.blogspot.com/2008/02/so-sad.html' title='So sad.'/><author><name>Michèle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06982347468023525064</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_SDTuQOLagrk/RlqkITxoc0I/AAAAAAAAAdw/BN9wQyBJnVQ/s320/DSC00055.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SDTuQOLagrk/R8ieFq9_0RI/AAAAAAAACas/1yBpdyPu2PI/s72-c/Picture+1.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674530809360935127.post-6908585948742145330</id><published>2008-02-27T15:43:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2008-12-13T04:59:47.729-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Warum??</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SDTuQOLagrk/R8XLpFtDrTI/AAAAAAAACaU/oC6fI3fOAV4/s1600-h/Picture+1.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SDTuQOLagrk/R8XLpFtDrTI/AAAAAAAACaU/oC6fI3fOAV4/s400/Picture+1.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5171763653871119666" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7674530809360935127-6908585948742145330?l=ittenrice.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7674530809360935127/posts/default/6908585948742145330'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7674530809360935127/posts/default/6908585948742145330'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ittenrice.blogspot.com/2008/02/warum.html' title='Warum??'/><author><name>Michèle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06982347468023525064</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_SDTuQOLagrk/RlqkITxoc0I/AAAAAAAAAdw/BN9wQyBJnVQ/s320/DSC00055.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SDTuQOLagrk/R8XLpFtDrTI/AAAAAAAACaU/oC6fI3fOAV4/s72-c/Picture+1.png' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674530809360935127.post-239154035096930622</id><published>2008-02-27T15:42:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2008-12-13T04:59:47.935-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='deutsch'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='english'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='français'/><title type='text'>Eh, ben.</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SDTuQOLagrk/R8XLf1tDrSI/AAAAAAAACaM/c4Yn5TJfXfs/s1600-h/Picture+2.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SDTuQOLagrk/R8XLf1tDrSI/AAAAAAAACaM/c4Yn5TJfXfs/s400/Picture+2.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5171763494957329698" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7674530809360935127-239154035096930622?l=ittenrice.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ittenrice.blogspot.com/feeds/239154035096930622/comments/default' title='Kommentare zum Post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7674530809360935127&amp;postID=239154035096930622' title='8 Kommentare'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7674530809360935127/posts/default/239154035096930622'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7674530809360935127/posts/default/239154035096930622'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ittenrice.blogspot.com/2008/02/eh-ben.html' title='Eh, ben.'/><author><name>Michèle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06982347468023525064</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_SDTuQOLagrk/RlqkITxoc0I/AAAAAAAAAdw/BN9wQyBJnVQ/s320/DSC00055.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SDTuQOLagrk/R8XLf1tDrSI/AAAAAAAACaM/c4Yn5TJfXfs/s72-c/Picture+2.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>8</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674530809360935127.post-127730917051068465</id><published>2008-02-21T16:30:00.005-05:00</published><updated>2008-02-21T16:54:22.727-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='english'/><title type='text'>Pirate Game - revealed.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Completely overwhelmed by the response to my last post – I didn't take into account that a lot of you guys are as much geeks as I am :), – let me explain the solution strategy. It uses what is called 'backward induction':&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.hollywoodtoday.net/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/inside-78-million-dubloons.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 372px; height: 223px;" src="http://www.hollywoodtoday.net/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/inside-78-million-dubloons.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If the oldest pirate (pirate 1) is the only survivor of the big massacre, he will keep all 100 pieces of gold.&lt;br /&gt;Thus, whatever pirate 2 suggest, he is gonna be killed (even if he offers all the gold to the oldest, that one will still want to kill him).&lt;br /&gt;Hence, pirate 2 will accept &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;whatever&lt;/span&gt; offer pirate 3 makes, for the benefit of mere survival. So pirate 3 can keep all the gold to himself, and still get his own vote and that of pirate 2.&lt;br /&gt;In order to survive, pirate 4 needs to get 3 votes: His own plus two of his fellows'.  He knows that pirate 2 and 1 are easy to convince: He merely needs to offer them one single piece of gold. Then the remaining 98 pieces are all his. So: If pirate 5 dies, this is gonna be the outcome of the game: 98 pieces of gold for pirate 4, no gold for pirate 3, 1 piece of gold for pirates 2 and 1, no further deaths.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So what does the youngest pirate know?&lt;br /&gt;- Pirate 4's vote is his if and only if he offers him 99 pieces of gold.&lt;br /&gt;- Pirate 3's vote is his if and only if he offers him 1 piece of gold.&lt;br /&gt;- Pirate 2's vote is his if and only if he offers him 2 pieces of gold.&lt;br /&gt;- Pirate 1's vote is his if and only if he offers him 2 pieces of gold.&lt;br /&gt;Since, in addition to his own, the youngest pirate needs two more votes, the highest amount of gold he can keep for himself is 97 pieces, give one to pirate 3 and two to either the oldest or the second oldest pirate.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.maximummovies.net/wp-content/uploads/2006/07/PCDMC.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://www.maximummovies.net/wp-content/uploads/2006/07/PCDMC.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, in real life, most people don't think as far... so rest assured, with such bloodthirsty pirates, a few people will die because we fail to teach game theory to poor mortals around the world! :) :)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7674530809360935127-127730917051068465?l=ittenrice.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ittenrice.blogspot.com/feeds/127730917051068465/comments/default' title='Kommentare zum Post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7674530809360935127&amp;postID=127730917051068465' title='0 Kommentare'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7674530809360935127/posts/default/127730917051068465'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7674530809360935127/posts/default/127730917051068465'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ittenrice.blogspot.com/2008/02/pirate-game-revealed.html' title='Pirate Game - revealed.'/><author><name>Michèle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06982347468023525064</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_SDTuQOLagrk/RlqkITxoc0I/AAAAAAAAAdw/BN9wQyBJnVQ/s320/DSC00055.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674530809360935127.post-5809854576969544624</id><published>2008-02-18T20:32:00.005-05:00</published><updated>2008-02-18T20:40:10.397-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='english'/><title type='text'>Pirate Game</title><content type='html'>Since the film 'A beautiful mind', everybody should have somewhat a notion of game theory. (Remember the bar scene with the blonde and her friends?)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So I'm taking this class this semester on the topic, (no worries, though, the FBI hasn't asked me to work for them yet). We analyze all sorts of games, and I'm just writing up the pirates game, modeling some business process (what did you expect? :)) :&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.iwatchstuff.com/images/2006/05/pirates-of-the-caribbean-3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 256px; height: 320px;" src="http://www.iwatchstuff.com/images/2006/05/pirates-of-the-caribbean-3.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are 5 pirates, ranked from the oldest (1) to the youngest (5). After having looted 100 pieces of gold, they return to their island and decide to share the loot and retire. The way they propose to do it is the following:&lt;br /&gt;The youngest pirate proposes first an allocation for the gold (assume that each piece of gold is not divisible). Everybody votes either in favor or against the proposal. If the proposal has strictly more than 50% of 'Yes' votes, then it is implemented and the game ends. If not, then the pirate is killed and eliminated from the game. Then the youngest alive makes a proposal. We do this until one of the proposals is accepted.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For completeness, assume each pirate prefers to be alive rather than getting killed. Also assume that between killing and not killing, a pirate always prefer to kill another pirate.&lt;/blockquote&gt;Always something happening in these maths classes. :)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7674530809360935127-5809854576969544624?l=ittenrice.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ittenrice.blogspot.com/feeds/5809854576969544624/comments/default' title='Kommentare zum Post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7674530809360935127&amp;postID=5809854576969544624' title='9 Kommentare'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7674530809360935127/posts/default/5809854576969544624'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7674530809360935127/posts/default/5809854576969544624'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ittenrice.blogspot.com/2008/02/pirate-game_6546.html' title='Pirate Game'/><author><name>Michèle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06982347468023525064</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_SDTuQOLagrk/RlqkITxoc0I/AAAAAAAAAdw/BN9wQyBJnVQ/s320/DSC00055.JPG'/></author><thr:total>9</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674530809360935127.post-6810910716457904150</id><published>2008-02-13T13:19:00.006-05:00</published><updated>2008-02-13T13:28:42.863-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='english'/><title type='text'>More than mere kindness</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;I came across this quote by C.S. Lewis, and because I do have the best intentions to keep this website alive, I decided to start this revival by my reading highlight of the day.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;blockquote style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;There is kindness in Love: but Love and kindness are not coterminous, and when kindness [...] is separated from the other elements of Love, it involves a certain fundamental indifference to its object, and even something like contempt of it. Kindness consents very readily to the removal of its object – we have all met people whose kindness to animals is constantly leading them to kill animals lest they should suffer. Kindness, merely as such, cares not whether its object becomes good or bad, provided only that it escapes suffering. As Scripture points out, it is bastards who are spoiled: the legitimate sons, who are to carry on the family tradition, are punished (Hebrew 12:8). It is for people whom we care nothing about that we demand happiness on any terms: with our friends, our lovers, our children, we are exacting and would rather see them suffer much than be happy in contemptible and estranging modes. If God is Love, He is, by definition, something more than mere kindness. And it appears, from all the records, that though He has often rebuked us and condemned us, He has never regarded us with contempt. He has paid us the intolerable compliment of loving us, in the deepest, most tragic, most inexorable sense.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;- C.S. Lewis, from 'The problem of pain'&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7674530809360935127-6810910716457904150?l=ittenrice.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ittenrice.blogspot.com/feeds/6810910716457904150/comments/default' title='Kommentare zum Post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7674530809360935127&amp;postID=6810910716457904150' title='4 Kommentare'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7674530809360935127/posts/default/6810910716457904150'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7674530809360935127/posts/default/6810910716457904150'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ittenrice.blogspot.com/2008/02/more-than-mere-kindness.html' title='More than mere kindness'/><author><name>Michèle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06982347468023525064</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_SDTuQOLagrk/RlqkITxoc0I/AAAAAAAAAdw/BN9wQyBJnVQ/s320/DSC00055.JPG'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674530809360935127.post-8380002978907229113</id><published>2008-01-17T20:03:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-01-17T20:09:36.844-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='deutsch'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='english'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='français'/><title type='text'>Sista Reunion</title><content type='html'>&lt;embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://picasaweb.google.com/s/c/bin/slideshow.swf" flashvars="host=picasaweb.google.com&amp;amp;captions=1&amp;amp;interval=4;RGB=0x000000&amp;amp;feed=http%3A%2F%2Fpicasaweb.google.com%2Fdata%2Ffeed%2Fapi%2Fuser%2Fmichele.itten%2Falbumid%2F5156611611012397313%3Fkind%3Dphoto%26alt%3Drss" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" height="280" width="400"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nachdem rund 11 Monaten auf entgegengesetzten Kontinenten konnte ich meine Schwester Tina am 1.Januar endlich wieder in die Arme schliessen. Während ihrem Urlaub mit ihrem Schatz Sevi besuchten wir zu viert San Francisco und machten uns auf einen Roadtrip der Küste Kaliforniens entlang. Schade nur, dass nach einer halben Stunde beiden Youngsters schon die Augen zugefallen waren! :)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7674530809360935127-8380002978907229113?l=ittenrice.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ittenrice.blogspot.com/feeds/8380002978907229113/comments/default' title='Kommentare zum Post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7674530809360935127&amp;postID=8380002978907229113' title='4 Kommentare'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7674530809360935127/posts/default/8380002978907229113'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7674530809360935127/posts/default/8380002978907229113'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ittenrice.blogspot.com/2008/01/sista-reunion.html' title='Sista Reunion'/><author><name>Michèle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06982347468023525064</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_SDTuQOLagrk/RlqkITxoc0I/AAAAAAAAAdw/BN9wQyBJnVQ/s320/DSC00055.JPG'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674530809360935127.post-7571786711108111065</id><published>2007-12-27T22:14:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-12-28T00:14:49.193-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='deutsch'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='english'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='français'/><title type='text'>Road trip pictures</title><content type='html'>&lt;embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/s/c/bin/slideshow.swf" flashvars="host=picasaweb.google.co.uk&amp;amp;captions=1&amp;amp;interval=4;RGB=0x000000&amp;amp;feed=http%3A%2F%2Fpicasaweb.google.co.uk%2Fdata%2Ffeed%2Fapi%2Fuser%2Fmichele.itten%2Falbumid%2F5148835297845079889%3Fkind%3Dphoto%26alt%3Drss" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" height="267" width="400"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I feel like I am finally starting to properly appreciate this continent. Its variety is breathtaking, and its nature awe inspiring.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7674530809360935127-7571786711108111065?l=ittenrice.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ittenrice.blogspot.com/feeds/7571786711108111065/comments/default' title='Kommentare zum Post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7674530809360935127&amp;postID=7571786711108111065' title='5 Kommentare'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7674530809360935127/posts/default/7571786711108111065'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7674530809360935127/posts/default/7571786711108111065'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ittenrice.blogspot.com/2007/12/road-trip-pictures.html' title='Road trip pictures'/><author><name>Michèle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06982347468023525064</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_SDTuQOLagrk/RlqkITxoc0I/AAAAAAAAAdw/BN9wQyBJnVQ/s320/DSC00055.JPG'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674530809360935127.post-4142490631384614632</id><published>2007-11-22T21:37:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2007-11-24T12:16:25.409-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='deutsch'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='english'/><title type='text'>Das Brieftaschenproblem</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;... und seine Lösung. (© Kevin McCann, mein Landlord/Hostdad)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Nun ist das so ein Problem mit den Herren und ihrem obligaten Portemonnaie in der hintern Hosentasche. Nach einer gewissen Zeit lässt das Gewebe nach, und macht einem von Ehefrauen nicht gern gesehenen 'Loch' platz.  Oft werden solche Hosen dann entsorgt - obwohl ja sonst noch voll funktionstüchtig. Doch Hilfe naht: Erfinder McCann machte heute Abend seine revolutionäre Idee bekannt:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote style="color: rgb(51, 51, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;Wir bräuchten einfach eine Kirche, die 10x10 centimeter grosse Flicken für 5 Dollars verkauft, wovon dann 4$ an hungernde Kinder in Afrika gehen. Den will man sich dann gerne auf den Hintern kleben, damit jeder sieht "Jawohl, ich spende!" Es ist dann nicht einmal mehr so wichtig, dass die Farbe mit den Hosen harmoniert.&lt;/blockquote&gt;Wie zu Junggesellen-Zeiten ... :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What a wonderful thanksgiving! And I actually don't even feel overeaten. :) It's fun to eat a whole afternoon... there were two other families that came to our house (one couple with a &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;beautiful &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;Scottish accent) and to finish it off, we watched Ratatouille (that's right! A movie starring a freakin RAT .. I hope I will be able to sleep). And the fantastic side effect: We have leftovers!! :)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7674530809360935127-4142490631384614632?l=ittenrice.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ittenrice.blogspot.com/feeds/4142490631384614632/comments/default' title='Kommentare zum Post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7674530809360935127&amp;postID=4142490631384614632' title='4 Kommentare'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7674530809360935127/posts/default/4142490631384614632'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7674530809360935127/posts/default/4142490631384614632'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ittenrice.blogspot.com/2007/11/das-brieftaschenproblem.html' title='Das Brieftaschenproblem'/><author><name>Michèle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06982347468023525064</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_SDTuQOLagrk/RlqkITxoc0I/AAAAAAAAAdw/BN9wQyBJnVQ/s320/DSC00055.JPG'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674530809360935127.post-8770961529793698858</id><published>2007-11-17T14:03:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-11-17T14:07:18.199-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='english'/><title type='text'>Infinity for engineers</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;HOTEL HILBERT has infinite number of rooms. On ar particular night all the rooms were occupied, but a VACANCY sign hung outside. A potential guest arrived, and the desk clerk gave him the key to room 1, after asking the occupant of room 2 to move to room 3, the occupant of 4oom 3 to move to room 4, and so on. The next night an infinite number of new guests arrived and none of the old guests had checked out. ’No problem,’ the desk clerk announced. He moved the occupant of room 1 to room 2, the occupant of room 2 to room 4, the occupant of room 3 to room 6, the occupant of room 4 to room 8, the occupant of room 5 to room 10, in general the occupant of room n to room 2n. That freed up infinitely many odd-numbered rooms for the infinitely many new arrivals.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;(From The Man Who Loved Only Numbers, by Paul Hoffman)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://learn.tsinghua.edu.cn:8080/2002315664/smallstories/hotel-hilbert.pdf"&gt;http://learn.tsinghua.edu.cn:8080/2002315664/smallstories/hotel-hilbert.pdf&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7674530809360935127-8770961529793698858?l=ittenrice.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ittenrice.blogspot.com/feeds/8770961529793698858/comments/default' title='Kommentare zum Post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7674530809360935127&amp;postID=8770961529793698858' title='7 Kommentare'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7674530809360935127/posts/default/8770961529793698858'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7674530809360935127/posts/default/8770961529793698858'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ittenrice.blogspot.com/2007/11/infinity-for-engineers.html' title='Infinity for engineers'/><author><name>Michèle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06982347468023525064</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_SDTuQOLagrk/RlqkITxoc0I/AAAAAAAAAdw/BN9wQyBJnVQ/s320/DSC00055.JPG'/></author><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674530809360935127.post-5259160078710433883</id><published>2007-11-10T16:21:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-11-10T16:33:17.048-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='deutsch'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='english'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='français'/><title type='text'>Skydiving</title><content type='html'>&lt;embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://picasaweb.google.com/s/c/bin/slideshow.swf" width="400" height="300" flashvars="host=picasaweb.google.com&amp;captions=1&amp;RGB=0x000000&amp;feed=http%3A%2F%2Fpicasaweb.google.com%2Fdata%2Ffeed%2Fapi%2Fuser%2Fmichele.itten%2Falbumid%2F5131294618643134993%3Fkind%3Dphoto%26alt%3Drss" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ich bin endlich dazugekommen, ein paar Fotos hochzuladen. Enjoy!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(Die Slideshow läuft etwas rasch – die Photos können aber auch direkt &lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/michele.itten/Skydiving"&gt;hier&lt;/a&gt; angeschaut werden.)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7674530809360935127-5259160078710433883?l=ittenrice.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ittenrice.blogspot.com/feeds/5259160078710433883/comments/default' title='Kommentare zum Post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7674530809360935127&amp;postID=5259160078710433883' title='0 Kommentare'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7674530809360935127/posts/default/5259160078710433883'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7674530809360935127/posts/default/5259160078710433883'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ittenrice.blogspot.com/2007/11/skydiving.html' title='Skydiving'/><author><name>Michèle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06982347468023525064</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_SDTuQOLagrk/RlqkITxoc0I/AAAAAAAAAdw/BN9wQyBJnVQ/s320/DSC00055.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674530809360935127.post-1857035537259674349</id><published>2007-11-05T22:43:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-11-05T23:26:10.614-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='deutsch'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='english'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='français'/><title type='text'>Sorry, Shahin.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Afin d'être une grande fille responsable de son avenir, j'ai consulté le réglement d'études de l'epfl avant de m'inscrire pour les cours du printemps, pour d'abord découvrir que le master pour enseignement a complètement été aboli! Jawohl, meine Damen und Herren, die moderne Kantonsschullehrerin von 2009 wird rund fünf Jahre Hochschulstudium auf dem Buckel haben, mit einem 'Master of Science'–Abschluss in exotischen Auswüchsen wie "Fredholm Operatoren" oder "Steenrod Algebras"* bevor sie mit einem kurzen Jahr Pädagogie-Schnellbleiche auf die Jugend losgelassen wird. A bad joke? – Nada!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://formasciences.epfl.ch/webdav/site/formasciences/shared/scisla-teoria.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 220px; height: 160px;" src="http://formasciences.epfl.ch/webdav/site/formasciences/shared/scisla-teoria.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;The world class university that I am currently attending regards it (with good reasons) as sufficient to put a PhD-Student (donc un étudiant qui n'a obtenu que son titre de bachelor) in charge of a Calculus class for Architecture freshmen, but the average Swiss high school requires a 'Master of Science' to teach the basics of vector addition. Hat da irgendjemand ein Problem mit Selbstüberschätzung?!&lt;br /&gt;Mais bon, bref: L'epfl n'offre plus de 'Master en sciences pour l'enseignement' et je ne vais pas me taper une année de PLUS qu'un futur manager de Wall Street pour me battre avec des ados (ou peut-être si, mais mon altruisme aura 18 mois de plus à grandir :)). Bleibt eine wesentliche Frage:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"Master of Mathematics oder Master en ingénierie mathématique?"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;(Kein Wunder, sind so viele Mathematiker als Philosophen bekannt geworden – bei all den weltbewegenden Fragen, auf die man an einem Montagnachmittag stösst.) Und da habe ich mich dann eben mal ein bisschen schlau gemacht, schliesslich möchte ich meine Frühlingskurse ja nicht nächstes Jahr wiederholen müssen. And what did I see?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"&gt;&gt; Master of Mathematics&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Surfaces minimales, Géométrie riemannienne, Algebraic topology, Mouvement Brownien (you can't eat it though), Introduction to Coding Theory.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"&gt;&gt; Master en ingénierie mathématique:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Monte Carlo Methods (though there is no circus involved), Modèles linéaires et plans d'expérience, Modélisation mathématique du comportement, Graphes et Réseaux, Mathematical modelling of DNA.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ich hatte einen orangen Leuchtstift in der Hand, um interessante Kurse farblich hervorzuheben, aber die 'pure Mathematik'-Seite ist erschreckend leer geblieben. Ist mein Wissensdurst nach Partiellen Differentialgleichungen etwa schon gestillt? Does my heart not thirst for more personalized theorems whose proof takes more than a week worth of classes? Qu'est-ce qui m'est arrivé??&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mais alors... a girl's gotta take her choices... zwar bin ich immer noch keine Ingenieurin (π ist nun mal nicht 3.14) – aber den Master werde ich auf der "angewandten" Seite verbringen.. und in zwei Jahren (hopefully) den fancy Titel eines "&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"&gt;Master of mathematical sciences&lt;/span&gt;" (ingénierie mathématique) in meinen Händen halten.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;– Sorry, Shahin.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* Kei Sorge, Papi, ich verstohns au nöd. :)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7674530809360935127-1857035537259674349?l=ittenrice.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ittenrice.blogspot.com/feeds/1857035537259674349/comments/default' title='Kommentare zum Post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7674530809360935127&amp;postID=1857035537259674349' title='3 Kommentare'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7674530809360935127/posts/default/1857035537259674349'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7674530809360935127/posts/default/1857035537259674349'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ittenrice.blogspot.com/2007/11/sorry-shahin.html' title='Sorry, Shahin.'/><author><name>Michèle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06982347468023525064</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_SDTuQOLagrk/RlqkITxoc0I/AAAAAAAAAdw/BN9wQyBJnVQ/s320/DSC00055.JPG'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674530809360935127.post-4892423846534469971</id><published>2007-11-02T18:13:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-11-02T18:41:05.547-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='english'/><title type='text'>Reading highlights</title><content type='html'>The biggest academic change in crossing the atlantic ocean (and my sweetheart will testify) is the amount of reading to do. And given that a fourth of my exchange year is already gone, I thought I might as well make a little collection of the most outstanding tidbits of American college literature (I added in brackets the names of the class):&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&gt; The &lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;saddest&lt;/span&gt; thing ('Design of Educational Games') – Ian Bogost explains why the computer game 'Animal Crossing' is so cool:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;"The whole family shares a single GameCube, so the game's persistent state fascilitates natural collaboration between family members with different schedules. For example, a child might find a fossil during the afternoon, then mail it to her father's character in the game. At bedtime, she could let dad know that she needs to have it analyzed at the central museum so she can take it to the local gallery the next day. As critics Kurt Squire and Henry Jenkins wrote of the game, 'Families (of all types) live increasingly disjointed lives, but the whole family can play &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Animal Crossing&lt;/span&gt; even if they can rarely all sit down to dinner together. When families do gather, the game offers common points of reference and common projects to discuss.'"&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&gt; Some &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 0);"&gt;general culture &lt;/span&gt;for y'all (Productions- and Operations Management)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;"Bow ties have been around for more than 300 years, their origin traceable, as one story goes, to the court of Louis XIV of France in the 1600s. The King noticed a company of Croatian soldiers who wore white-silk kerchiefs around their necks. The King apparently loved the look, and appeared at court shortly thereafter with the white kerchief plus some lace and embroidery to heighten the effect, along with a small bow in front to finish it off.&lt;br /&gt;Originally, the Corats had wrapped their necks as a charm to guard the area against sword swipes. 'Cravats' comes from the French &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;cravates&lt;/span&gt;, which referred to the Croatian soldiers."&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&gt; Incredibly &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 0);"&gt;useful &lt;/span&gt;(Logic I) – life would be hard without this:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;"p ⋁ p ⊃ p"&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 0);"&gt;Tonight's program&lt;/span&gt; (Measure and Integration) – not my passion:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;"Let X=[0,1] with the Lebesgue measure and let u&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;n&lt;/span&gt;(x) := sin(πnx), forall x∈[0,1].&lt;br /&gt;a) Show that {u&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;n&lt;/span&gt;} is equi-integrable.&lt;br /&gt;b) For every rational r∈[0,1], find liminf (n→∞) sin(πnr), limsup (n→∞) sin(πnr).&lt;br /&gt;c) For every irrational x∈[0,1], find liminf (n→∞) sin(πnx), limsup (n→∞) sin(πnx).&lt;br /&gt;d) Prove that {u&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;n&lt;/span&gt;} converges weakly to yero in L&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;p&lt;/span&gt;([0,1]) for any 1≤p&lt;∞, and weakly star to zero in L&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;∞&lt;/span&gt;([0,1])."&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7674530809360935127-4892423846534469971?l=ittenrice.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ittenrice.blogspot.com/feeds/4892423846534469971/comments/default' title='Kommentare zum Post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7674530809360935127&amp;postID=4892423846534469971' title='4 Kommentare'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7674530809360935127/posts/default/4892423846534469971'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7674530809360935127/posts/default/4892423846534469971'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ittenrice.blogspot.com/2007/11/reading-highlights.html' title='Reading highlights'/><author><name>Michèle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06982347468023525064</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_SDTuQOLagrk/RlqkITxoc0I/AAAAAAAAAdw/BN9wQyBJnVQ/s320/DSC00055.JPG'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674530809360935127.post-5854891092506726363</id><published>2007-10-15T20:16:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-12-13T04:59:49.057-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='deutsch'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='english'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='français'/><title type='text'>My 21st Birthday</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SDTuQOLagrk/RxQFwIN992I/AAAAAAAABVI/S54FcRXLZNE/s1600-h/girl_getty.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 409px; height: 282px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SDTuQOLagrk/RxQFwIN992I/AAAAAAAABVI/S54FcRXLZNE/s200/girl_getty.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5121725000625026914" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nein, das dann eben doch nicht. That's for weak beginners. Ce qu'on n'est pas, nous, évidemment. Im Gegenteil, nous, on est des amateurs des VRAIES sensations fortes:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SDTuQOLagrk/RxQL0IN993I/AAAAAAAABVQ/Ck8DyCvbWLY/s1600-h/DSC00752.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SDTuQOLagrk/RxQL0IN993I/AAAAAAAABVQ/Ck8DyCvbWLY/s320/DSC00752.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5121731666414270322" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SDTuQOLagrk/RxQMSYN995I/AAAAAAAABVg/8i5P5zBI-h4/s1600-h/DSC02363.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SDTuQOLagrk/RxQMSYN995I/AAAAAAAABVg/8i5P5zBI-h4/s320/DSC02363.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5121732186105313170" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SDTuQOLagrk/RxQMJ4N994I/AAAAAAAABVY/T1UdwolwX_U/s1600-h/DSC00761.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SDTuQOLagrk/RxQMJ4N994I/AAAAAAAABVY/T1UdwolwX_U/s320/DSC00761.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5121732040076425090" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;More pictures to come.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7674530809360935127-5854891092506726363?l=ittenrice.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ittenrice.blogspot.com/feeds/5854891092506726363/comments/default' title='Kommentare zum Post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7674530809360935127&amp;postID=5854891092506726363' title='5 Kommentare'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7674530809360935127/posts/default/5854891092506726363'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7674530809360935127/posts/default/5854891092506726363'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ittenrice.blogspot.com/2007/10/my-21st-birthday.html' title='My 21st Birthday'/><author><name>Michèle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06982347468023525064</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_SDTuQOLagrk/RlqkITxoc0I/AAAAAAAAAdw/BN9wQyBJnVQ/s320/DSC00055.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SDTuQOLagrk/RxQFwIN992I/AAAAAAAABVI/S54FcRXLZNE/s72-c/girl_getty.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674530809360935127.post-7940882119663023742</id><published>2007-10-04T18:33:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2008-12-13T04:59:49.631-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='deutsch'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='english'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='français'/><title type='text'>Enough of this</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Genug von dem /Assez de ca:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SDTuQOLagrk/RwVqdYN990I/AAAAAAAABU4/ZCIgp3X6Q5w/s1600-h/Picture+6.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 187px; height: 151px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SDTuQOLagrk/RwVqdYN990I/AAAAAAAABU4/ZCIgp3X6Q5w/s200/Picture+6.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5117613604526225218" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;... and of this / und von dem / et de ca:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SDTuQOLagrk/RwVss4N991I/AAAAAAAABVA/5kDhm9n9k0M/s1600-h/kiss.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SDTuQOLagrk/RwVss4N991I/AAAAAAAABVA/5kDhm9n9k0M/s200/kiss.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5117616069837453138" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mon cheri vient a Pittsburgh! No sechs mol schlofe! I cannot wait!!!!!!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7674530809360935127-7940882119663023742?l=ittenrice.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ittenrice.blogspot.com/feeds/7940882119663023742/comments/default' title='Kommentare zum Post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7674530809360935127&amp;postID=7940882119663023742' title='5 Kommentare'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7674530809360935127/posts/default/7940882119663023742'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7674530809360935127/posts/default/7940882119663023742'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ittenrice.blogspot.com/2007/10/enough-of-this.html' title='Enough of this'/><author><name>Michèle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06982347468023525064</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_SDTuQOLagrk/RlqkITxoc0I/AAAAAAAAAdw/BN9wQyBJnVQ/s320/DSC00055.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SDTuQOLagrk/RwVqdYN990I/AAAAAAAABU4/ZCIgp3X6Q5w/s72-c/Picture+6.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674530809360935127.post-2064778992014781587</id><published>2007-09-22T16:16:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-09-22T16:36:21.933-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='français'/><title type='text'>symptômes de sevrage</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.rivella.at/rivella-fl-100cl-d.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 77px; height: 102px;" src="http://www.rivella.at/rivella-fl-100cl-d.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Certains menus sont préparés des jours en avance, mon premier repas en Suisse est déterminé sept mois (!) avant sa réalisation: Mais qu'est-ce que ça fait du bien de rêver!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(J'écris en français parce que ça ne sera pas une pomme et je ne sais pas si mes chers amis thurgoviens digèrent ça trop bien...) Et oui, EVIDEMMENT, je vais m'acheter un gros grand Rivella rouge (la seule vraie couleur), mais aussi, &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.buendnerbeck.ch/Brot.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 113px; height: 148px;" src="http://www.buendnerbeck.ch/Brot.JPG" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;et cela j'ai décidé cette semaine après des recherches dans presque toute la ville de Pittsburgh: Il n'y a que les Européens qui savent faire du vrai pain. Ici on n'achète que du pain "sans risque" – c'est magique, mais après trois semaines à l'air, ce pain n'est toujours pas dur! Et quelle grand moment de solitude quand tu parles de te souci à une étudiante qui te répond: 'Attends... le pain n'est pas sensé être doux?!' PAS APRÈS UN MOIS!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bon, bref, j'ai pris mon destin dans mes propres mains et ce soir j'aurais mon propre pain croustillant (on espère) – si seulement l'alarme de feu ne se mettait pas en marche chaque fois que j'utilise le four!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/CRv9wQiaJ7c"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/CRv9wQiaJ7c" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFePwrPqplY"&gt;deutsche version&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7674530809360935127-2064778992014781587?l=ittenrice.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ittenrice.blogspot.com/feeds/2064778992014781587/comments/default' title='Kommentare zum Post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7674530809360935127&amp;postID=2064778992014781587' title='2 Kommentare'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7674530809360935127/posts/default/2064778992014781587'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7674530809360935127/posts/default/2064778992014781587'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ittenrice.blogspot.com/2007/09/symptmes-de-sevrage.html' title='symptômes de sevrage'/><author><name>Michèle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06982347468023525064</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_SDTuQOLagrk/RlqkITxoc0I/AAAAAAAAAdw/BN9wQyBJnVQ/s320/DSC00055.JPG'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674530809360935127.post-868622812969251427</id><published>2007-09-19T17:35:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-12-13T04:59:49.783-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='deutsch'/><title type='text'>Extravaganz</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" &gt;Beförderung zur Unternehmensberaterin&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SDTuQOLagrk/Rur--rtEBII/AAAAAAAABNY/Snpw3iR5FXI/s1600-h/DSC00647.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 116px; height: 241px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SDTuQOLagrk/Rur--rtEBII/AAAAAAAABNY/Snpw3iR5FXI/s200/DSC00647.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5110177080042325122" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Unverhofft kommt oft! - Für ihr epfl Diplom als 'Bachelor of Mathematics' Ende des Schuljahres muss Mademoiselle nun jedes Semester eine Projektarbeit durchführen. En gros bedeutet das rund 12 Stunden Recherche/Forschung/Analyse/Meetings pro Woche während den 15 Semesterwochen (eh oui, on bosse une semaine entière de plus ici, c'est grave!). Und auch wenn yours truly momentan im unabhängigen Amerika umhergeistert, befindet sie sich akademisch gesehen immer noch unter Lausanner Hoheit. (Lies: Michèle braucht einen Professor, der ihr Arbeit gibt. Viel Arbeit, und eine Unterschrift am Schluss.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, hier an der CMU machen das Leute meines Alters und Ausbildungsgrades ;) normalerweise nicht in diesem Ausmass. Und deshalb darf (sprich: muss) Klein Michèle nun direkt mit Professoren in Kontakt treten, Forschungslabos auf dem Internet aufspüren und in unzähligen Emails möglichst interessant und arbeitswillig klingen. Hat Miss Itten alles versucht, und klopfenden Herzens auch mit vier Professoren gesprochen - doch Arbeit hatte niemand für sie. An diesem Zeitpunkt ist das Semester aber schon in seiner zweiten Woche und Michèle sieht nicht wirklich einen leeren Tag in ihrem Stundenplan, wo sie 24 Stunden Projekt nachholen könnte. Und so schreibt sie noch einmal emails, betet weiterhin und erwägt gar schon, Ingenieur-Wissenschaften zu kontaktieren. (...)&lt;br /&gt;Glücklicherweise hat Michèle Marc, der baut sie wieder ein bisschen auf. Auch ihr Bruder Patrick macht ihr Mut mit dem beeindruckenden Werdegang seiner eigenen Bachelor-Arbeit. Aber insgeheim fürchtet sie immer noch, am Ende werde sie ein Problem lösen, das extra für sie erfunden wurde (und was ist daran schon begeisternd...).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mais finalement - ist auch dies ein Bericht, wie Gott Gebete erhört; und wie er dabei eine Extravaganz an den Tag legt, die ihm eigen ist. Nach einer weiteren herben Enttäuschung (der Professor, der ihr beinahe zugesagt hat betreut nun statt dessen das Projekt ihrer epfl-Kollegin...), Michèle erhält am Dienstagabend ein Email von &lt;a href="http://www.smartops.com/"&gt;SmartOps&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.smartops.com/images/logo-smartops-header.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 157px; height: 48px;" src="http://www.smartops.com/images/logo-smartops-header.gif" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, mit dem Auftrag, am darauffolgenden Tag eine bestimmte Nummer zu wählen. Heute, ein gemeinsames Mittagessen und einen Geheimhaltungsvertrag später schreibe ich dieses Update als 'Consultant' der Marktführer in 'enterprise-class inventory optimization solutions' (d'après eux), komplett mit eigenem Büro-bereich in Downtown Pittsburgh, am Ohio-River und vis-à-vis vom Baseballstadium. Beim Projekt handelt es sich um Supply-Chain Management, was so sehr RechOp ist wie ich es mir stets gewünscht habe. Meine Vorgesetzte ist eine sehr sympatische Kanadierin, die sich jedes Mal mindestens eine Stunde Zeit nimmt, mich in das Projekt einzuführen. Anstatt staubige Bücher zu lesen, lerne ich ein Unternehmen von innen kennen, merke endlich, dass Mathematiker nützlich sind (!) und gewinne ganz nebenbei einen tollen Eintrag in meinem Lebenslauf! :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nun das ist wirklich nicht selbstverständlich. Do I hear anybody say HALLELUJA?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7674530809360935127-868622812969251427?l=ittenrice.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ittenrice.blogspot.com/feeds/868622812969251427/comments/default' title='Kommentare zum Post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7674530809360935127&amp;postID=868622812969251427' title='10 Kommentare'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7674530809360935127/posts/default/868622812969251427'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7674530809360935127/posts/default/868622812969251427'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ittenrice.blogspot.com/2007/09/extravaganz.html' title='Extravaganz'/><author><name>Michèle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06982347468023525064</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_SDTuQOLagrk/RlqkITxoc0I/AAAAAAAAAdw/BN9wQyBJnVQ/s320/DSC00055.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SDTuQOLagrk/Rur--rtEBII/AAAAAAAABNY/Snpw3iR5FXI/s72-c/DSC00647.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>10</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674530809360935127.post-3774307974317220301</id><published>2007-09-15T20:53:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2007-09-15T21:00:32.986-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='deutsch'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='english'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='français'/><title type='text'>Long overdue pictures</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;(click on the pictures to open the corresponding album)&lt;br /&gt;(clique sur les photos pour ouvrir les album correspondants)&lt;br /&gt;(klick auf die Fotos um zu den zugehörigen Alben zu gelangen)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table style="width: 194px; text-align: left; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="background: transparent url(http://picasaweb.google.com/f/img/transparent_album_background.gif) no-repeat scroll left center; height: 194px; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/michele.itten/DowntownPittsburgh"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh4.google.co.uk/michele.itten/RuX7Kc3eznE/AAAAAAAABRY/XMXflNpOHMM/s160-c/DowntownPittsburgh.jpg" style="margin: 1px 0pt 0pt 4px;" height="160" width="160" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/michele.itten/DowntownPittsburgh" style="color: rgb(77, 77, 77); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"&gt;downtown Pittsburgh&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table style="width: 194px; text-align: left; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="background: transparent url(http://picasaweb.google.com/f/img/transparent_album_background.gif) no-repeat scroll left center; height: 194px; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/michele.itten/MathClubThePiratesGame"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh6.google.co.uk/michele.itten/RuX6p83ezlE/AAAAAAAABQA/1gmkTj9Cjro/s160-c/MathClubThePiratesGame.jpg" style="margin: 1px 0pt 0pt 4px;" height="160" width="160" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/michele.itten/MathClubThePiratesGame" style="color: rgb(77, 77, 77); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"&gt;CMU Math Club @ the Pirates Game&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table style="width: 194px; text-align: left; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="background: transparent url(http://picasaweb.google.com/f/img/transparent_album_background.gif) no-repeat scroll left center; height: 194px; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/michele.itten/NathanPittsburgh"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh6.google.co.uk/michele.itten/RuX1983ezGE/AAAAAAAABPY/jJKs9AI2-1M/s160-c/NathanPittsburgh.jpg" style="margin: 1px 0pt 0pt 4px;" height="160" width="160" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/michele.itten/NathanPittsburgh" style="color: rgb(77, 77, 77); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"&gt;Nathan in Pittsburgh&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table style="width: 194px; text-align: left; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="background: transparent url(http://picasaweb.google.com/f/img/transparent_album_background.gif) no-repeat scroll left center; height: 194px; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/michele.itten/SaturdayMorningMarket"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh5.google.co.uk/michele.itten/RuX3Cs3ezOE/AAAAAAAABGw/24uVvfxuxro/s160-c/SaturdayMorningMarket.jpg" style="margin: 1px 0pt 0pt 4px;" height="160" width="160" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/michele.itten/SaturdayMorningMarket" style="color: rgb(77, 77, 77); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"&gt;Saturday Morning Market&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table style="width: 194px; text-align: left; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="background: transparent url(http://picasaweb.google.com/f/img/transparent_album_background.gif) no-repeat scroll left center; height: 194px; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/michele.itten/ApartmentInPittsburgh"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh4.google.co.uk/michele.itten/RuX4Lc3ezZE/AAAAAAAABIM/_PP1iqOqOHQ/s160-c/ApartmentInPittsburgh.jpg" style="margin: 1px 0pt 0pt 4px;" height="160" width="160" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/michele.itten/ApartmentInPittsburgh" style="color: rgb(77, 77, 77); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"&gt;my apartment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7674530809360935127-3774307974317220301?l=ittenrice.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ittenrice.blogspot.com/feeds/3774307974317220301/comments/default' title='Kommentare zum Post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7674530809360935127&amp;postID=3774307974317220301' title='3 Kommentare'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7674530809360935127/posts/default/3774307974317220301'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7674530809360935127/posts/default/3774307974317220301'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ittenrice.blogspot.com/2007/09/skyline-that-is.html' title='Long overdue pictures'/><author><name>Michèle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06982347468023525064</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_SDTuQOLagrk/RlqkITxoc0I/AAAAAAAAAdw/BN9wQyBJnVQ/s320/DSC00055.JPG'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674530809360935127.post-8679335813257874649</id><published>2007-09-13T21:12:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-12-13T04:59:50.114-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='deutsch'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='english'/><title type='text'>Can't take the Swiss out of her</title><content type='html'>So since all of you Americans know about facebook, let me give a brief introduction in German (I'll come back to you) :&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ihr lieben schweizer Studenten, Tina, Dani, Patrick, Miriam, Philipp, Simone, Corina, Irene, DJBurns, Rainer, ... selbst wenn ihr aus dem Ostschweizer Farmland kommt, würde es mich sehr freuen, euch bald auf &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/"&gt;www.facebook.com&lt;/a&gt; begrüssen zu dürfen! Nebst einem einfachen Weg des In-Kontakt-Bleibens bietet diese Seite &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SDTuQOLagrk/RunlVrtEBHI/AAAAAAAABNQ/_7S7PtccM-E/s1600-h/Picture+1.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 142px; height: 142px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SDTuQOLagrk/RunlVrtEBHI/AAAAAAAABNQ/_7S7PtccM-E/s320/Picture+1.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5109867412900283506" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;nämlich auch einige Selbsterfahrungs-Features: So fühle ich mich gerade unglaublich verstanden, habe ich doch soeben diese beiden Gruppen &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;You know you're Swiss when..&lt;/span&gt;"&lt;/span&gt; und &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;You know you've been living in (German Speaking) Switzerland too long when…&lt;/span&gt;"&lt;/span&gt; entdeckt, mit Aussagen wie:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&gt; you love Migros and you swear that some of their products are better than anything you've ever seen elsewhere&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&gt; you have ever been asked who the president of Switzerland is and then failed miserably trying to explain why you've lost track&lt;br /&gt;&gt; you laugh when Americans believe that Swiss Miss is a Swiss product, but then have no clue that Nestlé and Rolex ARE&lt;br /&gt;&gt; you get amused when you see Swiss German people being subtitled on German television&lt;br /&gt;&gt; you have learned three to four languages and think this is completely normal&lt;br /&gt;&gt; you walked to kindergarten without supervision, wearing a large orange triangle around your neck&lt;br /&gt;&gt; when you are asked to explain how certain things work in your country, you have to use the phrase "it differs for each canton, so..."&lt;br /&gt;&gt; you are used to drinking from any public fountain in the street unless there is a warning sign that says "no drinking water"&lt;br /&gt;&gt; you think that driving somewhere for four hours is a hell of a long time&lt;br /&gt;&gt; you are in a non-European country and can hear people talking Swiss German and just go up and strike up a conversation with a complete stranger &lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;(I did that in Uganda! :))&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&gt; you think it's fair that you can only wash clothes once a month&lt;br /&gt;&gt; you prefer plain chocolate to candy bars&lt;br /&gt;&gt; you put Aromat on all your food&lt;br /&gt;&gt; you love Migros Budget&lt;br /&gt;&gt; you prefer Swiss wine&lt;br /&gt;&gt; you don't feel embarrassed when you order something non-alcoholic in a bar&lt;br /&gt;&gt; you only eat fondue in winter &lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;(Chéri, DTSers: It is there, in the Swiss German section! I knew it!!)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&gt; you know the words to the Swiss national anthem&lt;br /&gt;&gt; you wonder why anyone would want to shop outside of working hours&lt;br /&gt;&gt; you say Grüezi to everyone, and consider it impolite when they don't say it back&lt;br /&gt;&gt; you call your cell phone "handy" and a projector "beamer" &lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;(I never thought about that.. we're actually strange.)&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&gt; you think that air conditioning makes people sick&lt;br /&gt;&gt; you think that Sunday should be a day of rest&lt;br /&gt;&gt; you read this far.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oh Thurgau, du Heimat.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7674530809360935127-8679335813257874649?l=ittenrice.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ittenrice.blogspot.com/feeds/8679335813257874649/comments/default' title='Kommentare zum Post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7674530809360935127&amp;postID=8679335813257874649' title='12 Kommentare'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7674530809360935127/posts/default/8679335813257874649'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7674530809360935127/posts/default/8679335813257874649'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ittenrice.blogspot.com/2007/09/cant-take-swiss-out-of-her.html' title='Can&apos;t take the Swiss out of her'/><author><name>Michèle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06982347468023525064</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_SDTuQOLagrk/RlqkITxoc0I/AAAAAAAAAdw/BN9wQyBJnVQ/s320/DSC00055.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SDTuQOLagrk/RunlVrtEBHI/AAAAAAAABNQ/_7S7PtccM-E/s72-c/Picture+1.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>12</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674530809360935127.post-8961163165893849225</id><published>2007-09-04T21:22:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-09-04T21:25:11.868-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='english'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='français'/><title type='text'>Pour rechauffer ces coeurs de geek</title><content type='html'>dédié à vous, mes chers amis epfliens :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/UTby_e4-Rhg"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/UTby_e4-Rhg" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Et le deuxième pour ma meilleure soeur Tina: Les geeks savent danser, eux aussi!! :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/H78H6-fDfVE"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/H78H6-fDfVE" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7674530809360935127-8961163165893849225?l=ittenrice.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ittenrice.blogspot.com/feeds/8961163165893849225/comments/default' title='Kommentare zum Post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7674530809360935127&amp;postID=8961163165893849225' title='2 Kommentare'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7674530809360935127/posts/default/8961163165893849225'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7674530809360935127/posts/default/8961163165893849225'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ittenrice.blogspot.com/2007/09/pour-rechauffer-ces-coeurs-de-geek.html' title='Pour rechauffer ces coeurs de geek'/><author><name>Michèle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06982347468023525064</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_SDTuQOLagrk/RlqkITxoc0I/AAAAAAAAAdw/BN9wQyBJnVQ/s320/DSC00055.JPG'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674530809360935127.post-1155156566114457556</id><published>2007-08-24T20:58:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2007-08-24T23:16:05.279-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='english'/><title type='text'>1001 shopping bags</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.fotosearch.com/comp/BCP/BCP134/BCP034-04.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 133px; height: 85px;" src="http://www.fotosearch.com/comp/BCP/BCP134/BCP034-04.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;America, why do you ...&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;... pack my groceries into 15 bags when the homo sapiens only has two hands?&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;... put your air conditioning to a temperature that requires a jacket, making me leave the house EVERY time in long pants and come back all sweaty?&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;... think it strange to encounter a dark haired Swiss?&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;... put a bus schedule up when the public transport system is as reliable as Uganda's?&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;... need 20 different kinds of milk?&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;... call your meal sizes 'regular', 'large' and 'xtra large' ?&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;... jog in the midday heat, and take your air conditioned car to get your groceries?&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;... make a cheese and call it 'Swiss' ?&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;America, I love being here. Thank you for the smiling faces, thank you for the bus drivers who respond my 'Thank you''s, thank you for the richness of culture you offer, thank you for how quickly help is offered. Thank you for being different, thank you for stretching me.&lt;br /&gt;I am looking forward to getting to know you.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7674530809360935127-1155156566114457556?l=ittenrice.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ittenrice.blogspot.com/feeds/1155156566114457556/comments/default' title='Kommentare zum Post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7674530809360935127&amp;postID=1155156566114457556' title='8 Kommentare'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7674530809360935127/posts/default/1155156566114457556'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7674530809360935127/posts/default/1155156566114457556'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ittenrice.blogspot.com/2007/08/1001-shopping-bags.html' title='1001 shopping bags'/><author><name>Michèle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06982347468023525064</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_SDTuQOLagrk/RlqkITxoc0I/AAAAAAAAAdw/BN9wQyBJnVQ/s320/DSC00055.JPG'/></author><thr:total>8</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674530809360935127.post-2251471177589009157</id><published>2007-08-12T23:23:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-08-12T23:24:17.721-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='deutsch'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='english'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='français'/><title type='text'>The blessing that is...</title><content type='html'>&lt;table style="width: 194px;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="background: transparent url(http://picasaweb.google.com/f/img/transparent_album_background.gif) no-repeat scroll left center; height: 194px; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/michele.itten/ChezMolly"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh3.google.co.uk/michele.itten/Rr_CpyuRW4E/AAAAAAAAA_c/54wrsRXpFq4/s160-c/ChezMolly.jpg" style="margin: 1px 0pt 0pt 4px;" height="160" width="160" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/michele.itten/ChezMolly" style="color: rgb(77, 77, 77); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"&gt;a week with Molly&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7674530809360935127-2251471177589009157?l=ittenrice.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ittenrice.blogspot.com/feeds/2251471177589009157/comments/default' title='Kommentare zum Post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7674530809360935127&amp;postID=2251471177589009157' title='0 Kommentare'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7674530809360935127/posts/default/2251471177589009157'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7674530809360935127/posts/default/2251471177589009157'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ittenrice.blogspot.com/2007/08/blessing-that-is.html' title='The blessing that is...'/><author><name>Michèle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06982347468023525064</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_SDTuQOLagrk/RlqkITxoc0I/AAAAAAAAAdw/BN9wQyBJnVQ/s320/DSC00055.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674530809360935127.post-9170580444074829207</id><published>2007-08-05T23:29:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-08-05T22:36:12.442-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='english'/><title type='text'>America is ...</title><content type='html'>... just like Africa.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://news.uns.purdue.edu/UNS/images/cain.billboard.jpeg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://news.uns.purdue.edu/UNS/images/cain.billboard.jpeg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;(This is my own theory, but) seriously, it's true. That's what hits you as you get off the plane. The red dirt, the intense heat, the long straight streets, the huge &lt;a href="http://news.uns.purdue.edu/UNS/images/cain.billboard.jpeg"&gt;billboards&lt;/a&gt; on each side of it – little 'hello's' from &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kampala"&gt;Kampala&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;I mean, I don't care if I'm supposed to interpret these facts as an 'Americanization' of precious Africa, but I saw them first near Lake Victoria, and it's forever gonna remind me of that beautiful piece of planet.&lt;br /&gt;God bless Africa.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7674530809360935127-9170580444074829207?l=ittenrice.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ittenrice.blogspot.com/feeds/9170580444074829207/comments/default' title='Kommentare zum Post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' 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style="margin:1px 0 0 4px;"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align:center;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:11px"&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/michele.itten/AtlantaGeorgia" style="color:#4D4D4D;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Atlanta, Georgia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7674530809360935127-3798193368621191946?l=ittenrice.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ittenrice.blogspot.com/feeds/3798193368621191946/comments/default' title='Kommentare zum Post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7674530809360935127&amp;postID=3798193368621191946' title='0 Kommentare'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7674530809360935127/posts/default/3798193368621191946'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7674530809360935127/posts/default/3798193368621191946'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ittenrice.blogspot.com/2007/08/experience-that-is.html' title='The experience that is...'/><author><name>Michèle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06982347468023525064</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_SDTuQOLagrk/RlqkITxoc0I/AAAAAAAAAdw/BN9wQyBJnVQ/s320/DSC00055.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674530809360935127.post-3675841601243680384</id><published>2007-08-04T08:04:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-08-04T08:21:47.223-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='deutsch'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='english'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='français'/><title type='text'>Challenge of the day</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/michele.itten/Various/photo?authkey=4LcvIW4Co-w#5094817643220784786"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh5.google.co.uk/michele.itten/RrRtpyuRVpI/AAAAAAAAAqA/0oFr691GveM/s144/moerderschuh.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;100 m catwalk down the aisle/Kirchengang/couloir,&lt;br /&gt;45 min upright/stehend/debout,&lt;br /&gt;200 spectators/Zuschauer/spectateurs.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7674530809360935127-3675841601243680384?l=ittenrice.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ittenrice.blogspot.com/feeds/3675841601243680384/comments/default' title='Kommentare zum Post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7674530809360935127&amp;postID=3675841601243680384' title='3 Kommentare'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7674530809360935127/posts/default/3675841601243680384'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7674530809360935127/posts/default/3675841601243680384'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ittenrice.blogspot.com/2007/08/challenge-of-day.html' title='Challenge of the day'/><author><name>Michèle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06982347468023525064</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_SDTuQOLagrk/RlqkITxoc0I/AAAAAAAAAdw/BN9wQyBJnVQ/s320/DSC00055.JPG'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674530809360935127.post-4634408118559977527</id><published>2007-08-02T22:36:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-08-03T13:38:57.705-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='deutsch'/><title type='text'>Mitternachtssonne</title><content type='html'>Acht Uhr zwölf bläut mir ein überdimensionierter amerikanischer Wecker ein, währenddem sowohl mein Natel als auch meine teure Swatch noch treu die einzig wahre Uhrzeit verkünden: 02:12h. Und die Sonne scheint immer noch: Wo bin ich da gelandet??&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Für die Hochzeit meiner Freundin Emily bin ich hier in Atlanta gelandet, auf roter Erde die ursprünglich einem gewaltigem Wald angehören musste; seine 100-meter-breiten, gerodeten, kilometerlangen Hochspannungskorridore und seine Ansammlung an identischen Einfamilienhäusern mit Garage sind von weither sichtbar. – Ich habe noch nie in meinem Leben solch grosse Parkplätze gesehen!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nun bin ich also auf einem anderen Kontinent; nur langsam sinkt diese Erkenntnis ein. Stets bin ich versucht, überall jedermann auf Französisch anzusprechen. Beim Zwischenstopp in Toronto war das noch möglich, und doch hat auch dort das Luftbild bereits definitiv dieser neuen Welt angehört: Riesige Quartiere von Einfamilienhäusern, jedes (!) mit eigenem (!) Swimmingpool – das zu googeln ist wirklich ein Schmunzeln wert. Aber ich habe richtigen Apfelsaft gefunden! – Mein thurgauisches Herz ist glücklich.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hingegen habe ich eine Notiz an die Nachwelt festzuhalten: Es ist keine so schlaue Idee, sich in der Schlange vor der Einreisekontrolle mit einem "No Hurry in Africa" ("Keine Eile in Afrika")-Tshirt zu präsentieren, die Einladung zum Überholen wurde von zwei Mitfliegern nur zu gerne wahr genommen. :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Deshalb werde ich morgen stolz mein "I love CH"-Shirt tragen. Und auf eine bessere Internetverbindung hoffen.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7674530809360935127-4634408118559977527?l=ittenrice.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ittenrice.blogspot.com/feeds/4634408118559977527/comments/default' title='Kommentare zum Post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7674530809360935127&amp;postID=4634408118559977527' title='3 Kommentare'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7674530809360935127/posts/default/4634408118559977527'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7674530809360935127/posts/default/4634408118559977527'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ittenrice.blogspot.com/2007/08/mitternachtssonne.html' title='Mitternachtssonne'/><author><name>Michèle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06982347468023525064</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_SDTuQOLagrk/RlqkITxoc0I/AAAAAAAAAdw/BN9wQyBJnVQ/s320/DSC00055.JPG'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674530809360935127.post-4544078487165410230</id><published>2007-07-23T18:37:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-12-13T04:59:50.314-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='english'/><title type='text'>Overmathed</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;You know you've had too much algebra when ... &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; ... you dream that a friend was asking your advice about a boy. Before you answer, you try to relate – &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SDTuQOLagrk/RqUv5SuRVgI/AAAAAAAAApA/oGhYKRnSO64/s1600-h/Picture+1.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 149px; height: 64px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SDTuQOLagrk/RqUv5SuRVgI/AAAAAAAAApA/oGhYKRnSO64/s400/Picture+1.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5090527615137175042" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;you aim to make of your boyfriend a group, and wonder what you have to quotient him over to make him isomorphic to the guy of her interest.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7674530809360935127-4544078487165410230?l=ittenrice.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ittenrice.blogspot.com/feeds/4544078487165410230/comments/default' title='Kommentare zum Post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7674530809360935127&amp;postID=4544078487165410230' title='5 Kommentare'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7674530809360935127/posts/default/4544078487165410230'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7674530809360935127/posts/default/4544078487165410230'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ittenrice.blogspot.com/2007/07/overmathed.html' title='Overmathed'/><author><name>Michèle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06982347468023525064</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_SDTuQOLagrk/RlqkITxoc0I/AAAAAAAAAdw/BN9wQyBJnVQ/s320/DSC00055.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SDTuQOLagrk/RqUv5SuRVgI/AAAAAAAAApA/oGhYKRnSO64/s72-c/Picture+1.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674530809360935127.post-2237529626873864983</id><published>2007-07-10T14:41:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-12-13T04:59:50.649-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='deutsch'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='english'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='français'/><title type='text'>Mir isch drümmlig.</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SDTuQOLagrk/RpPTIbbn7FI/AAAAAAAAAhs/zBcLEjtybeY/s1600-h/Picture+1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SDTuQOLagrk/RpPTIbbn7FI/AAAAAAAAAhs/zBcLEjtybeY/s400/Picture+1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5085640545987456082" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;I'm dizzy.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7674530809360935127-2237529626873864983?l=ittenrice.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ittenrice.blogspot.com/feeds/2237529626873864983/comments/default' title='Kommentare zum Post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7674530809360935127&amp;postID=2237529626873864983' title='2 Kommentare'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7674530809360935127/posts/default/2237529626873864983'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7674530809360935127/posts/default/2237529626873864983'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ittenrice.blogspot.com/2007/07/mir-isch-drmmlig.html' title='Mir isch drümmlig.'/><author><name>Michèle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06982347468023525064</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_SDTuQOLagrk/RlqkITxoc0I/AAAAAAAAAdw/BN9wQyBJnVQ/s320/DSC00055.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SDTuQOLagrk/RpPTIbbn7FI/AAAAAAAAAhs/zBcLEjtybeY/s72-c/Picture+1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674530809360935127.post-766549682211621822</id><published>2007-06-15T04:00:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-06-15T04:45:56.564-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='deutsch'/><title type='text'>Die Mathematikerfalle</title><content type='html'>Wie fängt man dreissig aufstrebende Mathematiker auf einen Schlag?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;– Man locke sie unter dem Vorwand einer wöchentlichen Algebravorlesung ins  &lt;a href="http://plan.epfl.ch/index.html?room=cm15"&gt;CM5&lt;/a&gt;. Etwaigem Argwohn sollte mit ausreichend Übungsaufgaben vorgesort werden. Im munteren, leicht lärmigen Lernklima, das sich alsbald einstellt, kommt anschliessend der eigentliche Coup de Génie: Die innere Türklinke löst sich lautlos von ihrem äusseren Gegenteil und wenn sich die ersten hungrigen Denker aus dem Staub machen wollen, halten sie plötzlich ratlos die Klinke in der Hand. Sie werden sich wohl erst entrüstet zur Wehr setzen, zurückdrücken, mit Schere und Fingern und barer Kraft aus ihrem Gefängnis auszubrechen versuchen, doch schliesslich werden sie zugeben: Wir sind nun mal keine Ingenieure.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.historisches-seminar.uni-hd.de/aktuell/oeffng/Tuerklinke.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10pt 0px 0px; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 159px; height: 91px;" src="http://www.historisches-seminar.uni-hd.de/aktuell/oeffng/Tuerklinke.gif" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Für rund 10 Minuten funktioniert eine solche Taktik. Anschliessend haben die ersten Assistenten bereits den Hausdienst angerufen (welcher aber nicht gerade ein TGV ist..), andere kreative Geister einen Hilferuf auf ein A1-Poster notiert und unter der Türe durchgeschoben, die dritten sich einfach nur köstlich amüsiert und die vierten noch immer nichts von der ganzen Aufregung gemerkt (sie existieren noch, die tüchtigen Studenten, an denen die Mittagspause unbemerkt vorbeigeht).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Im Falle der Viertsemester-Mathematiker der EPFL, letzten Dienstag, war es schliesslich Strategie 2 (grossformatige Hilfsbotschaft), welche die Haft beendete.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wie so ein Studientag spannend tönt, wenn gebührlich auf dem Internet dokumentiert...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7674530809360935127-766549682211621822?l=ittenrice.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ittenrice.blogspot.com/feeds/766549682211621822/comments/default' title='Kommentare zum Post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7674530809360935127&amp;postID=766549682211621822' title='7 Kommentare'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7674530809360935127/posts/default/766549682211621822'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7674530809360935127/posts/default/766549682211621822'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ittenrice.blogspot.com/2007/06/die-mathematikerfalle.html' title='Die Mathematikerfalle'/><author><name>Michèle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06982347468023525064</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_SDTuQOLagrk/RlqkITxoc0I/AAAAAAAAAdw/BN9wQyBJnVQ/s320/DSC00055.JPG'/></author><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674530809360935127.post-2366263427605213227</id><published>2007-06-05T13:17:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-12-13T04:59:51.125-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='english'/><title type='text'>– Please not.</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SDTuQOLagrk/RmWbnL4_2NI/AAAAAAAAAfA/4-Rae_YwZsU/s1600-h/Picture+1.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 99px; height: 119px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SDTuQOLagrk/RmWbnL4_2NI/AAAAAAAAAfA/4-Rae_YwZsU/s400/Picture+1.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5072631652811790546" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Is it really possible that I interpret this right?! – I'm still in a state of shock, and of serious denial. It cannot be that I will spend each single day of the week at university this next year, it cannot ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Please tell me it's not true .. please ..&lt;br /&gt;.. - &lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;when should I live??&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SDTuQOLagrk/RmWbjb4_2MI/AAAAAAAAAe4/ElaUoDUesD8/s1600-h/Picture+3.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 395px; height: 59px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SDTuQOLagrk/RmWbjb4_2MI/AAAAAAAAAe4/ElaUoDUesD8/s400/Picture+3.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5072631588387281090" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7674530809360935127-2366263427605213227?l=ittenrice.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ittenrice.blogspot.com/feeds/2366263427605213227/comments/default' title='Kommentare zum Post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7674530809360935127&amp;postID=2366263427605213227' title='2 Kommentare'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7674530809360935127/posts/default/2366263427605213227'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7674530809360935127/posts/default/2366263427605213227'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ittenrice.blogspot.com/2007/06/please-not.html' title='– Please not.'/><author><name>Michèle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06982347468023525064</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_SDTuQOLagrk/RlqkITxoc0I/AAAAAAAAAdw/BN9wQyBJnVQ/s320/DSC00055.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SDTuQOLagrk/RmWbnL4_2NI/AAAAAAAAAfA/4-Rae_YwZsU/s72-c/Picture+1.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674530809360935127.post-4909535511940855588</id><published>2007-05-27T22:11:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-12-13T04:59:51.326-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='français'/><title type='text'>Midcele*</title><content type='html'>Commençons avec un flashback du Kenia:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SDTuQOLagrk/RlqmQjxoc2I/AAAAAAAAAd8/mRAo04hUGCs/s1600-h/10-Laurapreaching.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 192px; height: 144px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SDTuQOLagrk/RlqmQjxoc2I/AAAAAAAAAd8/mRAo04hUGCs/s200/10-Laurapreaching.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5069547133970445154" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Nous nous trouvons dans un orphelinat pas loin de la frontière ougandaise. Un Africain nous salue avec le grand sourire chaleureux, signe typique du pays. On se présente, on se serre la main – nous allons participer à leur culte ce matin. Puis le tour est à moi, et en anglais je réponds que je m'appelle Michèle. Il me salue, puis il me dit en anglais africain: "Very nice. Here we don't say Michèle," (&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;'quoi?! C'est un nom, monsieur, et vous n'avez pas à le prononcer différemment'&lt;/span&gt;, je pense pour moi-même,) "here we say Mee-che-leh; and it means rice."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Et voilà, comme ça c'est dit. :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Evidemment, après cette rencontre, c'était parti pour les jeux de mots sur mon nom. Le lecteur créative notera facilement que 'itten' ne ressemble pas mal à 'mangé' en anglais. Et 'Rice reist' y ajoute encore la troisième langue puisque 'reisen', on sait tous, n'est d'autre que le verbe allemand pour voyager.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Une fois tout ça dit, on pourrait en effet commencer ce blog.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;* dédié à mon ami imaginaire&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7674530809360935127-4909535511940855588?l=ittenrice.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ittenrice.blogspot.com/feeds/4909535511940855588/comments/default' title='Kommentare zum Post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7674530809360935127&amp;postID=4909535511940855588' title='2 Kommentare'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7674530809360935127/posts/default/4909535511940855588'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7674530809360935127/posts/default/4909535511940855588'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ittenrice.blogspot.com/2007/05/midcele.html' title='Midcele*'/><author><name>Michèle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06982347468023525064</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_SDTuQOLagrk/RlqkITxoc0I/AAAAAAAAAdw/BN9wQyBJnVQ/s320/DSC00055.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SDTuQOLagrk/RlqmQjxoc2I/AAAAAAAAAd8/mRAo04hUGCs/s72-c/10-Laurapreaching.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674530809360935127.post-7012116908907279157</id><published>2007-05-27T10:33:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-06-29T06:20:31.885-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='deutsch'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='english'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='français'/><title type='text'>La monstre frime</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.flags.net/images/largeflags/GERM0001.GIF"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 91px; height: 55px;" src="http://www.flags.net/images/largeflags/GERM0001.GIF" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Endlich ist es soweit und intensives multilinguales Training eröffnet mir den Horizont zur grössten Aufschneiderei des Jahres: Eine dreisprachige Internetseite! :) Um auch während meinem Amerikaaufenthalt schweizerisch neutral zu bleiben, werde ich zukünftig meine News abwechslungsweise in Deutsch, Französisch und Englisch verfassen. Obwohl; ich kann nicht leugnen, dass ein Übermass an - sagen wir - deutschen Kommentaren ein  schlagkräftiges Argument für die Sprache Goethe's wäre .........&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;An die Tasten, fertig los! ;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.flags.net/images/largeflags/FRAN0001.GIF"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 91px; height: 55px;" src="http://www.flags.net/images/largeflags/FRAN0001.GIF" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Finalement, le jour est là où je réalise la monstre frime, anticipée pendant des années – un site trilinguel! :) Pour rester helvétiquement neutre pendant mon échange aux Etats-Unis, je vais parler de mes découvertes en français, allemand et anglais tour à tour. Bien que; je ne peux pas nier qu'un excès de commentaires -&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt; disons -&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;en &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;français me motiverait à fond pour la langue de Molière ..........&lt;br /&gt;Alors tous mes romands germanophobes: Débrouillez-vous! ;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.flags.net/images/largeflags/UNKG0001.GIF"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 91px; height: 55px;" src="http://www.flags.net/images/largeflags/UNKG0001.GIF" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;Years of intensive language and people study finally offer me an excuse for this massive bragging: A trilingual blog! :) In order to stay helvetiqually neutral during my time in the States, I'm going to write my news alternately in English, German and French. Even though; I cannot deny that an excess of - let's say - English comments would be a valuable argument in favour of Shakespeare's language ..........&lt;br /&gt;It's in your hands! ;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7674530809360935127-7012116908907279157?l=ittenrice.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ittenrice.blogspot.com/feeds/7012116908907279157/comments/default' title='Kommentare zum Post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7674530809360935127&amp;postID=7012116908907279157' title='4 Kommentare'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7674530809360935127/posts/default/7012116908907279157'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7674530809360935127/posts/default/7012116908907279157'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ittenrice.blogspot.com/2007/05/la-monstre-frime.html' title='La monstre frime'/><author><name>Michèle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06982347468023525064</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_SDTuQOLagrk/RlqkITxoc0I/AAAAAAAAAdw/BN9wQyBJnVQ/s320/DSC00055.JPG'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry></feed>
