
Looking at
the Cup Half Full
since 1966

How do you pronounce that?
“Holzapfel” actually means crabapple (Holz = Wood, Apfel = Apple).
This is not German for beginners, though.
Just call me Klaus.
Twitter musings from the past week
Just had a schnitzel the size of my 17″ Macbook. Supposedly the biggest ones in Cologne. Otherwise I will like Gulliver. Everything is small # Jose’ Samarago about Berlusconi: “This thing, this illness, this virus threatens to become the cause of the moral death of Verdi’s country.” # Here is…
Twitter musings from the past week
Did you know there is one Facebook employee for each 275,000 users? Good luck emailing.That is worse than a total of 47 restaurants in Hanoi # @tawnypress There should be an 800 number that let’s you choose whom you want to yell at. For Airlines please press 1,for utilities press…
Twitter musings from the past week
I’m wondering how Mr. Berlusconi (age 71) will explain his presumed liaison with an 18 year old this week. How about: She told me she is 19? # @LesBain I’d also be interested in the comments his (maybe) future ex-wife had to make. She’d put Al Pacino to shame ;-)…
Twitter musings from the past week
Sometimes life just sucks. And this not them time to spend a lot of time on Twitter. Sorry for my “unparticipation” these days. I’ll be back # Apparently the engineers at Mercedes can’t figure our how to stick 6000 laptop batteries in car. Therefore Daimler bought 10% of Tesla Motor…
Twitter musings from the past week
The Wall Street Journal plans to charge per article now. I am wondering when they will begin to charge per tweet. We should all do so :-) # @citygirlgvl But then isn’t Rupert Murdoch the guarantor for independent quality content himself?He has proved himself over & over again;-) in reply…
Twitter musings from the past week
30 years ago Maggie Thatcher took over as prime minister. Imagine being her husband for second – just don’t get stuck on a horror trip ;-) # A group of UN experts is dividing the North Pole: Russia, Canada, USA, Norway, Denmark are the poker players. Who gets Santa’s workshop?…


