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Tomorrow is the end of the week, yay! Right? Ugh I feel like it's just the beginning of an uphill climb. I'm so not looking forward to going to work. ...

We had some time to kill in the Potsdam train station sometime last week and ended up browsing the guidebook section of the bookstore (surprise, surprise). We were inspired to ...

February 10: 12.0 °C / 53.6 °F

The entrance hall contains Corinthian columns exactly matching the colonnade outside. Doors lead off on the right to the service rooms, left to the corridor, and straight across to the ...

Got an e-mail from Potsdam yesterday. Thank you. Thank you Manfred Stede, Heike Bieler, Stefanie Dipper, and all the nice people at Applied Computational Linguistics Lab, Uni Potsdam. ...

The Dutch Quarter in Potsdam was host to a 3-day "Tulpen Festival" (Tulip Festival), really a extravaganza of all this remotely related to the Netherlands. For example, I thoroughly enjoyed ...

Renovations and New Gear! :: Hurley’s at SUNY Potsdam Posted on May 12, 2008 by benobriensmith I’m the chair of the Hurley’s committee for 2008-09 which ...

Trains Across Europe Part 1 Finally I have access to wifi in my hotel in Vilnius so can catch up with relating my travels. As I ...

Potsdam is known for the palaces and the royal parks built around the edge of the city. Generally it is visited as a daytrip destination from Berlin. The beautiful lakes ...

still from Stalker by Andrey Tarkovsky In Tarkovsky's film, the 'Stalker' lies on the grass and on water in the multiple existences that the Zone offers him. In doing ...