Dude no Iowa City, no 'Live at Prairie Lights?'

I thought we were on all the cool writer itineraries.

That's the KLF's Ice Cream Track. All bound for Mu Mu Land!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6YlBAs0Lfo

I was just there in November. My favorite things.

1. Flea Market Sundays at the Mauern Parkt (Wall park). I went to all the flea markets on the weekend, and that one is the largest, craziest, and most likely to have great stuff. And you can walk up the hill to check out one of the preserved sections of the wall.

2. Side trip to Potsdam to visit Sanssouci Palace and wander around. Great place for conventional shopping with some very decent restaurants. Potsdam is out at the end of the S-7 line, about 40 minutes from the AlexanderPlatz station.

3. Shopping along Greifswalder Strasse. Prenzlauer Berg is Berlin's answer to Park Slope Brooklyn, and there are a lot of nice shops and restaurants. The B2 streetcar runs down the middle of the street, you can hop on at AlexanderPlatz, and hop off when a block looks interesting.

4. Buy day passes or week passes for the Ubahn/Sbahn. Most of what you want to see is within the first zone, so save money, and buy a separate ticket if you're going out to Potsdam or whatever.

5. Museum Island. Not far from AlexanderPlatz. Just walking around the Island is amazing. The Pergamon is one of the best museum in the world for ancient civiliation -- if you go to just one museum, go there.

For a Young Inventors contest several years ago, my son and his friend made a gizmo out of a round magnet with a groove in it's face, glued into a short length of pvc pipe. You put the nail in the groove and hammer away!

They got to the state tournament for Young Inventors, but no one beat a path to their door to market the thing.

I found it worked really well, and had a bonus function -- you could dip it in a pocket full of nails on your tool belt to grab a handful without stabbing yourself.

Another garbled sentence -- "the only ones who know have the key"

"You know that messages can only be read by the authorised sender and the authorised receiver because you are the only ones who know have the key."