>me the perfect occasion to ask what the deal with Berkely is.  Why is
>it that Berkely the college is pronounced Berkly, while Berkely the
>philosopher is pronounced Barkly? Then there is the Magnetic Fields 

Maybe it's because it's spelled differently ?
http://www.berkeley.edu/

This remind me of the time I was driving to see my buddy in Berkeley and I was bored so I picked up two German hitchikers who were heading towards San Francisco.  I told them that I wasn't heading there, but they could take the BART over from Berkeley to SF rather easily... 

Anyroad, so we had a nice two hour chat in my car about Germany and lots of things. The one I remembered most was when one of the hitchiker was telling me about American television in Germany.  He told me of this t.v. show about a family who were all yellow.  I kept thinking does he mean an Asian family ?  Turned out he's talking about the Simpsons.

Random thought: I just saw Death Cab For Cutie, so now I'm smelling like beer and cigarettes.  I'm going to be missing Doves on Sunday, shame, I had a ticket to that sold-out show.  
(I'm not really that cool, I go to these shows with my friend who is cool, I'm just tagging along... and I'm not a teenage dirtbag either.)
 
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