Tuesday 12 July 2011
eight-bit or the red-coats are coming
catagories: America, graphic design
fahrsprung
H has become quite handy and bold with assaying our fair Lady, and making sure she is fully outfitted for our upcoming big trip. The word jalopy has, I think, too many negative connotations and can't aspire to be something refined and finely engineered. Our third generation Volkswagen Transporter--sometimes sold as Vanagons in the States (Lady is a "Sport R" and I always thought that was a very special and rare model... maybe we should have named her VGER like the Voyager space probe in the first Star Trek movie)--was the first model of bus water cooled (instead of air-cooled) and was the last VW of any type to have the engine in the rear. That's a bit like those dinosaurs that had two brains, one in the head and one in the tail to govern each. The word jalopy does suggest, however, dependability--or at least, flexibility, serviceableness and the ability to intuit. It is always comforting to know that one's trip won't have a contrary, single-minded computer as a roadblock and that with less, one can go further.
catagories: transportation, travel
Monday 11 July 2011
odious debt
catagories: 🇩🇪, 🇪🇺, 🇺🇸, economic policy
Friday 8 July 2011
the perils of penelope pitstop or dutch-east-india company
poll tax
Thursday 7 July 2011
green shoots
catagories: 🌱, environment, lifestyle
Wednesday 6 July 2011
kraken or there be dragons here
catagories: 🦑, Europe, foreign policy, language
Tuesday 5 July 2011
colossus
The local has a dispatch from the Baltic strand of Rügen about designs to convert the colossal planned holiday-going compound of Prora, which stretches for 4,5 kilometers along the strait separating the Bay of Jasmund (Jasmunder Bodden - recently too elevated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site [DE]) from the sea, after many decades, back towards its original intent.
catagories: 🇩🇪, environment, travel