I honestly don’t understand it. Here is a “robostore” in which you can select something you want and just walk out with it – apparently Amazon technology will scan it and charge you for it. But what is the advantage of this approach, if they must hire a person to guard the store?
Author: kenritley
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Chicago-style hot dog
The ship that Google stretched
The German heritage of Texas
Huge numbers of Germans migrated to Texas in the mid 1800s – so much so, that even today you’ll find German villages in Texas, and a number of Americans who have been born here but speak German — not English — as their first language!
You can still see this German heritage everywhere around San Antonio, such as shown in this snap here:
Parking place for police in San Antonio
As far as I can tell, countries like Switzerland treat their police just like everyone else. Not so in the US, where companies do their best to encourage police to shop at their stores and eat at their restaurants.
This snap from San Antonio, Texas, shows a parking place reserved for police officers at the local grocery store – just to make it a bit easier for them to come in and do some shopping.
Global reddening
Canola and Swiss Tennis
Odd entrance
Bus wash
Building in Luzern
Cool vizualization – 2
Cool visualization
Just saw this data visualization, which I thought was pretty cool:
Swiss house
Bienne
Büren castle
Büren an der Aare
“Low Riders” in Bern?
Gruyères Landscape
Weird plants
Gruyères Landscape
Air duct
SBB / CFF / FFS
AMAZING! After 20 years it still runs!
Sorry if I have become a Java-hater, but I really did not expect a language with so many deprecations to run after all these years! As explained here I was one of the first people to write a rather large application using the relatively new “Swing” library,
If you are interested in downloading it, here’s the link: DataScan V357. Just don’t make fun of my dirty code!
Maison des abeilles solitaires
You find these all over France and Switzerland – maybe Germany too, but I’ve never seen one in Germany. It’s a hotel for solitary bees! Of course, it begs an interesting question: why are there solitary bees? Were bees originally soloists that then developed an advantage with hives? Or were wayward bees kicked out of their hives?