A renaissance man for the twenty-first century!
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.
Not only has San Antonio had (at the time of this writing) more than 100 days with temperatures above 100 deg F, but the skies are filled with red sand from the Sahara. What should be a blue sky with clear air looks like this:
A canola field in front of the Swiss Tennis center. Interestingly that road in the foreground is “Rue de Roger Federer” – but as many times as I have been on it, I’ve never seen him.
I spotted this entrance to an apartment building in Bern.
It really makes one stop and wonder . . . . why? Was this part of a building under historical protection? But if you look closely you’ll see it’s actually no entrance at all. What used to be an entrance lacks any stairs or steps up to it.
I guess big, long buses need big, long carwashes!
Continuing the series,
Just saw this data visualization, which I thought was pretty cool:
Taken near Büren an der Aare
Looks like a hill but in fact a mountain range running left and right – only looks like a hill because of the panoramic effect!
A medieval castle in the village of Büren an der Aare
A medieval village towards the north of the canton of Bern
Google took the liberty of combining some separate photos I had – now the only thing missing is the chrome and loud stereo!
Not sure what these area – look too small to be cattails:
It looks pretty interesting close-up:
But it also looks interesting far away
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!
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?
I don’t normally publish book reviews or recommendations, only in very exceptional circumstances. A good friend of mine has started a blog — a real blog, not like mine, and if you like thinking about things you might enjoy it:
Yes, Germany has volcanoes! This shows the magma chamber of one of them, with the Swiss Alps in the background:
This is the ceiling of one of the buildings at the Bern University of Applied Sciences, where I teach.
