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:
Canola and Swiss Tennis
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.
Odd entrance
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.
Bus wash
I guess big, long buses need big, long carwashes!
Building in Luzern
Cool vizualization – 2
Continuing the series,
Cool visualization
Just saw this data visualization, which I thought was pretty cool:
Swiss house
Taken near Büren an der Aare
Bienne
Looks like a hill but in fact a mountain range running left and right – only looks like a hill because of the panoramic effect!
Büren castle
A medieval castle in the village of Büren an der Aare
Büren an der Aare
A medieval village towards the north of the canton of Bern
“Low Riders” in Bern?
Google took the liberty of combining some separate photos I had – now the only thing missing is the chrome and loud stereo!
Gruyères Landscape
Weird plants
Not sure what these area – look too small to be cattails:
Gruyères Landscape
Air duct
It looks pretty interesting close-up:
But it also looks interesting far away
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?
A blog about a blog
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:
Bern
Tissot Arena
The volcano fields of Germany
Yes, Germany has volcanoes! This shows the magma chamber of one of them, with the Swiss Alps in the background:
Plafond du bâtiment académique
This is the ceiling of one of the buildings at the Bern University of Applied Sciences, where I teach.
Une autre ancienne ancienne église à biel
