A renaissance man for the twenty-first century!
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?
That’s the IATA code. In ICAO it is KORD.
You have never eaten a hot dog until you have eaten a Chicago style hot dog! Here I am, on my way to get one:
Now here I am at the counter, ready to order one:
And now here it is!
This ship didn’t really exist – but Google Photos did a fabulous job of stitching together two photos of the same ship!
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:
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?
