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Cows and calves. The name of this restaurant in Leiden. 'Koetjes en kalfjes' (speeking about cows and calves) is a Dutch saying for smalltalk.
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Just a little stroll through the `Viertel´ (literally "quarter"), consisting of areas from the subdistricts Ostertor and Steintor, two different administrative districts of the city of Bremen ( 550.000 inhabitans / Metropolitan Region `Bremen / Oldenburg´ 2.4 million people ) in the north of Germany.
A young woman sitting between sculptures of naked women. They seem to talk to each other. Black white street photography from Berlin.
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HAPPY FAUX FRIDAY....hope you have time to chill a few moments and have a listen............i ADORE this song....and am prone to play it VERY loud in my car, because of that!! :) (Then i can sing and no one can hear me!!!)
Fly Over States
Jason Aldean
Couple of guys in first class
on a flight from New York to Los Angeles
Kinda makin’ smalltalk, killin’ time
flirtin’ with the flight attendants
30,000 feet above, could be Oklahoma....
Just a bunch of square corn fields and wheat farms,
man it all looks the same
miles and miles of backroads and highways
connecting little towns with funny names...
Who’d wanna live down there,
in the middle of nowhere.
They never drove through Indiana,
met the man who plowed that earth,
planted that seed,
busted his ass of you and me,
or caught a harvest moon in Kansas,
they’d understand why God
made those fly over states.
I bet that mile long Sante Fe freight train engineers seen it all,
just like that flatbed cowboy
stacking US steel on a three day haul.
Road and rails under their feel,
yeah that sounds like a first class seat.
On the plains of Oklahoma
with a windshield sunset in your eyes
like a watercolor painted sky
You’d think heavens door’s had opened
You’ll understand why God
made those fly over states.
Take a ride across the badlands
feel that freedom on your face,
breathe in all that open space,
meet a girl from Amarillo
you’ll understand why God made
-might even wanna plant your stakes-
in those fly over states.
Have you ever been through Indiana,
on the plains of Oklahoma?
Take a ride.....
Del-ka Aedilis wants to provide "the perfect roleplaying environment where terraforming, city or village layout, buildings, interior, decoration and everything else appears to be from the same mold".
Castle Black and The Wall (SURL) is their newest sim. I took advantage of this occassion to meet them for a little smalltalk about their project Del-ka Aedilis. Read the whole interview with Del-ka Aedilis on my >> BLOG <<
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funny scene on the market in Marrakech. although it is the vegetable market, a chicken is somehow hidden in the scene ;)
And so I return to Ye Olde Hunting Grounds in the vicinity of the beloved - and now departed - St Alphage house.
The building on the right is "Moorgate Exchange" so named because it has been built on the site of - erm - a Telephone Exchange... although strictly speaking it was Fore Street Exchange so perhaps the new building has been misnamed.
While the new concrete/glass office block has notable environmental credentials... and even has gardens on the roof... it unfortunately adds little to the landscape of The City in my view and risks become YACAGA (Yet Another Concrete And Glass Architecture) building...
... and as if to prove a point, the adjacent (and vacant) site's wooden - yes Wood... remember that stuff? Organic, natural... handrailing provides a useful rest for the APS 5D. How long that will endure is anyone's guess and no doubt the replacement will be steel and have knobbles on it to stop ver kidz grinding their skateboards.
"Fo Shiz" to use the latest smalltalk.
Anyway.
In the distance there are cranes above the mahoosive hole which goes down to Crossrail - where once there was high-walk there is now a low-hole. More of that later...
... in the meantime a homage to the former Telephone Exchange. While perhaps not the most loved building, it was built in 1959 by the 'Ministry of Works' from a design by G.R Yeats who also designed an Exchange in Houndsditch and, more famously, was the chief architect for the Post Office Tower.
What was interesting was that it had similar architectural characteristics to the commercial office blocks which surrounded it - something which you might not expect from a building of such a functional nature.
The ground floor contained a Post Office and had a rather nice roof of 'curved hoods' on Fore Street - that side of the building being faced with slate.
What we have now is somewhat blah, blah, blah - while it's good to see the reference to the Exchange in the building name it would also have been nice to include a nod to Mr Yeats.
I rather like the reflection on the wood here... and while I'm not a fan of the new place, the concrete struts are rather fine and have lovely curvey bits at the bottom... see, I'm not a complete architectural luddite...
... I'll leave you to ponder the future of the buildings on the left and to...
.. enjoy
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Just a little stroll through the `Viertel´ (literally "quarter"), consisting of areas from the subdistricts Ostertor and Steintor, two different administrative districts of the city of Bremen ( 550.000 inhabitans / Metropolitan Region `Bremen / Oldenburg´ 2.4 million people ) in the north of Germany.
The minimart by the Texaco in West Olympia on the corner by Haggen is so weird, it really gives the Day & Night market in Lacey a run for its money. But it was especially weird today after a formerly fantastic Holiday Rambler RV--longtime overnight parker by Capitol Lake (noticed it on my earliest photo scouting missions)--burst into flames. The crew that was called in to clean it up was there just as I walked up from the Subaru service department.
I had discovered that this minimart had some really unusual merchandise by the time I took notice of the presumed boss of the crew. Well, he was the only one not working anyway. He was asking for a closer look at some of the huge knives in the locked display case just as I had stumbled upon table lamps with glass lampshades depicting paintings of the Virgin Mary and an almost gothily gruesome crucified Christ. "BRO! BRO! BRO! YOU JUST MADE A SALE WITH THIS BAD BOY!!" boomed the bossman when I finally found the NOS range of energy drink products (make mine a sugar-free Turbo, please).
The dude's neck gaiter kept falling down, and after several minutes of meaningless smalltalk, requests to look at other miscellaneous merch, and even some joking and poking at trying to figure out which country the clerk and proprietor had immigrated from, the clerk finally found the spine to tell the man to leave or pull his saggy gaiter up. The guy was like "I FINALLY FOUND SOMETHING COMFORTABLE I COULD WEAR OVER MY FACE AND NOW JAY FUCKIN INSLEE WANTS TO BAN IT!"
Really now... I know it was shared across social media earlier this week that neck gaiters (and the kind made of the same material as moisture-wicking base-layer shirts) might spread more droplets than they hold back. Maybe that reportage was being imagined by this imbecile into an imminent decree from King Inslee.
Anyway... There was quite a selection of masks there, including the Mexican flag, a marijuana leaf in Jamaican flag colors, and every gang-associated color of a typical bandana design rendered in a typical cloth mask design with a malleable wire for nosebridge fitting. But what do you make of the American flag mask that says "PROTEST WHATEVER CAN'T BREATHE", though?
From the TED stage.
Moments earlier I did a live, and unfortunately, unrehearsed demo of the Nanotex waterproof khakis. I took a glass of water and splashed my waist with vigor to show how it would leave no mark. In a freak instance of fabric folding, the bolus of water hooked into a gaping open pant pocket. The inner pocket lining did not have any Nanotex coating.... So for the entire talk my boxers were soaking wet, but you wouldn’t know it because none of the water could seep through the outer pants fabric.
On screen is a Scanning Tunneling Microscope scan of dyads of atoms (carbon monoxide) on a copper surface. We got to play with these during a visit to Don Eigler’s labs at the IBM Almaden Research Center. A room full of equipment interfaces to a PC with a mouse that lets you move atoms around with audible feedback as you drag them across the surface (imagine the copper lattice atoms are bumpy like eggs in a carton).
In this particular example, carbon monoxide is lined up like dominos on the surface. With a flick on one end, they tumble like a child’s cascade. In this case, they are pre-configured to implement a logic circuit (the world’s smallest 3-input sorter). It is 260,000 times smaller than the smallest IC equivalent.
Circuit design experiments were done with regular dominos. The business expense report for dominoes raised some eyebrows at IBM.
As Thomas Gottschalk announced on the "Helene Fischer Show", he will host a "Wetten, dass..?" Anniversary show.
In 1996 I offered my live performance Superhuman Magnetic Man for Wetten, dass ..? on ZDF, German entertainment television show which was moderated by the entertainer Thomas Gottschalk. My offer was rejected. Frank Elstner a German TV presenter invented the show Wetten, dass..? ("Wanna bet..?"). Frank Elstner presented the Wetten, dass..? ("Wanna bet..?") which became extremely popular and was, for some time, one of the most successful shows in Europe. That year, Elstner was presented with a Bambi, the German television and media prize. In Britain it was copied as You Bet! and ran from 1988 to 1997. In 1987, famous television presenter Thomas Gottschalk replaced Frank Elstner as host of Wetten, dass..?,. Today Elstner mainly works for Südwestrundfunk (SWR) (formed from the old Südwestfunk and Süddeutscher Rundfunk), presenting the talk show Menschen der Woche. Since 28 September 2002 he has worked for ARD as the presenter of the Saturday evening show Verstehen Sie Spaß?, the German equivalent of Candid Camera, following on from Cherno Jobatey. Frank Elstner presented his final episode of "VSS?" on November 21, 2009. Until the start of 2005 he also presented the show Einfach Millionär (Simply A Millionnaire) run by the ARD television lottery. In 2006 Frank Elstner was listed in the Rose d'Or Hall of Fame, on the 25th anniversary of his greatest success, Wetten, dass..?. The same year he went on a 517 kilometre pilgrimage along the Way of St James, inspired by fellow television presenter Hape Kerkeling's pilgrimage diary Ich bin dann mal weg ("I'm off for a bit, then"). In 2006 Frank Elstner has presented the quiz show Die Besten im Südwesten (The Best in the Southwest) on the SWR. He also presents the ARD show Die große Show der Naturwunder (The Biggest Natural Wonders Show), along with Ranga Yogeshwar. In 2019 Frank Elstner at the age of 77 - says goodbye to his audience on Youtube Talkshow „Wetten, das war's?" and switches to Netflix with his show.
ZDF Wetten dass presenters: Frank Elstner, Thomas Gottschalk, Markus Lanz, Wolfgang Lippert.
1981–1987: Frank Elstner
1987–1992: Thomas Gottschalk
1992–1993: Wolfgang Lippert
1994–2011: Thomas Gottschalk
2012–2014: Markus Lanz
2020 "Wetten, dass..?" Anniversary show Thomas Gottschalk
Celebrities that have appeared on the show included a vast range of personalities, with repeated guests including the likes of Britney Spears, Jennifer Lopez, Tom Cruise, Angelina Jolie, Cameron Diaz, Brad Pitt, Naomi Campbell, Michael Douglas, Michael Jackson, Jennifer Aniston, David Beckham, Hugh Grant, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Claudia Schiffer, Heidi Klum, Bill Gates, Karl Lagerfeld, Mikhail Gorbachev and Gerhard Schröder.
Between the bets and the celebrity smalltalk, there were musical performances by top-ranking artists like Take That, Jennifer Lopez, Coldplay, OneRepublic, Rihanna, Kiss, t.A.T.u., Whitney Houston, Katy Perry, Michael Jackson, Madonna, Kylie Minogue, Anastacia, Avril Lavigne, Christina Stürmer, Bryan Adams, Shakira, Britney Spears, Scorpions, Bon Jovi, Meat Loaf, Elton John, Tokio Hotel, Justin Bieber, Miley Cyrus, Ashley Tisdale, Joe Cocker, Lady Gaga, Luciano Pavarotti, Celine Dion, Christina Aguilera, Mariah Carey, Robert Plant, Status Quo, Leona Lewis, David Bowie, Bruno Mars, Cher and Tina Turner.
Captain's log, stardate 54299. Buzz All-Bran and his intrepid crew, Neil Twister and Frank Zzapp, find themselves on an alien planet populated largely by curious yet relatively benign sarnivorous life forms.
After what seems an eternity of futile take-me-to-your-leader-type smalltalk, they conclude that the planet is completely bereft of intelligent life (having overlooked a species of clever but extremely furtive creatures known as squirls, rarely seen away from the corral).
As they return despondently to their ship, something catches the astronauts' attention: it is an inverted cornetto-like form, but much larger than usual and with distinctive orange and white markings. Sensing a new marketing opportunity, our fearless friends decide to throw caution to the solar wind and conquer the cone.
[somehow I managed to goad some astronauts into conquering a traffic cone -- just for you guys, of course]