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A more successful day, mainly on the Hartz…. DAY 3 Hartz Day 3. Started sunny turned cloudy but now sunny today. Today’s trip was up the Brocken and back for walk up to Wernigerode Castle. It is obvious where one … Continue reading →
THEN (2000): NOW (2025): When I visited Iceland in 2000 the first “Temple of Icelandic
I took my wife and kid to an outdoor swap meet for a few hours around lunchtime today, and now I’m reminded that the sun hates me and wishes to smite me at every chance.
It’s been a while since I’ve seen any interesting RoadTests on element14, but I’m always hopeful, keeping an eye out for the next big thing. This year, it seems they decided to take April Fool’s a step further than before … Continue...
From Lenin’s Asylum: Two Years in Moldova, by A. A. Weiss (Everytime Press, 2018), Kindle pp. 182-184: The first week at school passed without any major incidents. There weren’t any fires or drunk students or kids challenging me to...
Good news: My Garmin watch gave me a decent sleep score last night (76/100) and all stats were rated fair or better. More importantly, I felt I slept better. Not as good news but also not bad news, really: Today I started feeling off and...
New York City in the 1970s was a city on the edge. Overcrowded, underfunded, and gripped by a spiraling crime wave, it tested the limits of every institution trying to hold it together, none more so than the men and women of the New York...
I’m no runner. Strap a pair of flashy sneakers on me, snap on an elastic waistband, and tie my golden locks back into a ponytail and I generally have no idea what to do next. But when the bus is coming around the corner or the train is...
This game is set in World War II and depicts the battle between Germany and the USSR. This is a two player game and the story starts with Germany initiating the invasion of the Soviet Union. Every few rounds both players will score...
I recently watched two East German movies about World War Two on Kanopy. Here are my initial impressions. “Star-Crossed Lovers” [Königskinder] (DEFA, 1962), dir. Frank Beyer This film is about two young men and a young woman, friends...
This is our first day of work at Isthmia this season so everything is a bit topsy turvy. There was a time when I could switch from working on one thing to working on another with the alacrity of spec-ed our MacBook Pro, but these days,...