No More Trains In Patagonia?

StefanL, 04.01.25, 10:33

gHack has written about his reading of "The Old Patagonian Express" (1979) von Paul Theroux. Perhaps I'll get myself a copy.

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Trouble In Bromance Paradise

StefanL, 26.12.24, 10:22

During the budget dispute in the US Congress, Elon Musk flexes his muscles and is called "President Musk" for it. This at long last now also seems to have struck a chord with Trumpledore himself.

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Trumpledore About To Buy Greenland And The Panama Canal

StefanL, 25.12.24, 10:35

Greenland with its approximately 56,000 inhabitants is largely autonomous inside the Danish parliamentary constitutional monarchy. The Panama Canal is an artificial waterway in the presidential republic of Panama, approximately 82 km long. It cuts through the Isthmus of Panama, connecting the Atlantic with the Pacific. The US Navy and the US Marines Corps both harbour deep emotions for these two...

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The Little Jew Who Wrote The Bible

StefanL, 02.11.24, 07:00

Letzten Shabes waren wir auf einer Bar Mitzva eingeladen und weil genau auf diesen Shabes auch noch das Fest Simchat Tora (שִׂמְחַת תּוֹרָה, Freude der Weisung) fiel, war der frisch gebackene Sohn des Gesetzes aufgerufen, den Anfang des Buches vorzulesen, dessen Name sein erstes Wort (בְּרֵאשִׁית, Bereschit, Im Anfang) ist und das seit einer griechischen Abspaltung von der Religion auch...

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Tonight we're going to show you eight silent ways to kill a man.

StefanL, 21.07.21, 21:39

A man who would start a novel with a sentence like that will have our immediate attention here in Highgate.

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Vor 15 Jahren

StefanL, 18.07.21, 08:56

Am 1. März 2006 hat das Medium hier mit folgender Schlagzeile aufgemacht.     Katzengrippe ab heute Weltproblem Nr. 1 Damals konnte man noch spotten. Heute wirkt das gespenstisch auf mich.

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The 5th Risk

StefanL, 13.07.21, 06:23

Since the end of the Second World War, weather data collection has become one of the greatest illustrations of the possibilities of global collaboration and public-spiritedness. Every day thousands of amateur weather observers report data to their governments, as do a lot of experts aboard commercial planes in the sky and ships at sea. Everyday, twice a day, weather...

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How To Win A Tech War

StefanL, 16.12.17, 14:35

If you got a tech product, do not, we repeat: do not talk to CTOs, talk to the CEOs and CXOs! Place your ad in the Wallstreet Journal! Of course, this does not apply to tech combinations packaged for the consumer. You'd need the super bowl for that. And CTOs and software engineers have higher profiles now than 30, 20, 10...

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