Author Archives: jb

German woman vs American IPA

Posted on 22 June, 2014 by jb

Gifted my friend Sandra a bottle of Dogfish Head 90 Minute IPA. A mere 9%, but it proved a bit much for the poor gal…

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Automation. 1965

Posted on 20 June, 2014 by jb

Don’t mock! Technology like this was still lurking around this millenium. A company I used to work (one of the leading global cargo airlines) only discarded their punchcard-based manaifesting system when the hardware provider declined to extend the maintenance contract. … Continue reading →

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Private Eye strikes again

Posted on 20 June, 2014 by jb
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Wooden deer gets on the wrong side of the local Mafia

Posted on 20 June, 2014 by jb
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And talking of Thomas Müller

Posted on 19 June, 2014 by jb

In 1965, New Yorker magazine staff writer John McPhee wrote “A sense of where you are“, an article (later to become a book) stretching over 50 pages of the January 23 issue. (Worth reading, if only for a glimpse of … Continue reading →

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I do have difficulties keeping myself under control……

Posted on 18 June, 2014 by jb

  Berlin 365 is Halcyon’s (a displaced Torontonian, if I’ve figured it out correctly) urbane contribution to City Daily Photo, a loose umbrella structure under with which Mainz Daily Photo and (Not the) Nelson Daily Photo  also shelter. He/she recently … Continue reading →

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This is where DHL started

Posted on 18 June, 2014 by jb

Couriering Matson Line ships’ manifests from Hawaii to California to expedite customs clearance. (This is what life for the 1% was like in the 1960s…)

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A player who at times barely looks like a footballer at all.

Posted on 18 June, 2014 by jb

The Guardian’s Barney Ronay had a choice article in yesterday’s paper.   What a delightfully unusual footballer Müller is, a player who continually pops up in menacing pockets of space, socks askew, arms waggling, resembling at times a pitch-invading dentist … Continue reading →

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Never let you go

Posted on 17 June, 2014 by jb

I’ve liked the band Evermore since I stumbled over the clip they donated for Shave for a Cure. Not being very sure on my feet, I fortunately tripped over this. Ace song, even acerer video

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VD. The gift that keeps on giving…

Posted on 16 June, 2014 by jb

How times change. Back in the day, STD was a modern invention which let you make telephone calls wthout going through the operator. VD was the reason that Vic Damone could never wear monogrammed shirts. A contemporary – sson to … Continue reading →

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