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More missing posts
Oops, I've been forgetting to crosspost again for over a year. Here are the missing posts here:
- Runes might be cooler, but this represents my culture (self-designed sweatshirt)
- Äh? (rendering of English A in German)
- Tea-shirt (self-designed T-shirt)
- Philippson finding patterns and meaning in the Torah
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Missing posts
I think DreamWidth told me that my posts would no longer be crossposted here, but I post so infrequently that I forgot, so there's a dozen posts of mine missing from LiveJournal. In the unlikely event anyone's still following me here only and wants to read one or more of them, here they are:- Sycamore Tree Gap
- Ukraine (posted at the start of the war ( Read more... )
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Boar
Today I achieved a longstanding ambition: After three years of cycling around Berlin's urban forests, I finally got to see a wild boar. It was running very fast, perpendicular to my path. It had almost reached its closest point before I realised it wasn't a large dog, and unfortunately it was going so fast that I didn't have a chance of getting my ( Read more... ) -
Oh no, he's been at the T-shirt design again!
Once upon a time, there was a cautionary tale which became famous not just in the country of its origin, but across Europe.
Then, centuries later, in the country of its origin, a Big Name Playwright adapted it, and changed the ending so as to completely lose the moral. The Big Name Playwright's version became so well-known that in his country, the ( Read more... ) -
X*L*C*R
For anyone who was intrigued by my post about the computer game I wrote back in 1991, my brother has pointed out that you can actually play it now on an online Beeb emulator, though I should note that the slightly sluggish responsivity of the web emulator makes it a harder play than the original. -Originally posted on Dreamwidth, where there are
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Jaczo and how Berlin came to become the capital of Germany
In a café in central Aachen a few years ago, I found on the bookshelf a two-century-old tome ( Read more... ) -
East German map of the area I lived in from 2016 to 2020
It's gone very quiet here; in particular, athgarvan and miss_whiplash, can you reassure me you survived the first wave of the pandemic?
Anyhow, operating under the assumption that I'm not just talking to myself here, here's an ( Read more... ) -
Wüste Mark
Why is there a field here, surrounded on all sides by the Parforceheide forest a bit under a mile outside of the Berlin city boundary?
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Completing cycling the Berlin Wall Trail
In retrospect, it's a little puzzling that in my first few years in Berlin ( Read more... )