Meandering Thoughts #67
Perhaps inquiring minds don't want to know: do vegans swallow during fellatio or cunnilingus? The vegans I've spoken with are vegan for either health benefits and environmental sustainability; in my…
Venice Logistics
Planning a trip to Venice, Italy? My wife and I visited in early June and wanted to share what we learned to hopefully make your trip more successful. Note: Prices…
Meandering Thoughts #66
Why do people automatically assume their religion is your religion? An Afro-American man and his family stopped my house, desiring my time to read Bible verses to (with?) me. No…
New Haven Union Station
The New Haven Union Station is a major Connecticut train stations providing passenger rail service to Boston(Amtrak), New York City (Amtrak and Metro North), Hartford (Hartford Line), and smaller stations…
Keeping It Cool
I flew into Newark on June 11 to experience an unexpectedly hot, mid-Spring day: bright sunlight, high humidity, real temps near 90°F, feels-like temps 4°F-5°F higher. Less than the all-time…
Historical White-Washing?
Just south of Dubuque, Iowa on US-52 is Mines of Spain, a state park which, despite driving by innumerable times since first moving to Iowa in 1972, I had never…
Return To Office Insanity Part III
I've blogged my feelings on the inanity of RTO mandates, forwarded innumerable links purporting that people are as/more product remote and definitely happier, shared my feelings with anyone willing to…
Temperatures and Technology
May 25, at gate awaiting boarding for MSP to CDG flight. Monitor at Gate G4 providing helpful information. Yeah, sure. It was not 27°F but 27°C; in fact, Paris broke…
Keukenhof Street Organ
Keukenhof's street organ, The Adriaen, was built in 1978 from the remnants of a 1920 Belgium dancehall organ and has been at Keukenhof since 1990. The organ was built by…
Kleine Berlin
Kleine Berlin is the Italian pejorative for the area of Trieste where German soldiers were worked and lived during World War II. Kleine Berlin also refers to the air raid…