Category: observation
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Minimalist by Plane and The Opposite by Car
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhen I was flying between England and Switzerland regularly I packed so that everything would fit into a bag that I could take on board. When I travel by car I pack less effectively. Today I have two tents, two different types of sleeping bag, a sleeping mat, a Bare Dry suit…
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The Tyranny of Music Festivals
Reading Time: < 1 minuteFor the last week I have been an internally displaced person. When I go to some events they have silent discos and make sure that after 22:00 their noise pollution ends. With Caribana and Paléo the opposite is true. The tyrants have music from 1700-0200 or even earlier the next morning,…
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A Medium Drive
Reading Time: < 1 minuteToday I am more than five minutes from home. I am in St Moritz for a change. I will write more when I have something to write about. For now I am far from the noise of a certain music festival.
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Impressions of the Škoda WLC
Reading Time: 3 minutesMost of us will associate Škoda with the Tour De France and vice versa. When my brother got a Škoda that’s what I associated it with. Škoda France has a team of people that organise group cycling events to promote the Škoda brand. ## Critical Mass and Others I have cycled with…
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The Demise of Shortened Google Links
Reading Time: 2 minutesNext year [all goo.gl shortened links will be dead due to the planned obscolence of hyperlinks](https://9to5google.com/2024/07/18/googl-links/). Any website, blog, or social media site that used Goo.gl shortened links will find that their links are worthless from that point on. ## The SMS Era on Twitter URL shorteners thrived for a while because…
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Shopping With an E-Scooter
Reading Time: 3 minutesOver the years I have enjoyed driving to the shops with a petrol driven scooter for daily shops. I liked that it was small, light and convenient. I only got rid of it, after sixteen years of use because of the cost for a service. Usually it was about 500 but I…
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Twice the Driving Range
Reading Time: < 1 minuteToday I refuelled the car after 380 kilometres for about 30 CHF. A few years ago, when I refuelled another car it cost me 70 CHF to refuel a car, to travel 400 kilometres. This means that the car I drive now costs half as much, in petrol, despite the price…
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The Decision Not to Drive For Sports On a Sunday
Reading Time: 3 minutesThis weekend I could have gone to Bellevaux for the VF, Thones for the VF, Kandersteg for the VF, and gone to Charmey, Rocher de Naye and one other places for hikes and climbing. I chose to do none of these things. My reason for this is to save money on petrol,…
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The Hypothetical Attention Pyramid Scheme
Reading Time: 2 minutesI loved the idea of Substack as a replacement for a few minutes, or maybe a few hours. I loved the notion of a writing community for people to share ideas, and written words. I lost passion when I saw that it was an attention pyramid scheme. ## What is the Attention…