Category: observation
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Children and an Electric Scooter
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhen I got the electric scooter I was curious about whether it could be used when looking after children while they ride their bikes and the answer is “yes”. You can stop reading now. Yesterday I was near the Lac de Divonne and since the children wanted to race it was a good…
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The Curse of the Summer Music Festival
Reading Time: 3 minutesIn the good old days noisy music festivals made sense, because technology was not what it is today. There was no choice but to build huge speaker stacks with huge amounts of power, to deafen an entire crowd of festival goers. It was also a different age, where attitudes to noise pollution…
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The Never Ending Troll and Flame Wars
Reading Time: 3 minutesAlmost every day, whether on Facebook open groups, or Fediverse instances I post something, and someone feels the urge to say “You’re wrong” and if I answe a stream of trolls and flamers will pile in. Yesterday someone asked “How do I do A on site B” and I gave two links to…
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Four Reading Tracking Apps
Reading Time: 4 minutesFor years I have been tracking my reading, whether by Goodreads or Audible but more recently, within the last four months, or so, I also started using Bookmory, booktracker and a fourth one but I don’t remember the name. The one whose name I forgot was abandonned because it forgot my login…
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Anti Social Media, Youth, And Feature Phones
Reading Time: 6 minutesA year or two I read about how young people were switching to feature phones from smart phones and I thought it was about nostalgia and fashion. As a person who grew up with “feature phones” as they improved and evolved, and as a person who was either trapped at a laptop…
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From La Sarraz to Romainmotier and Back
Reading Time: 2 minutesIt is possible to walk from La Sarraz to Romainmotier and back with barely any time spent on roads. You can get there by train b taking a train to Renens, and then switching to a train from Renens to La Sarraz. You can also drive to La Sarraz via the motorway…
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Recycled Computers and RAM
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI don’t like to go recycling for two reasons. I usually end my daily walk just at the time when the recycling centre opens during week days so I don’t want to go back and spend time that I could invest in other chores in something as relaxed as recycling. The…
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Which Hike to Do
Reading Time: 2 minutesNow that the hiking season has started again it isn’t rare for me to have to choose between two or three activities on a Sunday. Do I do the mountain hike from Villars Sur Ollon or the historical one to Romainmôtier? This is what I was thinking about last night. Should I…
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CoffeeB – No Plastic, No Aluminium
Reading Time: 3 minutesI have played with Dolce Gusto machines and Nespresso machines and both of them have the same flaw. They’re quick and convenient when you’re preparing coffee but less convenient when you need to get rid of the capsules. With Nespresso getting rid of the aluminium capsules is easy, once you have a…
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Sleeping in Prison Hotels and Bunkers
Reading Time: 2 minutesSeveral years ago I volunteered at an event and rather than put us up in a hostel or hotel they put us up in a bunker and the experience was good. The advantage of a bunker is that it’s clean, and quite spacious, so you can choose which room to spend time in.…