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My news and announcements, random photo postings and whatever else doesn’t fit wherever else.

Sustainability vs. Homeland Security

Sustainability is everywhere these days. Just browse through the ads in Architectural Record and you'll be amazed how every single building materials producer finds something green in their product - no matter how energy intensive it was to produce. There is also an onslaught of "sustainability" events around us. Earth Day had just passed when I received a conference announcement flyer that mentioned three "sustainable" conferences on one page:

Sustainability conferences

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Beans gone wild…

Beans gone crazyGuess who outgrew the planters before the other seeds...

Schlepp your Verklempt Tollpatsch through the Dreck

As the German news site Spiegel-Online just announced, a committee of public representatives ranging from a popular comedian to the editor of the most prominent dictionary have determined their favourite words with a foreign root in the German language. The following winners rose to the top among approximately 3500 submissions:

  • Tollpatsch (Hungarian) - A less than capable person.
  • Currywurst (Tamil, Portuguese and English) - A hot dog with curry and ketchup, essentially. The other German street food after a Döner.
  • Engel - An angle... that was easy to translate...
  • Milchschake (English) - Anglophones, marvel at the spelling!
  • Chaos - A great word in any language.

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A snow monster

A snow monster

It suddenly appeared in our garden...

‘Tis the Season for Hats

As seen in our kids' closet.