Tag: absurd
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Vision du Reel – I lost view of the Landscape
Reading Time: 2 minutesI watched J’ai perdu de vue le paysage at Vision Du Réel last week and I don’t know whether I like or dislike this documentary, ironically for the very topic that it is exploring. The idea of the eternal return, repeated over, and over. The premise of the documentary was simple. "I…
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Disengorging Rural Roads With Wider Motorways
Reading Time: 3 minutesWhen I was walking in Neuchatel I noticed something striking. I didn’t see a single advert in favour of expanding the motorways. I expected that the Right Wing friends of Global Warming would push for the expansion of the motorways in Switzerland. That wasn’t the case. In Switzerland, at the moment, they…
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Watching a Roomba
Reading Time: 3 minutesIn theory the entire reason for getting a Roomba is to let it do the vacuuming and forget about it. In reality I always feel the desire to watch roombas as they do their work. It doesn’t make any sense, because the entire goal of a roomba is that it automates what…
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On an amusing conversation in Denmark
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWe had been walking around various parts of Demnark with a friend when he said that we should go to a bar. In some countries the name would not be allowed but in this part it is. It’s spunk bar. It’s located on one end of Westbork in Copenhaguen. We were…