Sunday, January 27, 2019

An air mattress with a frame - the best sleep ever for under $ 300

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The blogster realizes the title sounds like an ad, so let's emphasize it is not an ad. It is a story of back pain and bad luck finding...
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Tuesday, January 1, 2019

Scammers Inc. - con artists put warning labels on unsolicited mail and still make money

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We have all been receiving unsolicited phone call offers and letters in the mail, we have seen spam email and popups on dodgy websites telli...
Monday, December 24, 2018

The Walmart parking lot - a home away from home

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If you followed the news during the disastrous wildfire in Northern California last month, you saw the fire refugees in the parking lot of t...
Friday, August 3, 2018

English buzzwords as a power tool for German managers

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One of the more insidious uses of language is not treated with the seriousness the blogster would like to see around the subject: management...
Thursday, August 2, 2018

Where have all the fruit trees gone...people cut them one by one

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The blogster has always been fond of fruit trees, the incredible gift of food spanning generations. Sure almost all of the fruit and vegetab...
Tuesday, July 24, 2018

Loving President Trump and paying for the house of the children are not mutually exclusive

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So much perfectly good ink has gone into "understanding" Trump voters, and the blogster feels most of that has been wasted. So it*...
Thursday, June 21, 2018

Food insecurity: food prices in the United States are a lot higher than in Germany

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Comparing consumer prices between countries is not easy and often seriously flawed, especially if done through casual observation by an indi...
Thursday, June 14, 2018

When is the public "f*****ed"? When the owner of German tabloid Bild & intellectualoid Welt call new public broadcasting agreement an 'everybody wins' deal

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Regarding funding, Germany's public broadcasters have an easy life - they get about 20 dollars per household as a mandatory fee. On top ...
Saturday, June 2, 2018

The old man and the hills

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Out here in the American West, men like him blend into the fabric of the landscape. When he goes into town, he puts on freshly washed cloth...
Wednesday, March 21, 2018

In the 21st Century, the German military still provides honor guards for decorated WWII personnel

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The other day, the blogster had a chat with OMG (old mustached German, you may remember him from earlier posts) and found out that the Germa...