recently i spent almost six weeks in austria: with family, friends and a bit of work. it was a good trip but a little bitter-sweet, too.
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[ published on Wed 31.07.2019 15:54 | filed in still-not-king | tagged at, oz, travel | ]

last year they printed 400 million 'new and improved' banknotes with a typo on them. nobody noticed for a few months, but then who cares about responsibility (or spelling).

i also suspect that there aren't that many companies outside the australian market that would proudly call their engine starter spray "start ya bastard" and market it for a target audience of 'frail people who are not strong enough to pull a start cord quickly enough'.

the last time i had to use a similar product must have been about 30 years ago, helping my dad to convince one of his his citroen gs/gsa to start...all of which were indeed bastards to get started.

apropos nothing: other australian things.

[ published on Wed 31.07.2019 13:50 | filed in interests/au | tagged oz | ]

for my birthday i got a new(er) camera, a panasonic lumix dmc-gx85 with the standard kit 12-32mm lens; i hope that that upgrade gets me to produce More Better Pictures.

 elise

in the meantime i've also added a tele lens (14-140mm), which reminds my sister of the aardvark in the pink panther cartoons when it is at the the maximum zoom.

 elise elise
[ published on Wed 24.07.2019 19:26 | filed in interests | tagged camera, elise | ]

...is that there's lots of space.

 this map has too many austrias but who cares :-)

we've got 25 million human inhabitants, but less than 500 000 live outside the coastal areas (the yellow area on this map from amazing maps)

 only 500000 people live in the yellow area

you don't have to drive very far inland to get away from everybody.

for somebody like me who can stand humanity in small doses only that's a pretty good thing.

[ published on Sat 20.07.2019 11:22 | filed in interests/au | tagged oz, truesize, space | ]

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