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Author: Kim du Toit
Housecleaning
No, this is not the housecleaning as Sarah Hoyt indulges in. This is the attempt to fix the Comments/login nonsense, which first involves clearing the ten thousand-odd spammers and bots, to name but some.
I’ll be busy for a while…
Gift Idea
From Reader Ken S:
Hi Kim:
I saw this originally on Slashgear.com, and thought that this is the perfect intersection of affordable manual shift and adult fidget device. It looks well made, too.
As Mr. Free Market commented when I showed it to him:
“Genius. The perfect way to fuck with Gen Z.
Firstly, it’s a pen.
Secondly, none of them can drive a manual.”
The usual reminder: I get no kickbacks.
Thursday Landscape
Vienna 2008
Best Gulaschuppe in the world, there.
From Reader Abroad Scott W.:
New England guy here (Live Free or Die) who’s been reading you for… let’s not look back too far, ahem. Anyway, this isn’t about all that — here I am in Vienna and I think I have you to thank.
You’ve written about many things, but what you’ve had to say about traveling, about your travels has always been encouraging. Not in a travelogue way, but just in a plain ol’ “there’s a lot of map out there, let’s get to it” way. Likely that’s just my interpretation but it is what it is. So when the conversation came up of “where to go for a vacation,” SWMBO and I had a short list and my recollections of your recollections made me press hard for Vienna.
And here we are.
Is it magical? No, not really. It’s a modern city. Is it perfect? Heck no. But is it wonderful? Why, yes, yes it is. I’m looking at the Danube and journaling about these Vienna Days. That’s how it’s on our calendar, and that’s how I’ll remember it.
Anyway, thank you.
Scott
Then the bastard good man had the temerity to send me these pics of his visit to the Hotel Sacher for his Brauner, Apfelstrudel und Sachertorte:
I am SO jealous…
Yeah, I Guess
Then & Now
It’s not just humans who have been getting Fat & Bloated in recent times:
I know, I know: the Kraut Minis are bloated because of all the Gummint-mandated safety regs — just another reason to get among them with machetes (the regulations, I mean, not the Gummint bureaucrats perish the thought).