Nerd Rage

The obser­vant reader might ask him­self (or her­self), “Shouldn’t Julia be sit­ting on the bench?” And he (or she) would be right. I have to admit, I couldn’t get Julia to sit down on another bench (or any bench, actu­ally) that day. It’s a pity – nice bench – but there’s a good rea­son, too. …

This shot was taken while on the same stroll through the win­tery Park Sanssouci as this one, so it’s a bit older, yeah. There’s been no snow around here for a cou­ple of weeks now. It’s not even really cold any­more. I don’t miss the cold, but the snow was fun while it was there. …

Here’s another shot from last year’s trip to Cal­i­for­nia. While in San Diego we went and saw the USS Mid­way, a WWII air­craft car­rier that has been con­verted into a museum. Even though she saw some action in the first Gulf War, all her tech­nol­ogy is still from the 1940s — all the gauges through­out …

Here’s another shot from last year’s trip to Cal­i­for­nia. While in San Diego we went and saw the USS Mid­way, a WWII air­craft car­rier that has been con­verted into a museum. Even though she saw some action in the first Gulf War, all her tech­nol­ogy is still from the 1940s — all the gauges through­out …

Here’s the dinosaur ver­torama I promised in yesterday’s post. This one was quite tricky since I was so close to the skele­ton and it was pretty dark in there. Shoot­ing hand­held didn’t help much with the par­al­lax either. But here it is: a gen­uine Bra­chiosaurus bran­cai, stitched together from three sin­gle RAWs. I wish I’d …

We went to the Museum of Nat­ural His­tory last week­end, which is close to Berlin’s Cen­tral Sta­tion in Mitte. Accord­ing to their web­page it’s the largest Ger­man museum of nat­ural his­tory and among the top 5 world­wide. I didn’t find it to be that big, really. But they do seem to have the world’s largest …