Today was a great day because I received this awesome postcard from dear friend, writer, and best person in the world to have breakfast with: Sean. It is about 50 years old and he bought it in one of those cool antique/junk shops in Madrid. Oh how I love receiving snail-mail! It’s a Luftansa postcard [...]
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50 year old post card!
Posted in bizarre, personal, tagged antique, Madrid, postcard, rare, shop, snailmail, stamps on January 12, 2009 | 8 Comments »
Monkey Business
Posted in bizarre, news, Video on October 13, 2008 | 2 Comments »
There’s a restaurant in Japan where monkeys serve you drinks and bring you hot towels in exchange for soya beans. Just too awesome, see a video here. Japan used to be low on my priority list of places to visit. But it’s slowly getting higher and higher. Looking at monkey stuff, I also came across [...]
A unique use of Google Earth
Posted in bizarre on September 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This made me laugh: Until the invention of Google Earth, in this Web 2.0 world, we did not know that cattle and deer tend to graze while standing in the north-south direction. Apparently it has something to do with the Earth’s magnetic field. [Via Freakonomics]