Rec of the day/ more Vibram fangirling
Here is an interesting youtube video I found via ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
jae's linkspam: BBC Make Me a German: British journalist goes to Germany with his wife and kids to play at the average German family, in order to find out the secret to Germany's economic success.
Of course we here are mostly busy moaning about the country's failures but it's all a matter of perspective, perhaps. Jammern auf hohem Niveau? Anyway, as a German I found the film highly entertaining, and pretty spot on overall, the joyful play with clichees notwithstanding. A humorous take on cultural differences.
(One thing made me wonder: Is it an accepted thing to do in some countries to surf the internet while at work? I would've thought that it's frowned upon everywhere, for obvious reasons.)
Where did my rikaichan icon go? There used to be an easy-to-click icon on the upper right task bar and it went away.
I just found out through googling that as of last year, Vibram makes a winter shoe! \o/ That pleases me greatly, because the cold wet season lasts several month here, so each spring you have to start from scratch training your feet for barefoot running. I will get me a pair ASAP. Though it's annoying that they cost over twice as much here as they do in the US. >100% seems a rather excessive import fee. I'm tempted to try amazon.com instead of .de, but I guess after customs are done with them, I'll end up at the same expense.
And on the topic of shoes, my climbing shoes are starting to need a biohazard warning. I'll have to try pine shavings or something like that because eww.
jae's linkspam: BBC Make Me a German: British journalist goes to Germany with his wife and kids to play at the average German family, in order to find out the secret to Germany's economic success. Of course we here are mostly busy moaning about the country's failures but it's all a matter of perspective, perhaps. Jammern auf hohem Niveau? Anyway, as a German I found the film highly entertaining, and pretty spot on overall, the joyful play with clichees notwithstanding. A humorous take on cultural differences.
(One thing made me wonder: Is it an accepted thing to do in some countries to surf the internet while at work? I would've thought that it's frowned upon everywhere, for obvious reasons.)
Where did my rikaichan icon go? There used to be an easy-to-click icon on the upper right task bar and it went away.
I just found out through googling that as of last year, Vibram makes a winter shoe! \o/ That pleases me greatly, because the cold wet season lasts several month here, so each spring you have to start from scratch training your feet for barefoot running. I will get me a pair ASAP. Though it's annoying that they cost over twice as much here as they do in the US. >100% seems a rather excessive import fee. I'm tempted to try amazon.com instead of .de, but I guess after customs are done with them, I'll end up at the same expense.
And on the topic of shoes, my climbing shoes are starting to need a biohazard warning. I'll have to try pine shavings or something like that because eww.
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Seriously, though, what I do in my breaks from work isn't my employer's business, I think. Some people go outside for a smoke; I surf the internet.
-J
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Our city ranked #1 in the 'most livable city worldwide' for its size. But people were joking that after last winter's 4-months-without-sun the award should be revoked.
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*Trying to write an amusing line of soft southling... fails, and keeps thinking about cloud cover versus sun rise and fall at different longitudes"