Lunchtime bike ride in Westpark! Living for blue skies… @ Westpark München – Seebühne
Month: October 2020
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Lunchtime bike ride in Westpark! Living for blue skies…
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Blue sky for the first time in ages, so we’re rode to the Hirschgarten! It was packed with families and people playing sports. I was excited to see the deer enclosure… 🚴♀️☀️ https://t.co/UusT0IQ2MR
RT @amymorgangp: I…just want to go to a real conference with bad coffee & pastries & get some pens & a tote bag instead of logging into a…
Rode my bike all over Munich, perfectly safe, then managed to roll my ankle HARD on a stupid crabapple three steps from my front door. Now I’m hobbling. 😫
@rachelandrew @timbray I didn’t really extend the state of the art or anything, but I’ve been maintaining @RoaldDahlFans continuously since 1996. I’m proud of that, and I wish more of the early Open Web content was still available. Oldest snapshot: https://t.co/5vQMHtLe9F
In Germany, one can purchase banana juice. I find this fascinating… but not enough to buy it. 😳🍌 https://t.co/ls3HO2VnmN
@darthted Oof.
@garcia_juliang Haha, I bought a Sodastream in the first month and I’ve just been using that!
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Blue sky for the first time in ages, so we rode to the Hirschgarten! It was packed with families and people playing sports. I was excited to see the deer enclosure… 🚴♀️🦌 @ Hirschgarten
In Germany, one can purchase banana juice. I find this fascinating… but not enough to buy it. 😳🍌
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Blue sky for the first time in ages, so we rode to the Hirschgarten! It was packed with families and people playing sports. I was excited to see the deer enclosure… 🚴♀️🦌
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Bicycles, motorcycles, cars, and trains!
With the weather so crappy of late, we have been restricting our explorations to close to home. Luckily, we have the Deutsches Museum Verkehrzentrum just five minutes’ walk from our house! The Deutsches Museum is a museum of science and industry, and it has several different locations around Munich. (You’ll recall that we went to their aviation center at Flugwerft Schleissheim a few weeks back.) The one near us in Schwanthalerhöhe is dedicated to all things transportation. Because of Covid, you have to purchase your ticket ahead of time online and wear your mask at all times inside.
There are three halls. The first one is devoted to urban transport, and it was full of cars and motorbikes. I was very excited to finally see a Trabi in real life!
Some more highlights from the first hall. I’m not really much of a motorhead, so I tend to look at these machines in purely aesthetic terms. I am definitely drawn to retro designs! I loved that blue “Vicky” German moped, and if such a thing were available today, I’d be buying one. We also had a laugh when we saw the Goggomobile. (There’s a famous Australian commercial that features one.)
There were a lot of bicycles too, including some very unusual designs. This one with the springs was meant to provide a smoother ride (since it had solid tires rather than pneumatic). I did a double-take when I saw these other ones. “Is that… crochet??” I said. It was. These are “Damenfahrrad” (women’s bikes) that featured a “skirt guard” to keep your skirts from getting caught in your wheels! They were really beautiful, and each one was unique.
There was one other special vehicle we couldn’t resist checking out… a Waymo self-driving car. “So this is what I’m meant to watch YouTube ads in while I’m whizzing down the Autobahn in the glorious future??” To be honest, it’s really goofy looking. I had thought they were the size of a Smart car, but they’re actually much bigger. With that camera wart on top, I think it was taller than me! This looks like something from Playskool.
The second hall was themed around “travel,” and it had more cars along with horse-drawn carriages and full-sized train cars. You could walk alongside and above some of them. The other guests were mostly families, and little kids were really going nuts for the trains!
We are so embarrassing. There were several points at which we would point to something and mutter to each other, “Now that looks like something from Indiana Jones…” Here are some of those.
I fell in love with some more over-the-top retro car designs.
The 1962 pink Cadillac complete with Route 66 diorama cracked me up. It had a sign near it with lyrics from Bruce Springsteen’s “Pink Cadillac” translated into German. 😂
The third hall – “Mobility and technology” had some very special exhibits of rare and concept vehicles. I don’t think I’d ever seen a “Tin Lizzie” (Model T Ford) in person before! I was also intrigued by an exhibit of the “VaMP” – a self-driving car from the 1990’s. I’ll admit I burst out laughing when I looked in the back seat. It was loaded up with desktop computers with multiple monitors and keyboards! (There was another one in the passenger seat!) But apparently this thing was able to drive from Munich to Copenhagen with the human driver only having to take over a couple times. No GPS – just computer vision! It even changed lanes! I had no idea people were tackling this problem 25 years ago…
There was also an interactive area filled with kids where you could watch a model train, fire up an engine, or try different types of brakes. I spotted a pennyfarthing and, to our delight, it had a sign nearby inviting you to climb aboard! I had the first go, and sadly, I couldn’t even make it with my bum knees. The Snook managed to clamber up there though, finally fulfilling his destiny as That Beardy Hipster.
To finish our day, we used our normal-sized bikes to ride over to the Augustiner Keller, the third-largest beer garden in Munich. (It has 5000 seats!) Unfortunately with the cold weather, the only people outside were a few lonely smokers. We headed in and enjoyed a quick “hoibe” (that’s Bayerische for half-liter of beer). We will definitely have to go back for a full meal sometime!
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RT @rohini_gaonkar: Watch my recent session how you can use AWS to move “From Monolithic to Microservices: Evolving architecture patterns”…
Me: Wow! Visits to my @RoaldDahlFans site is about the same as last year, but pageviews is double! Must be all that Covid distance learning.
@the_snook, a suspicious SRE: About double, you say? Let’s investigate further. Look at pageviews per session.
Me: Scheiße. 💩 https://t.co/IHiVH0qiLv
@the_snook That corresponds pretty much exactly to when I migrated my site and started using the Google Site Kit for WordPress plugin. I was already injecting the Analytics code in my theme, and it appears the plugin does as well. Definitely double-counting. Damn.
So after all the DHL nonsense – not ringing the doorbell on the delivery day, not delivering the package to the pick up point when they said they would – today they redelivered it to the house! No idea how/why that happened. But hey, I’ve got my @etepetetebio veggies at last! https://t.co/hevSvLFUpI
RT @tedneward: The kind of man who writes this kind of letter is the kind of man I want leading our country.
He’s not a radical progressiv…
RT @jennapederson: #AWS Data Hero @lynnlangit is talking this morning about the tech apprenticeship landscape right here in #MNTech and wha…
RT @jesslynnrose: Can’t tell if recording remote talks is more tiring than in person public speaking or if everything is just a lot rn.
RT @Super70sSports: You are now 27 points ahead of the Knicks just by looking at this photo. https://t.co/nwUjg4mWOX
Blog post: Bicycles, motorcycles, cars, and trains! Our trip to the Deutsches Museum Verkehrszentrum last weekend. https://t.co/DnNMJ2cbhh 🚲🛵🏍🚗🚎🚂🚈 https://t.co/3ifIlJWnXc
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Blog post: Bicycles, motorcycles, cars, and trains! Our trip to the Deutsches Museum Verkehrszentrum last weekend. 🚲🛵🏍🚗🚎🚂🚈
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RT @samtopley: ✨Exciting news!✨
Due to popular demand, my online course with @MusicHackspace will run again! 🙌🙌🙌
Learn about e-textiles a…
RT @adhorn: Really excited for the “AWS Resiliency & Chaos Engineering” online series. Two days of talks with some of my favorites folks @a…
Gave in to @cobusbernard and joined the Mega QnA Live Stream! https://t.co/Vp850qwkkl https://t.co/UI9dEuIkAm
FIVE AWS Developer Advocates on one live stream! And we aren’t *just* talking about baldness and beards, I promise… https://t.co/Vp850qwkkl https://t.co/9KN6ek4UPk
@The_McJones @TheMartianLife I hope that was said as a good thing. Because GG is amazing.
Incredibly annoyed. So after DHL failed to deliver my @etepetetebio package yesterday, I walked to the post office in the rain to pick it up. It’s not there. I said, “The card says it will be here at noon. It’s 3pm.” He said, “The card lied.” 😠😠😠
This grey, rainy Autumn weather is doing my head in, so I took advantage of Prime Day and bought a daylight therapy light. It’s… a lot of light. 😂☀️ https://t.co/q6VCHXbPr8 https://t.co/UlfE5OfORY
@etepetetebio ARE YOU KIDDING ME. DHL just emailed to apologise that my delivery didn’t make it to the pickup place yet, and that I can expect to receive an update in “1-2 working days.” These vegetables are going to be rotten.
Started a new knitting project! Not sure about the tension/size yet though… https://t.co/SvpKVBID9W https://t.co/MCNGs4XD6X
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This grey, rainy Autumn weather is doing my head in, so I took advantage of Prime Day and bought a daylight therapy light. It’s… a lot of light. 😂☀️
Started a new knitting project! Not sure about the tension/size yet though…
