Today's offering for #FensterFreitag is a bit of a mystery. This is a... contraption sticking out of a window that I walked past a couple of times before it retracted/disappeared. Anybody have guesses more educated than mine?
"Oh look. The trees in Bernal Heights are purple!"
There's a stupid joke we used to tell in the mathematics department at Cornell:
An economist, a physicist, and a mathematician are riding on a northbound train in England. And just when they cross the border into Scotland, the first thing they see is a lone black sheep, standing in a field, grazing on the grass.
"Oh look," says the economist, waving his hands. "The sheep in Scotland are black!"
"Over-generalizing again," huffs the physicist. "We only know that ONE sheep in Scotland is black, nothing more."
"Not precisely," tisks the mathematican. "The fact is, we only know that ONE SIDE of one sheep in Scotland is black."
#WindowFriday#1Jour1Souvenir vue du château de Laussel depuis le château de Commarque, Périgord, 🇫🇷, avril 2017.
Plus que quelques heures avant le week-end alors bon courage !
Not far from the sea, in Dorset, lies the small, sad village of Tyneham. The village was requisitioned by the army in 1943, and its inhabitants have never been allowed to return. Today, it sits in the middle of the Lulworth firing ranges, but can be visited when the ranges are not in use for army training.
I found this neglected display on a windowsill there, and felt it encapsulated something of the spirit of the place.
The cure for cockiness: write AltText. Nothing reminds me quicker how little I know about anything. 'What are those weird indentation thingys? What do you call those fancy edges? What's that shape that’s like a rectangle but has an arch on top? Wait, is it oblong? Wait, what’s the difference between an oblong and a rectangle? Is the window in a belfry, is there a bell? Oh no, maybe it’s a door not a window and I'm just spreading fake news in the Fediverse.'
"Food Court" entrance at the once thriving "Regency" mall now in sad disrepair and empty, leaving behind the colors and architecture of the 1980s and 1990s.