Sie müssen eine Bremse auf Ihrem fixie Fahrrad haben!

2126.In case you thought the fixie-haters only lived in PDX, think again; they don't like 'em in Berlin either.

Yes, Berlin … the one in Germany, not the charming little hamlet down in Linn County near Lebanon.

If they find you riding Deutsching around on your fixie in der deutschen Hauptstadt, they'll take it away, fine you, and only return the machine if you pay the fine and promise you either won't ride them in der Straße or get that brake installed.

You can start making your bicycle-Nazi jokes … now.

(h/t TheSquare)

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I Think I've Been Insulted

2057.I love it when someone links to something clever I've done on this blog, but sometimes one wonders ...

I found, in examining my inbound traffic, I got a link from a blog referring my Periodic Table Of Oregon. And it was from a German blog, auf Deutsch! Nifty.

Although, when I fed it into Babelfish (I was lazy) I detected the writer was not all that thrilled about what I had wrought. Here's the last 'graf, as x-lated:

Therefore all are neither useful nor necessary straight periodic systems appearing in the Internet, but simply only sense-free arrangements after an outdated sample.

Here's the whole entry. I'm not sure if my feelings are supposed to be hurt here, or something. For what it's worth, I see to be in a sort of rogue's gallery, which isn't such a bad thing I suppose, since I'm in company along with the Periodic Table of Type, which is a cleverness I only wish I could bring off.

The nub of the fellow's gist seems to be that the Periodic Table of the Elements is an inappropriate lens to be looking at pop culture (and allied things) with. Either that, or he wants a pizza and the Emmentaler cheese has gone off, and his Volkswagen is full of eels.

Ah, well. Can't please 'em all. Don't know art but do know what we like, and all that.

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