Today I went to the zoo. I took the bike there. Can I say something about DC? DC is beautiful. Today, the sun was shining, the temperature was perfect and the green trees in almost every street were beautiful. DC also has a great valley, even with a river and so many trees that I’d be inclined to call it a forest: Beautiful. And the city officials were very nice when they build a nice biking path through that valley, that goes almost exactly from my current house door to the zoo and takes like 20min to ride. Perfect. But you know what else these city officials did, and I kind of understand them, but I’m also kind of really upset about that? They build a big, noisy parkway next to this bike path, through the valley. It’s called the Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway. Did I mention that it’s big and noisy? Because there are cars driving on it. And cars, in our current state of technology, are noisy like hell.
The zoo, on the other hand: No cars, just tons of people with kids. Also, uneventful. Most cages were empty. The elephant played with a ball and the panda ate something in the far distance. The zoo in Leipzig (=German city) spoiled me for the rest of my life. Then again, the zoo in DC is free, and that’s a nice touch.
Afterwards, I went to a friends place and played GTA V for the first time in my life. The situation of “us playing video games while the sun is shining” remembered me a lot of having summer holidays when I was a teenager. Anyways: When you start GTA, your character is placed in a city – but who cares about the city; I drove to the countryside immediately. And we drove up mountains and went through forests and took boats and cable cars and the sunset and view was great. At some point, it even started raining and we went through puddles. Ah, I like that game.
Input? 2
Output? 4
Learnings?
People in DC like pandas.
Burger King is actually as cheap as you would think it is when you hear the argument that “low-income people eat a lot of fast-food because it’s cheap”. It IS cheap. 1 Dollar for a cheese burger which is ok and warm. I’d totally eat fast food all day long if my income were low.
Questions?
How to create maps that give you another view of the world?
Which nerve did I hit with that blogpost about color tools that made it so successful?