Sweden remained neutral throughout the second world war, allowing Germany to use its railways to travel between Norway and Finland, while at the same time informing Allied forces of German troop movements and as the war came to a close Allied aircraft would use Swedish Air Force bases. Because of fears of an invasion of Sweden by Russia, some 8000 Swedish volunteers also fought alongside Finish Soldiers ...
What are these objects that keep track of time? Why do we like them, and what do they represent to us? I like to think about my motivations, and I like to ponder the underlying meanings behind things that influence me in life. Humans are metaphorical animals. Because we evolved this thing called language, we developed brains that organize reality into symbolic structures. We think in proxies, in models, and we habitually create metaphors to substitute an object, symbol or sign for an ...
Updated Sep 14, 2015 at 07:26 AM by skywatch
I have never been interested in pens. In my line of work, a pen really is a tool and when I say tool, I mean the kind that gets thrown into a box of screw-drivers and whatnot or left to rattle about in a bag with two large tape measures and a torch. To that end, I only really use two (types) of pen. i) a simple Bic Biro for when I am on site ii) a Gel pen for when I am in the office making notes The reasons for those two are simple: the first is because ...
There are far too many watches that I like so my buying decisions had been boiled down to a simple set of "rules" as it were: minimise repetitions of brand, style, type and type. That is an easy thing to follow if one were so disciplined but of course, that is not always the way. I can't pin down when it was set down in that fashion but it was likely to have been after I bought the Carrera but before I had bought the Planet Ocean. I recall that I was mulling ...
Once upon a time, during rainy lunch at work,I got bored. There is no substitute for trying something on your wrist to get a proper feel of how it fits but what to do when you are far too lazy to get to a watch shop and really can't be arsed to deal with UK High Street sales staff? Answer: you make this I was never ...
Updated Sep 5, 2015 at 05:22 PM by drunken monkey
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