Tag: christmas

Christmas carousels

Impossible automata for my street organ this holiday season. Featuring Georg Büchner, Ignaz Bruder, German Christmas pyramids, dancing Hasidim, Lieutenant Kijé as you’ve probably never seen it, Le Tigre, and a crustacean.

Types of (German) Christmas pyramid.

I just bought my km0 Christmas turkey

It doesn’t look like a normal turkey because it’s a special Catalan breed, and it’s also free-range and organic, says my friend from the bar on the corner. What would I do without my new friends here?

Get your lice at Vic municipal market this Christmas

Vic, deepest Catalonia, has a council that cares – but not necessarily about ratepayers: In the Mercat Municipal de Vic (Municipal Market of Vic) you can find all products that customer may need all of them of top quality: butchers, delicatessens, butchers, greengrocers, lice, food, fish side, bar restaurant, bakery, cheese, kiosk, system products ,…

Insuring Amsterdam

Stiltsville in various Germans. With a filthy joke, and several less filthy ones.

Turkish-English machine translation

Over at TottenhamNews.org, via Improbable Research, which cites some choice samples. Curiously, while the registrant’s address is said to be just round the corner from Ankara’s gloriously Martian Altınpark, the phone number is Dutch, and the only Turkish news that I’ve ever heard come out of Tottenham, north London, is of this planet’s most splendid…

Diputación de Málaga wastes €20,000 subsidising a badly translated school textbook

Lars Bjørn Hanssen > Diario Sur (> Teresa Aguilar > Carlos Ferrero): The Diputación de Málaga gave €20,000 to help Loving Books publish an Atlas ilustrado de la provincia de Málaga; Alejandro Villén Real at Loving Books gave very little of that to an apparently unemployed receptionist for the English translation; no quality control was…