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A blog about language, chocolate and occasionally politics.

Tuesday, December 31, 2019

Books read 2019

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At the start of 2018 I resolved to read more books, and I’ve more or less kept it up in 2019. Purely quantitatively I’m trailing a bit (45 t...
Sunday, October 27, 2019

Where can I get to in 12 hours from Konstanz without flying?

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The Scientists4Future at the HU Berlin have launched a project to eschew short-haul flights , provided that the journey can instead be compl...
Saturday, October 19, 2019

Ritter Sport Winter 2019

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The three new winter varieties Bunte Vielfalt varieties are here! Novelty value is low, however; two are repeats not only from 2018 but al...
Monday, August 05, 2019

6 weird German things

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Ever since I moved to Germany in March 2017 I have been an astute observer of local customs. These six quintessentially German weird things ...
Thursday, July 25, 2019

What's on George's bookshelf?

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Having previously had fun with Mensa menus , I used the same methodology on the list of book titles to be found in my office. My research pr...
Saturday, June 08, 2019

Dominic Raab: "I deeply regret taking skooma"

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Following yesterday’s explosive revelations, Conservative leadership hopeful Dominic Raab has expressed deep regret at his occasional skooma...
Sunday, June 02, 2019

Ritter Sport Summer 2019

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Interestingly, these are now called “Bunte Vielfalt” (colourful diversity) rather than “Sommergenuss”. Moving away from the seasonal pattern...
Thursday, May 23, 2019

What's for lunch at the University of Konstanz?

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A fun post for my 34th birthday. Inspired by aiweirdness.com , I trained a text-generating neural network, textgenrnn , on a dataset of mea...
Sunday, May 12, 2019

Remain tactical voting in NW: vote Green or Lib Dem

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The tl;dr version of this post is: If you want to vote Lib Dem, do that. If you want to vote Green, do that. If you want to vote Change ...
Saturday, February 09, 2019

A special place in hell for who?

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European Council president Donald Tusk has been getting a lot of stick from Brexiteers recently for this comment: I've been wondering...
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Sunday, February 03, 2019

Ritter Sport Spring 2019

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"Spring"? Well, these varieties were on the shelves on 1st February, so I guess so. The snow outside must just be an illusion. W...
Monday, December 31, 2018

Books read 2018

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My main resolution for 2018 was to read more books, as this is something that had lapsed a bit in previous years. And I certainly kept to th...
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