Kuopio, Café & Opening Hours

Posted on July 26, 2010 | by Markus Stocker

[A call to my readers in Kuopio, in particular.] If you live in Kuopio, or you are an attentive tourist, you are likely to notice a peculiarity of the city in a matter of days, weeks at most. Most locals I have talked to agree: Kuopio lacks a few cozy coffee shops with opening hours [...]

Pleasures

Posted on July 17, 2010 | by Markus Stocker

Discovering author after author who master an ability for presenting with beauty and simplicity thoughts of which many I had been exposed in unclear and overly complicated ways in the past, most notably at school. High school. One of the latest is Frank Close in a gem of a little book [1] that embraces with [...]

To Bring News To A Boil

Posted on July 12, 2010 | by Markus Stocker

(And increase entropy along the way.) The pot was placed on the cooking stove shortly after noon with the brief announcement by NZZ that at 2pm CEST the Swiss justice minister Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf will announce the decision regarding the U.S. request to extradite Polanski. Since, some French rejoice «Merci la Suisse! Bravo la Suisse!» while [...]

Twitter Is Not The World

Posted on July 1, 2010 | by Markus Stocker

Sunday I was back from three days without computer and any type of connectivity. Unusual circumstances, nowadays. I spent the days in a Finnish summer cottage that is built on top of a little rocky hill with a fabulous view on the Baltic sea located a good 30 minutes drive from the closest town where [...]

 

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