simonkagstrom (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} simonkagstrom) wrote,@ 2009-04-03 19:14:00 |
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Reaping the benefits of the big city
Why do people want to live in in big cities? Why put up with noise, smelly cars and long distances? There are many answers, with work perhaps being the most important. One thing which does attract people is the great cultural and shopping diversity the big city offers.
Thus, while every town over 30,000 inhabitants will have a dedicated chocolate store, only big cities will sport a dedicated licorice store. Stockholm has such a store on Östermalm. I therefore visited "Lakritsroten" yesterday and bought various finnish, dutch and swedish salmiakki and licorice sweets. Good stuff! I'll be visiting regularly to get my fix.
In other news, I've also sent my zero-emission vehicle in for service to change from the winter tyres to summer dittos. I'll have one gray and one black tyre, so the zero-emission vehicle will look like something put together by an amateur, but it's starting to get pretty worn already so I don't particularly care.
Some Frodo-Wii news as well: I'll release a new version in a couple of days. I'd just like to add protocol versioning support to the broker and the server/client to avoid problems when migrating to new releases. I also made the broker generate connection statistics in HTML format when someone connects, which you can see here (thanks Nils for hosting the broker). I'd say network play works pretty well at reasonable geographic distances.
Why do people want to live in in big cities? Why put up with noise, smelly cars and long distances? There are many answers, with work perhaps being the most important. One thing which does attract people is the great cultural and shopping diversity the big city offers.
Thus, while every town over 30,000 inhabitants will have a dedicated chocolate store, only big cities will sport a dedicated licorice store. Stockholm has such a store on Östermalm. I therefore visited "Lakritsroten" yesterday and bought various finnish, dutch and swedish salmiakki and licorice sweets. Good stuff! I'll be visiting regularly to get my fix.
In other news, I've also sent my zero-emission vehicle in for service to change from the winter tyres to summer dittos. I'll have one gray and one black tyre, so the zero-emission vehicle will look like something put together by an amateur, but it's starting to get pretty worn already so I don't particularly care.
Some Frodo-Wii news as well: I'll release a new version in a couple of days. I'd just like to add protocol versioning support to the broker and the server/client to avoid problems when migrating to new releases. I also made the broker generate connection statistics in HTML format when someone connects, which you can see here (thanks Nils for hosting the broker). I'd say network play works pretty well at reasonable geographic distances.
