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Projekt 52 Week 11: My route to work

The topic of week 10 in Sari’s photo Projekt 52:

My route to work, school etc.

Well, what can you show when you’re working at home? First I thought I’d just take a closeup of my floor, but that would be too boring… and I don’t have a nice staircase like Cindy either on the way to my desk. So in the end, I picked this:

11: My route to work

Week 11: My route to work

View from my corridor to the right part of my desk – the PCs are behind the corner.

But that’s all out of focus!

  • That’s intentional.
  • See sharp in the morning??
  • And it fits to the question “What will the work day bring?”

Pretty low point of view!

  • Well, I can only drag myself crawling to work in the morning.

(No, the “answers” aren’t all serious. :mrgreen: )


Projekt 52 Week 10: Architecture

The topic of week 10 in Sari’s photo Projekt 52:

Architecture

Well, Pfaffenhofen doesn’t have that many eye-catching modern architecture, the main square (which has some nice old-style buildings, including the town hall) are a big construction site right now, and I didn’t want to take some photos from the archive such as the Neue Messe Stuttgart (whose parking garage I had used for a picture riddle) or the new shopping mall in Heilbronn which was almost finished last Christmas.

So I chose these two pictures:

10: Architecture (1)

Week 10: Architecture

The “House of Meeting” at the western end of the main square in Pfaffenhofen – with library, gallery, tourist office and music school.


10: Architecture (2)

Week 10: Architecture

A birdhouse…


Links of the Week (2008/10)

Except for the bird dancing to “Another One Bites The Dust” video, it’s all German.

Kurz und bündig:

6 million liters of water

6 million liters – how much is that, what to make of it?

  • 20,000,000 glasses (0.3 l each) full – doesn’t help much…
  • 6,000,000 liter bottles (duh)
  • 1,200,000 days for cooking and drinking in German average
  • 666,666 – 2,000,000 toilet flushes
  • 500,000 bottle crates (12 bottles each)
  • 150,000 showers
  • 50,000 bathing
  • 47,244 x average daily consumption in Germany
  • 17,000 fillings for 150cm wading pools (about 20cm depth)
  • 12,500 pallets with 4x2x5 bottle crates each
  • 8,100 € at 1.35 €/m³ (though I’m not sure about this price)
  • 1,200 dripping faucets per year
  • 129 years total consumption for an average German
  • 2,4 olympic swimming pools (50m x 25m x 2.0m or deeper)
  • 1 water-mains burst in the city of Pfaffenhofen the evening before yesterday.

 


Consumption numbers from Quarks&Co