Some Short Stories

The next few blogs will be a couple of short stories that either found somewhere, or that I have written myself.
enjoy!

The German Autobahn

Ever wonder if the autobahn is as cool as it sounds? Where everyone drives insanely fast? Im talking about 150+km/h here...



Well sorry but thats not exactly true.
Contrary to popular belief, there are speed limits on the autobahn. These occur near major cities, in tunnels, in high traffic, and near major interchanges.
According to the German Federal Transport Ministry and the United States Diplomatic Mission to Germany site,

"Speed limits are 50 km per hour in cities and towns and 100 km on the highway unless otherwise marked; there is no speed limit on the Autobahn, except where marked (but a top speed of 130 km is recommended by the German authorities). "

Here are a handful of traffic regulations for the German Autobahn

• Passing on the right is strictly prohibited! Slower vehicles must move to the right to allow faster traffic to pass, and drivers should stay in the right lane except to pass. When passing, you must do so as quickly as possible, and it's in your best interest to do so lest you become a hood ornament on that Porsche that was just a speck in your mirror a second ago and now is close enough for you to see the look of distain on the driver's face. You are, however, allowed to pass on the right in heavy traffic when vehicles have started queuing, but only at a slow speed.
  
• Stopping, parking, U-turns, and backing-up are strictly verboten, including on shoulders and ramps (except for emergencies, of course.)
  
• Entering and exiting is permitted only at marked interchanges.
  
• Traffic entering the Autobahn must yield to traffic already on the Autobahn.
  
• During traffic jams, motorists in the left lane are required to move as far to the left as possible and those in the adjacent center or right lane must move as far to the right in their lane as possible, thus creating a gap between the lanes for emergency vehicles to pass through.

Source: Getting Around Germany

Feel like driving fast but don't know where to go?
Check this out (its in Germany by the way)

Did you know that you can also get your license in Germany due to reciprocity?
Click here to read about it.

Hour Glass Watch

So i have no life, so heres my next blog, oh man.


I admit i never used to wear a watch. I just used my cellphone to keep track of time. I don't know about you but it starts to get annoying afterwards, especially when you forget your cellphone at home. You are left without two important things; a way of communicating, and your only method of keeping track of time, ( unless of course you use a sundial), but enough about me, heres my take on the hour glass watch.

In reality its called the "Sand+Time" watch.
The beauty of it lies in the unification of modern technologies and old ways of measuring time (no its not a sundial).
Keeping with the "2 technology theme", the watch employs two modes of telling time.

The first mode is actually a screensaver that takes the form of a sand hourglass counting a certain time unit set by the user to their preference.
As time goes on the "grains of sand", i.e pixels, fall from the top of the watch to the bottom across the LED screen.

The second mode displays the time in numbers, the way most people are used too.

I honestly think its very cool and i would very much love to wear this gorgeous time piece.

Now for the sad part.
It's purely a conceptual design by Russian designer Pavel Balykin, so I guess I won't be seeing one on a store shelf anytime soon. Only time will tell.

Be sure to check out his website.
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Oh, and yes, i do wear a watch nowadays.

My first post

So here it is, my first post on my first blog... ever.
Im actually new to this whole "blogging" business, so it'll take me some time to get the hang of it. Ill be mostly posting things that interest me. This includes my opinions, which in no way am I saying is the truth, but yea.
Stay tuned for more.