People are asking whether the insurance of the (possibly) liable party would cover the repairs. Unfortunately, the answer is maybe. It may be over a month before the full police report can even be released to my attorney. Hooray for red tape.
A couple shots from the travel film Ijsland during a Cultuurcentrum screening, and I had resolved on yet another "lifetime-goal" carillon campaign: To build a carillon in Iceland in the stunning Hallgrímskirkja tower, the tallest building in the country.
There appears to be an automatic chime, but come now, a great nation of 300,000 people (less than half the population of San Francisco) deserves a carillon!
And I thought I was living in an incredibly tiny cool country. Which leads me to random facts gleaned from Wikipedia: The population density of Belgium is eighteen times less that of San Francisco but only seven times less that of New Haven (which incidentally, although he denies it, is the birthplace of our current 'Texan' president). SF has a surprising number of sister cities, ranging from Paris to Ho Chi Minh. And in 2002, SF had as many homeless people as New York even though it had one-tenth the population, and the number of people who died on the streets was twice that of the state of Florida. Do we mistreat them so badly, or do they flock to SF because the city is less hostile to them? Or do we San Franciscans just tend to end up homeless?
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Fish Church in Stamford, Experimental Jet Plane Church in Iceland...
Clearly another one of your hobbies: wiki-spelunking :-) And perhaps San Fran is more attractive to permanent urban spelunkers than NY?
must be the endless summers of love :]
all VERY clever answers, folks. klaas, that reminds me, i do think i was a homeless bum (at least for a while) during a past life, because i really, really like hanging out underneath highway overpasses and bridges. maybe that's when my "spelunking" instincts developed...
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