My Daily Banana

 

 

 

Photo of the Day:

 

 

Inside the Husum Church
It's quite plain but very classy

The Altar
There are no pictures or reliefs in the church not even a painting of Jesus, unusual

 

 

Event of the Day:

 

12th August 1981

 

The IBM PC was released

 

The first personal computer with a cpu 8088 systembus 4.77MHz, RAM was 256kByte and the storage system was two floppy discs and a fixed disc with a capacity of 10 MB (this computer that I am working with has a cpu Intel Core i7 systembus 3.20GHz, RAM is 32GByte and storage system is a DVD played/recorder a solid system hard disc with 512 GByte capacity and another hard disc with a capacity of 2 TByte

The PC's are worlds apart.

My first PC I bought in 1985 when I went to the building technology college. On it I learned how to make small programs with Basic and I learned CAD, with which I now earn my daily bread/banana.

 

 

Birthday of the Day:

 

12th August 1986

 

Lynda Martin

 

Our little girl, she fought against a contraceptive coil and won.

 

Died on this Day:

 

 

12th August 1964

 

Ian Fleming

 

The man who created James Bond, 007 licence to kill

 

 

Thoughts:

 

The rain is here, just like I wanted. At last the car is being washed.

I hope it clears up soon though, because we are taking a short trip this weekend to Sylt. I was given two concert cards for Annett Louisan and the concert is on Saturday evening.

My English speaking friends will not have heard of her, she sings in German; it's a kind of chanson the text is interesting and she's an eyeful to be seen. So I'm looking forward to a good concert. I'll give you a sample of her songs: Das Spiel and a link to her latest album Zu Viel Informationen

Here are a few photos of Husum:

Husum was a livestock market back in history

Ugly wall reliefs of the fifties/sixties

Not much better

Husum town centre with the church in the background

Husum is quite an old town with many impressive buildings

Old, most of the façade is original

The church with a fountain in front the Tine-Brunnen (the statue symbolises a fishers wife)

The market square

The harbour area
too many people.
There's a café on the right where I like to sit and watch the world go by.

The harbour.
Now-a-days there are only hobby yachts that berth here, in the last century there was a shipyard here. I can remember seeing the Sylt/Röm car-ferry on the slip, that must be back in the early seventies.

It's a nice area now, clean; the industry is gone and the town lives from a new industry: tourists

That was the first time, that I saw the bridge open to let a ship through.

Hope you likes the pictures of Husum. I'll have to repeat it sometime when the town is in a normal state.

Bye!