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Author Archives: Andreas Moser
If I described it to you, you would think it was ugly.
If you asked me “how was your day today?”, I could tell you that it is still winter, it is terribly cold, a snowstorm has been ravaging all day, I live in a Soviet-era apartment block made out of pre-fabricated … Continue reading
No wonder I got lost
No wonder I got slightly lost on my walk from Druskininkai to Grutas (both of which are in Lithuania), with sign posts like these. But luckily I had glanced at a map before I set out and so I could … Continue reading
Grutas Park – a Museum of Falsification of History
Last weekend I was in Druskininkai, in the South of Lithuania, and of course I wanted to visit nearby Grūtas Park (Grūto parkas in Lithuanian), a sculpture park of Soviet monuments and a museum about the Soviet occupation of Lithuania. … Continue reading
Posted in History, Holocaust, Lithuania, Military, Photography, Politics, Travel, World War II
Tagged Grutas Park, Gruto Parkas, Soviet Union
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Sad Things (# 4) Sick Tree
Apparently, even trees can get cancer: (Photographed at Europos Parkas in Lithuania.)
Plastic Surgery Statistics
While browsing charts and graphs about property bubbles and purchasing power parity, I came across this chart in The Economist which shows how much plastic surgery is performed in the following countries. There is a lot to be said about … Continue reading
Posted in Brazil, Colombia, Greece, India, Italy, Russia
Tagged beauty, Colombia, Health, South Korea, Statistics, women
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Sad Things (3) Yahoo Messenger
When I started to use the internet in the late 1990s, I also signed up to the Yahoo messenger. It was an easy way to find like-minded people (and attractive girls) before the time of Facebook or Couchsurfing and I made … Continue reading
Super Bowl XLVII
Some of my American friends have tried already to explain American Football to me, but I have always forgotten the fine minutiae of the rules even before the match was over. To somebody more accustomed to European football, it just … Continue reading
How cold is it?
Question: How cold is it in Lithuania? Answer: It is so cold that I saw this “icy” icon in the Google weather forecast for the first time. Not snow, not hail, just ice. But honestly, it’s not that bad. You … Continue reading
Sad Things (2) E-Mail from an old Friend
This is sad: I receive an e-mail from an old friend with whom I haven’t had contact for years. I am excited. I open the e-mail, only to find out that they are contacting me in my capacity as a … Continue reading
Sad Things (1) Where is the Cat?
It is not advisable to write about positive things only because it would evoke jealousy in the reader. (I just heard about a study on the radio which investigated how depressed people get from browsing their friends’ Facebook profiles, especially … Continue reading
The Happy Hermit 