Smartphone Shots I Took Today
A broken flat screen TV bought some time around the year 2008, I think. The bag contains other broken electrical appliances.
Stores that sell this type of items are legally required to take and dispose of any broken electrical appliances.
A go playing friend of mine once mentioned his father had stayed in a hotel in Moscow in the Soviet period. All of the rooms were told to have microphones in them. An entire floor was not accessible from the lifts. Perhaps that floor was full of KGB operatives listening in to the conversations had in the rooms by the foreign guests. (All the guests were foreign in that hotel.)
I quipped that if the walls were full of bugs, then maybe Gigantti would be obliged to take and process as waste the pieces of the torn down walls of any Soviet era hotel for foreigners on account of them being saturated with electronics.
I went to the local supermarket and spotted this beautiful old Plymouth in the parking lot.
Can anyone tell the model and the year it was made? I'm guessing the late 1950s.
I had to take some garden waste including this old stem that had been used as a chopping block to the waste center. It was easy to chop into pieces because it was so rotten.
At the waste center, I saw this mysterious little cabin when I was looking for a place to dump some things. The words above the door are "PIMU" and "SISU" above it. That's funny because the word "pimu" is a slang word for an attractive young girl. The word "sisu" you may know. It means grit or perseverance.
WTF?
I can only surmise that PIMU and SISU are acronyms in this case.
My wife wanted to buy a piece of furniture from a guy who was selling it near Helsinki. We drove down there to see it.
Eastbound on the ring road number one
Notice the bilingual road signs. The language below Finnish is Swedish. Helsinki and all of its neighbours are officially bilingual with Swedish as the minority language. We don't have bilingual road and street signs in our part of the country.
This is why I don't particularly like Helsinki Urban Area. It growing fast which is why there is a lot of new buildings there. But it's basically a collection of relatively expensive patches of concrete jungle. Residential areas are mainly built around local railway stations except for the urban core. Helsinki Urban Area is home to about 1.4 million people. Only about 150,000 of them live in the dense urban core where the streetcars operate. The zoning plan for the urban area has been changed to aim for the urban core to expand considerably.
What I'm hoping is that the lockdowns will bring about permanent changes in corporate culture allowing for significantly more people with office jobs to work remotely. If most people could live as far from Helsinki as we live, they would be able to afford much larger homes. Commuting to Helsinki from here is a bit impractical but still done by thousands of people on a daily basis. But if one didn't have to go to the office every day, it would be a different matter.