San Francisco movies & forty-three trillion possibilities

                                      

I watched two movies that are set in San Francisco last weekend, Hitchcock’s “Vertigo” (1958) and the Will Smith production “Pursuit of Happyness” (2006) which is set in the 1980s. Both movies have stunning views of the city and especially of course of the famous Golden Gate Bridge.
 I lived close to San Francisco for a [...]

Don’t mind the gap!

Who said Germans are lacking a sense of black humor? This is a billboard for a funeral company. The text translates as: “Please step closer”.  A more loose translation would be “Don’t mind the gap!”