Bitcoin Pizza Day
By Carl Kruse It’s May 22, Bitcoin Pizza Day, celebrated by bitcoiners and friends everywhere. What’s this? Back in May 22, 2010, software engineer Laszlo Hanyecz bought two pizzas with […]
Buy Bitcoin
By Carl Kruse Editorial Note: Bitcoin is a relatively new technology, on the frontier of knowledge and practice. Bitcoin is volatile, risky, experimental. It could go to zero. The Carl […]
Laethanta na Riabhaiche – The Borrowed Days
During these first days of April snow falls outside making it easier to stay inside in the time of coronavirus. Another April some time ago, while perusing Richard MacFarlane’s Twitter […]
Happy Anniversary JRR and Edith Tolkien
By Carl Kruse Happy anniversary J.R.R. and Edith Tolkien, married on this day in 1916. Tolkien met Edith as a teenager and supposedly became so smitten with her he neglected […]
Morse Code Revisited: Communing With Titanic’s Distress Signal
by Carl Kruse Years ago I studied Morse Code as a prerequisite to becoming a Ham radio operator and while never becoming a Ham I abosrbed Morse Code and wondered […]
Marcus Aurelius Meditations
by Carl Kruse Marcus Aurelius’s “Meditations” is one of 8-10 books that peer at me from my desk, and if inanimate books emit energy I feel that of the Meditations […]
Visit to Bavaria Filmstadt and Das Boot
By Carl Kruse Supposedly it’s difficult to make anti-war films because movies tend to make war look exciting. That’s probably true but not for Wolfang Petersen’s “DAS BOOT” (1981) one […]
30th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall
By Carl Kruse The Berlin Wall fell 30 years ago and with it the beginning of the end of the Cold War. Today only fragments remain after much of […]
Wings Over Tempelhof
A winged bicycle soars over the miniature golf course at the former Tempelhof airport in Berlin. Just past the fence is housing for five-thousand asylum seekers recently arrived to Germany. […]
Pakenham Loves Trees, so does Kruse
When Thomas Pakenham first thought of making a book about his favorite trees near his home in England, friends poked fun at him, but the book he created, “Meetings With […]
At Dusk
In long-drawn moments of dusk Shadows are bold companions Birds grow silent and keep night’s secrets. Contact: carl AT carlkruse DOT com Check out some of the poetry of […]