Gunnar Wolf

Translation: «Access forbidden to any kind of sellers to the market. Your goods will be taken away.»

So, the market is just for trading ideas?

Seen at the entrance to "Mercado de la Bola", col. Ajusco, Coyoacán, Mexico D.F.

If this is the advertisement for the garage sale, I cannot imagine the garage itself!

(seen at Totonacas and Netzahualcóyotl; col. Ajusco, Coyoacán, México)

I'm sorry, this would not make any sense if I translate it to English. It might not be well understandable in locales other than es_MX. But anyway — It shows most clients have a clear use case for Tehuacán Peñafiel.

Lets go eat some T.Bon (T-bone) and Ribay (rib eye)!

After the strong and unexpected cold and wet weather that has lasted around two weeks, my cats decided on the best startegy to maximize the sun reception on the first sunny afternoon

Thanks to Cripkey! :-D

I frankly have no words to describe what the "artist" had in mind

(seen in Xochimilco, March 2011)

...But something tells me this is not the optimal one.

Umh… More than one strange thing here.

• Adults are forbidden if not accompanied by children‽ First time I ever see such a sign...
• It is common for people to bring several things to a park which might constitute a sign. But, please explain all of the icons…
  • Explain the relative severity of biking (0,0) or eating (1,0) at a park to… Bringing weapons? (2,0)
  • Oh, and of course, they have to be inclusive and list things — So not only it is forbidden to bring food and drinks, but also to serve drinks (3,0), or to cook food (which would have to take place in the non-existing grills) (0,1)
  • Not only they forbid biking (0,0), but also performing athletic competitions including biking (3,1)

  There also several flaws in the iconography used:

  • Is it forbidden to listen to music and to enable cell phones? (2,1)
  • Is it forbidden to use matches to light a lighter? (1,2)

…Seen at a Chapultepec park playground, Mexico City.

If this qualifies as a safe crossing («cruce seguro»)… I should have stayed at home

While swearing at my bank's automated phone attention system, I was thinking that –taking advantage in the fact they already usually say that "the call will be recorded to improve service quality"– call center operators/programmers should record all user activity and, just for laughs, play back the grumbles angry users shout at the system. Of course, at random intervals, on loudspeakers, over the crowded call centers.

Oh, they do it already?

Some years ago, I faced a 900 word limit for the first time. My question to the editor: Can I write the column in German?

Aug 27 06:00:15 lafa kernel: [7218302.960003] sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] 
        Add. Sense: No additional sense information
Aug 27 06:00:15 lafa kernel: [7218302.960003] sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] 
        Sense Key : No Sense [current]

My hard drive does not currently make any additional sense.

Online translators are not hot news anymore. Not by a long, long shot. Still, today I wanted to get a couple of words in Latin. And was amazed that Google's translation service does not (yet?) offer Latin as an option, so I turned to Translation Guide's free online translators.

And, as it always happens, I thought, hmmm... and what about the random ramblings on my site?

So on I went to Gunnar Lupus alio domus. Of course, several funny things popped up, many of which I don't think are proper Latin, but still, among lotsa' nonsense, I found that Planet Debian gets translated to Plagiarius Debian — Which possibly explains why many people have complained about other unauthorized planetoids plagarizing their posts!

With due apologies and thanks to my dear and crazy friend UCH:

Once upon a time

Once, because twice would be a repetitive story

A king

One, because two would mean war

Who was married to a queen

One, because two would be drama

They had a princess daughter

One, because two would be a mess

Who was in love with a knight

One, because two would be a soap opera

He was given the task of killing a dragon

One, because two would be a titanic feat

The hero had an idea

One, because two would be asking too much

Using a unique magic sword

One, because were they two, it would no longer be unique

With which, he took the dragon's life

One, because it was a dragon, not a cat

Then they proceeded with the wedding

One, because two would mean bigamy

And they lived happily forever

One, because two forevers would be like two infinites

The end

One, because two ends would be complicated

The bad translation is completely my fault.