Post Titled: Characteristically Uncharacteristic
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Walking by a empty lot there was a billboard (as usual) with a glossy diagram of the building which will soon be built there - you know the ones with the little digital people spotted in sporadically walking along the sidewalk. Another office building, and here we have our problem: this architecture that is best described as Characteristically Uncharacteristic, YAWN.

For a society that is so highly regulated and well-ordered, one that has never even undergone a revolution, I think there may be a glitch in the German DNA, something like LINE BLINDNESS. If you are waiting in line here it often happens that someone will simply ignore the line or try to create their own damn line even though there are obviously several people already waiting. I am not saying it is averywhere, but I see it about once a week, and it incites a deep rage within me. Not really, but kind of.

The Checkpoint Charlie hood is positively crawling with tourists and