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joule on January 15, 2006 - 2:51pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
You DID mean say 'gemütlichkeit' (warm, friendly, cozy) don't you?

I fully agree with you about small, out of the way places. I used to do a good deal of business travel, and I always found it so depressing to be eating dinner at some mediocre franchised chain restaurant in a strip mall almost totally identical to any other strip mall in the country.

Just as a high degree of variation is essential for a healthy biosphere, so is a high degree of variation essential to a culture. Without it, we just become one big ant hill.

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dipchip on January 15, 2006 - 5:04pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Joule: Thanks for the spelling, it was not in my German dictionary. I doubt there is an accurate English translation. I think it means the warm fuzzy you get after your second glass of wine, while having dinner with friends, and the fireplace is in full crackling flame in the dead of winter.  
BTW  what came first the joule or the watt-second?
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