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  [Beethoven does the composing and lets the compost do the decomposing.]


March 26, 2023

Bonn, Germany is a bit nuts about Beethoven. But it's pretty understandable, since, well, he's Beethoven and was from Bonn. So there are a lot of buildings commemorating the composer, as well as statues and sometimes things with a little less, um, gravitas. The Altes Rathaus in the Old Town is Bonn's old City Hall, and in front of the majestic stairs is a plaster-ish statue of "Ludwig Von" (as Little Alex from Clockword Orange would say). It's got colored paint on it. And when I was walking by, there were a bunch of colorful trash and recycling bins in front of the statue, whose hand was extended.

It was at the edge of the pedestrian-only cobblestone plaza and with a sigh, I new I was required to take a picture of the statue, positioning myself so that it looked like the hand was about to open one of the bins. I figured it was just something that every tourist had to do. So do I did. I think it's kind of amusing.

A few days later a few of us from the conference were walking by the plaza and I wanted to point out the statue. When we got there, there were no containers near Beethoven, it was just him. So maybe it was a rare moment when they had just taken the trash out and the timing and position had worked. I think they could (and should) use Beethoven to promote reusing, recyling, composting, and all that. Here's the full size picture.

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I tend to doodle. Over the years, I've accumulated lots of random sketches of things, sometimes people, sometimes things, and sometimes just abstract lines. The basic idea on these pages is for me to slowly scan in highlights from my collection of random quick doodles. I also am providing a place where I can explain what it is or what motivated it or perhaps some reason why I'm not to blame. With the sketches of people, their name may be hand-written, or there might be a talk title provided, but I will tend to avoid providing full names. I don't mind if people know who they are, I just don't want them coming up on search engine hits, since that might be a bit rude.

Note that the images are PNGs with transparency. Mozilla and Firefox properly render them. Safari too, I think. Internet Exporer doesn't. I don't care.
If you want to see the image without the annoying blue-lined background image, just click on the image.


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