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Traffic Cop Magic!   March 21, 2026 There's a big statue of a friendly traffic cop right next to the central train station in Linköping, Sweden. I was exploring the town and noticed it from a distance. He's holding a big traffic sign, though I was perpendicular to it or slightly on the wrong side of it. It could be a stop sign. From my position on the far side of the train tracks, the roof over the train platform obscurred the top of the sign, making it look like a magic wand. I actually took two pictures and in the second one, the bus isn't there. I thought about making some animation where the bus magically disappears, but I didn't want to spend the time and thought this was good enough. Here's the full-size image that's right from the camera with no adjustments (again, no time for that, and it's fine as is). If this were in the US, there'd be lots of news stories of abuse of magic powers. There's a lot of potential for parodies or whatever, but again, maybe another time.

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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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