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Fighting for Foot Traffic   April 09, 2026 Gamla Stan is the Old Town in Stockholm. The buildings are old and some of the streets are narrow. Some of them are very narrow—like this one, for example. I could touch both sides of the street at the same time, and I don't have albatross arms (or a high "ape index" either). So, I could not place both palms flat on the two walls, so instead I had to do the fingertip touches. Oh well. So it was narrow. I'm not sure what kind of service vehicles can use that street; maybe just a motorbike pulling a wagon. We had to wait so that the street was clear, as it's a place where people like to take pictures. It was also a bit chilly that day, hence the cap and gloves. After looking at the picture, I decided there needed to be a speech balloon with some heroic text and that was the best I could do given the few minutes I had before I had to head off. Here is a bigger version of the 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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