Author Archive: UQ
Author: UQ
May 22, 2022
In a business driven by profit, vaccines have a problem. They’re not very profitable — at least not without government subsidies. Pharma companies favor expensive medicines that must be taken repeatedly and generate revenue for years or decades. Vaccines are… (Read more)
Author: UQ
May 22, 2022
On February 11, 2020, public health and infectious disease experts gathered by the hundreds at the World Health Organization’s Geneva mothership. The official pronouncement of a pandemic was still a month out, but the agency’s international brain trust knew enough… (Read more)
Gobbledygook
AstraZeneca, Bill Gates, COVAX, COVID, Covid 19, greed, hypocrisy, Moderna, Oxford vaccine, philanthropy, WHO
Author: UQ
January 15, 2022
When I asked my Swedish friends and colleagues what is Arbetsförmedlingen used for, they couldn’t tell me. In theory Arbetsförmedlingen exists to find people jobs, but in reality they exist to find people jobs in Arbetsförmedlingen. If you wish to… (Read more)
Author: UQ
January 8, 2020
I have DELL Laptop Precision 7530 and Latitude 5550. And Docking Stations for these 2. I use now TB18DC docking station and from time to time when I connect my laptop (Precision) to it, my USBs don’t work … keyboard,… (Read more)
Author: UQ
October 5, 2019
Interesting book that many should read at least once. If most of us would apply just one third of principles from this book, amount of assholes in this world would be insanely smaller. “At any rate, I think you will… (Read more)
Author: UQ
August 15, 2019
In this book Mr. Newport is trying to convince us that meaningful work is much better than wasting time on social media, e-mails, video games and other things that most of population practices most of the day. I will put… (Read more)
Author: UQ
July 5, 2019
Sometimes when I sleep I have very disturbing dream. It is about me missing a flight for any random reason like being late, lost or entangled in some bureaucracy or weird situation that I try to resolve but can’t. I… (Read more)
Author: UQ
June 29, 2019
Foundries are very hot. Most of the time they deal with molten metal, and for iron depending on type that happens from 1100 to 1600°C. But if you don’t touch or lick anything it can be fun and interesting place…. (Read more)
Author: UQ
May 17, 2019
Prijatelj puštao muziku u kolima i krenula pesma od Abe “Lay all your love on me” i odmah mi se učinila poznata ta melodija. Friend was playing music in his car and song from ABBA “Lay all your love on… (Read more)
Author: UQ
April 2, 2019
Few of my rentals were this kind of car… Mercedes E220 with automatic drive. It was very comfortable car, but it took me some time to get used to Mercedes-style of control, specially how to choose Drive, Reverse, Parking modes…. (Read more)
Author: UQ
March 26, 2019
I don’t really remember how any of these beers tasted. But for the sake of collecting I will put them here. One with cool picture… One for the Christmas party… Another for the Christmas party, because one is not enough…… (Read more)
Beer
Barrilito Cerveza, Beer, Braustolz Pils, Bryggmästarens Bästa Ekologiska, Crni Dordje, Dahls Pils, Det gode norske fatöl, Electric Nurse Winter Brown Ale, Fem Komma Tvåan, Freiberger, Grelbestad Julöl, Hobgoblin, Jämtlands Julöl, Kauzen Noctuator Doppelbock, Kirin, La Guillotine, Stiegl, Triple D'Anvers, Vega Azalea Lager
Author: UQ
March 24, 2019
And finally I got that privilege to drive one BMW (again). And I was slightly disappointed. I can’t say that anything was wrong with how it went, but it went too good. Car was just too comfortable, after 1 hour… (Read more)
Author: UQ
March 1, 2019
A friend told me this one, that he heard from a friend (of a friend, of a friend….). One night on almost empty highway somewhere around Detroit a car was swerving across three-four lanes. Police got a report about this,… (Read more)
Author: UQ
February 14, 2019
One from Nepal. But not really. It is actually made in UK, and except the name it doesn’t have much connection with Gurkhas or Nepal. There is small story on the bottle about Gurkhas – Nepalese warriors and how they joined… (Read more)
Author: UQ
February 10, 2019
People are stupid and naive. And sometimes when faced with tragic event, or if their whole life was not the best one, people tend to be quite superstitious and easy to trick by different types of prophets, psychics, card readers,… (Read more)
Author: UQ
February 8, 2019
Title is little bit inaccurate because I didn’t try all Mexican beers, but just a few – three (four). They were all good and refreshing, property that they own to weather during my visit which was dry and warm, 25-30°C…. (Read more)
Author: UQ
January 26, 2019
I have started with reviewing average hotels and average cars that I have chance to be in. This is due to my work which includes insane amounts of traveling. On my travels, specially when I am in some new area… (Read more)
Author: UQ
January 15, 2019
I am frequent customer of Taxi Göteborg and most of the time in front of car there is small plastic holder with taxi driver ID. I have noticed that when driver is black, he always looks completely different than whats… (Read more)
Author: UQ
January 12, 2019
Polish churchPolish people are crazy about religion. And also try to build awesome churches. While traveling through Poland I gathered some photos, so with this post I would like to make small collection of churches that I saw. Most of… (Read more)
Author: UQ
December 27, 2018
Once upon a time I had to stay at this hotel. It was nice. It is outside of Herzogenburg’s city center, very quiet neighborhood and has a big parking. There was buffet type of breakfast, with usual Western European (Austrian)… (Read more)
Author: UQ
December 9, 2018
One of less creepy features of google maps is possibility to save favorite places, and I like to do that. I usually save with star each place where I was sleeping (if I don’t forget), plus there are few more… (Read more)
Author: UQ
December 7, 2018
I was planning to make two posts, but I cant gather enough content for 2 proper posts, and maybe not even for one. So I will merge them with one click-bait-able “vs”. Because they don’t have much in common, except… (Read more)
Author: UQ
November 30, 2018
Adnan’s This is one of my first audio children. It is some very soft remix of a song by some other group – can’t find original. It was made while I went to high school. Mr. Whitelabel This is some… (Read more)
Author: UQ
November 29, 2018
I had a chance (again) while renting car from Avis cunts to get Audi A3 SB E-TRON with automatic transmission. As last time I couldn’t connect my phone because I couldn’t find simple Bluetooth connection. Instead of that there was… (Read more)
Author: UQ
November 28, 2018
This is a serious question, and I don’t have answer to it. There is plenty of researches that say they are bad. But we all know how to use them and each of us found some good use for it…. (Read more)
Author: UQ
November 25, 2018
While visiting Ringkøbing, on the last morning when I started driving out I passed by the shore of Ringkøbing Fjord and stopped the car to take few photos of water. But the really interesting thing happened when I turned to… (Read more)
Author: UQ
November 23, 2018
During my November visit to Denmark I had a chance to stay in lovely hotel called Hotel Ringkøbing in the middle of a village of a same name (without “Hotel” part of course). It was a nice place with big… (Read more)
Author: UQ
November 19, 2018
Hotel Skjern is in middle of Skjern – small city in Denmark. I was there for few days and it was ok. Here are few photos from my room, nothing special, but good to sleep and leave some stuff inside…. (Read more)
Author: UQ
November 19, 2018
While visiting Denmark I got this Renault Grand Scenic. It was very big car, or at least very tall, almost tall as me. Inside it was quite minimalist. It was nice car with nothing special to point out or to… (Read more)
Author: UQ
November 12, 2018
I got a chance to drive Seat Leon, both automatic and manual. It was nice car, with big trunk. I like big trunks, where I can open my big travel bag and maybe have some extra space to take out… (Read more)