American ignorance on parade

I was reading charva’s journal the other day and was shocked to find that she had gone to the Museum of Torture in the Czech Republic. I hadn’t met many people who had been there and I promised to post the pictures I took when I was there in 1993. Photographs weren’t allowed, then or now, but the tour guide let it be known that we could buy a "photography license". Of course, if anyone else came around we couldn’t take photos. Nudge, nudge, wink, wink.

But then, after I uploaded the pics yesterday I got confused. The Museum I went to was in Budapest. And I vaguely remembered that it was a Hungarian history museum that was just so brutal our friends called it the torture museum. Or perhaps I got confused and they were talking about Prague and I thought they were talking Budapest.

Either way, The glory of the Austro-Hungarian Empire revolved around lots of immolation and beheading. Our guide told us the stories, part in German, part in English, but I couldn’t really follow the stories then and certainly can’t remember who is who now.

But hey, charva This isn’t the place, is it?

( This is going under a cut because even though they are wax statues, they are still pretty gross )

National delurking week

Hmmmm, all these people say it's National Delurking Week so who am I to argue?

Cleary one of the best things about LJ is the social interaction. While that can be problematic if one isn't careful, I definitely prefer it to the alternative. It seems there are a lot of lonely blogs out there.

So Lurkers, leave a comment. Especially if you work in the dairy industry. Heh.

I will also mention two blogs by people I know:

deth_nell is my old downstairs neighbor. I think of cats and bikes when I think of her, but she hasn't written about either yet.

My brother's blog is definitely for the committed cyclist. He's a mountain biker, a bike-to-worker, and new cyclocross racer. He's too good for LJ so you'll have to check him out here: http://ramblings.cyclofiend.com/