European sirens
Tuesday, August 22, 2006
The Radisson in Odense is just a block or so away from the police station. Since there is no apparent concept of air conditioning in a country that is the latitudinal equivalent of northern Manitoba (if it had some sea ports), I have the window open wide. And so I can hear the city streets [...]
by Kevin Makice
A Ph.D student in informatics at Indiana University, Kevin is rich in spirit. He wrestles and reads with his kids, does a hilarious Christian Slater imitation and lights up his wife's days. He thinks deeply about many things, including but not limited to basketball, politics, microblogging, parenting, online communities, complex systems and design theory. He didn't, however, think up this profile.
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The Radisson in Odense is just a block or so away from the police station. Since there is no apparent concept of air conditioning in a country that is the latitudinal equivalent of northern Manitoba (if it had some sea ports), I have the window open wide. And so I can hear the city streets as I type.
Just now, one of those European sirens (”eeeeee-aaaaaaa, eeeeee-aaaaaa”) broke the relative quiet. As I had flashbacks to watching Peter Sellers get toted away in “A Shot in the Dark“, I wondered if crime and the citizen’s sense of it might change if American police dumped their own siren calls (”rrrooooooooooooowwrr-rrrooooooooooooowwwrr”) and went to something Inspector Clouseau might hear. I don’t know if there is anything to it more than me being up late in a foreign country for the first time, but it was almost a comforting sound.