As I have run out of current trivia, here is a photo of a window in Carey Street in London, behind the Royal Courts of Justice and near the Seven Stars, and a close-up of part of the window (somewhat lightened).
LATER NOTE: This turned out to be the pub cat Tom Paine, of the Seven Stars.
Heinz Kissinger was born at no. 23, Mathildenstraße.
It would be tempting to sneak a suitably designed plaque in there.
I am rather late to the party on this.
Further to the earlier entry, I am able to present two photos of the desk of a translator not unknown in the comments to this weblog, Paul Thomas in Baden-Württemberg (click to enlarge):
The rubber chicken was not placed there for effect, but thrown there by the office assistant, shown here:
Analysing other people’s desks looks like a future growth area to me. I spotted the globe to the left, and Paul states it was a freebee (Werbegeschenk). We note the monitor is not on the desk itself – this is a procedure with a long tradition: Luther didn’t have his monitor on his desk either:
RA-Blog regrets the division of the compound word Gelassenheitsdemonstrationsf-loskel.
I thought I’d seen the equivalent in Munich last Friday, but it was obviously deliberate:
I also saw Einkaufst-asche. More examples here – my favourite is Katzens-treu. And there’s a rubbish sorting game that’s a bit less fun than Space Invaders (click beside the three bins).