By Sylvie, France. Some things stay because they are useful, some because they were gifts, and some simply because nobody has decided what to do with them yet. Then there are the things we are quite happy to leave behind. I have a popcorn machine in my house that I never use. It was a…
By The Swimming Club, aka Martin & Manfred, both in Germany. Music, caravans and the invisible machinery underneath an ordinary good day. Martin likes to listen to music properly. Not as something floating around in the background while he does three other things. He sits on the couch and listens. Sometimes he streams a concert…
By Babette, Germany. The Adventure Started in the Dark. Our trip from Germany to Egypt started very early—or maybe very late, depending on how you look at it! We flew in the early morning hours while it was still dark outside. Even the flight became part of the holiday adventure. Getting Around Egypt. We tried…
By Janita & Frank aka The Duo, (or Fruitloop and The Mayor.) Fabrice was supposed to join us. He didn’t. So, while we waited, we did what any sensible Mayor and Fruitloop would do: carried on without him. At five o’clock, there were supposed to be three of us. There were two. The Mayor arrived…
By Ismar in Campo Grande, Brazil and Ritesh, Bengaluru, India. Between a kitchen cabinet in Bangalore, a sparse apartment in Campo Grande and three old phones that nobody quite knows what to do with, a conversation about clutter became a story about repair, necessity and lives lived in transition. Every home seems to have a…
By Janita Le Grange. “The harder you try to hide something, the more visible it becomes.” Thinking about this week’s issue of The Pineapple, I realized that “hidden in plain sight” takes on a whole new meaning inside a busy house. It’s the butter sitting quietly right behind the ketchup in the fridge. It’s the…
By Fruitloop & The Mayor when, after a week being Janita & Frank, they just want to be weird and do weird things. If you don’t understand, that’s ok. Just join us for the ride. It was raining. Everything was wet. I mentioned this to the Mayor because I thought it was useful information. Apparently,…
The Human Bit, by Frank Peters It is a wonderful question. Especially when it appears on page 19 of a 32-page form. The form belongs to my mother-in-law. She is 85. It is the British government’s AA1 claim form for Attendance Allowance, intended for people of State Pension age or over. Question 37 asks whether…
With Bruce Lloyd in London and Frank in Cleebourg. The Curious AI Chronicles — conversations with Bruce about humans, machines and the increasingly strange territory in between. Bruce and I were supposed to be talking about artificial intelligence. We did, eventually. First we had to get the audio working. Then Bruce told me that he…
By Rosii in Sao Paulo, Janita (Fruitloop) in South Africa, and Frank (The Mayor) in Cleebourg which is in France. Monika was in the vineyards somewhere along the Mosel River in Germany. We started with harmless habits, wandering curtains and unfinished bottle lids. Then Rosii chose one very particular English word, and suddenly the table…
