Monatliches Archiv: Januar 2012

I bought a calligraphy fountain pen today. Now that sentence is problematic for several reasons. I don’t really need one, so you could say that this would be frivolous spending. My handwriting is terrible, so I can’t really show of anything that I am writing with it. But… There is always a “but”. Some way [...]

Fear is holding me back. Fear of all kinds of things. Being more aware of that lately is not helping, really, it mostly adds to the torture. I put things of because I am scared of the outcome, neither positive or negative outcomes are free of results that make me feel anxious. After delaying what [...]

Yeah. He’s not gonna get into the debate team, I know. But he knows what he is talking about. He made this, after all: Yepp, that is Sleeps record/song “Dopesmoker”. One track, the whole album, 64 minutes long. And there you have the whole history of Stoner Rock/Metal/Doom, condensed. Only ministry did it faster, they [...]

Chances are that your computer that you are using to read this is at home, and that it is connected to some sort of network switch our router that supports high speed data transfer rates, much faster than what you are getting through your DSL line or whatever you have to look at silly pictures [...]

I am NOT getting a Mac! So the new router is installed, I have high data transfer speeds without having to put cables through the whole apartment and the new Eee PC is nice and snappy. Time to retire the old one to his new role as a fileserver in a corner of the living [...]

So this exists. Dog owners with young dogs can drive to a pet obedience school, and the trainers will let all the puppies run around the compound to play with each other. And it is every bit as adorable as you imagine. The way I understand it, the point of the whole exercise is to take [...]

My big Christmas present this year were tickets to “Betaville”, a play based on the novel “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” by Philip K. Dick. “Do Androids…” is always brought up as the book that “Blade Runner” is based on. I love the movie, I think it is the best piece of cinema ever [...]