My photo selection for October 2019.
Back to “normal” life.
📖 Fast Genial – Benedict Wells
Ich fĂĽhlte mich zu alt fĂĽr dieses Buch.
Der fast zwanzigjährige Protagonist begibt sich mit zwei Freunden auf einen teils abenteuerlichen Roadtrip quer durch die USA um seinen leiblichen Vater ausfindig zu machen. Abgesehen vielleicht von der Gefühlswelt eines Spenderk...
📖 Die Bagage – Monika Helfer
Monika Helfer erzählt die Geschichte ihrer Großmutter – die sie nie persönlich kennengelernt hat – die Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts mit ihrer Familie abseits eines kleines Dorfes in Österreich lebten und von allen dort nur „Die Bagage“ genannt wurden.
Die damalige Zeit war sowieso schon nicht einfach. Und dann noch abseits zu leben und sein eigenes Ding durchzuziehen um so mehr.
Insgesamt eine bemerkenswerte Geschichte (im doppelten Sinne), kurzweilig erzählt auf 150 Seiten.
📖 Factfulness – Hans Rosling
Das Buch hat mir gefallen. Roslings Hauptpunkt ist, dass die Lebensumstände sich stetig verbessern und auch bereits viel Fortschritt passiert ist in den letzten Jahrzehnten. Hier konzentriert er sich hauptsächlich auf die grundlegenden Bedürfnisse des Menschen wie Unte...
🔗 September 2019 – Daniel Pietzsch’s Photo Journal
My photo selection for September 2019.
The holiday month. Photos of various stops in the alps. But mainly street photographs from Venice.
Sitting on the balcony. It’s finally cooling down again at night. Listening to Purple Hill Witch. Drinking a cold beer. Culling photos for the September 2019 entry. It was the holiday month. Struggling a little going through that many images.
🔗 Petition 113349: Durchführung einer Studie zum "Racial Profiling" bei den Polizeibehörden des Bundes/der Bundesländer vom 06.07.2020
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Unterzeichnet!
Mit der Petition wird die Durchführung einer Studie zum "Racial Profiling" bei den Polizeibehörden des Bundes und der Bundesländer gefordert.
đź“„ August update
An update on how we have been doing recently.
Now that Zoe and I got our first band photos, we should probably start an actual band, too.
Photos by Sina Frantzen.
🎥 3 Minutes Of Basketball
This morning, I had time to play some basketball. So I went to the court to throw a few throws (like I said I would).
I was pleased to notice that my throwing hasn’t gotten completely terrible after years of not playing. I spontaneously recorded 3 minutes of it.
đź“„ Pedalboard update
My pedal board has a new layout.
Now that I’m running iOS 13 on my new iPhone, I’ve installed the Corona Warn App.
đź“„ New Macbook Keyboard
Recently, I had my Mac’s keyboard replaced. Because, unsurprisingly, I started having regular double-types, which got increasingly annoying. Luckily, Apple acknowledges the problem and offers a free repair program.
đź“„ Last Week's Purchases
Last week was unusually purchase-rich for me, buying three new items.
🔗 August 2019 – Daniel Pietzsch’s Photo Journal
📷 “August 2019” is now up in the Photo Journal: https://photojournal.danielpietzsch.com/2019/August. 📷
Desperately trying to catch up… ;-)
A family gathering near Brussels, commuting photos and the usual documentation.
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So, no German Corona Warn App for me: my iPhone 6 Plus is stuck on iOS 12. And you need to be able to run iOS 13 (which came out last year) and above to run it. A shame.
I’m probably in the minority of iPhone users on such an old device, though. Still, I wonder how many people have a similar problem (at least Android devices only require Android 6, which is five years old). And how many people won’t even bother installing it.
Furthermore, the seemingly extraordinary high development costs of €20 million - plus an additional €48 million running costs until the end of 2021 - makes me wonder whether the money could have been used more wisely. Time will tell I guess.
It was moving to see some 20.000 people showing up for the #BlackLivesMatter protest in DĂĽsseldorf yesterday.
Soundtrack for the weekend:
Body Count - Cop Killer (Live at Hellfest 2018)
YouTube video: Body Count - Cop Killer (Live at Hellfest 2018) Sepultura - Anticop (Live)
YouTube video: Sepultura - Anticop (Live)
Here’s a Twitter thread (scroll up and/or down from the linked tweet) of some 300-plus-and-counting videos of police brutality: https://twitter.com/greg_doucette/status/1268391718086422528.
This is only from this past week.
Not any of these assaults is even remotely justified. Absolutely unbelievable – in the worst possible way. And this is just a small subset of the incidents that have been published or have even been recorded. Any single one of these violations on its own is outrageous! And all this is happening during peaceful protests against police brutality.