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A public list by dan.

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📖 Der Doppelmord in der Rue Morgue (und andere Erzählungen) – Edgar Allen Poe

Book cover of “Der Doppelmord in der Rue Morgue (und andere Erzählungen)” by Edgar Allen Poe.

Ich hatte dieses Buch in unserem Schrank gefunden, und dachte es wär’ mal was anderes ab und zu eine Kurzgeschichte dieses weltberühmten Autors zu lesen.

Gefiel mir. Einige Geschichten waren in der Tat sehr morbide. Und “Der Doppelmord in der Rue Morgue” war die beste – und ist meiner Meinung nach somit zu Recht eine der bekanntesten Erzählungen Poes.

Ich mochte seinen Schreibstil, besonders, wie er viele der Geschichten aus (scheinbarer?) Autorensicht eingeleitet hat.

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GitHub and GitLab now both offer dark mode. My eyes thank you!

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📄 The new president

Summarising my feelings about the recent US presidential election.

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🎧 Imperial – Soen

The new Soen album came out and it’s in heavy rotation.

[UPDATE:] This seems to not be for me this time around. I find myself regularly skipping songs, because either melody, guitar solo or vocals are unbearably cheesy. A shame, because some songs are actually quite good.

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🎬 Host

Movie poster for “Host”.

I liked this one! Yes, it’s got fairly typical horror movie elements. But the stage is a Zoom-call during the Corona-lockdown. And I found this pretty well done.

Reminded me of “The Blair Witch Project” (if I remember correctly – because that was looong ago) and “Rec”.

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📄 GitLab Pages: serving compressed resources

I have now enabled gzip compression on this website. This means all text resources are now served compressed, which results in quicker page (down)loads.

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I removed pagination from a few index pages. Because: who needs pagination when you have compact index pages and all images are lazy loaded? Right: no one! Kinda fixes static page search, too.

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🎧 Paranoid – Black Sabbath

I never listened to this album. But because it’s such a classic, I know pretty much every song on here. And I’m enjoying it!

And if the end lead riff of “Fairies Wear Boots” was not a major influence for Metallica’s “For Whom The Bell Tolls” I’ll eat my hat!

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🎬 Barn (Beware of Children)

Movie poster for “Barn (Beware of Children)”.

This was a slow movie and more like a psychological and/or social study than about the plot itself.

Relationships, feelings and emotions can be complex and the movie intelligently communicated this. And are so-called grown-ups really that for off in their behaviour from children?

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🎬 Deerskin

Movie poster for “Deerskin”.

I expected nonsense. But not like this. I didn’t get it.

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Ich habe heute Die Ente gemalt.

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📄 Updated pedalboard

I bought more pedals. And so I needed a bigger board, to be able to fit them all. Here’s what it looks like now:

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🎬 Suspiria (2018)

Movie poster for “Suspiria (2018)”.

Although this is not a remake, I think I enjoyed the “original” more.

This rendition certainly had a much better production and much better acting. And it wasn’t bad at all. And I very much enjoyed the Berlin set. But I found the side-plots somewhat irrelevant and the main story confusing. Or maybe it was just too late in the day, yesterday night.

So, it was a good movie, but I wasn’t 100% convinced.

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🎧 Esoteric Malacology – Slugdge

Does this bring anything new to the table? I don’t think so. But it’s very well done. It has some fantastic guitar work, blast beats, and great vocals. Winner!

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🎬 Druk (Another Round)

Movie poster for “Druk (Another Round)”.

Four school teachers wanted to try a philosopher’s theory that humans generally have 0.05% too little blood alcohol. So they started drinking.

This is funny, has drama, and wonderful acting. Highly recommended!

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🎧 Sagor – Skraeckoedlan

Enjoying some good Swedish riff-rock. Can’t stop listening to that “El Monstro”-riff.

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Oh FFS! Instagram now requires you to have an account to view anything on their website. You can no longer visit profiles of people or businesses let alone permalink pages.

I hope Instagram will revert this. Or everybody will just stop posting exclusively on that stupid platform (yeah, right!)!

Frustrating nonsense!

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🎬 A Rainy Day in New York

Movie poster for “A Rainy Day in New York”.

Nicole “warned” me that critics didn’t like this movie much.

I disagree. I found this to be a clever, funny and overall very entertaining story.

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🎧 I – Conjurer

Currently listening to this EP quite a bit. Some great tremolo-picking melodies. And a great vocalist duo. Much heavy! Much good!

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📄 Donations 2020

Here are the charities I donated money to at the end of this year: