How to plan for disruption
🎬 My Octopus Teacher
I didn’t think I could relate to an Octopus so much. This film is a wonderful documentary about a remarkable and almost tragic relationship between a man and an octopus. Amazing footage, brilliantly told.
📖 Im Grunde gut – Rutger Bregman
Was für ein Buch! Es ist lang. Aber ich fand es aber durchweg gut. Ich habe über Monate der ungekürzten Hörbuchfassung gelauscht, wann immer ich mit dem Fahrrad eine längere Strecke unterwegs war.
Rutger Bregman geht der Frage nach, ob der Mensch von sich aus “im Grund...
🎧 Heavy Breathing – Black Breath
Man! What’s this? Some Blackened Death’n’Roll Hardcore? It’s definitely fun. Very aggressive with a lot of groovy breakdowns. If you dig the first 20 seconds of this album as much as I do, I guarantee you’ll enjoy the rest, too!
Heavy breathing? Heavy rotation!
🎬 Oldboy
What a trip! It’s quite the (shocking) story. And both the plot and action are brutal and certainly not for everybody. And it’s occasionally even funny, too. I don’t know. It’s unique. In a good way. And was a welcome change from all the hollywood-y movies one consumes.
đź”— Joe Rogan Experience #1675 - Quentin Tarantino
open.spotify.com/episode/5cdu4y60lq6QXyUbhMpVWH?si=3f22394959654c45
An almost three hours long interview. Highly recommended, if you’re a Tarantino fan. The last 45 minutes or so could be safely skipped, though, unless you’re much into Bruce Lee and some legal controversy surrounding scripts for some film and/or series (yawn).
📖 Horrorgeschichten – Ambrose Pierce
Ich hatte ca. die Hälfte der Kurzgeschichten aus diesem Buch gelesen bevor ich es abgebrochen habe. Eine dieser Geschichten hat mich sogar halbwegs gepackt, als auch diese belanglos endete.
Die Geschichten waren nicht wirklich schlecht, aber eben auch alles andere als bemerkenswert aus meiner Sicht. Zum Glück ist Ambrose bereits tot und muss sich somit auch nicht über diese eher unvorteilhafte Kritik eines Laien ärgern.
Space Exploration Is Important
This time it's different: reflecting our Earthly challenges instead of ignoring them
🎧 Phanerozoic I: Palaeozoic – The Ocean
I have been listening to this atmospheric and progressive album quite a bit recently. The highlight might be “Devonian: Nascent” just because Katatonia’s Jonas Renkse sings on this one.
🎬 The Empty Man
Okay. The whole setup and plot was actually quite good and promising. And I found the scary scenes to be quite good, too. But as much as this film spent on story, atmosphere and setup, just as little was spent on explaining everything (almost anything). So in the end I found this a bit disappointing.
🎬 Black Bear
A movie I could watch again. You never quite know what’s real and what isn’t or wasn’t. Throw in some uncomfortable dialogues, manipulative behaviour and great acting, and you have an interesting watch.
Got our first COVID-19 vaccine shot (BioNTech/Pfizer) yesterday. Having a bit of a sore upper arm, but that’s it for side-effects so far.
We’ll get the seconds dose in four weeks, and so should be “fully vaccinated” by September.
🔗 Greta Thunberg’s speech at the Austrian World Summit
Great Thunberg is badass!
During the recent vacation, Zoe took a photo of me with my Instax Wide. And this now is my avatar for the summer.
Racism in Soccer
My personal parallels between Euro 88 & 2020
🎬 The Babadook
Overall I can recommend this movie. It’s well made and interestingly filmed. It revolves around the topic of coping – or not coping – with the loss of a loved one (especially on the birthday of the first child) and all the psychological and emotional challenges and dangers t...
An Ode To A New Old Friend
A tribute to my first computer, a Texas Instruments TI-99/4A
Stop Multi-tasking Your Eyeballs
Making a case for single monitor workstations
🎧 Fortitude – Gojira
This is the first Gojira album in a while that keeps getting play after play. They really managed to create a long-player that I enjoy back to front. After “The Way of All Flesh” – which I listened to a lot a decade back – none of their albums were like that for me. So, it’s likely that “real” Gojira fans do not like this one. But I think it’s fantastic!
đź“„ Using Let's Encrypt SSL certificates with HostEurope Webhosting products
HostEurope currently doesn’t offer automatic usage of Let’s Encrypt SSL certificates with their Webhosting products – and probably never will. But here’s how you can make it work and navigate HostEurope’s manual and not so straight forward process.