Here’s Terry B’s highlights following Monstertrack 2025 winner Emma Missale on her fixed-gear no-breakes bike through New York. You can also watch the full race, if you have two hours to spare.
Not too much gore here - although the ending is hilariously excessive in that regard. It's more of a murder mystery. And it has indeed quite a lot of great ideas and encourages you to solve it yourself. Good one. But: Catholics again 🙄. And what's up with that slow-motion water in that aquarium?
A mystery thriller set in the Vatican. And all the gossiping cardinals are no better than ordinary men. Well, apart from the newly elected pope. And then this ending. Catholics 🙄.
Maybe I am just seeing this wrong, but I experience that a lot of people simply don’t reply to emails/messages these days any more. I get that emails can be exhausting at times, but really, I am answering any email I get. Sometimes late, but I answer.
The reason for this is that I always try to imagine myself. Not getting an answer leaves you with questions like “Did the message arrive or did it end up in spam?”, “Did I say something wrong and upset her/him?”.
And it is so easy. I can really live with a short message stating no interest or even a “Fuck off”, which is way better as it does not leave me with nothing and not knowing whether my message arrived or not.
Am I old fashioned here and it is ok to not answer? Or does this belong to how we treat each other?
Reply via EmailStarbucks is running a promotion for their spring lavender coffee drinks. Earlier this week, I was in a Starbucks that had lavender plants resting in a glass pot with coffee beans at the base of the pot. I’m not sure what to say exactly about this, but it did make me smile so I thought I should share it on my blog. Lavender flowers in a glass pot with coffee beans at the base. The glass pot is at the counter in the Starbucks. P.S. I always get confused spelling lavender. I sometimes write lavendar with an “a”. P.P.S. Somewhat unrelated, but “Lavender Haze” is a great Taylor Swift song.
📕 Finished reading Game Poems by Jordan Magnuson ISBN: 9781943208531
I never listened to Destruction all that much. But I had a great evening at this premier at the cinema with friends, the film crew and a few beers (and a whole bunch of other metalheads). Entertaining movie about a sympathetic band and how difficult it was during the pandemic for a band that usually plays around 150 gigs per year.
This is a submission for the March 2025 IndieWeb Carnival on Self-Expression hosted by Pablo Morales. To exist is to explain. Especially if you occupy multiple intersecting identities...
I started sorting out my blog posting workflow again. Ever since the Git-based CMSes stopped working, I posted considerably less. I’m using Jekyll to build this site; and creating a file, adding all the frontmatter, making a Git commit and pushing the repo is just too much overhead for me.
So now I have started to automate all those above steps. For now, this works on iOS/iPadOS for my Notes. I currently start writing in the Drafts app; then I can trigger one Shortcut which handles everything else for me via the Working Copy app. And Gitlab CI builds the page as usual.
