Finished my second Broken Arrow #Skyrace 23k¹ yesterday in 6:52:44! #RingDasBellThis year’s #BrokenArrowSkyrace² 23k was actually that distance! I ran 23.3km with 4557' vertical climb! In contrast, last year’s "23k" race³ was rerouted (due to weather conditions) last minute t...
Feeds from people participating at the IndieWebCamp Düsseldorf, May 2025.
🎬 Split
I liked Anya Taylor-Joy's performance. And James McAvoy is good, too. But the movie as a whole did not grip me. I just didn't find it suspenseful. The main character is not menacing enough. And there's way too much going on, and as a result the plot suffers. A bit of an eye-roller.
Happy 12 years of https://indieweb.org/POSSE #POSSE and19 years of https://microformats.org/ #microformats! (as of yesterday, the 20th)A few highlights from the past year:POSSE (Publish on your Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere) has grown steadily as a common practice in the #Ind...
🔗 March 2023 – Daniel Pietzsch’s Photo Journal
I’m on a roll!
Three birthdays and a studio visit.
🎬 Late Night with the Devil
Such a great plot and so well executed. I assume this is a pretty low budget film, and all the more respect to make it so entertaining. Spooky, suspenseful, with great acting and some nice gory special effects.
🎬 Peeping Tom
It was late when we started this, and I didn't pay full attention the whole time. But this was still a fantastic surprise. A great story with a really creepy dude and a lot of suspense. Never seen it in a movie old movie like this. But it did remind me of Psycho. Generally this was pretty Hitchcock-like. And Hitchcock I like. And so do I like this one. Recommended!
🎬 Four Flies on Grey Velvet
*sigh* Argento! He has really good ideas and can certainly film those, too. But the crazy outrageous story and unbelievable dialogue still annoys me.
🔗 February 2023 – Daniel Pietzsch’s Photo Journal
Here are some fresh and ice cold photos!
Ski vacation in Austria and Elfi's birthday.
📖 Wer jetzt noch umblättert ist selber schuld - 10 Jahre The Hirsch Effekt aus der Sicht von mir – Nils Wittrock
Im Gegensatz zu Nicole bin ich nicht der größte „The Hirsch Effekt“-Fan. Aber dieses Buch des Sänger-Gitarristen hat mich dann doch interessiert.
Das Hörbuch ist von ihm selber gelesen, und er erzählt alle möglichen Geschichten und Anekdoten, die er mit der Band über die Jahre so erlebt hat. Fand ich sehr interessant und unterhaltsam. Und ich kann das jedem empfehlen, der auch in Bands spielt oder gespielt hat.
Ich fand gut, dass Nils an einer Stelle einfach mal so rülpst. Ja, ich bin einfach zu begeistern.
🎬 Maybe... Maybe Not
Haha. Hab den seit meinen Teenager-Tagen nicht gesehen. Und jetzt kam der im Kino, was ich mir nicht entgehen lassen konnte. Ich fand den früher definitiv besser, aber es war trotzdem ein lustiges Unterfangen. Es ist alles sehr Klischeehaft und die Gags sind vielleicht überholt, aber unterhaltsam ist es allemal. Joachim Krol, Rufus Beck und Armin Rohde sind Gold! Ich bereue nichts. ;-)
🎬 Caché
Been putting off writing about this one. I guess this could be somewhat watched as a straight crime/voyeur story. But it’s much more subtle than this. It’s also a lot about the relationships and reactions of its characters. And it certainly has its surprising twists – I totally overlooked the detail in the final scene, even though I was looking for something like this. Anyhow, it‘s a good movie and probably better on a second watch. But I‘m not sure if I will.
🔗 January 2023 – Daniel Pietzsch’s Photo Journal
What!? A new journal entry!
Starting the new year in and around Düsseldorf.
Yesterday I proposed the idea of a “minimum interesting service worker” that could provide a link (or links) to archives or mirrors when your site was unavailable as one possible solution to the desire to make personal #indieweb sites more reliable by providing at least a use...
Ran my 12th #BayToBreakers race in 1:59:54 on Sunday 2024-05-19. After a comedy of transit struggles to get to the start line, I jumped in with Corral C runners (my bib was for Corral B) and started with them.Great seeing the Midnight Runners crab rave cheer gang in Hayes Val...
Still sitting with the awesomeness that was this past week and weekend’s 1-2 combination of:#IndieWebCamp Düsseldorf — https://indieweb.org/2024/DUS#btconf Düsseldorf — https://beyondtellerrand.com/events/dusseldorf-2024Great seeing old friends and meeting new amazing people ...
🎬 Alien
It‘s been a while; and I mostly seem to remember scenes from Aliens (Part 2 of the frnachise). But this was a great rewatch. I thought this aged extremely well. The menacing atmosphere, the sets, the sounds, the story. A classic for a reason!
🎬 Dune
It's a very beautiful film about stuff I didn't care about. I should have watched this in a cinema.
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Fixing the Logitech Spotlight
The Logitech Spotlight presentation remote is a sleek piece of hardware. It is comparatively small, fits nicely in the palm of your hand, and the buttons come with a very satisfying, albeit for my taste a tiny bit too loud, click. But most importantly, the brushed aluminium ...
🎥 Forkalyst - Gemstone (live)
On saturday, our band Forkalyst played its first live gig. It was a sold out show at a popular brewery pub here in Düsseldorf. Lots of our friends came around. It was great fun. And I placed my GoPro on the stage railing next to me to record some of it.
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Making Own Your Web More Sustainable
I just published the 11th issue of Own Your Web, my newsletter about designing, building, creating, and publishing on the Web. When I started the newsletter back in autumn of 2023, I didn’t yet know what form the newsletter would take on, if people would like it, and also wh...