The radiant red leaves, the yellow and brown leaves, the feeling of the cold in my hands and in my cheeks.
Leaf-coated pavements. The world, painted with colour.
Music plays. Air breathes. Momentum dances.
Tilman
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Kagi Small Web
An initiative by the alternative search engine Kagi, launched in September 2023. It surfaces recent posts from personal, non-commercial websites that the big search rankings tend to bury: kagi.com/smallweb
Also added to the Small Web garden page at tilman.me/garden/Alternative+Web+Movements/Small+Web
Slow Web is still slow
I had some digging into the "slow web" movement again: I re-read the Jack Cheng’s original post (2012), his own review post (2022) and found out about the Ben Grosser's Minus social network, where you are allowed only 100 post for life. All linked and more on the updated garden page: https://tilman.me/garden/Alternative+Web+Movements/Slow+Web
Kagi Small Web
An initiative by the alternative search engine Kagi, launched in September 2023. It surfaces recent posts from personal, non-commercial websites that the big search rankings tend to bury: https://kagi.com/smallweb/
Also added to the Small Web garden page at https://tilman.me/garden/Alternative+Web+Movements/Small+Web
leaves, lights
red, amber, green; leaves, lights.
Morning moon
When I opened the window this morning, I was greeted by a white and grey disk, the grey blending into the light blue of the surrounding skies. Clear as Day, and full, the morning moon made me feel a little bit of awe. Wow. When I went to bed last night, the moonlight cast be...
Fallbacks
When I published Sunset this evening, I saw the post in my web reader, Artemis, and realised that the title was not what I expected. I clicked through to the blog post and realised I had put the title in the “category” field rather than the “title” field. This meant there wa...
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• Mike Kupietz
Air Fryer Chicken Strips Success
1. Slice three boneless, skinless chicken breasts lengthwise into 1/4"-1/2" (1.27–2.34 cm) wide strips.
2. Put in a large bowl with…
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Sunset
Glistening over the hills in the immediate distance, the rainbow made me first pause for breath, then pause for thought.This is the first time in months I have seen a rainbow. I am looking at the spectrum of every visible colour. I followed the rainbow for as long as I could...
🎬 The Martian
It’s a space movie. I like space movies. But this is not the best of its genre IMHO. I can’t complain about how it’s made, really. I definitely enjoyed the acting and most of the visuals and sets. But the story is a bit so-so. I found it a little awkward making everyone explain everything all the time. And Mark Watney’s good mood with its constant funny-cool slogans went a little on my nerves (together with the partly cheese music). The final space scene is just bonkers. So: “ok”, I’d say.
🎬 Big Trouble in Little China
letterboxd.com/danielpietzsch/film/big-trouble-in-little-china/
This is so absurd, you can not not be entertained. And if you just take Jack Burton’s view and go with it, you can just indulge yourself in this. Chinese clans fighting themselves in back alleys? Sure! Superfighters flying in form the sky? Why not! Cursed villains with superpowers? Ok!? Surprise monster? Ok, what the hell!
It’s a weird Carpenter movie. I liked the old-school-ness of it all. The humour was actually pretty great. But it’s not my favourite from him.
Artists for Gaza
My fifth gig which was a fundraiser for Gaza & Palestine, again raising money for Health Workers in Gaza.
Awe
Two people slightly in front of me, to my left, crane their heads to the sky, following the one-hundred-and-eighty-year-old structure to our right. They slowed down as they walked. Does awe have a pace? I walk past the monument often, a reminder of the literary history of th...
Awe
Two people slightly in front of me, to my left, crane their heads to the sky, following the one-hundred-and-eighty-year-old structure to our right. They slowed down as they walked. Does awe have a pace? I walk past the monument often, a reminder of the literary history of th...
Autumn
The sun danced with the clouds in a competition where both the clouds and the sun wins, for there is always light and cloud. The music was the melody of morning, a morning on which I saw the first frost lying on the quiet grass by the river, a few days after having seen the ...
Knitting, crochet and podcasts
I just listened to Avery Trufelman’s podcast Lace and Labor. What a banger. An absolutely thrilling episode for all sorts of reasons.
For a start, I loved the idea that just as the machines came for hand knitting, they have come for podcasting. So Avery Trufelman got two s...
Public Service Broadcasting
Public Service Broadcasting, live at Alexandra Palace to celebrate 10(+1) years of The Race For Space album.
The Race For Space
This gig was a celebration of 10(+1) years (they missed the 10th anniversary) of The Race For Space album, released in 2015. It was their largest headline show ever and very special.
Meet and Greet
The day after they organiser a Meet & Greet at The Star of Kings. As it was my 52nd Public Service Broadcasting gig I took a pack of cards so that they could sign the Aces for me.
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• Mike Kupietz
Firefox freezes – tried setting gfx.webrender.software to true
Claude says that following a kernel panic, watchdog reported threads held by Firefox GPU helper, even thought I have hardware acceleration off. I tried its suggestion of toggling gfx.webrender.software to…
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Tilman
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Slow Web is still slow
I had some digging into the "slow web" movement again: I re-read the Jack Cheng’s original post (2012), his own review post (2022) and found out about the Ben Grosser's Minus social network, where you are allowed only 100 post for life. All linked and more on the updated garden page: tilman.me/garden/Alternative+Web+Movements/Slow+Web
🎬 Metallica: Some Kind of Monster
letterboxd.com/danielpietzsch/film/metallica-some-kind-of-monster/
I always love a good band documentary. This pretty much explains, how they made their by far shittiest album. But I really would have liked to know how they landed on the decision about that snare sound.
👍 Recommended!