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TIL: 42 in the ASCII-table is * Did Douglas Adams chose that on purpose? Then the answer would finally make sense to me. #hhgttg

Und noch ein kurzer Kommentar: so viel ist kaputt gerade und dass ein ÖR-Sender sich vor Nazis wegduckt macht mir Sorgen.

Ich schaue zum ersten Mal 4Blocks. Das Heftigste ist irgendwie, dass das dauernd Gegenden sind in denen ich häufig bin.

I didn’t expect that something like this exists: a numeric keypad with RGB-backlit mechanical keys and a display, so that you can use it as a simple calculator. A bit expensive though imho. Still, I kind of want one now. www.duckychannel.com.tw/en/Ducky-…

Starting to grow a beard. Not sure if I like it or not 🤔

It has been 20 years since I have read Lord of the Rings. And I am really enjoying it again. I am not a big fan of Fantasy per se but Tolkien’s way of storytelling is great.

I tried to write XMAS…

Merry Christmas

When I select “Trending” in the YouTube-app I alway have to doubt humanity while I scroll through those videos…

Day 23 - Part 7

Day 23 - Part 6

Day 23 - Part 5

Day 23 - Part 4

Day 23 - Part 3

Day 23 - Part 2

Day 23 - Part 1

Day 22 - Part 7

Day 22 - Part 6

Day 22 - Part 5

Day 22 - Part 4

Day 22 - Part 3

Day 22 - Part 2

Day 22 - Part 1

My wife made Christmas presents for the family. But two glasses stay with us \o/ I❤️Kimchi

I hate this extortionist RBL uceprotect

Oha. Bei Netflix gibt es jetzt die Edgar Wallace-Filme.

Day 21 - Part 5

Day 21 - Part 4

Day 21 - Part 3

Day 21 - Part 2

Day 21 - Part 1

Day 20 - Part 8

Day 20 - Part 7

Day 20 - Part 6

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Day 20 - Part 3

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Day 18 - Part 3

Day 18 - Part 2

Day 18 - Part 1

When I was in my teens/twens people and politicians lamented that the youth is not political active anymore and that it is terrible. Now the youth is political again and the people and politicians are having problems with it that those young people are engaging in politics…

I bet if there was such a list all politicians on the list would be like “stop bullying me and take me down from this list”.

Is there already a list by country of politicians speaking out against Greta Thunberg? It seems to be a pretty good criterion to see who should be voted out of office because they have no problem with climate change and need to bully a teen because of it.

“Schadenfreude? What’s that? Is that some kind of Nazi word?” “Yep. It’s the German word for happiness of the misfortune of others.” “Happiness of the misfortune of others? That is German!” #AvenueQ

I am listening to the Avenue Q-Soundtrack and I am instantly in a good mood. You should listen to it, too.

Day 17 - Part 7

Day 17 - Part 6

Day 17 - Part 5

Day 17 - Part 4

Day 17 - Part 3

Day 17 - Part 2

Day 17 - Part 1

Still pondering wether I should apply for the entry test to the magic circle of Germany at the end of next month…

I am listening to an interview with Jason England. And wow do we have overlapping interests.

First time where I do not gain weight during the Advent season. #seaganlife

Day 16 - Part 6. Suddenly a wild moose appears.

Day 16 - Part 5

Day 16 - Part 4

Day 16 - Part 3

Day 16 - Part 2

Day 16 - Part 1

Oh noes! Ramen restaurant prevalence is associated with stroke mortality in Japan: an ecological study - Nutrition Journal - Full Text Ramen restaurant prevalence is associated with stroke mortality in Japan

TIL: I need to drink around 120 bottles of Club Mate to get a lethal dose of caffeine…

TIL: when you are a contestant at the world championship of magic (FISM) and 70% of the judges think your performance is too low in quality after three minutes, they can disqualify you while you are performing on stage.

Things I do not like: when I start a new area of responsibility and get icinga2-warnings during the night where I have no clue at all if it is a problem or not (and why are there those warning if they aren’t a problem in the first place)

Day 15 - Part 7

Day 15 - Part 6

Day 15 - Part 5

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Tuv sees black for Tesla: Cybertruck would not get approval in Europe - En24 News

Gibt es veganen Blätterkrokant? seufz

Day 14 - The current complete view. Still three buildings missing…

Day 14 - Part 3 People trying to move a part of a spaceship

Day 14 - Part 2 Apparently a Tie-Fighter and some yellow space ship crashed into Christmas village

Day 14 - Part 1

Bye UK, but I hope Scotland tries to remove itself and joins the EU.

Day 13 - Part 3

Day 13 - Part 2

Day 13 - Part 1

Emo-unicorn-gummys

Can someone explain to me why according to the http-rfc a client may change a POST to a GET after receiving a 301? That doesn’t make sense to me at all.

Day 12 - Part 3

Day 12 - Part 2

Day 12 - Part 1

The story of the Lego-stuff I am posting the last two weeks is that there is a tradition started 6 years ago that Christmas gnomes are coming every day until Christmas during night and build up a Lego Christmas city. Each day a bit and creating new scenes with it.

Day 11 - Part 5

Day 11 - Part 4

Day 11 - Part 3

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Day 11 - Part 1

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Day 10 - Part 1

I ordered a Kinesis Freestyle Edge RGB a couple of days ago. Is it just me or are keyboard-names like the titles of Street Fighter 2-titles? Super Street Fither 2 Turbo Revival comes to my mind. And I was rarely so excited to get a new keyboard :D

Day 9 - Part 5

Day 9 - Part 4

Day 9 - Part 3

Day 9 - Part 2

Day 9 - Part 1

Day 8 - Part 3

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Day 7

Day 6 - 3

Day 6 - 2

Day 6 - 1

I can’t believe that I am doing this. I am currently defending the police patrolling and being equipped with automatic weapons on Christmas markets in Germany. But so kind of understand why it is that way and find it understandable from their point of view.

Day 5 - Part 3

Day 5 - Part 2

Day 5 - Part 1

Day 4 - Part 3

Day 4 - Part 2

Day 4 - Part 1

Day 3 - part 2

Day 3 - part 1

Day 2 - no electricity in that room (tomorrow comes the electrician), so I had to do a photo in the dark

Day 1 and happy first advent :)

Spaß mit Altbau am Samstag. Ein Stromkreis komplett weg, keine Sicherung geflogen, Rußfleck im Zwischenboden bei einer Zusammenkunft von Kabeln. Laut Hauswart hat die Hausverwaltung es einen Elektriker weitergegeben. Wenigstens haben Küche und Bad noch Strom, aber das war es.

Asking for a friend: how many e-mails am I allowed to send to a support-Mail address which rarely reacts? I am thinking about running a cronjob that sends a mail per hour or so…maybe I’ll get at some point an answer…

It is probably just me but the way madness works and the tables for it in DND 5e really suck.

The worse it gets with what Trump is doing the more I believe he gets re-elected somehow…

Google does not work on text-only browsers anymore. A real problem apparently for blind people. No more google for console junkies

Today I got confused by incoming traffic that showed up on tcpdump and was dropped afterwards by iptables. Thus I saw the incoming traffic but not the replies from the application. Kind of feels like a shameful noob-mistake.

Hundefutter auf dem steht „ohne Zuckerzusatz“. Warum wird bei Hundefutter Zucker zugesetzt???

I just found out that there are pretty good magic tutorials in Japanese available on YouTube and not of all of them are subtitled. Suddenly a skill gets an unexpected use. But for magic I really should start to learn Spanish…

Neat

Mechanical keyboards are expensive. Mechanical ergonomic keyboards are even more expensive >_<

After seeing the prices of the new Macbook Pros (with AppleCare+) I decided that I will continue using Thinkpads and Linux. But from what I’ve read they finally fixed the keyboard and made using Macbooks a viable option again.

Grippeimpfung erledigt.

r/NatureisMetal taught me how often animals get eaten alive in the wild. And I always thought predators go for the kill. Nope, they just disable the prey and feast on it. I always wonder if and how much the preys brain does something to reduce the pain.

The second “show” (I was part of it, so like ten minutes) was even better. Yeah! #magic

The first session went pretty well with the magic. The people liked it, I didn’t tremble and everything worked :D

I am going to do some magic tonight. Wish me luck that everything works out as expected. I am always anxious when I try to mdo magic for strangers. But I hope that it gets better when I perform more often.

Using the official doom-logo definitely improves the look of emacs (using doom emacs)

Wer zur Hölle war der Meinung „Stevia-Blätter“ in Teebeutel zu packen wäre eine gute Idee? Und das auch noch in Kinder-Teesorten.

Die aktuellen Busse in Berlin haben USB-Ports zum Laden von Telefonen etc oder wofür sind die?

Googles language recognition is really good: “Se Klön Wörs” becomes “The Clone Wars” as intended by the speaker who didn’t master yet English pronunciation.

And don’t forget: the sixth world already started. I am still waiting for dragons and the Great Ghost Dance didn’t happen two years ago. I am disappointed.

Today it is Blade Runner, in two months it is Cyberpunk 2020.

Was zur Hölle ist ein „Krypto-Kommunist“? (Höcke über Ramelow)

Somehow videos from Hong Kong remind me of Little Brother and Homeland by Cory Doctorow.

And I tried notion.so which is kind of a better Evernote. But they don’t have a decent Linux-client and it always felt weird to use. The web-page-capture is great though. But I am back to text-files (org). It is just way faster for me to work with them.

Couple of weeks ago I switched back from beorg/emacs/org-mode to todoist. Yesterday I moved back. It works better overall for me after all. I tried also Thunderbird, got back to mutt, trying now mu4e again. I am playing too much with tools…

Während andere Banken HBCI kaputt machen, führt meine Bank für bestimmte Überweisung (an mich selbst, unter 30€ oder IBAN auf einer Whitelist) TAN-freie Überweisungen ein und macht ein Auto-Opt-In. Oo

Oh. Selbst der Aldi-Apfelsaft ist inzwischen vegan :)

I don’t believe in the indestructability of ZFS anymore but it is still better than the rest. Yep, I had pools that died, pools that lost all their performance, pools that didn’t really recover after a crash. Luckily I like backups and not only restores.

And I got me a digital Genii-subscription. Using it offline on the phone sucks (app doesn’t work for me, the ePub doesn’t feel very good) but otherwise it is a huge value for the money. Similar to Reel Magic Magazine. #magic

What feels harder than learning vocabulary of a foreign language? Learning a fricking stack #mnemonica #magic

Es gibt sogar Regenbogeneinhörner

Katjes ist nicht nur besser, weil sie vegetarische Gelatine nutzen, sondern auch Einhörner und Regenbögen haben. Würde sich das alles nur nicht so nach gegenderten Süßigkeiten anfühlen…

At least I needed only 5 minutes to be back in a working system and I learned how to define the systemd-target in grub.

First time using testing on my Arch-machine to install Gnome 3.34 and it directly breaks. GDM didn’t show the user and password input screen anymore…

Since SR 6th seems to be rather bad, I wonder how hard it would be to create ones own Shadowrun and what would be allowed? “Just” creating rules, gear, critters etc and leaving out the lore because fans have it already. What would be allowed and what would be legally problematic?

I just started to look into a magic book and the first essential sleight I see will take me weeks, probably months to learn…

Current reputation of Shadowrun 6th ed that got just released: I’d rather get Hack the Planet from Samjoko or Cyberpunk Red that this apparent piece of crap. And Shadowrun is my absolute favorite game for decades now.

Currently we are reading Harry Potter to the kids. Since we take turns in reading to them, I want to read the books completely again because I miss some parts. Those books are so good.

Deutschland, was ist bloß los mit dir? Schon wieder ein antisemitischer Übergriff in Berlin. www.zeit.de/amp/gesel…

Auch wenn ihr nicht-vegan/vegetarisch unterwegs seid: schaut euch mal in der Bio-Abteilung bei den Veganer Aufstrichen um. Hab ich früher nicht gemacht, aber da gibt es so viele tolle Aufstriche.

I just watched some martial arts-series and thought: “you would need a John Wick here”

Please shoot me: I just read 富士山 as Fujiyama and not as Fujisan. Aaaahhhhh.

Awesome. Eclipse Phase 2nd Edition is again licensed under Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).

I am skimming the just released Eclipse Phase 2nd Edition and it seems a lot better rule-wise than the first edition. Character generation seems simpler and forking/merging, imho the USP of the game seems to be handled far better. Nice! Now I need to find the time and a group :(

Wake me when R. Talsorian released Cyberpunk Red rtalsoriangames.com/cyberpunk… I am still suspicious regarding Shadowrun 6th Edition. But I have no time playing P&P-RPGs anyway.

😂 I can’t read a medium-blog-post because I used up my free membership-preview-articles this month. They seriously want to force me to create an account with Medium. I’d rather write the authors that I can’t read their articles because Medium sucks.

In the meantime the community of the aforementioned subreddit rehabilitated itself and useful answers are coming in :)

Asked a question on Reddit. So far 2 sensible answers, one shit post insulting me and one condescending reply why I don’t get my stuff in order instead of picking on thing I asked about. Either it is me or pretty much any community I touch on the internet just sucks.

But all in all I get more used to emacs and using ansi-term works reasonably well. Except I have to switch between several servers or have to look through lots of logs and configuration-files, then tramp-mode just isn’t sufficient in terms of speed. Or my workflow sucks.

Oh, one more thing I miss is directory/file-tab-completion in tramp-mode. And it gets even more annoying when you switch to dired(?) and have then loads of buffers for directories where you were in.

The one thing I really miss in emacs are tabs for frames. I want several tabs with different window layouts. Having multiple frames for this is annoying.

Now the weather is correct :) #emacs

My org-agenda includes now a weather forecast but it is like 10 degree Celsius to low Oo I might have the location wrong or something. #emacs

Ha, I got the Java-application for work in swaywm working :D

Wait, what? Why does Oracle Linux 8 have MariaDB and not MySQL? Don’t they use their own products in their own products?

In swaywm a Java-application I need for work doesn’t work :/ Now I tried KDE again which is working well and looks nice ( I love the blur) but not with wayland where it sucks with multiple displays :/

It is 2019. On German twitter the topic “pork” is trending because two kindergartens are removing it from their “menu”. One major party calls this “leftist political correctness”. This world is so sooo broken -.- Btw our kindergarten is vegetarian out of practical reasons…

Und in der Threemagruppe bezeichnet jetzt jemand die „Zigeuner Nachbarn in der Sozialwohnung“ als „Schmarotzer“. Ich mag nicht mehr…

I am now seagan for 2 weeks completely (in my vacation it was complicated…before that it was a week or two). Works better than I expected. And yes, I just learned that there is the term “seaganism” (vegan + seafood; in my case it excludes Tuna though).

I bought today the Blade Runners ‘ Final Cut on Blu-ray. I might watch that tonight.

Whatsapp-groups are more crap than social media networks. And I left the next one because people didn’t want to understand that “Another fag left the chat” is offensive.

An der 110 geht niemand ran Oo

TIL: „The Ashinoko Skyline, a private toll road in the city of Hakone plays A Cruel Angel’s Thesis when driven over at a constant speed. The music is created from the vehicle’s tires due to specially built tarmac surface.“ (quotes from the Wikipedia)

Why do they call it Libra and not Credits? Then we would be at least in accordance with SciFi-literature.

Magic books: why are they so rarely available as ebooks? I don’t have the space and I want to be able to carry them around all the time.

I knew FBSD has its problems but every time I read this blog post, I wonder what the devs think when they make the choices they are making: FreeBSD - a lesson in poor defaults vez.mrsk.me/freebsd-d…

Interesting thing I got asked from a non-nerd: Is it possible to remove the protection from an ebook that I want to buy? I don’t want that company™ removes the book from my device or that I cannot open it anymore for some reasons one day.

I just checked the BMI for my size and 60kg with 1.80m is just over underweight? I would be only skin and bones if I would weigh 60kg…I cannot believe that this not already underweight. I would have thought the lower border would be like 65-70kg.

I wonder why Netflix used apparently a new translation for NGE. Maybe they couldn’t score the license for the original subs for some reason. And then the job was like: “Do it, 26 episodes, 1 week time max.” So no chance to dive into the subtleties but just rush it.

Netflix apparently didn’t ruin NGE for me. I don’t care about “Fly me to the moon” and always found it kind of annoying and I watch it with Japanese subtitles for the learning effect. So, lucky me :)

No, I won’t enter a thread about language subtleties in Japanese. I value my sleep and blood pressure more.

OMG! Netflix Germany has Neon Genesis Evangelion!

And I got several balls for cups and balls for really cheap because the magic shop wanted to remove them from the inventory. Now I can have a look at Vernon’s Impromptu Cups and Balls :)

I organized my magic tutorial videos today. It seems I do not need to buy any for the next decade or so. At least so long it will take until I learned all the stuff taught there (and a bit less when I take out the stuff that turned out not really interesting…)

Yesterday I got a scam-call from the Windows Technical Center regarding my computer. And today I got two more calls. But no time to let them “help” me with my computer.

I saw today Seoul Line 1 at the Grips-theatre. It was awesome. And it seemed to be the special special thingy because Grips became 50 years old this year. The author of the original was there, the author/producer of the Korean variant was there. Exchange of presents etc.

I migrated my first hosts from checks via icinga2 + nrpe to icinga2 on server and host. This is so much nicer :)

The cancelled defcon is apparently a prank. Sorry :/

It’s a prank apparently… Oh, Defcon got cancelled defcon.ws But I kind of doubt that the participation at CCC will dwindle…

Wenn AKK so weitermacht und die CDU sie als Nachfolgerin Merkels aufstellen sollte, sehe ich eine Zukunft mit grünem/r Bundeskanzler/in. Na ja und wenn mehr Leute jungen und mittleren Alters wählen gehen…

Apparently I am blogging now for 13 years.

Yesterday I performed the first time magic for strangers at an unexpected “open mike” for magicians. I was very very nervous and showed it. But my routines worked and the people seem to like it. I have to work on my storytelling though.

$DE/$WM-user: “I use $DE/$WM” Arch-user with $DE/$WM: “I use $DE/$WM on Arch.”

Why can’t I block single people in Whatsapp-groups?

„Mittlerweile ist der Checkpoint viel mehr als nur ein Newsletter: Wir haben einen eigenen Comic, die Checkpoint-Laufgruppe und Live-Veranstaltungen – sogar mit Checkpoint-Band.“ Mich interessiert aber nur der Newsletter. Nicht der Comic, nicht die Laufgruppe etc. Meh

Früher habe ich den Checkpoint ja gern empfohlen, aber das Kostenlos-Angebot kann ich nicht empfehlen und das Bezahlangebot weiß ich nicht…zu viele Dinge wollen inzwischen jeden Monat Geld von mir…

Schade, dass der Checkpoint nach der Einführung der Premium-Variante ziemlich schwach geworden ist. Nun gut…eine Mail weniger pro Tag :(

I am reading a book where a radical government uses old laws against hate speech to bring enemies down that wrote things years ago against the people in the new government. Suddenly hate speech-laws seem far more problematic than “censorship” or “upload filters”.

Reading this, I think as well: Fuck Apple The moments I know why I switched on computers. On phones the alternative sucks though :/ www.vice.com/en_us/art&hellip;)

To whom it may be interesting: the EU-cards are Anyone Worldwide Souvenir (there are EU- and US-backs). Thus they have some brand-and collectors value. Getting a deck isn’t that easy apparently and below 40€ is probably impossible.

I didn’t know that there was a difference between cheap and expensive flip-flops. I have now some Olukai-flip-flops and they are really different.

The moments I really like Linux and Thinkpads: I just dd’ed my old ssd to the new 512GB-SSD, worked a bit of gparted- and lvm-magic and replaced the SSD with pretty minimal effort. Welcome more free space \o/

The moments I really like Linux and Thinkpads: I just dd’ed my old ssd to the new 512GB-SSD, worked a bit of gparted- and lvm-magic and replaced it with pretty minimal effort. Welcome new free space \o/

And I didn’t do any sleight of hand for a week. I have to work again on that :/

Tamariz-stack: half is done more or less. Let’s go second half. Even in the hospital I didn’t managed several quiet hours to learn it. Now I just do a bit every day and slowly but surely I do progress.

There is a new e-mail-client called aerc for the command line which is in early development but looks promising judging by my first tests: drewdevault.com/2019/06/0…

I think I found a milk-alternative for muesli: spelt “milk”. It is a bit on the sweet side but works very well :)

The fourth story in Doctorows “Radicalized” was about preppers and the collapse of civilization. That one was really good. The first story is still the best. But still: get the book, like everything I read from Doctorow it shows an interesting peek into a possible future.

The third story of Doctorows „Radicalized“ was about the US health care-system and how people could become domestic terroriste because of it. I liked the story a lot. The first story is still the best because it is the most universal one so far. The other two are very US-centric.

Almond milk in muesli is kind of eating muesli with water…mmm…not that much of a happy place.

I am searching a vegan alternative for milk (coffee and muesli). The first try worked in coffee for one or two coffees but I am already kind of sick of it :/ A mixture of an oat and soy drink called “Barista”. Next up: unsweetened almond milk.

The second story in Doctorows book “Radicalized” about racism and how society deals with police brutality was good but too much for a US-audience for me. Let’s see how the third story is which gave the book apparently its name.

The first story in Doctorows “Radicalized” about DRM and its problems was already really good.

Interesting. That could change things: Japan Discovered a Rare-Earth Mineral Deposit That Can Supply The World For Centuries www.sciencealert.com/japan-dis…

Unexpected: magic-groups that leave the same feeling as using Twitter: regularly feeling some form of “angry” Only one good thing to do: leave them

Am I the only one who sees “coc.nvim” as a problematic name?

Nicht vergessen: Wählen gehen! Wegen meines Krankenhausaufenthalts war das umständlich. Meine Frau musste mir die Vollmacht bringen zum Unterschreiben, Briefwahlunterlagen holen und bringen, wieder zum Rathaus. Und heute selber wählen gehen. Ihr müsst nur zu eurem Wahlbüro.

Normalerweise schau ich ja weg, wenn Nadeln in mich gesteckt werden. Heute aber hab ich das erste Mal die Nadel von einem Zugang gesehen. Boah ist die lang und dick…brrrr

Contra „Please don’t theme our apps”

There is an open letter from Gnome-developers that distributions shouldn’t theme apps (icons, window themes etc). They acknowledge though that if you want to do it on your system but that is ok and that you are in unsupported areas then. The reasoning is that all theming in Gnome is only a hack since there is no theming -API and things can and will break. I am a Linux-user and I am a Gnome-user.

I wonder if there is a subreddit like r/ihavesex but called r/iusearch

Apple introduces a new laptop. They talk about speed, I search the site if it has a better keyboard…

Ich sitze in Berlin in einem Bus der BVG mit WLAN oO

Grafitti für Deutschlernende

I was in a magic lecture today which was pretty great but the magic that was performed in the pub after that while the magicians were jamming was just awesome…so much crazy stuff…

I think this is a first: I just watched a movie and directly want to see it a second time. It is just sooooooo good Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse I love the style, the music is great, the characters are superb and the story is awesome.

Oh fuck? Permafrost is thawing in the Arctic so fast scientists are losing their equipment - CBC News

Never Host your mail server at Digital Ocean. There are so many spam mails coming from their IP-ranges that I’d like to block them like dynamic IPs…

I just found out that the minimum order size for custom neodymium magnets isn’t that huge (200€). Now let’s see if it would be cheaper than what I could currently get in the magic supply stores.

Dear developers: please not only add a target for “install” but also for “uninstall” in your Makefiles.

It is weird how anachronistic Sci-Fi appears when it didn’t envision on-demand TV like Netflix. I am reading currently The Running Man. Quite a different setup than the movie with Arnie.

Ich wünschte es gäbe das Singular They im Deutschen. Werde wohl morgen ein geschlechtsloses Wesen in einer Rollenspielrunden spielen und frage mich welche Pronomen es bevorzugen könnte.

On Friday and Saturday I am playing the first time shadowrun in years. I’ve built a character but I am not really satisfied (troll mage with a bear totem; combat medic; we play in the AGS). I am open for interesting character concept suggestions.

The dishwasher of a colleague runs apparently #OpenBSD out of the box.

I got a deck of Butterflies. Let’s see what I can do with them.

Mein Sohn hat mich gestern gefragt, ob ein von ihm gemachter Lego-Film noch hochgeladen werden kann oder ob das bereits nicht mehr geht. #no13

There is no decent translation for sleight of hand in German. I see no good way to translate “sleight of hand artist” because of this.

If you are into magic follow Asia’s Got Talent this season. Takumi Takahashi AND Eric Chien are both competing.

I am really trying to use Instagram because there are some cool magicians to follow there. But like every third post in my timeline is an ad and the rest doesn’t seem to be chronological. How the hell are you able to use that‽

It is weird to read a non-fiction book and know most of the persons from social media and how they talk, this having always the correct voices in my head. Btw. read “Magic is Dead” by Ian Frisch It gives a good look into the lifes of the “new” generation of magicians.

Just found this gem on reddit: https://vim.dev redirects to the emacs-website

@help more of a big report: after migrating to a new iPhone and restoring from an iCloud-backup the app crashes when I hit “Post”. I needed to reinstall the app to make it work again.

I really like the Cherry Casino. Unfortunately I have only one deck and black is expensive. There is now one with a green back. Still thinking if I get me a deck or two

Apparently every magician who is doing video-tutorials that you can only buy, tells in interviews how you have to stay away from YouTube because every tutorial there is crap anyways.

Now I need to integrate Mail better with org-mode. But mu4e isn’t as good as I remember, I don’t like the notmuch-interface and the perl-script I found for capturing from mutt with .org-capture does not work for me :/

After using Todoist for a while again, I am back to org-mode in spacemacs. With beorg and Working Copy I can sync with git with iOS. I also get more into using it as a note-taking app.

Uuh…HumbleBundle has a Spawn Comic Bundle. One of my favorite series. Transmetropolitan next please.

@help can we get the new category-feature for self-hosted Wordpress-blogs as well please :)

Every time I see a Japanese text I am astonished how much I still know. Oo

My right arm hurts for a couple of days now. I think it comes from exercises in throwing cards. The little one really likes it, too ^^

Warum wird bei Bibi Blocksberg und Benjamin Blümchen die Schule und Lehrer in der Regel so schlecht dargestellt? Das ist der richtige Weg den Kindern Freude auf die Schule zu machen.

Mal abgesehen davon, dass sich „Digitales & KI“ anhört wie „los, los, die Newsletter brauchen immer zwei Wörter. Was passt zu Digitales?“ „Hm, KI. Da spricht doch gerade jeder drüber.“ Was kommt als nächstes? „Mobilität & Elektroautos“?

Der Tagesspiegel hat jetzt anscheinend Newsletter zum Thema „Klima & Energie“ und „Digitales & KI“ (hä?) Die AGB sind die einer Papierzeitung. Kündigsfrist: „6 Wochen zum Ende des Bezugsjahres“ Mal schauen was sie auf meine Mail zum Thema antworten