Music: Heimat - Iti Eta No (2025)
Is this the best album released this year?
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Morale-boosting as a way of life
I like dried fruit in a cake because it boosts morale. No need to get too wordy about it.
Music: Donald Fagen - The Nightfly
Donald Fagen's "The Nightfly" really caught my ear lately. There's a period in music between the very late 1970's and the early 1980's where music had this electro-jazz-softrock influence running through it. Cold War anxiety was still very much a thing at this point in history, and look at the time we live in now: The Russia-Ukraine war threatens to boil over into total war or become a simmering…
About this weekend
This is my first weekend back after flying back from Cologne on Thursday night. The flight was quick but the journey home took all day Friday. It's now Sunday and it's raining. Saturday was brighter and I had a chance to take a few photos with my Nokia. A glass door was installed at my mother's house, and my goodness it's impressive. It looks great! My favourite photo from this weekend is this…
Wandering in Ehrenfeld, Cologne
K felt like we ought to go out today -- I agree. Yesterday we went for cake, and the cake we had amused us at the time. But today is a new day, and we were in no mood for cake. The weather in Cologne today was pleasantly warm for a November so felt that it mustn't go to waste. Yes; today, we wanted to go outside. Unlike yesterday, we started without any plans or desires in particular. Normally we…
Nokia 8000 vs iPhone camera
While I'm visiting my fiancee in Germany, I decided to pick up a cheap feature phone to use for work. It just needs to answer calls and occasionally receive texts, though it does need to be a 4G handset (they're switching off 3G soon, and 2G can't be far behind). This thing is neat! There's funky features on it like a Google Maps app. It sort of works! There's an FM radio app, though Mochi Radio…
Content nausea
I am finally bored shitless with content. An exciting place in the form of an internet community has always been some kind of solace for me. Maybe it’s that the younger generation grew up in a time and place — the past is another country. When I was a teenager much of the socialising I did was online. Social media was part of that, sure — but what really formed the basis of my friendships in the…