A weblog by Dominik Schwind
Just like everyone else in this part of the world, I wanted to see the eclipse last Wednesday. Given that my living room windows face directly toward the sun around the time of the eclipse, I decided to just do that from home. Alas there is a tree in the way and all I saw [ ]
This morning it was Go by The Chemical Brothers.
I started something on an impulse. I realised after a while that while it might be a great idea, it would be an even better idea as part of something already existing. Now I m ignoring it altogether and for some reason started Captain of Industry again, which is really, really bad. It s crack. I should [ ]
Another rather calm and warm week.Workwise I m currently working on a big task with a technology I haven t used before, so this takes up a lot of my mental energy and struggling with all the weird little mistakes one does when not fully knowing something is surprisingly draining. I m learning a lot, though, which is [ ]
This week we had two trailers for big Cyberpunk TV series: Blade Runner 2099 and Neuromancer. On the one hand: cool! On the other hand: hm. Let s see if it s a good idea to look at the future the 80s foresaw through a late 2020s lens.
After the shenanigans of the last two weeks, this one is clearly one to recharge my social battery. I m not sure if this is the reason but I also slept particularly bad. At least during the night. Daytime naps were just perfect but usually too short. And I think to celebrate those, I ll take another [ ]
I ve noticed these signs of getting old in the last few days:
20 years ago I joined Twitter. I miss the old days of the internet.
It was the best of times, it was the wurst of times. The first two days of the week were being spend in Munich, a friend of mine had a stopover there and we planned to have dinner for a few months already. The time I wasn t eating wurst with her, her friend and her [ ]
A birthday, a funeral and a train journey that actually went just fine filled the week that was over faster than I could look around. Just like I mentioned last week, the current weather has a bigger effect on me than the one during the heat wave so everything has been a bit of a [ ]