Two weeks are over again, so we went for the Traditional Asia Dinner¹ again. This time (and of course because of Chinese New Year) we went to Tsun-Gai which has very authentic Cantonese food. Awesome and a fun evening.

Wednesday, January 25th 2012

I have no recollection of this day.²

Thursday, January 26th 2012

I think I played some Minecraft.

Man, this weekly blogposts are depressing.

Every day is the same.

Wake up.

Drive to work.

Work.

Discuss where to have lunch.

Work.

Drive home.

Minecraft.

Bed.

Repeat.

Friday, January 27th 2012

Funniest lunch ever. But I promised I wouldn’t put it online. But seriously.

Saturday, January 28th 2012

Finally I managed to go to Naniwa. So tasty.

Later: More Minecraft.

Sunday, January 29th 2012

Drove to Bonn, listened to Satomi play viola in a huge orchestra playing Mahler’s Symphony No 2. That was rather okay even though I doubt that Mahler will be one of my favorite composers any time soon.

I told you about it. ↩
This happens a lot. No reason to worry. ↩

The Knutsens

02 Feb 2012

By Dominik Schwind

At some point a couple of weeks ago, in one of those weak moments late at night, I went ahead and ordered a Samson Meteor Mic – it’s really pretty and Dan Benjamin called it “really impressive”. I told Teymur about it, who is already doing some podcast stuff and we decided to give it a try. We recorded a pilot episode on tuesday and decided we’ll turn it into a regular show.

The pilot episode is over here – give it a try and let me know what you think.

And at some point we might even explain the name.

Mapstalgia

01 Feb 2012

By Dominik Schwind

Mapstalgia: video game maps drawn from memory. [via]

Ich kenn’ doch meine…

31 Jan 2012

By Dominik Schwind

Googleheimer – Markus rantet und fasst die aktuellen Probleme mit/für Google zusammen.

Alternativen

30 Jan 2012

By Dominik Schwind

Butter bei die Fische

Im Krieg

Updated Podcast list

28 Jan 2012

By Dominik Schwind

I’ve blogged about it before, but Teymur asked me to update the list. So, I checked my Instacast and here is the old list:

And since then, these were added on:

neunetz.com Podcast ¹
Hypercritical
Pop Culture Happy Hour
Comedy Bang Bang
Roderick on the Line
Mac Power Users ²
Here’s The Thing
Alec Baldwin. Seriously.
Doug Loves Movies
5by5 at the Movies
You Made It Weird

Holy fuck. And I was thinking the last time that I am obviously listening to too many podcasts. But these days I am quite ruthless about marking single episodes as heard, especially with the interview podcasts – if the guest or the topic doesn’t win me over in the first couple of minutes, I’m gone.

even though I really hope he does something about the audio quality. ↩
This one is awesome to listen to while working. Their voices are so calming, I stop listening to them completely and get kicked right into the Zone. ↩

Justinsomnia Syndrome

28 Jan 2012

By Dominik Schwind

Drafts

27 Jan 2012

By Dominik Schwind

Currently in my drafts folder:

Skinner Box
Why Yoda is harmful
Why people blog everything
Why workflows are more interesting than actual work

Who knows when these ever see the light of day.

No snow

27 Jan 2012

By Dominik Schwind

Apparently the only area without snow today.

Betreutes Bloggen mit Marc

26 Jan 2012

By Dominik Schwind

Komplett versagt.

Week 3

23 Jan 2012

By Dominik Schwind

Don’t tell me I didn’t warn you – in fact, most of the days were so uneventful that I don’t even remember them now, just a couple of days ago.

Monday, January 16th, 2012

I have (finally?) switched from Quicksilver to Alfred. Since I just use those as application launchers and mostly ignore their advanced features, the change was completely transparent to my daily workflow. In fact, someone could have changed them for me and I would probably have not noticed. Except that Alfred yet has to close itself at random times, something that Quicksilver was prone to do to lately.

Tuesday, January 17th, 2012

I got my Facebook Moo cards. Fun!

I have given Alcatraz a chance – it’s the new TV series by J.J. Abrams and has the pretty interesting premise that the last batch of prisoners on Alcatraz somehow vanished in 1963 and now return one by one, going back to being murderers. The first two episodes weren’t bad but nothing too special – I’ll keep watching, in the hope that the “murderer of the week” type of episodes weave a nice mythology arc.
Oh, and it has Parminder Nagra who I’ve liked since Bend it like Beckham.

Oh, and Sam Neill.

Wednesday, January 18th, 2012

The day Wikipedia went black.

Thursday, January 19th, 2012

Friday, January 20th, 2012

Or: The nerds are back in town

For the last two weeks I’ve had blissful solitude here at the office – the three guys who share the room with me were in Munich to do Munich stuff. As someone who snaps out of the zone pretty easily working two weeks without any real distraction was a pretty good thing which ended on that Friday when they came back. ¹

Saturday, January 21st, 2012

I don’t know.

I bought Onigiri again and fed one to my sister, who was crashing at my place, as she tends to do when she goes to her courses in Düsseldorf.

Sunday, January 22nd, 2012

The Minecraft bug bit me again, so I basically was digging around on our server all day.

And as I said in my inception post a couple of weeks ago: it’s nothing personal, I just prefer to work in solitude, with random breaks of socializing (which does include proper meetings, not just watercooler stuff) in between. (See also.) ↩

Wie alles anfing.

21 Jan 2012

By Dominik Schwind

E-Mails zuhause auf dem ersten eigenen Tchibo-Computer vorgeschrieben, auf Diskette gezogen, im Büro dann verschickt. Empfangene Mails ausgedruckt und mit nach Hause genommen. Machen manche heute immer noch so.

Nicole Ebber erzählt, wie sie zum Internet kam.

Neues Autodesign: Das Leben, vom Tode her gedacht

21 Jan 2012

By Dominik Schwind

Die neuen Autos sind anders. Sie werden, wie vieles zur Zeit, vom Tod her gedacht: Nicht vom möglichen Glück kündet ihre Formensprache, sondern von der Gefahr des Unfalls, des Scheiterns, vom worst case scenario. Der Mini Roadster soll Spaß machen, ja, aber für den Fall, dass er sich überschlägt, hat er zwei verchromte Überrollbügel in Habachtstellung hinter den Kopfstützen stehen; absurde, ständig präsente Skulpturen der Angst. Chromglänzende Mahnungen: Ich mag das Offene, das Abenteuer, sagt das angsthöckerbewehrte Cabrio. Aber nur, solange ich mir keine blutige Nase hole.

Via Neues Autodesign: Das Leben, vom Tode her gedacht, in dem es nur vordergründig um das Automobildesign geht.

The Rise of the New Groupthink

21 Jan 2012

By Dominik Schwind

The one important exception to this dismal record is electronic brainstorming, where large groups outperform individuals; and the larger the group the better. The protection of the screen mitigates many problems of group work. This is why the Internet has yielded such wondrous collective creations. Marcel Proust called reading a “miracle of communication in the midst of solitude,” and that’s what the Internet is, too. It’s a place where we can be alone together — and this is precisely what gives it power.

via The Rise of the New Groupthink – NYTimes.com.