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.
I have nothing to say, really.
Fuck off.
No snow
Apparently the only area without snow today.
Betreutes Bloggen mit Marc
Komplett versagt.
Week 3
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.
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.
Neues Autodesign: Das Leben, vom Tode her gedacht
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
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.
SOPApedia
So, yes, this is happening.
Make It Do
Make It Do – Meg Hourihan plans to buy nothing in 2012. These are her guidelines. That’s going to be an interesting experiment to follow.
PandoDaily
Subscribed: PandoDaily, the new techblog by former TechCrunch writer Sarah Lacy.
Week 2
Monday, January 9th, 2012
timehop – and yes, it will make me sad forever.
That being said, Monday was pretty good. We had our “Traditional Asia Dinner” at Kushi-Tei. 1
Tuesday, January 10th, 2012
Went to have lunch at Südstadt Burger with Marc, Fabian and Dominik. (Who forgot his part of the deal – tztz.)
Wednesday, January 11th, 2012
I’ve watched this video and had lunch again – this time at Bona’Me.
I know. Excitement – but hey, I warned you.
Thursday, January 12th, 2012
I don’t even know why I watched the first casting show for the German entry for the next Eurovision Song Contest.
Friday, January 13th, 2012
A whole bunch of German bloggers wrote about their trends in Social Media usage, started by this blogpost by Cem Basman.
My answer to that was a rather short post:
Grumpy on all channels.
But basically my Social Media usage is currently Twitter, Tumblr2 and here. Besides that, I’m also using Instagram and Path, which are both fun. Foursquare, too. But that should be about it.
After all this, I decided to annoy Jan Manuel:
Sorry about that.
Saturday, January 14th, 2012
For some reasons I decided to check out the remodeled Sevens mall at Königsallee in Düsseldorf. I turned around pretty fast – it’s just a big-ass Saturn electronics store now. All things considered not too exciting.
Finally, after many, many unsuccessful tries3 I finally managed to find the Onigiri store at Immermannstraße open and bought some Onigiri.
Sunday, January 15th, 2012
Sunday was a nice, sunny day. So of course I stayed in all day, making this thing here a bit prettier, listened to podcasts and ate instant Rösti.
My glamorous life.
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For those who wonder what that might be – a couple of months ago I bullied Jan Manuel into coming to Düsseldorf to have food at Takumi and because Düsseldorf has a lot of really good Asian restaurants, we decided to go ahead and do that every couple of weeks. Sometimes we are joined by many (like this Monday) and sometimes we’re just a couple of people.
So if you’re around Düsseldorf, let me know and join up! ↩ - Tumbalah! ↩
- Two, to be precise. ↩
Note taking
I do most of my note taking in Field Notes notebooks.
But because these notes tend to get really scribbly and often half-hidden under and between doodles and because I am starting to be really happy about Markdown, I began to use Notational Velocity for those notes I might want to re-read later on. The facts that it easily syncs notes between computers using Dropbox and that it is extremely simple to use work well for me.
To see and edit my notes on the phone, I use Speed Notes which is basically Notational Velocity for the iOS-devices and also syncs through Dropbox.
And as soon as the markdowned note gets to a point where I might want to post it somewhere, I can just throw it into Marked and get a pretty, MultiMarkdown-enabled preview that auto-refreshes every couple of moments.
And once I am in WordPress, I use the Markdown on Save plugin to make sure the blogposts are still usable in case I suddenly decide that Markdown isn’t for me, after all.
Trend, meiner.
Grumpy auf allen Kanälen.
Fever Dream of a Guilt-Ridden Gadget Reporter
I try to remember all the products I’ve talked about that I won’t even bother to cover—and that nobody’s going to buy. There were some Bluetooth speakers. Or maybe they were WiFi. But there was definitely a helmet cam. And a waterproof phone. And a tablet and an ultrabook and an OLED TV. There was ennui upon ennui upon ennui set in this amazing temple to technology.