In the first five days of the year I watched „Dogville“, which after initial doubt turned out to be much, much better than I actually expected, the 1959 movie version of „Die Buddenbrooks“, which also was really good and has Liselotte Pulver, who – I admit – I just love, love, love watching and patiently […]

It’s cold, it’s windy and I already love it. Plus, they have a garlic restaurant. Awesome.

…this is coming from my latest toy. Guess what.

This is a great game (at least I think so), where you have to arrange colors by hue order. My score was 3, which seems to be pretty good. How well do you do?

Here’s one not-so-clever idea on how to spend your evening. Watch a movie with your significant other and then both fall asleep around the same time, optimistically assuming that the other will stay awake and be able to tell you how it ended.

There’s one proof that there’s a limited capacity for the human brain to learn from experience. As in: Why the hell do we still try to go to IKEA on a Saturday? Basically there are two reasons for this: a) The only other day we could go is after work on a workday and 2) […]

I still need some shelves for the kitchen and we also need some pictures for all of these damn walls around here, but after my paint job, we finally got our lamps installed and now it nearly feels like we’re done. Not quite, but close enough to fool yourself to believe it. This is how […]

Google Chrome makes me so damn happy for a variety of reasons. It’s not just that it’s pretty and fast. It also has a couple of developer tools integrated that – without having a lot of experience working with them yet – look like they do about exactly what I want them to do. Sigh.

I think the whole thing including setting everything up and tidying up after took me about ten to twelve hours. But so worth it.

I have blisters on my hand and am covered in red and green (and a couple of white) sprinkles, but I’m also really proud. Need to paint everything once more tomorrow, but then it should be done. (And hopefully look as good as I hope it will.)