Remember those blue marzipan-scented glue sticks we had as kids? Well, the same curiosity and auto-experimentation that taught me they totally don’t taste that way, taught me that no, my shower gel doesn’t taste like raspbery. …now I wonder whether my candles taste like vanilla… […]
Category: Status Updates
The birds are tweeting. I mean, not literally, of course; they’re just making annoying high-pitched noises. #StatementsThatOnlyMakeSenseInOurPocketOfTime […]
Know how sometimes parts of a song gets stuck in your head, and you cannot pin-point which song it is? Not me – I mostly get Britney Spears songs stuck, and can typically recognize those from teeny-tiny fragments of lyrics of melody. Now, I’ve been humming Til It’s Gone – Britney Spears the past couple […]
Teaser: A Modern Setup for CPN Tools
The past time I’ve been working on setting up a modern infrastructure for CPN Tools. It’s not done yet – I’ll post on this site when it is ready – but here are some teasers. First of all, modern distributed version control with Gitlab: Continuous integration and cross-compiling on 3 platforms where applicable using Jenkins: […]
Greece is demanding €279 billion in Nazi-era reparations from Germany
This combined with Greece’s recent flirtations with Russia makes me think of Russia’s great c̶o̶m̶e̶d̶i̶a̶n̶ politician Zhirinovsky, who also wanted to finance his completely bonkers plans using fantasy money from Germany. I wonder when Tsipras launches his own v̶o̶d̶k̶a̶ ouzo brand (which, of course, would be free to all men), goes on a drunk rant […]
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One of the best things of vacation being over is the stock markets re-opening. Yesterday I could at least follow NYSE, but last Friday was as boring as a kindergarten without swords. […]