On Mastodon:
Like always, thanks for viewing.
Found some good quotes from Loriot
While searching for one of his most famous quotes, I found two others which fit the times (upcoming EU elections and all the stuff you see on the telly about it):
Like always, thanks for viewing and reading.
Oh my, it’s end of May already…
… where did the time go? Okay, here are some photos I took. First is on Flickr:
And second is on the Fediverse (a Mastodon server):
I also tried to figure out a bassline for a friend, using the fretless before taking the big upright bass. So here’s my Squier beside my computer desk:
As always, thanks for viewing.
Edit:
while two of the three photos from above come from my home on a Mastodon server, I just also opened a new account on pixelfed.de, currently with only two photos on it. Have a look if you like, I guess I’ll post more there soon(ish).
I wasn’t prepared for this…
… stumbled upon a Tiny Desk Concert lately which was nice, but then I started looking at more of NPR’s content, and found this. As commenter @___sabr said:
“What real musicians sound like. No pre-recorded, No Producer tricks. Straight and uncut talent. 🔊🎶🎵🎸🎹(Harlem is listening 👂🏾 🎧)”
Listen:
https://piped.kavin.rocks/watch?v=pRERgcQe-fQ
… and I really wasn’t prepared for that last one… enjoy.
An excellent comment on the problems with the so-called “Artificial Intelligence”
Read Liam’s take on The Register before considering to even use something called “A.I.”
Some pictures and thoughts, end of April 2024
Here are two more photos of our cat, one from the 6th of April:
… and one portrait in black & white from today, cropped to a 5:4 format:
On some other news, Zuleikha’s FitBit Inspire had a very dim (monochrome) display lately, so after some driving around and looking at available options, she opted for the same Xiaomi Smart Band 8 which I also have. I think she likes it, although she’s using it with the vendors’ Mi Fitness app instead of Gadgetbridge which I am using. Still a good choice in my opinion, especially for the price (hers was even a bit cheaper than mine).
Anyway, like always, thanks for reading and viewing.
Feliz (tardío) cumpleaños, Cande
Yesterday was the birthday of a very talented young Lady from Argentina, Cande Buasso – so happy (belated) birthday, dear Cande! Hear her from 2 years ago:
Love her version of “Tuyo” (the last of the songs at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoxKkGpRbtk&t=818s). As always, thanks for viewing.
Anne sings “My cat likes walks”
Got a wonderful remix on the ‘loops lately. Hear Lady Anne singing the Blues on a track from Don_T, peatric, and myself:
This track is embedded with the friendly permission by the creatives on wikiloops.com.
Thanks dear Anne – and thanks to everyone for listening.
One from yesterday
As always, thanks for watching 🙂
Some pictures and thoughts, end of March 2024
Okay, only one picture of the cat this time, a black & white one again, with her sitting outside on our veranda:
Bella, Mörfelden-Walldorf 2023
This month I got into a cat fight again, for the second time, and also for the second time I’ve got some marks to show. The first time was in the beginning of this year when the neighbours’ cat bit me in the foot, this time it was Bella who was scared enough to really bite my hand. “Only a scratch” I thought after the bleeding stopped, but then the hand got swollen, and I had to see the doctor to get another tetanus shot (after 20+ years), and had to take antibiotics until yesterday. This is what my hand looked like after my second visit to the doc, taken with my mobile phone:
It’s much better already, but like my wife said, that should probably teach me a lesson… 😉
Other than that, I still walk and have my little step counter on while doing so. And Gadgetbridge gets better and better and with each version it supports the device a little more. I started playing around with the software in January, but since end of January I also set my goal to 10,000 steps a day, which I’ve kept since then. This is from two days ago:
Not a miss since 60 days, and a total of some 800,000 steps since I use this software, which with a step length of pretty much exactly 75cm translates to 600km until now.
Not as much as Andersen’s Knud (from his “Under the willow tree” or in German “Unter dem Weidenbaum”) who went from Kjöge (near Køge in Denmark) all the way to Nürnberg and Milano and half way back) but seeing a radius of 600km from our place still makes me kind of proud:
If there would be a straight way to walk, I would have reached Vienna by now (Aaahh, Vienna, that reminds me of Billy Joel’s famous song about it – read the story here or listen to the original here).
Or I would be short before Genova by now, or – if you’d grant me a ferry ride since I can’t yet walk on the water – London. Pretty cool thought. So I’ll keep walking (Billy Joel has more songs about cool places, how about “Zanzibar” for instance? And yes, I know that he probably didn’t mean the island in this song, but still) 😉
Anyway, in case you’re a Christian I wish you Happy Easter, and in case you’re Muslims then Happy Ramadan instead. For all others, like always, have fun, and thanks for dropping by and reading.