Oscars 2013 – LA is not Cannes.
The winners for the 85th Academy Awards have been announced, and as ever, there are few true surprises. Spielberg’s “Lincoln” is a well deserved looser. Quentin Tarantino’s (the violent enfant terrible) got with Django Unchained just indirectly credit for the Supporting Role. Amour is good movie, probably the only art movie. Otherwise only save Hollywood choices. “Zero Dark...
Fastentagebuch 2013 – Einfach ein bisschen weniger konsumieren.
Die heutige Wohlfahrts- und Konsumgesellschaft hat sich an das Lügen gewöhnt; überall wird der Eindruck erweckt es herrsche bei allen, immer und überall heiteres Glück, oder wo das noch nicht der Fall sei, wäre es mit Fortschritt und gutem Willen bald so weit. Die meist recht säkulare Bionade-Bourgeoisie redet davon, was man konsumieren sollte, um „ein...
Wong Kar Wai Berlinale
The Berlin film festival kicked with The Grandmaster, a martial arts epic from Hong Kong director Wong Kar-wai who is also presiding over this year’s jury. Asian stars including Tony Leung Chiu-wai and Zhang Ziyi were present. The annual Berlinale, now in its 63rd year, is one of Europe’s most important film festivals, and alongside it runs a large-scale...
„Habe nicht mehr genug Kraft“ Papst Benedikt XVI. tritt am 28. Februar zurück
Ich bin traurig und erschüttert. „Habe nicht mehr genug Kraft“ Papst Benedikt XVI. tritt am 28. Februar zurück Nachtrag 21.2Nach Informationen der Tageszeitung “La Repubblica” hätten sich Kardinäle aufgrund ihrer “sexuellen Orientierung” durch Laien erpressbar gemacht.
Retirement Geek’s "Me" factor
Am I a Retirement Geek? Since a few years I support my private website and plan to retire to the internet. This and three blogs help me to learn writing and prepare to the psychological aspects and my retirement project. Retirement to me is a serious business, which I want to approach it methodical and organized. I am now in the last active year of part-time...
2nd Live Checklist
It is now 11 month until I sem-retire. I planned the remaining vacation and make a checklist. The last year I already spent in the HQ doing internal stuff in a 8-5 job. That was a hard break after the former 30 years in which I traveled around as consultant and project manager and burned a...
Burning Books Reblog StOttilien
In another defining act of intellectual barbarism, “Islamist extremists” (term borrowed by AP – Activists, Islam fighters nor Islamists won’t do) in Mali destroyed a number of tombs in the ancient city of Timbuktu, which in the last year fell under control of a separatist insurgency. Home of the prestigious Sankore University, Timbuktu was an intellectual and spiritual capital...
Wiedersehen mit einem Freund. Jeder möchte lange leben, aber keiner will alt werden.
München scheint ein Pflaster für sympathische Schwerenöter zu sein, nicht nur im Film. Die “nördlichste Stadt Italiens” ist ideales Jagdrevier für einen Casanova, der zwar schon in die Jahre gekommen ist, aber mit seinem Aussehen und Verführer-Charme bei der Damenwelt immer noch einen Stich macht. Diese Rolle ist meinem alten Freund und Studienkollegen auf den Leib geschrieben,...
2012 94 Days with the bike to work.
Living in Munich you bike – period. Good bike lanes, most car drivers reasonable, lots of parks, little hills and distances are comparatively small. During rush hours, however, even Munich’s streets can be scary places, when you’re on a bike and trucks and cars are rushing by. Our streets can also be deadly places. Fully one-third of bike fatalities happen within...
Updated to 3.5 Those guys (and gals) are brilliant.
I am thirty years in the computer business, updating no commercial product was ever such a smooth sailing oops spelling check doesn’t work before clearing the cache….