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Cake day: August 25th, 2025

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  • To honor the great actor that just left us (Tom Skerritt), perhaps something he starred in.

    Although the one probably most fitting would be “Alien”.

    Has lots of the exploration, adventure and maybe even some hope (if you want to see the ending that way).
    Not so sure about the “love” part. On the other hand, one of the stars is a cat!

    The feeling is definitely somewhat post-apocalyptic, but also as non-cozy as it gets.

    But for coziness, there also is “Picket Fences”, so maybe a double-feature?




  • The “Bobbler” from Vernor Vinge’s Peace War series.

    It’s a device that can remotely enclose arbitrary volumes within “Bobbles”, which are impenetrable and in which the time stands still.

    It is instantly used as a kind of passive weapon, enclosing all known nuclear sites and big military installations in one go to force peace (although in the story this backfires into a strange kind of authoritarianism).

    What’s special about it is, that its weaponization is only a kind of secondary use, its later uses propel humanity into a technological golden age.


  • “Netten Smalltalk”… im Internet des Jahres 2026 Anno Domini?!? ;-)

    Ich bin halt ein alter Sack und kann die schrägen urtümlichen Angewohnheiten nicht lassen ;-)

    Die PR-Hefte haben meinen Lebensweg wahrscheinlich nachhaltig geprägt.
    Wie schon der gute Harald Schmidt vor Ewigkeiten treffend etwa so gesagt hat:

    “In meiner Schulzeit gab es zwei Gruppen von Leuten: Jerry-Cotton-Leser und Perry-Rhodan-Leser.
    Die Perry-Rhodan-Leser sind jetzt alle Ingenieure, aus den Jerry-Cotton Lesern ist was geworden.”

    Ursprünglich aus Nostalgie-Gründen bin ich kürzlich wieder etwas ins Perryverse abgetaucht.
    Die “Handgranaten Herbert” Ära Sachen sind leider echt eher mäßig gealtert, zufällig bin ich dann aber auf den PR-Neo Reboot gestossen.
    Hat auch seine Ups und Downs, je nach Autor. Aber in Summe teilweise überraschend interessante und zeitgemäße SF-Konzepte.
    Bin gerade mit dem Wega-Zyklus zu Ende, und der ganze Zeitreise-Bogen davon hat mir echt gefallen!

    Netter, nicht komplett hirnfreier, Lesestoff für zwischendurch…














  • I vividly remember my horror when first totally unexpectedly encountering anchovis.

    Ordered a pizza during a school trip to Norther Italy.
    Read the “anchovis” on the description, but confused it with “artichoke”, which I like.

    Instantly spit out the fish part, dissected the pizza and confronted the waiter with the fact that there were “dead fish complete with bones” on my pizza.

    I guess this is one of the stories the waiter still tells, when asked about the most crazy customers… ;-)