from today on google street view is available in Germany. big discussion here about data, privacy and stupid neighbours. Unfortunately Google’s all seeing eye didn’t drove in our yard to make picture – so u can only see a slight corner of our house. maybe i can help out with a photo 😉
What we used to call „blogosphere“ changed a lot in the last years, at least in Germany. that’s ok. that’s the nature of the interweb. continuously changing and moving on. but when i talk about change i talk about the big shift happing all over the world, we all felt. from blogs to updates. from macro to micro.
but their is still desire left, to tell long stories, to put up words longer then 140 letters. to continue my personal archive of comments, stories, words, which will be here longer, compared to the timelines and life-streams, we all fill up everyday with tweets and likes.they feel like waterfalls. without pools to catch the water. no conservation of letters, words, content.
don’t get my wrong i love the web and i love microbloging. but we are talking about „gated cities“ called twitter, facebook et all. its all private land, the whole web seems nowadays like private land: behave or i will kick you out!!.
that’s why i wanna find own words again, on my own server, my own platform, a platform i control. to restart the good things, i enjoyed so much in the last decade and helped me to remember thoughts on life, which i had years ago. to rethink things.
some black letters. to combine macro and micro. to fill up an own personal blog again!
Decided to visit Hamburg and Berlin, got some cheap train-tickets, great friends, who host me and a bit of work to do. so i can check out co-working spaces in HH and B, do my work, have fun with my friends and see both cities again. Maybe even new adidas samba shoes in berlin.
co-working spaces are of interest for me as we are working hard on opening up one in Düsseldorf, called „Garage Bilk“. So its essential for me to see how it works in those big cities, what style, what decoration, tables, lamps, etc.
We are planing to open up on the 18th of November. Have a look in the meanwhile at: http://coworkingdus.de
not so easy. to get the right amount of layziness and security together. so what did do?!
all the old content, means blogs from 2003 – 2007 are gone on this place. i will put them up somewhere else. just to let you know!
kind of. I thought that it would be good to use the next weekend in observing my chunk of stuff, i still own:
The goal: everything should fit in 3 „german umzugboxes“and a backpack and a „work-/messengerbag“.it all fits in a small normal car.
why? i could move & travel at any given date, without no second tought about my posessions. an idea i really like!
#technomad #simplicity
While i was running today, the first time after over a year in long running tights and longsleve (cause I missed the last autumn/winter in Germany <– travelling with the summer), I felt very good.
Strange indeed as I had a 10 month long running break and while starting again last months, I paused for 2 weeks till now, cause of work and a problem with my calf.
Anyway, it feels really good to run in the dark and in whole gear, again. Maybe because you feel more focused, maybe cause no „summer-joggers“ and „beautiful people“ are around. the parks. The streets are empty on a Sunday evening as German people watch the crime TV series „Tatort“ and stick around with their family.Not much people go running outside, alone, in the cold Dark. why should you?
Because It seems to make you think. It starts all over again and again and again: 3 years ago, August of 2007 I started running for the first time and with a lot of discipline (while not having it concerning my diploma, but who the fuck cares, right?) I run my first official 10km run on new-years day 2008. A real success for myself. Me running, 10ks! Holy fuckin nerd!
From that point, till my 10k-run at the Reykjavik Marathon, in September 2008, I did very well (for myself, in Iceland, the only person running it seems in countryside Husavik), but then I lost a lot of spirit and discipline, when I was back. Besides my grandmas death, a new old odd job in Hamburg and finally starting to travel again, I couldn’t keep up with a routine. Same goes for Kendo and my Diet.
To be honest, I hate routine. A lot of people like routine, cause it helps you to get better in things you do (and they say, strange I think, it makes them feel safe), but I hate it.
When I feel can do something, I move on to new things. There are so many things out there you wanna do and try.That’s why I’m not a specialist in anything.
Conclusion: You must accept routine as a positive thing, like a tool, to get better in things you love to do. But watch carefully, that routine owns you!
So, I thought, while running around through the night, that maybe true, but the years passed fast! Things are not the same as the were, when I was running here regular the first time! People vanished, People got babies, Mr.Obama is president and Mr.Jackson died. I changed, I experienced quite a lot of new things. It feels ok, but on the other side, it feels like, I have done this before, come on, move on! Remember, I said, I hate routine.
But as we, who were watching „LOST“ know in the end, you are only allowed to move on when you are „ready“ and so maybe Düsseldorf is my island, my purgatory. There are still things to do, before I can allow myself to move on (really away, change direction, start new things, get a family, etc).
That’s why I will use the dark times coming up, to prepare myself again: Run regularly, eat focused, try to make money to pay my debs, try to get more skilled about the work I chose to do and set new goals for the next year. Or, let the old goals guide me again till I’m ready for new ones.
Duesseldorf – Essen & Trinken – Restaurants – Japanisch & Sushi – Essen & Trinken – Restaurants
Weil letztens erst wieder passiert:
Auf die Frage nach „diesem tollen japanischen Nudel-Laden in D,dorf, wo da alle immer voerstehen?“, habe ich wohl wissend, nur mit „Takumi“ geantwortet.
Natürlich ist das nicht die richtige Antwort, allerdings im kulinarischen Sinne, die einzig richtige.
Ramen im Takumi – alles andere ist (deutsche) Düsseldorfer Schickeria 🙂
Mein Beitrag zu Restaurant Takumi – Ich bin silentdan – auf Qype
the walking dead is a brilliant b/w comic-series (by Image Comics) created in 2003. The comic was created by writer Robert Kirkman and artist Tony Moore /Charlie Adlard. It’s about the usual end of civilisation through some zombicalypse, told and drawn in a beautiful way. its not so much about the splatter, its about the characters and „in between lines“ – like what we would call a very good read. no they don’t run. in this sense quite „old-fashioned“. please have a look at http://www.hiddenrobot.com/WALKINGDEAD/
(to test test and update stuff in the backyard, i need some posting material)