One thing I’ve learned about myself over the years is that I want to watch movies, but I want to have watched tv shows. Of course it isn’t black and white like that, there are exceptions on both sides, but broadly speaking, with movies I’m looking forward to watching them, with shows I’m looking forward to finishing...

People think that discipline is all about doing the thing, but it's not, it's about not doing all the other things one could be doing. Not dividing your attention. Not listening to all the distractions. Ignoring their call. But isn't that effectively the same? No, not really. It's similar, but sometimes a change in...

starting a weekly recap kind of thing where i'm reflecting on the posts of the week, but also other notable events - an incomplete, semi-random selection of things done, read, watched, listened, etc. not sure what the format is going to look like exactly, as i've literally just now decided to do it, and hopefully in...

Twitter originally had a character limit of 140, based on the limit of SMS messages of 160, with 20 reserved for the username, many years later it was increased to 280. Bluesky's limit is 300, on Mastodon it can differ server to server but the default is set to 500. So how long is a microblog post, and is the number...

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Things got a little deep yesterday, so how about a joke today? But not just any joke! THE joke! The Greatest Joke of All Time™! So there are these two woodchoppers. One of them chops off the other's leg. Says the one with the chopped off leg: "if you do that again, I'll kick your ass!" ... What makes this the...

When I started this blog I only had a vague plan, really more of an idea of a plan, to do some daily writing to get back into the groove of writing and to slowly work on the website. So really mostly for myself and to build up to something decent some day. What I did not expect was for anyone to show up, especially...

Last Friday I checked out (hello, short interruption, brackets spu here, you might want to read this footnote1 before clicking the next link) nudel.cc2 for the first time. I was a bit disappointed at first as it seemed quite dead and I couldn't get anything to run, (or at least I didn't hear anything, turns out a...