Books Book of the month: "Red Sparrow" In which I praise the book RED SPARROW, and do the opposite with the film RED SPARROW.
Food Beef roast in the making 24 hours to soak in wine and herbs from the balcony. My significant other wants me to add that among those are three different types of thyme.
tech-stuff My current feed-reader setup In which I describe how I read RSS (or ATOM) feeds. With pictures.
Food How to make Cacio e Pepe In which I link to a comprehensive run-down of the pasta dish named Cacio e Pepe.
Book of the month Book of the month: "Voltaire Almighty" In which I praise Roger Pearson's most readable Voltaire biography.
Travel A list of noteworthy things in 2017 A short, incomplete rundown of what 2017 was like. With pictures.
tech-stuff Twitter and 280 characters A few thoughts about Twitter and its 280 character limit which slowly devolves into a semi-rant.
Martini The Martini Chronicles Pt.15: The Graham Greene Ever since cleaning up some of my posts on here, I've been thinking about my Martini Chronicles and whether I should add yet another update. For those who aren't familiar with what they
tech-stuff Spring cleaning We're deep into spring, which was a great excuse to go ahead and do some spring cleaning on here and with all the other stuff I tend to self-host lately. To set the
Aurora Aurora's "Nature Boy" For some reason I missed the trailer to the new Alien: Covenant picture. It looks alright by me, but what I really liked about it was a subdued cover version of Nat King
Music The obligatory end-of-year post So, 2016, right? What a roller-coaster. Leonard Cohen died. Fortunately, he managed to release one final album, out of which emerged my personal song of the year. I hope you all have a
Books Through a "River of Ink" "River of Ink", the debut novel of Brit Paul M.M. Cooper, is a marvel. I'd not heard of the man until he did his Reddit AMA a few months back,
EverNote The Evernote conundrum It's the middle of July, and for everyone familiar with the progression of months, they'll be aware that August will follow suit. For me that means that my yearly Evernote subscription will renew.
chicken Open Club Sandwich There is this place in Vienna called "Oben", which basically means "at the top". It actually is at the top of a building, namely the main building of the
Food Brined pork belly To everyone who knows me a bit, the revelation that I'm partial to pork roasts will be no revelation at all. But, I adhere to a kind of roast that's unusual for Austria
films Do androids dream of video-frames? What happens when a machine learns to watch films? If you've ever wondered, you'll find this article fascinating. If you've never wondered, you'll find it interesting still.