Richard Hemmer

Watches

Watch of the day (or so), Pt. 1 - Casio Royale

It's the time of the Corona crisis, and like many other countries, Austria has imposed some rather strict rules to keep the worst at bay. As a result, I'm working from home, as are most of the people that can afford that option. So on a whim, I decided to

corona virus

The Corona Virus dashboard

Johns Hopkins university has a great dashboard giving a global overview of Corona virus infections. It's for desktop and mobile and everyone who wants to keep tabs on things should go ahead and bookmark it (do people still bookmark things?).

Excitement

Lost posts

I just went through the list of drafts I abandoned by some point and there's quite a few.

tech-stuff

The state of blogs

There's a great write-up on The Guardian about the state of the blogosphere (I think we might be allowed to use that term unironically now). From the piece: The furore over social media and its impact on democracy has obscured the fact that the blogosphere not only continues to exist,

videos

The Comet

Millions of pictures taken by the Rosetta spacecraft, of a comet they accompanied for about two years. Created by director Christian Stangl, soundtrack by Wolfgang Stangl. via kottke.

Snapshot

The introduction of the Snapshot

I've been thinking about how to use this place more, even for the more mundane writings. Stuff I'd usually post to Twitter: no title, no hashtags, nothing but a few sentences or a mere thought. I've recently also been inspired by a few things I'm still trying to put down

tech-stuff

Blank VHS Covers

The times of the video cassettes is long gone. But what remains is the artwork on the covers of the blank ones you could buy to tape, you know, television or pirated versions of films, if you were lucky enough to have access to an editing desk. This video is

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.

Books

Book of the month: "The Twenty Three"

In which I write about the Promise Falls trilogy.

Travel

On a boat

In which I extol the virtues of being on a boat in the Mediterranean.

Food

Eating fish in Atlantis

In which I write about eating a fish platter one fine Saturday evening

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.

tech-stuff

Ghost and Unsplash

In which I describe and praise the Unsplash integration with Ghost.

Book of the month

Book of the month: "Voltaire Almighty"

In which I praise Roger Pearson's most readable Voltaire biography.

tech-stuff

Ghost for Android

In which I extoll the virtues of a mobile app.

tech-stuff

A new editor and a new story

In which I write about Ghost's new Koenig editor.

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.

Food

A few days in Munich, Part II

In which I tell you even more about our visit to Munich.

Food

A few days in Munich, Part I

In which I extoll the virtues of Munich and Bavarian Beer.

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 are: I used to not know the littlest thing about Martinis, until one day I decided to

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 scene, here's my conundrum: I like Ghost in principle, but some things about it turn me off

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 Cole's "Nature Boy". Turns out it's by Norwegian singer Aurora, and according to the official