Archives for Miscellanea
Choosing the right poison
About one week ago I had exactly 50 types of tea at home. By tea, I don't only understand black-oolong-green-white tea, but also the various plant infusions that…
The day the Chinese puzzles took over
I'm really furious when people don't bother to look for the original source of whatever they're posting on the Internet (I feel I have a duty). I'm also…
Should you live with no sense of smell…
...you'd be missing quite a lot. I happen to be a person to whom the olfactory and the tactile senses are crucial—not that I could imagine myself blind…
Carracci—what else?
I failed to update the blog with the coffees I've tried since the last post on this topic. I'll only tell you what I settled for: Carracci. Despite…
Until further notice…
...let's consider the contents of the previous posts as outdated. For the time being I have no motivation to correct or update them, nor to add new posts.
Learning a language in 200 hours?
German is an impossible language. Right after I got the Zertifikat Deutsch B1, I forgot half of what I've learned. This is in part because all the methods…
The coffee saga goes on—Summer Edition
My post on Nespresso-compatible capsules has become unmanageable because of its too many updates. I myself cannot use it as a guide anymore! As I've discovered some more…
Inissia Kapselmaschine, was sonst?
There have been years since various capsule-based espresso systems became popular even in the poorest countries of the EU. I remember a certain moment when the Dolce Gusto…
The myth of the well-administered German city
I'm sure you might misunderstand this text, so let's put it upfront: Leonberg (71229) is a charming little town in Baden-Württemberg. There are many other lovely little towns…
Nolite mittere high-tech ante porcos
Following a recent post of mine, I kept reading a number of reviews of recent smartphones, and I've been taken aback by the degree of shallowness and sheer…
The world is swarming with incompetents…
Some time ago, during a job interview, I was asked at the end why in some version of my résumé I wrote in the soft skills section "attention…
Just saying…
...hello, I'm not dead! Not yet.
