Alexander Kucera

These are wooden rods that connect the organs keys to the pipes a few meters further up.

Tons of pipes.

One level down.

Behind the pipes.

At the top.

I suspect we are going up there later.

We are visiting a church this morning to get a tour of a disassembled pipe organ. Should be interesting.

Just finished watching Marvel’s Echo. It was underwhelming. There was a good underlying idea in there somewhere. I think. But by the final episode I still had no idea what it was supposed to be about. No clue about the main characters goals. But I love seeing Wilson Fisk portrayed by Vincent D’Onofrio. I guess that is worth something. Overall though. Sadly one big “meh”.

I finally managed to import all my old long form articles to Micro.blog. Had to do a bit of manual adjustments of my Kirby export to get it to work, but overall it went rather smoothly (after @manton pointed me in the right direction).

Baking bread again today. We got a grain press (as opposed to a grain mill) in January and I have incorporated pressed whole grains in my pizza and bread doughs since then. They add some great nutty flavors to the dough. Highly recommended.

BTW. @manton how is your support email queue looking? I vaguely remember writing your around end of 2023 about importing my Kirby posts and some error it throws. I haven‘t heard anything so far.

Today I learned about the Republic of Molossia and have become a fan. I mean, what’s not to like? A toy train as the national railroad? A space program complete with toy rocket launch? Brilliant!

At an indoor playground for our little ones birthday party. 4 hours and I will leave a deaf man. 🧏‍♂️

Merry Christmas everyone! I hope you and your loved ones have a relaxing couple of days with nice company and great food. 🎄🎅

Sitting in the car, waiting to pick up my son from school, blasting Tubthumbing at full volume. Good times. 🎵

Apple Again Hikes Prices for Its Media Services

Not sure how I feel about this yet myself. Budget is getting stretched a bit thin.

We went to Kletterwald Speyer yesterday and today I am sore and bruised as hell. So a couch day full of pain it is.

One thing I always wondered about game development: in order to make the game (and test the game) wouldn‘t the game developer need to be the best player for the game as well? I mean, how do you make a super hard game without being able to play through and best the most difficult parts? Or come up with the hardest puzzles? Meaning game developers would need to be the best gamers as well?

Listening to a discussion about the current medication shortage in Germany. We really dug ourselves into a hole there over the last two decades.

Dinner thoughts for today: chicken breast with pan sauce, ginger stir fried greens and some rice with a bit of chicken stock for flavor. 👨‍🍳🍚🥘🥬🍗

(Image courtesy of MidJourney)

Sigh. I miss timeline syncing. I just scrolled past several days of old posts on my iPhone (again). I guess I should stick to a single device for Micro.blog reading.

@manton

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At Holiday Park with the kids. They have no idea how awesome it is to have a yearly pass and a theme park quite literally four streets over. I was in three maybe four theme parks in my whole youth. That’s like a month in summer for them. 🎢

Ingo Zamperoni did a great job showing the different political views in Italy in this little documentary. (German dubbing only.)