Over 25 years ago I fell in love with the Italian language. I had to pick a second foreign language at school, but had some weird experience with a French class two years before so that I did not want to pick that up again. Luckily, there was another language that was offered: Italian. So this one was it. And it was one of the better decisions I made in my life.
Over the years, as is my custom, I went back and forth between engaging with the language by taking a class and listening to a lot of music, and not doing any of it. For some months, starting with this year's Sanremo festival but really going off after Eurovision, I've been very deep into it again. I've been listening to Italian music exclusively for weeks and I don't know how to stop. My range is not exactly broad though. However, I thought I'd like to list some of my all-time and current favourites.
This is a reply to Manuel Moreale's post "On corpses, selfishness, and ownership". Instead of replying directly via e-mail I thought I'd be a good blogger and reply publicly.
Mauel writes that with the new ID in Italy you have to say if you want to be an organ donor or not so that it can be included on your ID. That is not the case in Germany. I had to get a new credit card size ID a few years back (I guess it's an EU thing) and they did not ask me that question. We do however have an extra organ donor card that is entirely optional.
Before I continue I want to state that I agree with Manuel in that it is selfish to not be an organ donor. Even for religious reasons I do not understand if you aren't. What god would want you to not help another human to survive? (Hint: I am not religious.)
In April of this year I reactivated my last.fm account after 12.5 years. Yes, twelve and a half years. I've registered my account in 2005 and last scrobbled a song in 2012. During that time I scrobbled 13,900 tracks. Since re-activing my account (and until the time of publication of this post) I already scrobbled 4,020 tracks. (Actually more, but I deleted some.)
Alpha Canon, Beta Canon, Head Canon. Or: Do we get robbed of stories and adventures with our heroes when they die seemingly unnecessary deaths on screen?
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This is a very late response to something I read some years ago on social media in response to beloved Star Trek characters being killed off on screen.
When I read Joel's post I immediately started to answer the questions in my head. He later invited me to join. But it took me until today to finally put this post together. Sometimes things take time.
I do not watch a lot of series. Most definitely not the latest and hottest. Instead of following a hype, I tend to take a few steps backwards. But I do have my favourites. The biggest one of course being the entire glory that is Star Trek. So, spoiler alert, there's a lot of Star Trek in my replies to the following three questions. LLAP!
Axxuy recently talked about how he drinks coffee and asked his readers to do the same.
Growing up and watching Captain Janeway in Star Trek: Voyager, I really wanted to like coffee, too, but didn't. I thought it was bitter and harsh. Over time I grew to love it though. I learned that if you have good quality beans and know how to prepare it, the coffee is not bitter at all. Buy good quality coffee, people!
The only social media I'm using these days is the fediverse. I have several accounts on different software for different applications: I use Shareky for micro blogging (i.e. general chatting and blabbering things into the universe), Pixelfed for photos (though I don't really use it and am actually thinking about deleting my account), and BookWyrm for keeping track of my reading and for writing little reviews.
There are many great features about the fediverse. One of which is that you can migrate your account from one server to another. That's really cool...
David at Forking Mad created a new blog questions challenge: 10 pointless facts about oneself. They are not very intimate, yet personal enough to get to know me a bit better. And they are fun. So, here we go.
This is in reply to Joel's post about his name. Which is a reply to Alexandra Wolfe's post about names. Yes, I guess you could say this is another Blog Questions Challenge.
My dear English speaking readers: This blog post is written in German. It is a response to Annette's call for ideas for how we want the web to be.
Ich bin im Fediverse auf HerrTommis Blogpost #SoSollWeb: Wünsche für die Zukunft des Webs gestoßen und darüber dann auf Annettes Aufruf, doch darüber nach zu denken, wie ein gutes Web aussehen sollte. Normalerweise schreibe ich auf Englisch, aber das hält mich nicht davon ab, auch mal was auf Deutsch zu schreiben. Danke für den Impuls, Annette!