Manuel Riess

Fascinating! Scientists Say a Physical Warp Drive Is Now Possible I‘d love to live in the future!

So… I started to watch this totally new show: For All Mankind. Don’t know if you got the memo, but it’s pretty good! 😉

I really love it that I can’t listen to music while Xcode is open. It’s not like music helps me working or anything… 🙄

Finally got to watch Joker tonight. What an incredible acting performance! Now I’m going to search YouTube for daisies or cat videos. Maybe even cat videos with daisies. That’s a rough movie 🍿 Phew… worth it!

Alright… GameStop is firing again and I missed that train again 🙈 What a story though…

I can only imagine this school was built like a Pi symbol on purpose 😉

This is the way…

If I need some distraction I tend to go to the r/AstroPhotography subreddit. Beautiful „amateur“ deep sky images. I get lost in there…

The pandemic becomes harder to handle each day. Politics is really not helping at all anymore. I don’t know where they live but what’s happening right now was known since weeks, and they still talk about fairytales. Families are being crushed and tried to keep motivated with fake carrot sticks. We have two small kids and we‘re left alone with decisions laid on us that we should not have to make. We can only loose in this game and politicians are too weak to act meaningfully. I really hate everything right now.

I don’t understand Reddit. I like to browse it, I get a couple great links, I get some good laughs out of it… Yet I don’t have any idea why and what I should post there. I’m probably just old 😉

Crazy! APOD: 2021 February 20 - Perseverance: How to Land on Mars

I think it’s funny when critics say that a movie is an audience pleaser, as if that would be a bad thing. What’s the point of a movie then? 🤷‍♂️🎥🍿

Is there a good call blocker app that works in Europe/Germany? I’m willing to try something but all those apps look just as sketchy as the calls they are advertising to block 🙈

Is it a coincidence that I get more and more Spam/Robo Calls lately (i don’t answer calls from numbers I don’t know) while shitty services like Clubhouse flagrantly abuse access to people’s address books, violating laws? I don’t think so. I never got any spam calls until recently.

As for me, I like the stock!

‘Roaring Kitty’ Says He Will Continue to Invest in GameStop This is so good 😊

I‘m always very excited for space missions. It’s unbelievable how much thought and technology comes together in a few minutes of uncertainty during the landing and it shows time and again that it can work. So inspiring… go Perseverance! 🚀

Amazing interview with Weezer by Zane Lowe on Apple Music. I learned a lot about the band… I should listen to more Zane Lowe interviews!

We are also paying for storage. We are already connected with Family Sharing. It’s time for Apple to solve families sharing and syncing photos and videos, which has been an issue since iPhoto version 1.

I’m not the only one with these photo management issues. Basically everyone knows that this is an existential flaw in iCloud/Photos and we know it since so many years. Apple has to know it. This article sums up the issues and some ways to solve it.

I’m sorry, but I won’t get tired of complaining about it. It baffles me all the time again and again and again. Why the heck is there no shared family photo library in iCloud!? It’s ridiculous!

I fell off the photo challenge wagon early on this time, but it definitely ups my English vocabulary 👨‍🎓 👨‍🏫📚

Too much new stuff to watch everywhere, I can’t decide what’s next. So, I started rewatching Gangs of New York again. Some movies I can watch over and over and they never fail!

Here’s the thing about working from home: On one hand I’m happy to not have to drive to the office every day since almost a year now, which saves me lots and lots of time. On the other hand I miss it because it gave me some time for myself, to wind down, listen to Podcasts, thinking about stuff. Also, switching from work mode to family mode in seconds is exhausting, the other way it’s really stressing me out when I have to jump into meetings unprepared and in a hurry. I like working from home, but that whole situation makes everything harder…

Reminder to check out the Discover feed from time to time! I found a couple of good posts and followed some more people today 👍🏻

Now that there are a bunch of other apps available to publish to Micro.blog I realize that what I‘d really want is MarsEdit on my iPhone/iPad 🤷‍♂️

I accidentally removed Overcast from my home screen and decided to leave it like that. Right now I feel like I listened to enough Podcasts in my life. I‘ll try to catch up with Roderick on the Line and keep listening to Core Intuition, but that’s about it.