Category: English

Among the many blogs I used to maintain, there was one entitled ‘The Gift Study’ (I was very much into Sherlock Holmes back then) and it was all about giving gifts. A peculiar subject to pick perhaps, not something people concern themselves with on the regular - only when the situation calls for it, anyway… Continue reading Giving gifts →

I wanted to watch Mission: Impossible - Fallout because I’d heard great things about it, and I do love me a spy flick, but of course I couldn’t without having seen all the previous installments first. So, on a whim, I watched all of them, pretty much at once. And then it sort of escalated,… Continue reading Tom Cruise’s entire filmography →

When someone close to me outed themselves I said that I already knew. After all, they had DVDs of Queer as Folk on their dresser, a groundbreaking LGBT+ TV show at the time, so for me everything was clear. Sounds like a joke, but it's actually true. So I've been familiar with the topic for… Continue reading Being queer →

I don’t know how many years exactly I’ve been watching YouTube, but it’s probably more than ten already. It started rather innocently, a music video here, a funny meme video there, and then, wholly unnoticeably, it turned into sleepless nights and endless hours spent drifting on the wave of the algorithm. I don’t know what… Continue reading The Story of Two Bros →

I remember my Mom would always tell me how, when she was a kid, she would crane her neck up while walking along this one particular street in the city she grew up in, to look at the tops of the townhouses. She never understood why she liked them and local history was foreign to… Continue reading Local tourism →

There are endless topics, and then there’s the topic of data. It is such a huge and complex concept, used in so many different contexts, that it seems foolish to try and encompass all of its significance in a single sentence or a single article even. Which is luckily not what I’m trying to do… Continue reading Data →

In one respect Germany is similar to eating cheese with jam - it provokes many different, and often contradictory feelings. In my experience you can get bullied for being German and in the same breath be told how nice it would be to own a BMW. Double standard aside however, let’s focus on the positive,… Continue reading German Design →