Alex Schroeder 🐝 @kensanata@octodon.social

Some pictures taken with the bigger camera. Remember to mute the thread if you have seen enough. Apparently we will get new flowers in March. 😄
#Hippeastrum #Photography

The Latvian Radio Choir singing Rachmaninov's All-night Vigil, Op. 37 "Vespers". The best music for crying and programming, both at the same time. Here I am, tears streaming down my face, thinking about some data import into an Oracle database. And I keep thinking: this is the time we live in. Crying, chagrined, as the world slowly turns into a swamp.

"I’m feeling small because all these giants are standing on my shoulders!" – me, when thinking about copyright

A reminder of why I think deleting old posts on social media is important: "I don’t think they have much value going back months and years. I never read through years of tweeting history! This only benefits your enemies, never your friends." https://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/2017-04-27_Record_Keeping

How often to I have to delete and repost a status in order to find all the typos?

As long as anti-geriatrics haven't been developed and as long as child bearing is not outlawed, we *always* stand a chance. One day the ball pen wielding generation will finally die out and we can have the copyright we want. Just don't turn into that kind of old people, all y'alls! Hope springs eternal. On days like these, I appreciate the positive aspects of generational change, of death. We are the invaders! https://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/The_Invaders (says the 45 year old white man...)

My wife has been counting the flowers she has cut down 106 this season. 106! And there are still a few of them blooming. From December to April. I love it. The one pictured is tiny, maybe 10cm across unlike the 16cm or more we usually see, with the first light of the sun upon it.
#hippeastrum #plants #photography #florespondence

Today I listened the episode about Antarah Ibn Shaddad on In Our Time, a #podcast about everything that is good in life: History, Philosophy, and Science. And now I want to go back in time and wish I had continued to study Arabic after four years of private tutoring instead of being a lazy bum. Oh well, the past is gone and so is the little Arabic I knew. But I can still listen to the music and dream. 😃
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarah_ibn_Shaddad

You might have heard the line “lead us not into temptation” in the Lord’s Prayer (“führe uns nicht in Versuchung” in German). It’s a thing I learned as a kid. It’s what I think of when I see billboards and online ads. These are messages created by companies to make us want things that we do not need. If we needed them, we would have thought of it ourselves. It’s when other people start telling us what we might also want that we make ourselves unhappy.
BLOCK ALL THE ADS!

When I hear somebody say that blocking ads is theft the first thing I think is that watching ads is like serving time in prison.
Your life runs through your fingers like sand, wasted on organizations that want to tell you what to buy with the money you earned spending even more time doing things for money instead of doing things for love.
BLOCK ALL THE ADS!

#Photography #Switzerland #Vallais

Flowers are our best friends. 😍
#photography #plants #florespondence (new tag I’ve noticed!) #hyacynth #anthyllis #hippeastrum

An interesting starting point for anybody who has no background in statistics (like me) who sometimes is confronted with people you feel draw the wrong conclusions but you can’t quite put your finger on it. I need these reminders from time to time. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00857-9