But I guess what's the purpose of all those bombs and mil-tech if you can't use them.

My idea of a time machine is not the kind that takes you back to 2003.

Berlin weather report: So cold that I haven't seen my balls in two weeks.

Had a meeting about digital sovereignty in Europe today, so that was fun. The big European companies waking up to this is interesting.
The best time to have done it was in 2016, the second best time is now, I guess.

Berlin weather report: the sky needs some anti-dandruff shampoo.

Through the course of my work I talk to a lot of German professionals and the biggest fear they have now is how dependent their infrastructure is on American software and hardware companies. Life in business Germany is currently bleak and they're all hoping that Trump is an aberration.

My tribute to Sir Mark Tully: a broadcasting legend. YouTube video by Steve Rosenberg

Sad to learn of the death of former BBC foreign correspondent Sir Mark Tully. For so many years he was known as the ‘Voice of India.’ As a tribute I play one of the pieces Sir Mark selected on BBC Radio’s Desert Island Discs: Danny Boy.

Earlier this century, the US went to war in the name of fighting terrorism and successfully painted a religious group as terrorists. A quarter century later the effects of that ring back, anyone who doesn't follow the authoritarian regime is a terrorist, the snake comes back to bite its own tail.

Travel everywhere until the only place left is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

Berlin weather report: Stop ice.

Berlin weather report: Boycotting going outside till it hits a respectable temperature. I'm not heating the world with my body heat, not anymore.

Need a social media platform without Americans posting about America. Yes Ice sucks, it's all over the pavement here in Berlin.

Having spent months in this job hunting hellhole, the only thing that got me noticed was bypassing company portals and directly talking to people. Job listing written by AI which take in AI applications which are in turn vetted by AI with hallucinations at every layer, these are strange times.

Decided before age and health knocks my appetite out I need to go around the world and eat as much as I can of the creative ways people reimagine ingredients. And a special place for a total Indian revisit. I'm Germany you eat to live, a dream destination would be where you can live to eat.

Thanks for these amazing recs

Berlin weather report: Went out for five minutes today and the skin on the legs is cracked, lips sharp enough to shave the chin and a cold than gone to the deepest possible rungs of the lungs. Stay inside, do nothing.

3. Paprika (movie)

This film fully embraces its fascination with dreams. I mean, one of its characters is literally an alter ego of another character's psyche. I wish more movies had the courage to put what interests them first instead of sticking to the same old conventions

My idea of travelling is just go to a place you're not supposed to be and then figure out why you're there in the first place. Always worked for me, even in places that were supposedly dangerous (though I'm told in latin america it'd mean I lose a kidney)

Explaining the spirit of randomness to random people is the hardest thing to do.

"Go for three hours? But where?"
"Anywhere, maybe some beach?"
"No temples?"
"No"
"There's a church in that direction"
"Not necessary"
"There's a lot of masjids in that direction"
"Just nowhere"
"Where are you from?"
"North Andhra"
"Why don't you just go there?"

Stopped a couple of tuk-tuk drivers and asked them to drive randomly for a couple of hours with no specific destination just an idea. Agreed to give them how much ever they asked without haggling and no one seemed to grapple with the concept.

Pick up the nearest book. Open to page 42 and post your second sentence. Add #page42 and include this rule as a reply:

"2. Cut three scallions slantwise, slice ginger, and chop garlic"

Funny thing is I have a story similar to this :")

There was a really great exhibition at Gropius Bau in 2022 called Beirut and the Golden Sixties: A Manifesto of Fragility that delved into exactly what you're talking about.

Also, do you know the Habibi Funk reissue record label? Have a listen.

The Lebanese joints in Berlin are onto something with the really sad songs they play over the speakers. Makes you stare into nothingness for ten minutes and take you to a Lebanon than exists only in the your mind.

Wanted to escape having a calendar full of plans this year and be non-commital about every social event. What do we know, two days after being back my calendar is already full for the next two weeks. I guess I'll save these wishes for retirement (which will be never).

Just make them do all the paperwork that an average Indian tourist has to do and then wait for the fireworks to fizzle.

Berlin weather report: Knockoff northern lights visible to the naked eye over the city. Look to the north, not just through any random window.

That's a fart festival right there.

My brain read this as Warner Bros so no.