Year: 2021
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First skate in Berlin of 2021!
We had 15 mm of ice on the lake in my local park (Treptowerpark) on Xmas day yesterday, but overnight we have a -10° C freeze, and it had a super hard super strong 40 mm surface on it today 🙂 It’s a bit bumpy, but nice to be back on the ice again! I didn’t stay on long, because there were too many people around, and there’s usually a bunch of idiots who follow me on without knowing what they’re doing, and I didn’t want to have pull the dumb arses out of the water.
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Frozen Xmas day
Minus 7 degrees on Xmas eve was enough to give us 10 mm of ice. Not enough to skate on, but enough to give me hope to be out skating in the outdoors soon 🙂
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Cookie problem
This is was my solution to the hardest cookies anyone had ever tried to serve me!
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Xmas 2021
Somebody broke into my apartment last night! I heard some crazy old mans voice saying “ho ho ho”, so I stormed downstairs to see some huge fat bearded guy in a red suit placing things underneath the Xmas tree. I kicked him in the balls and he dove out my window. Then he threw some sort of black gem stone at me and said “that’s yours you miserable cunt” and then jumped into a reindeer sleigh and took off at high speed before I could catch the bastard.
Oddly, he left presents under the tree for all my visitors today. I’m not sure what type of gem stone he gave me, but hopefully it’s valuable.
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Happy hour
Things were getting tense in the Strattic weekly happy hour today. Team 2 were at risk of beating us as they wrote a banjo played musical jingle to compete against Miriams genius idea of a book turning device built with a bike bump, collander, duck tape and a rubber glove.
So I stepped it up a notch, by demonstrating automatic inflation of our rubber gloves as the first step in the construction of a prototype flying machine built using hydrogen as the lifting fluid.
To demonstrate it was really hydrogen, I set it on fire in my kitchen. I love how Uri looks shocked and worried, whilst Leon is laughing his butt off and Miriam has her “I don’t think burning stuff in your kitchen is a good idea” look on her face.
We won. Mission accomplished!
For the record, it was inflated with baking soda and vinegar, so it’s just CO2, but nitrile rubber in the glove caught on fire.
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Xmas market
Tane, me, Julia, Basia and Mo went to the Xmas market at Alexanderplatz in Berlin. Thanks to Mo for taking the photo for us 🙂
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Freedom
Many people do not seem to appreciate the importance of freedom. Everyone dies; this is an inescapable reality of our own existence. We are on this cosmic plane for a brief window of time, and many of us would prefer that time to be spent as unrestricted as possible. Instead of hating on or insulting those who want freedoms, I think many of you would do better to look inside yourself and what it is that makes you so fearful of those who choose to live their short stint of existence untethered by constraints. Some choose to enjoy life rather than run from the inevitable. – Ryan Hellyer
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Why are psychedelics illegal?
Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window. Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behaviour and information processing. They open you up to the possibility that everything you know is wrong.
– Terence McKenna
