Years ago I was at a family gathering when my FIL pulled me aside to show me something. MIL clearly knew what was up because she told him to leave me alone, but he insisted. So we went to his office where he opened his laptop with a porn site open in the browser. I thought this was an embarrassing mistake until he asked me if I could create a menu like that for his company website. I had to explain the #UX problem of #MysteryMeatNavigation to him over bratwurst and beer. Fun times. 🙂
I started reading #DieWeißeRose by #BTraven. It's about an oil company that wants to buy up farmland in Mexico. The indigenous farm owner however argues that the farm has fed his kin for many generations and that he owes it to future generations to keep it that way. That book is 94 years old and constantly drops arguments about sustainability, corporate expansionism, the environment vs fossile oil.
I'm thinking about ways to post the book here as a continuing story like @samuelpepys's diaries.
I'm not the world's greatest #Nintendo fan but I'm an 80s kid and grew up with these #LCDGames. So I couldn't resist the #LegendOfZelda#GameAndWatch. I need glasses for the tiny screen but it is pretty fun. :3eye:
Das ist der Monty. Monty ist einer von diesen Lebenskünstlern im Viertel, die den ganzen Tag nichts zu tun zu haben scheinen, als auf der Straße den Leuten zuzuschauen. Er wohnt in einem Künstler-Atelier im Souterrain und macht da irgendwas mit Grafik. Ich hab Monty nie mit Geld gesehen, aber es scheint ihm trotzdem gut zu gehen. Wahrscheinlich geerbt. #cologne
#Iwatched my favourite western movie Young Guns II again last night. As is customary I did some Wikipedia reading on the Regulators of the Lincoln county war afterwards.
And so I learned that the first film about Billy the Kid, a silent movie made in 1911, depicted Billy as a girl brought up as a cowboy and later impersonating a boy. Sounds like an interesting twist to me. Unfortunately the 1911 film is considered lost.
@elaterite Yes, that clip is from the beginning of Young Guns II. (You don't need to have seen the first one btw.)
I never heard of Old Henry but I'm looking into it now. Thanks!