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peter

@peter@gassner.io

Interaction Designer with a passion for functional programming and data visualisation. Either highly enthusiastic or overly critical; always political. Works at ETH Zürich.
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peter, to music
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For that I'm not a person of faith, I have quite a lot of perfect singles that address the Lord 🤷‍♂️

In the Presence of the Lord – Blind Faith
The Lord is Listenin’ to Ya, Hallelujah! – Carla Bley
My Sweet Lord – George Harrison
Lord’s Mistake – Candy Says
The Lord Has Come Back Today – Pixies

peter, to random
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You’re a Cyclist Who Was Just Struck by a Car Driver. Here’s Why It Was Your Fault - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/youre-a-cyclist-who-was-just-struck-by-a-car-driver-heres-why-it-was-your-fault

peter, to random
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Car bumped into me on my bike today, luckily only my fender was damaged.

Iwas wearing hi-vis vest and bright lights. Nothing more I could do except not bike or get proper infrastructure 🤷‍♂️

peter, to random
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My friend had a bike accident: turns out his brakes were mounted in an unusual way where the right hand brakes the front wheel. Unlike every other bike I know – why would they do that?? 🤔

CerstinMahlow, to random German
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Mein Feedback: „Beschriften Sie Abbildungen und Tabellen. Zusätzlich: Dinge, die Sie als Screenshot einfügen, aber eine Tabelle zeigen, sind Tabellen, keine Abbildungen“

Reaktion: „Ich habe mich wirklich bemüht und mein Bestes getan, so gut es geht, zu verbessern, was Ihnen nicht gefällt“

„Abbildung 7: Tabelle xyz aus [komplette Quellenangabe]“

Und jetzt weiss ich auch nicht

peter,
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@CerstinMahlow Hier ist dein ganzes Können gefragt um den Inhalt deines Feedbacks nochmals zielführend zu übermitteln, bemühe dich wirklich! 😆

peter,
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@CerstinMahlow Ich meinte es zwar eher als Witz, aber finde es schön, dass du nicht einfach aufgibst. Als Nicht-Pädagoge kann ich nur von mir erzählen und sagen: es gab so viele Dinge, die ich nicht verstand, nicht «gesehen» habe, nicht wusste, was man mir sagen wollte, und dann viele Jahre später machte es «klick». Und dann wusste ich, was mir all die Mentoren damals sagen wollten. Deshalb glaube ich, dass dein Feedback sicher nicht für nichts ist. 🤗

peter, to random
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So I‘ve been on here less the last few days because @arnicas has been going on about No Man‘s Sky and then I bought it alongside Zelda and omg is it a time sink!!! A great one, sure, but a big one 😂 And I haven‘t even started Zelda yet and that will be the rest of the year … 🙈

peter, to tv
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Some days you just gotta speak truth to patriarchy 🤷‍♂️

Demerzel answering: “No, you’re a sperm led by its waving flagellum,”
Demerzel continued: “mistaking its random motion for complexity.”

peter, to random
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Bad design at the physio place: “Please don't empty your glasses, this is not a sink and doesn't have a drain.”

Well, then don't make it look like a sink, how hard can it be?

peter, to random
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My kid drew this just now and oh my am I in love! Poetry with digital paint 🥰

peter, to music
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Ok, shit. I ordered GoGo Penguin’s v2.0 on vinyl and it arrived and it’s so damn gorgeous that I now fear for all the money I will spend on vinyl …

But it’s ok – this is a great way to support the artists and, really, what would we do without them! 🤘

https://gogopenguin.bandcamp.com/album/v20-deluxe-edition

peter, to random
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This is apparently me, according to my kid 🤷‍♂️

peter, to music
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50 years ago today one of my all time favourite albums was released: Head Hunters.

I listened to this for hours as a child when I discovered it in my dad’s LP collection. And when I recently put it on for the 9yo to hear, we both danced as if there was no tomorrow.

Here’s to a visionary band and a time when it was a-ok when a song lasted for 10 or 15 minutes even. 🧡

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_Hunters

peter, to devops
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✨ Open position ✨ We need to scale our online platform for teaching computer science to more schools and are looking for someone in / who can help us with this.

It’s a super family-friendly environment and a lovely team. Come join us? I’m happy to answer questions!

https://jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOPG_ethz_JV5eRhrSjEaR4VsM6O

(It says it’s temporary, but so far we managed to extend every position to unlimited, because it’s really needed.)

peter, to random
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Nothing better than a morning swim at a 1000m above sea level in ice cold water with a beautiful view! 💙

View down from the mountains over green, sunny meadows with clouds creeping up the mountain.

peter, to random
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Re: measurements shape behaviour.

Kid‘s class have to read books in school now and track pages per day. My kid started with a text-only book set in small letters. A classmate read many more pages in the same time, in a book with lots of images and set in large letters.

Obviously my kid now switched to those books as well – she liked the other stories, but it‘s really disheartening to fall behind in page count for her.

Why not just check in with each kid to see how they‘re doing?

peter, to random
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Spent a wonderful day in the snow today ❤️ Going to bed early, so exhausted from skiing 😅

peter, to random
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Zürich wants to remove bike lanes and make roads more narrow, thereby slowing down cars so they can‘t overtake cyclists anymore.

How utterly stupid!

Just last week a car hit me from behind when I was standing at an intersection.

Days before a car overtook me so closely that my clothes were pulled towards it. I then rode in the middle of the road to prevent further close encounters, only to be overtaken by the next car who almost ran headways into an oncoming car. Etc.

https://www.velojournal.ch/aktuell/nachrichten/detail/rueckschrittliche-planung-bei-der-velovorzugsroute/

peter, to random
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Rain got in my wife’s MacBook today – rescue in progress 💦

Gosh is it annoying if you can’t disconnect the battery properly without risking further damage …

peter, to random
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Perfect snow day 😎

We were nervous at first because 50m below the slopes the snow ends(as in none at all).

peter, to random
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The kid prepared dinner for me to cheer me up ❤️

peter, to random
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So many men …

peter, to tv
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Finished – a strange and magical journey of subtle horrors and marvellous discoveries!

peter, to random
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Microsoft are very good at checkboxes ✅ I‘m clicking and clicking in Outlook webmail but can‘t get it to toggle 🤷‍♂️
/cc @grumpy_website

video/mp4

peter, to random German
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Diskussion mit 70-jährigen heute: «Ist doch ok, wenn wir ‹Mohrenkopf› sagen, wir meinens ja nicht böse. Das geht viel zu weit mit dem Sprachwahn!»

Aber dann auch: «Die Jungen von heute benutzen das ‹Du› oft respektlos, deshalb bestehe ich auf dem ‹Sie›.»

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