I think of myself as Pac-man collecting pointless dots on its way to certain death. — Hi. Nice to meet you, what’s your name? (Also, n2mywyn is my current ear-worm. Feel free to let it play in the BG while you read further.) Will this bite me in the backside when I’m famous? I’ve recently established a foolproof benchmark of self-evaluation. I ask myself this: “Will this bite me in the backside when I’m famous?”. …

It’s been eight years since I moved to Germany. I’m officially German now. As time passes I am beginning to realize the possibility that I might need to move there for my elderly parents, knowing it isn’t going to be one bit easy — I look around for examples of people who have moved back. I only know those who talk about it. Few have the courage, means, and most importantly, both. Why does anybody want to move back?

Leaving your country for a good life is not fun. — In one gut-wrenching moment in the documentary “Cuba with a Cameraman” a four-year-old girl in New York gets to go to see her grandmother in Cuba for the first time in her life. The girl’s mother breaks down in tears of joy on reuniting with her mother. They were Cuban…

No blood, just corporate crimes and “catch-me-if-you-can”s — Netflix is hands-down the best streaming service there is. The quality of their interface, the shows they curate, their originals — everything made me fall in love with the platform. The Netflix design and interface make Amazon Prime Video feel like someone’s disorganized personal video library. I personally find it…

Somedays I am nobody,

I watched American Beauty as a child, but watching it again in your 30s is something else. Directed by Sam Mendes and written by Alan Ball, American Beauty (1999) is a timeless classic. …

The unfair standards of the Western world — Dear Wealthy Countries of the West, You said that I should bring my own cloth bag to the supermarket. So I did. Then you bombed two entire countries this year with ultra-modern fighter jets and missile tech. (Did you power those with renewable electricity or fossil fuels?) I grew up…

Are you considering this keyboard? No. Don’t. My fingers ALWAYS land on the wrong keys. — After being spoilt by the trackball mouse, I became a connoisseur of ergonomic work devices. I got VESA handles for my monitors, a vertical mouse and another trackball mouse, and ofcourse, the Logitech ergo k.860. I absolutely love all of them except the keyboard. …

Excel short keys, Valid in your Office, 365 Days of the year. No matter how many ChatGPTs come and go, data at the office will always be too painful to explain to another human being (or AI) in text. Best DIY. The only way to do that effectively to become…