Food for Thought – Honi soit qui mal y pense
Welcome!
I am a technical communicator – and this site contains the things I like most: thoughts and ideas, some background information on some of my hobbies, poems I like and sayings I endorse. Hope you find it of interest, entertaining or even helpful…
Whatever you do – have a nice day!
‘A real man’, ‘a hulk’, ‘the hero’, ‘the fighter’ – the words and phrases are numerous, sometimes there seems no end to the ideas of what men should be like. “Always cool, calm and collected.” “Women and children, the sick and the elderly to be saved first.” What does that do to men’s minds? To …
Music is special. It seems that the earliest ways to express sound may be even older than human speech. Human speech developed over time, thousands of years at least, from earliest ways to express simple sounds through strings of combined sounds as first words, eventually shaping the first sentences. Speech is nothing short of a …
Continue reading “Music, Emotions and Cultures: Persian Traditional Music”
1968, as early as all that…: HAL 9000 – epitome of all AI and ‘talking’ computers… Its voice and red eye apparently made it particularly enticing for the characters in the movie… I never watched that movie, but around IT you cannot possibly escape the ideas surrounding it… 😉 “Google is your friend”? In many …
Continue reading ““AI is Your Friend?” or: Why Humans Beat AI Anytime”
This section is about selected movies. The ones I like or consider special.
A movie actually was starting point for my little site: ‘In the Bleak Midwinter’ also called ‘A Midwinter’s Tale’ by Kenneth Branagh. It had been unavailable from any kind of broadcast or digital sources. So I digitised my VHS copies and put a description online… find that here, too.
By and by I will add a few of my most liked movies as a small reference.
A Stranger Among Us – Sidney Lumet – The Beauty of Humanity
McFarland, USA – Life’s Beauty
Kenneth Branagh: A Midwinter’s Tale
12 Angry Men – Presumptions, Judgement, Error …
Variations on a Theme: Moonlight in New York – Frankie and Johnny
It’s a Wonderful Life – The Counterpoise Lights
The Lives of Others – The Eavesdropper’s Pain…
84 Charing Cross Road – Love for Books, Words and People
Keeping Mum – Black Humour in Full Swing
Hope Springs (2012) – Marriage Revisited – With Passion
The Big Year – Watch the Bird…
The Odd Couple – Oddities of Everyday Life With That Little Smile…
The Closet – The Elegant French Fun on Business, Bullies and Prejudice
The Remains of the Day – The Quiet Drama of Life and Love
I am a technical communicator – and I like to do things that are related to technical matters just as much as I like dancing, writing, cooking, knitting, crocheting, thinking, watching movies, reading, listening to music, doing nothing…
I hope this little site provides some information or food for thought, entertaining insights – or just plain fun.
If you like it, leave me a comment, if you don’t – constructive criticism is also welcome!