Food for Thought – Honi soit qui mal y pense
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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!
It’s obvious: Greenland didn’t ‘work’… now it’s back to Iran, again? How in the world do you sleep at night and look into the mirror in the morning, Mr Trump? Again the scare tactics to get people to succumb to your type of deal conditions? ‘What the he…l?’ This is not your earth, not your …
AI, so it appears, saves time: Let it summarize a longer text for you which you do not have the time to read in full. Let it make (‘generate’ = Gen AI) a little image you could use in an online blog post. Even let it create whole (short) videos to use for posting and …
Continue reading “AI Saves Time? – or: Ideas, Inspiration, Human Intelligence and the Machine”
The smile of Asia as a phrase has been used in advertising – too. But the actual fact is also that in many countries around the world, especially in the Near or Far East, as they are called, smiling at others you never even met before is a custom. People from other parts of the …
Continue reading ““Smile and the World Will Smile With You” – or: The Smile of Asia”
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!