Kategorie: Allgemein

Fjuncgle.

If you want to reuse (or test) a functional banana, you don’t have to set up a stateful gorilla to hold the banana first.

John D. Cook, commenting on Joe Armstrong

Kulturk(r)ampf.

Every country surely has its own awkward, outdated tradition – where every effort to update it, or to make sure it is offensive to no one, is met with fierce resistance.

Joost de Vries (The Guardian): Black Pete: the scandal we Dutch can’t stay silent about any more

Stutzerig.

There was an air of foppery and nonsense in it which she could not approve.

Jane Austen: Emma

Memusic.

What felicity it is to hear a tune again which has made one happy!

Jane Austen: Emma

Julian Rachlin.

Es gibt Erinnerungen — ganz besonders physische, das heißt also erinnernde Objekte — die so locker flockig ein Jahrzehnt überspringen, dass es unheimlich ist.