While I didn't venture to the waterside on Saturday I was still able to enjoy the fireworks display from my rooftop terrasse.
Today I headed down to Altona Cruisecenter and positioned myself on the Fähranleger-Ponton. Granted I got quite a bit wet, but hell what a view I had ( in exchange )

Since chinawolf asked if there were any more pictures, I decided to upload two of the ones I took today when I walked from ( Baumwall to Fischauktionshalle )

The weather gods seem to favour this year's Hafengeburtstag big time. Just spent a lovely and relaxed time down at the waterfront in Altona watching the parade of ( arriving ships )

Oh my... °_°' Glad that sashatwen an chinawolf warned me. That was baaaad, classic SciFi Channel productions bad. Shudders...

Those who say academic lectures cannot be engaging and informative at the same time just don't have a clue

This week the literary world lost two of my favorite authors: Harper Lee and Umberto Eco.
Thank you for the hours of joy and the thought inspiring books you gifted the world.

The project of turning Volker Kutscher's Gereon Rath series into a TV show was originally announced in 2014.
So yeah in regards to it finally happening, ney in regards to how long it is still going to take until we can take a stroll through 1920s Berlin.

Originally in the 1960s/70s political correctness was about calling things by their name in order to get rid of them. Basically a liberal idea ( Read more... )

A couple of weeks ago I travelled to Berlin for a Saturday. I left home shortly before 6 am and returned shortly after 10 pm.
In between there were 11h of art, street art, some shopping, fantastic food and simply a change in scenery.

One I needed badly since I so far have been able to take a proper break. ( Check it out )

Well, well looks like some of the tv adaptations of sci-fi books are finally ready to pop this season (edit: Dec 2015 to be exact).

Arthur C. Clarke's earth-bound Childhood's End vs. space-based The Expanse (Based on James S. A. Corey series).

The first few episodes of Humans were great as well. Glad it got renewed ( Read more... )