An abstract digital artwork featuring a forest-like pattern with layers of colorful, rounded shapes that resemble tree canopies. The dominant colors are autumnal, including deep red, vibrant yellow, earthy green, orange, and subtle brown tones. These rounded, concentric shapes are layered to create a sense of depth and texture, forming a dense, overlapping visual field. The overall impression evokes the feeling of a lush, vibrant forest in the fall season. In the bottom-right corner, there is text: 2024-12-04 vmac.ch

Another autumn forest from above. Now that we have winter, I need to find a new subject. :-) I’m happy with the trees now; they look realistic.

 
The port for the sump pump of our washing machine. With some debry in front of it.

And I could have lived without this whole mess. Our washing machine was showing an error that the pump does not work anymore. It was blocked with hair pins and hair.

 

This article let’s think about my stance in regards to lenses. Would certainly help with sports.

I recently got contact lenses, for the first time in 34 years, as someone who has required corrective eyewear since the age of 6. I have attributed the decision mostly to my ongoing midlife/existential crisis — as a way to prove to myself that I’m NOT set in my ways and I CAN do new things — and for whatever reason I had increasingly been thinking that my eyeglasses are my whole personality and I was interested in experimenting with a different look.

⤑ Eyeballs.

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Cortical spreading depression is a dramatic wave of electrical “excitation” that spreads across the surface of the brain, also called the cerebral cortex, when something antagonizes or upsets it. #page42 📖

 

Second morning a the week I woke up before four o clock in the morning. Not helpful, at least we have snow outside today. But I have a long day ahead of me. I will be so tired at the bar this evening.

 

It started showing. But my heart is still heavy right now. Sometimes parenting is hard :-(

 
Two PET bottle slugs holder by their already formed threads. The right one is smaller (should be for a half littler bottle) and the right one is bigger and darker, as the plastic contains more recycled material.

I never thought how PET bottles look before they are filled. Apparently they look like in this image, and get enlarged directly before getting filled.

 

On my way home from the office with my daughter. We had Zukuntstag today (bring your children to work day). I showed her how to write HTML. But I fear it will not take on as a hobby. Way to complicated according to her ;-).

/father-daughter
A college of 6 postcards and two envelopes on the floor. Starting at the top we have a drawn postcard showing a cafe, followed by a card at night in a city then a card with a red helicopter, next we have a whale. At the six position there is a card of the city Aarau with the river in front of, and the last card contains three images from a hotel.

I was productive yesterday. 6 postcards, 1 letter and the ballot forms.

 
A photo of the red voting booklet for the Swiss votes on the national level at the end of the months. The text reads Volksabstimmung 24 November 2024 / Erste Vorlage: Bundesbeschluss über den Ausbauschritt 2023 für die Nationalstrassen / Zweite Vorschlage: Änderung des Obligationenrechts (Mietrecht Untermiete) / Dritte Vorlage Änderung des Obligationenrechts (Mietrecht Kündigung wegen Eigenbedarfs) / Vierte Vorlage Änderung des Bundesgesetzes über die Krankenversicherung (KVG) (Einheitliche Finanzierung der Leistungen)

Did do my votes for this month’s big vote. Four topics on the national level and another 4 on the lower ones.

 
A drawing of trees in autumn from above.

Another autumn forest from above. Played a bit with shadows and the colours, to get a better result.

/doodles

Civil War 2024 And the blunting about war imagery

After watching the movie Civil War (2024), I wanted to write about what I thought of the film. But I was unable to find the right words. I only was able to write this: I watched this movie the other night and it is still with me. It is a long time since I had such a visceral reaction to a movie. And I can’t decide whether I liked it or not.

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/writing /movies /war

I’m not yet sure what I want to think about the election results. I try to be positive but it is not the result I was hoping for – especially that it was such a wide margin :-(.

 

Next big release at work is nearly done. I should get back my life now ;-). Although I loved developing the feature. I learned a lot about the PDF file format.