I’ve been reading Human Acts by Han Kang. It’s a sad and touching book about the Gwangju massacre and its effect on people. A couple of months ago I read The Vegetarian by the same author, she’s quickly becoming one of my favourite writers.

A bunch of CD’s I bought from a flea market the other day. Kate Bush, Blur, Morrissey, Hellacopters, The Flaming Sideburns… in my home city scoring decently priced 2nd hand vinyls is rare, but plenty of CD’s for 2-5 euros.

Proving that something doesn’t work can be valuable data, too. Especially in research close to industrial interests… celebrate failures!

Strictly scheduled stuff goes into calendar, but otherwise I have two text files. The first one I prepare every Monday, listing important things for each day of the week. The other one I do every morning, listing the most important tasks for the day, and a few “nice to have if there’s time”. That’s about it.

Old guy enjoying the sunshine

I recently started dabbling in making music, and yesterday I set up a new drum pad MIDI controller (Akai MPD218) and played around with it a bit. Much more satisfying to have physical pads and knobs instead of just using the DAW with mouse and kb.

Same, no complaints here.