LostFocus

A weblog by Dominik Schwind

I have nothing to say, really.

Fuck off.

Week 12

Monday, March 19th, 2012

Good things happened! I got my new keyboard, which I still think is awesome. And in the evening I taped a new episode of “Draußen nur Schnittchen”, the podcast where Jan Manuel tells me about online dating. It’s pretty funny and if you understand German, you should give it a try.

Tuesday, March 20th, 2012

I bought a ticket to go see Die Antwoord live in Cologne in June. That should be pretty interesting.

I bought and watched the Aziz Ansari comedy special “Dangerously Delicious” – it’s funny and I really like that the idea of “Give me five dollars, here is the video file, no DRM or any other fuckery” that Louis CK made popular seems to work out for comedians.

In the evening I taped a new episode of The Knutsens – we talk about honks1 and get sidetracked by Draw Something.

Wednesday, March 21st, 2012

I was able to work from home that day, which is a very good thing – I actually got to see some of that glorious blue sky that everybody is talking about and didn’t have to spend roughly four hours sitting in a traffic jam.
In the evening I picked up my sister and her boyfriend from the airport, they’re visiting me for a week.

Thursday, March 22nd, 2012

Nipples! and a small revolution.

I went to Takumi with Madlen and Markus and they liked it so much they went again on sunday.

Friday, March 23rd, 2012

Had some relaxed hanging out at the Düsseldorf Altstadt in the evening.

Saturday, March 24th, 2012

Watched the F1 qualifying and had a nice, sunny, relaxed day in Cologne. Thumbs up.

Sunday, March 25th, 2012

F1, again. Madlen and Markus went to the horse races, which is of no particular interest for me, so instead I drove all the way to Bonn to attend Jan Manuel’s barbecue garden party. That was rather fun and I had a good time. Again: thumbs up.

Thumbs up in particular this week: the weather. Sunshine all week. Warm temperatures. I approve of this.


  1. Google it. 

Cherry G80-3000

Nach fünf langen Jahren unter meinen Fingern hat die Macally-Tastatur, mit der ich bisher im Büro gearbeitet habe, langsam aber sicher den Geist aufgegeben – Teile der Tastatur waren so durchgeleiert, daß schon ein Windhauch die Taste auslöste, während andere Tasten kaum noch bedienbar waren.

Also habe ich das gemacht, was jeder gute Angestellte macht, wenn was “mit dem Computer nicht geht:” ich bin zu den Admins gerannt und habe gejammert. Das Resultat war dann eine Cherry G80-3000.

Cherry G80-3000

Hervorragend. Ich war noch nie von einer Tastatur so begeistert.

Der Kollege hat sie bereits als Schreibmaschine bezeichnet und ich fühle mich auch schon wie Ron Swanson.

The Dirty Web

These are my links for October 11th through October 13th:

Mouser

Ich gebe es ja zu, ich bin auch ein Mouser. Alles, was über Copy/Paste, Fenster-Wechseln und @-Zeichen hinausgeht, überfordert mich. [via]

Shift+F8

Die beste Tastenkombination in Windows ever: Shift+F8 [via Anil Dash]