Weekly Post 12
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Oh no a day late however that could have happened I got a new highlight DM this week, a friend of mine read my post and then actually recognized my former roommate I mentioned in the train, so they got to spend some time together, that’s awesome! The Sunday birthday celebration of my grandfather was bigger then I thought, which was nice, I had some good conversations. On Monday I made great progress with my bachelor theses and finished cutting the video, Tuesday the electronics project also made a nice leap forward (see #Projects). Wednesday and Thursday nothing special happened, but hard work on bachelor thesis. I had to face an annoying technical issue with that, which stole me basically a day. I got it back on Friday though with a very productive day before heading to my old school to be a volunteer helper for the mathenacht. It’s a little event which is aimed towards German schools to do some hard math puzzles through a whole night, with different problems for different grades. I did head home “early” though (at ~03:00), cause Saturday I wanted to have some energy for doing some gardening work back home, and in the evening we had a Sweden team meetup (which also went till ~02:00 so completely screwed my sleep schedule which has actually been pretty good the last weeks). Sunday I watched the double feature Wicked 1 & 2 in cinema, which was a bit harsh with that amount of sleep. We made some vegan bolognese and the next day with that lasagane which is such a nice double use of the ragù ingredient. Or well mostly my roomate made that, thanks for it :D I came up with giving this part its own section while raking leaves. And then I realized this is my blog, I can just edit the old blog posts to pretend this has always been this way. Great! A 2000 classic today, Mr. Brightside by the Killers. Which is one of these songs I never know its name of and have to search for it by its lyrics, but the intro melody is so unique I always am like “uh this song” after two seconds of the guitar playing. I would also like to shout-out a YouTube video this week I saw about how Nobody will ever come close to Manuel Neuer in 2014. It is in German but has an auto dub to English, take that as you will. I do very much like them trying to show with statistics how Neuer changed the football game with his new approach to being a goal keeper. I do not care for football at all, so this should be taken as a huge recommendation. I didn’t enjoy Wicked 2 as much as I hoped. I really liked the effort they put into the set design of the first part, which came to shine in so many different settings, and the actors got to act with them in a really convincing way. And the big dance numbers. Both of these weren’t really in the second part, probably because the story didn’t really allow them to and they gave a higher priority to have a very close story to the musical instead of having an as good movie as the first one. I guess they would have gotten a lot of negativity from the big musical fans if they decided to change the story, but I personally am not convinced its the right decision :D I got myself a Star Wars Trivia Pursuit: The Black Series. I now understand why people like this game, actually knowing the answers or being able to make educated guesses is a lot of fun, I was never able to with the standard version. I got it because my girlfriend has the Doctor Who one and I got jealous, cause that was so cool. But now I have the bigger game 😈. I didn’t take time yet to explain my university course yet, the last one I have. The course is basically “Use a FPGA + a self designed circuit board for something cool”. If you really want to learn what it is, here is the totally not complex wikipdia article. But basically, very limited and hard to program physical connecting of logic blocks. But they are really fast. We decided to do the chrome dino game, a perfect use of that power. My project partner already had a FPGA and bought a LED matrix which uses the fancy HUB75 protocol which apparently powers the huge LED matrices you see in the wild world. It was a fun challenge to figure out how to use that (thanks to David Venturas blog post about this topic). So first I fixed the attempt from my lab partner to get two lines working: Recap
Culinary highlight
Song of the week
Currently watching/reading/listening
Games
Projects