Poolitzer's website - vacation

Weekly Post 15

2025-12-30T00:00:00+00:00

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Recap</h2>
Christmas is upon us. I hope you had a wonderful time, I sure did. The weekend was as nice as expected, we started with the puzzles and I hopped over to my girlfriend for a bit as well. Monday I made a bigger shopping tour with my father, and we did some gardening after. Some more puzzles, I went over to my girlfriends place for a spell, and my brother arrived. Tuesday I spend most of the day playing Volleyball with former classmates and after that we played a round of Dog Royal</a>, which was great. I slept at my girlfriends place for a change, and on Wednesday we went to my grandparents. We had a nice Christmas day with lots of presents. Thursday some more family members came there and we had a second Christmas celebration. Friday we drove home, I went to the third (and final) Christmas celebration, this time one of my girlfriend though. Saturday we met up with a friend of ours to play the T.I.M.E stories scenario: Under the mask</a>, as well as an Exit puzzle - Das Gold der Piraten</a>. Sadly I got a bit of a cold with fever, a first for my blog post. On Sunday I didn’t do a lot on account of me being sick, but the friends of my brother arrived with whom he will go on a trip on Monday, which made for a very lively evening.</p>

Puzzles</h2>
For the last couple years we did a lot of puzzles in the Christmas family time. My father goes all out with the boxes, and so it escalates a bit every time. This is a short impression, I intended to write out like proper feedback, but I am too sick.</p>
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Culinary highlight</h2>
We have a long running take on a Swedish blueberry cake. We use elder berries which grow in our backyard. It is a lot, like a full blown dinner right there. Also because we have this vanilla sauce which is mostly fat to put on it.
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Song of the week</h2>
In contrast to last week, HandClap</a> by Fitz and The Tantrums is a song I really enjoy, but I don't know a second song from them. This one is a banger though, the handclaps are beautifully waved into it, and the text is quite layered with references for it being simply about a night full of love. </p>
Currently watching/reading/listening</h2>
I can finally talk about White Sands \o/. This is a graphic novel of Brandon Sanderson, where he used an idea he had for a normal text novel which didn’t come to fruition. When the comic publisher approached him, he realized that magic system he came up with works beautifully in comic form, and I do agree. I quite liked it, especially the later ones. I did buy and read it over the last two months though, but I couldn’t tell you about it because I gifted them to my mother for Christmas, so it had to be a surprise. I also read a bit further in Arcanum Unbound, finished the last Artemis Fowl book, and am a fifth through Elantris, the second last Brandon Sanderson book left. Only the Isles of the Emberdark we haven’t touched yet, and we are all caught up (he did already announce a Kickstarter for a small book in the Cosmoverse, and is writing the first of the next trilogy of Mistborn, so. We are hopefully getting new content for a while still :D)</p>
Projects</h2>
I did the reverse ordering of my music posts in my music list</a>. I figured out how: Instead of iterating over the map/dictionary of the toml, I did a range starting from the first blog post id with music to the length of the toml. And then I reversed it. Quite simple, much wow, still a bit confused if I understood the programming language correctly because I had to do a variable where I thought I could get away without one… And now I wonder if I should turn it into a table and link to the blog post…</p>
And I am playing around with hover tooltips on the images, the text when larger didn’t display nice on mobile. Not fully happy yet, might need some more tweaking in the future.</p>
As always, make the best out of your day!</p>

Weekly Post 9

2025-08-26T00:00:00+00:00

Recap</h2>
Everything is great, cause we are on vacation. We spend the first week of family + girlfriend holiday mostly hiking around the Eiffel, and Luxembourg. We also did a bit of an unplanned visit to the gamescom in Cologne (which isn’t too far from here). My girlfriends family decided to stay the full day, and I simultaneously got an offer for some not used tickets, so that worked out perfectly. I have never been there, and was positively overwhelmed with everything. I especially enjoyed hanging out in the indie dev area after we walked around the whole event, talking to the devs themselves about their games</a>.</p>

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Some impressions from the landscape around here.</p>
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Then we have the lovely area of Calmont</a>, where some high quality wines are produced in mind boggling hard manual labour, the steepest vineards in Europe.</p>
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Then we visited Luxembourg.</p>
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And lastly, gamescom. The pictures are from my girlfriend/her mum, because I was too busy being awestruck to actually take some without people in it. So thanks :)</p>
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Culinary highlight</h2>
It is not that easy to find vegan restaurants in this area, so that is a nice challenge. But there were always tasty options, for example one local dish called Döpnuts/Döppekuchen which Wagners Landhaus</a> served with well done smoked tofu.</p>
Currently watching/reading/listening</h2>
We continued with Wednesday a bit, and steady progress with Wind and Truth.</p>
Games</h2>
So many great indie games from gamescom. I will make a short list with all the indie games I tried, please whishlist them it helps them massively with getting discovered by other people. Shoutouts to</p>

Smash n Grab</a>, a reaction skill based beat ’em up where you play a robot and racoon breaking into places and stealing stuff.</li>
Travel Pack</a>, a relaxed tile hopping games where you roll a dice and collect appropriate resources.</li>
The Dropouts</a>, a heavily from Life is Strange inspired mystery game with a great art style and some cool new ideas, e.g. you get to set if you want to experience jump scares.</li>
Swan song</a>, a puzzle game from experienced video and board (!?!do you know how hard it is to make commercial board games!?!) game makers, which looks and feels so great, and the devs are so lovely.</li>
Tiny bookshop</a> we didn’t actually get to play, but that there were always people playing speaks for itself and what we saw looked really good. I will probably give it a shot and report about it in detail. You manage a cozy bookshop.</li>
Ikuma - the frozen compass</a> is another game which we really wanted to play and just never got to cause there was always a queue. Its a coop game, you play either the husky or the person, who are stranded and have to find a way home, looked like a lot of fun!</li>
And I have to ofc mention Mars Attracts</a>, which comes out in early access in three weeks. Please whishlist and buy it, it is such a great theme park builder and you get all the gruesome Mars Attacks! humor, it is so good.</li> </ul>
As always, make the best out of your day!</p>

Weekly Post 7

2025-06-06T00:00:00+00:00

Recap</h2>
Monday I spend the day finishing the lab report, and I cleaned the house. Tuesday I donated blood and did some work for the uni, I also prepared a lab for next week. Wednesday I finally wrote the blog post and had an interesting university lecture. After doing some more work for university I went to my family home with a little detour to spend the evening with my father and our previous field hockey hobby team members.</p>
Thursday the holiday trip started. We are travelling to Aschberg to meet up with old university friends of my father and their significant others, so a ~20 people large group. After checking in the Panorama Hotel</a> we did a small hike on the mountain with a nice Bismarck statue.</p>

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The next day we went to Haithabu</a>, a Viking museum and open doors area where they rebuild some houses from that area. Some people go there and dress as they did in these days, display old handcrafts and a market. It was really neat. We got a tour through the area and hiked around the nearby lake Haddebyer Noor for one and a half hour.</p>
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After that, my parents and I visited the Castle Gottorf</a> which has museums in its area, which was impressive to take in. We went with a tour through the old part of Schleswig. We visited the Holm, which is an old fisher settlement of Schleswig, and it has a Beliebung. This is a private graveyard/community association. I haven’t encountered this type before, not sure many exist in Germany still.</p>
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Saturday we visited Eckernförde. We got a short tour through the core of the town, and visited more of it by ourselves. For the second half of the day we got a guide through the old fish smokehouse (German website only</a>). They have it fully working with all the old machines and the oven, right in the very narrow old town.</p>
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Sunday was my personal highlight. We visited the mixing plant from SAW (german website again</a>). We got a very impressive tour through the whole plant and surrounding area, the lab chief we convinced to do this for us on a Sunday was very knowledgeable and gave us great insights.</p>
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If there is anyone interested in a more detailed recap of that plant, do PM me and I will do next week. After that we drove home, and I took one of the most east U-Bahn stations of Hamburg, which looks nothing like Hamburg at all.</p>
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Culinary highlight</h2>
No food from the trip really stuck out, though we had some crazy self-made ice called EiZ</a>. You make your own flavour, which is a unique approach. Not entirely convinced though.</p>
We did make self-made apple crumble which is always a lovely quick dessert on Monday though.</p>
Currently watching/reading/listening</h2>
We finished watching Andor</em>, what a great show. 100% big recommendation, if you want to see a complex plot about how a rebellion starts in a fascist empire (and well, Star Wars). We immediately watched Rogue One</em> after that, because it leads so well into the movie.</p>
I had the great opportunity to read Rhythm of War</em> together with my mother. I spend the last weeks catching up with the book, we are now basically in sync with our reading progress and spend some time discussing the plot, world building, our theories on how it all connects together and effects the characters. It is a really neat experience being able to share something like that when you are right in the middle of it as well.</p>
Weekly thought</h2>
Open source technology maintainers are awesome. I have come in contact with quite some now and then, and they are usually helpful, totally nice. These people spend their free time doing some kind of service to the public, expecting nothing back. And are still so delightful about everything. These interactions always leave me with a warm feeling.</p>
YouTube channel shout-out</h2>
There is an even smaller YouTube channel I would like to share: Will Dennis</a>. He makes very short high quality videos occasionally, look at this one</a> for a great example how he does them. Big recommendation.</p>
As always, make the best out of your day!</p>

Weekly Post 0

2025-04-06T00:00:00+00:00

Recap</h2>
This week is an interesting way to start into this series, because I was on vacation from Monday to Friday. So instead of writing my thoughts, I will recap the vacation a bit. You get pictures of it though, which is nice. I put info about the picture in the hover tag.</p>
I and one of my best friends visited a mutual friend in Leipzig, spend 1.5 days there and visited some sights (the Zeitgeschichtliche Forum is a big recommendation). We had two very fun evenings together, playing Dominion on one and overcooked on the other.</p>
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The next day we went on a train ride to Prague and visited the must-see spots (huge castle with cathedral, old town with tyn cathedral, national museum and the observation deck which was sadly closed when we got there). We had an amazing view on the town during the night though, because they have a hill right next to the river.</p>
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Thursday we went to Dresden where we also started with the must-see sights (Dreikönigskirche on the way to the old town, where just 5 minutes apart you have the Semperoper, Residenzschloss + Zwinger and Frauenkirche). After those we rented bikes and biked along the Elbe, which was a enjoyable change of pace.</p>
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On Saturday I planned my last lecture semester, after finishing it (and successfully passing the exams), I only have to write my Bachelor thesis, after which I am done with university. For now. I also started fiddling around with Zora and Ducksquill that day.</p>
And on Sunday we had a volleyball game day but sadly lost our matches. In the afternoon my girlfriend came over, and we made pizza rolls for a fellow students movie night, which we went to after.</p>
Culinary highlight</h2>
I didn’t take pictures of these, I might have to start that now.</p>

I ate a great vegan Schnitzel in Dresden at Steffenhagen</a>, which I can wholeheartedly recommend.</li>
The self-made pizza rolls were really tasty this time, though I didn’t like the vegan sausage we got.</li> </ul>
Currently watching/reading/listening</h2>

We re-listened to the Kangaroo Chronicles</a> on the train, it was a lot of fun. We will also re-listen to the next one while working together in the kitchen now.</li>
I am reading Oathbringer</a> from Brandon Sanderson. I won’t spoil anything ofc, but a character which had a lot of focus in previous books made an amazing entry this week which I really appreciated.</li>
I am also watching Jet Lag, as the motivation for this website did. I tried watching them with many of their series before, but they were always a bit too much for me, I am easily overstimulated by YouTube videos. This series however has Tom Scott in it, a YouTuber I am a fan of, who has taken a hiatus from YouTube. He is an amazing fit and I thoroughly enjoyed his presence. Looking forward to the finale.</li> </ul>
Games</h2>

I’m playing Splid Fiction with my friend currently, we are a good portion into the game and are really enjoying ourselves.</li> </ul>
Projects</h2>

I installed a ZigBee button, to finally make use of a smart switch I bought on a whim years ago. We installed a new light in the kitchen, in order to turn it on/off you had to run through the whole kitchen. Now we have a second light button right below the original one.</li>
And well, I started this website.</li> </ul>

Poolitzer's website - vacation

Weekly Post 15

Culinary highlight</h2> We have a long running take on a Swedish blueberry cake. We use elder berries which grow in our backyard. It is a lot, like a full blown dinner right there. Also because we have this vanilla sauce which is mostly fat to put on it.

Weekly Post 9

Games</h2> So many great indie games from gamescom. I will make a short list with all the indie games I tried, please whishlist them it helps them massively with getting discovered by other people. Shoutouts to</p>

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