… over at my photo blog :)
Photos taken at the hacker congress 30C3 in December 2013 http://starfishskiesphotography.wordpress.com/2014/01/29/30c3/
Two pictures of Hamburg, one of the biggest cities in Germany http://starfishskiesphotography.wordpress.com/2014/01/28/hamburg-germany-television-tower/
At home I prefer to study while lying on my belly on the (made!) bed. This way it’s easier for me to concentrate than when sitting at a desk. Not the best position for writing, of course, but that’s a different story.
At university I tend to sit o the floor in a hallway (with a nice, solid wall against my back) at the moment, but I plan to spend a big part of next semester on the low window sill (on top of a heater, and decorated with some potted plants, yay) in the library again.
In addition I like the wooden deck in the Japanese Garden, it’s nice for reading books on a spring day while listening to the koi splashing in the water under the deck.
I enjoy reading good books, but even when I don’t have time for that I try to keep up with my favourite web comics at least.
Headtrip is a funny comic series with several recurring characters and different story lines. The humour is a bit biting at times. Geeky, but not a lot of background knowledge required. I really like it :D No clue about the current scheduling of new comics, though. There used to be one. http://headtrip.keenspot.com/
CAD has also several recurring casts and story lines. Sadly the main story line for which I loved reading it has ended, but there are other ones coming up now. New comics come out on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. http://www.cad-comic.com/cad/
Fisheye Placebo … amazing stuff. Put together great artistic talent and a questioning mind, and you get a nice view on the fight against a future surveillance state. It’s a work in progress and I’m desperately waiting for new chapters all the time! There is no schedule for posting, I think. http://tapastic.com/series/fisheye#!/series/episodes/347/1/asc
I’m not sure if Pull Down Heaven qualifies as a comic as there is next to no understandable speech in it. But it is really beautiful. There is a whole lot of pages online already. (I hope the link works. If not, please tell me, or just go to deviantART and search for it, it’s easy to find.) http://moonsongwolf.deviantart.com/art/Pull-Down-Heaven-01-155341161
Today I tried for the first time in many weeks if my hair is long enough now for a bun held by a single, long hairpin. Victory! Finally I managed to do this bun: http://kupferzopf.com/dutts/wickeldutt.html (the page is in German, but the pictures should be explanation enough) … held by a chopstick. Because I have no long hairpins as I’ve been wearing a braid held by two small hair ties for many months now.
Well, after half a day of running around on campus with a chopstick on the back of my head and getting stuck in my scarf and the hood of my jacket all the time I decided to make myself a shorter and nicer hairpin from this annoying stick.
I really like it now, so I decided to show you how to upcycle a random chopstick with nothing but sandpaper.
First of all you need a chopstick, needless to say. I used on of those you get for free with Asian take-out here.
Put it in your bun and decide how long you want it to be in the end. Then remove the excess of chopstick. I just stood on the tip of the stick and snapped it carefully, but you could use a knife, a saw, or whatever of course. Take the part you want to use and smooth the new tip with sandpaper. I used very rough sandpaper I had around, but anything medium should work as well. Make sure you get something like a blunt but still pointed tip, or you won’t be able to shove it through your bun easily (I tried before using sandpaper, and it was not funny, I can tell you.) I decided to flatten it a little as well. It should look somewhat like this in the end:
Put it in your bun and wear it with pride :)
(Please ignore the heap of boxes, my family came over last weekend and we put all the random stuff lying around in the living room on darling’s desk. We really need to organize the wires and soldering station and all.)
I’m thinking about adding some colour at a later point – after sanding the whole thing down a little it should be possible to use the acrylics and the simple water based varnish already in my craft cupboard. Of course one could add ornaments by glueing things to the thicker end to make it look more elegant, but for the time being I like the simplicity of my version. Although I might shorten it a little more.
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