Category Archives: Lifestream

This contains all the pictures and everything I do on social media. It is meant as a sort of backup option, so all the data is also on my own server. I can never know when one of those services decides to either close or do any other action that’s unacceptable to me. This way, I have everything still available.

Daring Fireball: Richard Feynman’s ‘Prepare a Freshman Lecture’ Test

David L. Goodstein, in his book Feynman’s Lost Lecture:

Feynman was a truly great teacher. He prided himself on being able to devise ways to explain even the most profound ideas to beginning students. Once, I said to him, “Dick, explain to me, so that I can understand it, why spin one-half particles obey Fermi-Dirac statistics.” Sizing up his audience perfectly, Feynman said, “I’ll prepare a freshman lecture on it.” But he came back a few days later to say, “I couldn’t do it. I couldn’t reduce it to the fr

Source: Daring Fireball: Richard Feynman’s ‘Prepare a Freshman Lecture’ Test

How Hollywood Came to Fear and Loathe Rotten Tomatoes | Vanity Fair

That much is explicitly spelled out in Fox’s internal report: “Consider not giving the critics a chance to slam you,” reads a bullet point. “While it’s never a great feeling to withhold from critics, now it may help to at least preserve your Friday.”The most obvious recourse to Hollywood’s Rotten Tomatoes conundrum, of course, may also be the simplest (at least on paper): prioritize filmmaking quality over marketing artifice, make better/more interesting/more appealing films, and stop blaming some stupid website for lackluster box-office returns.

Source: How Hollywood Came to Fear and Loathe Rotten Tomatoes | Vanity Fair

Grips-Theater-Gründer: “Für uns waren Kinder eine unterdrückte Klasse” – SPIEGEL ONLINE – Kultur

Ich bin sehr sehr dankbar, dass ich am Grips Theater auch an einigen Theaterproduktionen mitarbeiten durfte und bewundere Volker Ludwig für die Strukturen und den Geist, den er am Grips aufgebaut hat.

Geht mit Euren Kindern in die Stücke dort!

Volker Ludwig machte politisches Theater für Kinder, schrieb das Musical “Linie 1” und das Sesamstraßenlied. Zum 80. Geburtstag erzählt er, was die Internetgeneration an der Jugendbühne reizt.

Source: Grips-Theater-Gründer: “Für uns waren Kinder eine unterdrückte Klasse” – SPIEGEL ONLINE – Kultur

Shit.