Being in this hotel is really disturbing sometimes – especially at dinner. All these rich white people being served by poor black people… sometimes you feel that you’re in the wrong century. And it’s not just a visual thing. The other day a tourist dropped a glass, which shattered. OK, …
My main creative project here in the Dominican Republic is working on my novel. I know I keep mentioning it without ever providing details, but let’s hope that this will change in the next few months. I’m not done yet, but the possibility of being done is becoming more and …
So there is an internet connection at the hotel… which is ridiculously expensive and hard to use, so we will only be updating every now and then. Verena has written a short post (with a photo of a beautiful landscape and an ugly man) over here.
If not too many more catastrophes occur today, we shall be off to our honeymoon in the Dominican Republic. I don’t know how often I’ll update in the next 18 days, but I probably will. (Note: If you’re an agent who is reading this in relation to Verena’s queries, we’ve …
I am currently immensely frustrated by Pinnacle Studio’s refusal to recognize videos that were created by other software. Yes, I know, I should be using something better… but I have yet to find editing software with a decent GUI that is also free and runs on a PC. Actually, when …
Here’s one of the greatest musicians of all time doing a song that is just dripping with cool. Ladies and gentlemen, the one and only Warren Zevon. We lost a truly great one when Warren died.
I don’t know how many people are aware of this, but the story of Last Rose in a Desert Garden has continued through three different games. I usually don’t like to spend time explaining my own work, since I generally believe that if I could really do it justice in …
Note: Verena and I are playing this game together, even though it’s a single-player game. You can read Verena’s review here. Remember how in the podcast I complained about the lack of good RPGs? Well, exactly one day after I recorded my complaint, we bought Divinity II: Ego Draconis. And? …
And just when you think all is going well, a bottle full of almond syrup gets knocked down in the kitchen by a package of coffee filter thingies badly placed by your roommate, covering the kitchen in sticky syrup and glass shards. And then you cut yourself on one of …
So, our honeymoon shall be in the Dominican Republic! The country had been greatly recommended by one of my professors, who knows the country quite well (and was the first person to write a travel guide about it, at least in German), and the offer we got was really good. …
