silly goose meekah

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Cake day: June 22nd, 2023

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  • Most places that accept card also accept contactless, but there are plenty of smaller shops still not accepting anything but cash. Common offenders are street food places, spätis (little shops selling mostly drinks/alcohol and tobacco/nicotine), bakeries, ice cream shops and the likes. Bars sometimes take card, but it’s always a gamble if you don’t know. Ask before ordering, if you don’t see a sign. I think all supermarkets offer card payment.

    The only food recommendation I want to give is my favorite Döner place. I’ve shown a bunch of my friends and most say it’s the best Döner they ever had and that I’ve ruined other Döners for them by showing them that one lol. Downsides are it’s a bit expensive (8€ Döner), it’s a bit of a ride from Alexanderplatz (~45min), and they only take cash. I think it’s all well worth it. edit: Somehow forgot to mention: the place is called Golt’z Kebap.

    Absolute must see for any kind of nerd is the Technikmuseum, and the Video Game museum is also pretty neat. They have a bunch of old arcades that you can play on, and one of them has a vector based CRT screen, something I’ve never seen, being somewhat young. There’s also a mechanical keyboard shop that I’ve been meaning to visit, maybe that could be a destination if you’re into that (Geekboards). My favorite Parks are Wuhlheide, Treptower Park and Park am Gleisdreieck, in that order.

    Hope you have a nice stay! Let me know if you want to grab a beer or smoke a joint with a fellow lemming






  • I’ve been jobless for a year and recently found a job again as well. After my first day I was so exhausted, it was unbelievable. I literally came home after work, made and had some food, chilled on discord with a friend for an hour and was already too tired, so I went to bed after being awake for about 12h.

    Starting a new job, a new chapter of your life is exhausting. You learn a lot of new things, you get a lot of new impressions. All this requires the gray matter in your skull to work pretty hard.

    Now, even with mentally demanding jobs, you’ll form routines that make things easier. Not just stuff like a morning routine or your route to work, but also work processes become easier after you get into the groove. On top of that, with time there are less new things you need to remember, like names of your coworkers, your offices layout, or what bus to take.

    It gets easier with time. Hang in there.




  • Having more beautiful and structured URLs. I suppose for those cases it’s more of a preference, and with the tooling I use (.NET) it’s not too difficult to achieve.

    I guess my gripe with your original statement was that I was thinking mostly of state like user login etc. I have to concede it’s not totally garbage for the cases you mentioned.