Last post I wrote “beholden,” because to my (Austrian) ears “beholden” sounds like a passive construct, and includes the word “hold,” as a substring, which in sum total sounds to me like “it has gotten a hold of me” – I was beholden.

Now it is my hope that you’ve understood what I’ve meant, despite my erroneous conclusions. “Good!” said Holmes. “Excellent!”

After a hiatus of 16 months or so, I picked up handwriting again. To be more precise: to put down random letters, words and sentences, pen on paper, as a sort of Western calligraphy, handwriting practice. With a fountain pen. A ballpoint gel-based roller is also ok, as long as it’s hard steel on paper.

1st observation: Random?

I was urge...

Oh my god, end of the month, too much to do, too much to do, I have no time, but there is time for a coffee, and a blog post, quick quick quick, just a short one, I type, I type, it is me, Alfons, I type:

I’ve just spent a few wonderful days in Taiwan, in Kaohsiung, the big South port city, with friends. I gave a few Feldenkrais one-on-one lessons, which were a...

I don’t trust in AI. I don’t believe in AI. At least not by default. And why is that?

Most people spent their formative years, at least nine years of their childhood and young adulthood, in school. At least 10,000 hours of it. For myself, including my years at university, this was 18 years, something like 20,500 hou...