Sunday, January 15, 2006
Sit down. Have a scone. Make yourself at home.
Hi there. You’re looking at my all-new english-language blog. I have been writing a personal weblog in German at schattenraum.de for three years now, but it really contains only personal stuff, things that friends and family members read to know I’m alive and happy. I wouldn’t want them to sift through all that strange stuff I could write about, so I’m just starting this blog with a stronger focus on my main interest. I’m not promising that no personal stuff ends up here, we’re all human, partially at least, but I’ll see that it will always relate to the following fields of interest:
- listening to and making music
- hardware hacking like soldering stuff, building strange things, circuit bending etc. “Gebastel” as I like to call it in German
- a little bit about visual design, like web design, typography, interfaces and so on
- random stuff that could relate to net culture, copyright and open source issues, video games, computer history, technical gadgets, my PowerBook and my current location in Berlin/Germany
The language I write in, as you can see, is English. The twofold purpose of this is that I can train my language skills (I read English all the time but never really have to use it actively) and gain a bigger audience for this blog as most of the things I read about (and plan to write about) are in English anyway.
robot porn is the result of two days of brainstorming for an apt name for this blog (which of course should convey all of the topics mentioned above, being funny at the same time). It refers to everybody’s favourite robot, Futurama’s Bender; as wikipedia notes:
He [...] reads robot pornography (in the form of circuit diagrams), and constantly demands attention and praise from everyone around him.
I’ve put up a little page about myself, if anyone’s interested. (Actually, I have fun writing about myself, so I’d written it even if nobody cares.)
