On Life Notes

Old video archives often fail to import cleanly into Apple Photos because the container, video codec, audio codec, or metadata is not what the Apple stack expects. FFmpeg is enough to fix most of that, but the right command depends on what is actually inside the file.

The past few years have been a tough time for me. I was in a deep life crisis and was no longer willing to work on my website. It was always a hobby without commercial or social use, a tiny factory for regular bills. I was in debt then, so I killed it without a second thought or regrets.

Well, it's plain and simple to express: Err and err and err again, but less and less and less. - Piet Hein

Books were hard to get when I was a kid. They were expensive and, on top of that, in short supply. Many people owned no books at all; some copied them by hand. But there were always plenty of books in our family, and it was shocking to me to see a room with no books in it.

I have never been really good at writing. I won some rewards in my childhood. I wrote some shitty verses in my youth. None of those achievements really were significant for the universe around me. It was all like a silly child play with the symbols I barely know.

Virtual worlds can be very different. Some require a sharp eye, some quick reactions, and some a powerful graphics card.

I will immediately answer the question of where I disappeared for a whole year: I did not disappear anywhere. I am quietly living my life, even if it has changed a little lately.

Many years have passed since the time when I happily spent my leisure time fussing with insects during long summer school vacations.

At school, geometric theorems absolutely would not yield to me. It was simply beyond my strength to memorize, step by step, a complicated sequence of actions.

Heading to the kitchen this morning, I took my laptop with me so I would have something to read or watch while waiting for water to boil for tea and crispbread to toast.