I just finished a 3.5 hour drive this evening, to the university town of Jena, where we are currently running a tansy chemodiversity field experiment alongside the bigger, older, boringly named, yet much better-known ‘Jena Experiment’. Briefly I considered spending the night in Lederhose, just so I could tell people I slept in Lederhose. AsContinue reading “Plant talk”
Monthly Archives: May 2022
Booooring!
It was just before 11pm on a dark October Saturday night. I sat at a computer placed on a tiny wobbly desk in the middle of the huge factory hall. To my right there was a large packaging conveyor belt line, connected to a large boxing robot. To the left, a smaller line that onlyContinue reading “Booooring!”
The transition
When you become a parent, you will go through a transition, and this is not a transition by choice. It’s a transition that just happens more or less naturally. Once you have kids, hanging out with the people without kids suddenly becomes a different thing. Your childless friends don’t understand you, and while you stillContinue reading “The transition”
Epic wins
This day is an epic win. We accidentally timed our day trip – to a zoo playground adventure thing, but fun if you’re wondering – just right. We had about an hour’s drive ahead of us, fed the kids underway, and figured we could bring them to bed right upon arrival at home. It couldn’tContinue reading “Epic wins”
Freedom
I love weekends. Who doesn’t, anyway. Well, also me. Or so it turns out. On weekends, I am always stoked to go out and pack the van and stay wherever we want to go. It hardly even matters where. Anywhere. As long as it’s not at home. We usually do exactly that. It’s the soleContinue reading “Freedom”
Pigs
I live my life in a dream world. It’s not a perfect world, but at least a world where everything is safe, and everyone can be wherever they want to be without a second thought. Today that dream was shattered by some news I got. It’s a hallucination, something that doesn’t exist. Or, at best,Continue reading “Pigs”
What’s the right time?
Blogging is a weird game. As a blogger, you share your ideas, experiences and stories with the world. You never know who’s going to read it. For me that’s part of the fun and beauty in blogging. Perhaps you inspire a colleague to start writing, or a friend to look at things from a differentContinue reading “What’s the right time?”
Couch potato
Another day, another early wake up. As I wrote yesterday 1) I have given up coffee – at least for a while – as I was suffering from unnecessary bouts of insomnia, and 2) I predicted that I might get sick. I was the last man standing for the last couple of days, but todayContinue reading “Couch potato”
I’m just the driver
I don’t usually go for spontaneous afternoon drives around the area during the work week, but for today’s occasion I’ll make an exception. Our baby daughter has a mild fever that keeps coming back at night. Although she eats and drinks very well, she seems rather unhappy every second Heike steps away from her. She’sContinue reading “I’m just the driver”
“Shit!” – for lack of better terms
We ordered takeout food from a local Indian restaurant yesterday. This place is one of the few local restaurants that actually have anything vegetarian on the menu (we’re not vegetarians, but most weeks we try to come close). We could have prepared our own food, but we were lazy, had something to celebrate, and loveContinue reading ““Shit!” – for lack of better terms”
Robin Heinen 