The newly spotted ATLAS comet – possibly interstellar, possibly just another wanderer passing through – has stirred that old childhood nerve in me: the dream that one day something not‑from‑here would notice us. For years I imagined a scene of “first contact” with excitement, like humanity standing at the doorway of a larger reality. I […]
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For weeks I had a strange networking problem on my Linux laptop. It could join my iPhone hotspot instantly, without hesitation, every single time. But my home router – the same one that happily serves every other device – would often refuse to give my laptop an IP address. The network showed as “connected,” yet […]
Today was Halloween Day at school. I was one of the organisers and I had my own classroom where saw the competitors. My task was simple – I just created a quiz but the students enjoyed it. We had fun answering the questions. After the event, I went to the pharmacy to buy a special […]
Someone asked on Reddit if there would be a Schism in Germany because of the liturgical abuses and more churchmen becoming pro-LGBTQ. In my opinion, what’s unfolding in Germany isn’t a crisis of the Church so much as a mirror of humanity’s inner conflict. Institutions, like individuals, evolve according to the beliefs that sustain them. […]
Some days the mind wanders without asking permission. A piece of dust on the windowsill becomes a starting point. It is odd how something so insignificant survives every cleaning, every rearrangement of furniture, every attempt to impose order. Almost as if disorder is the natural state and our neatness is the exception we briefly impose […]
Today I finished putting together a lesson plan for my modern Hungarian history class, focusing on the Aster Revolution of 1918. The lesson belongs to the thematic unit Hungarian History 1918–1939, and the main goal is to help students understand the background and consequences of the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. Since the topic sits […]
We decided to buy an electric swinging chair for our baby. We cannot hold her all the time because she is getting heavier. I checked one out that we had found on Facebook Market Place but that one needs battery, which is not very convenient because we have to change the batteries all the time. […]