Author Archives: Sebastian Spaeth

About Sebastian Spaeth

Sebastian Späth, professor, father, husband. This is my private blog and all content is my own opinion. I toot via mastodon/activitypub at @spaetz@mas.to. I also have an "official" work account at @spaeth@dima.wiso.uni-hamburg.de. And last but not least you can subscribe to my blog via RSS/Atom feed or in your mastodon instance as @spaetz@sspaeth.de.

Cycling is dangerous

Biked to work this Monday. When crossing the street on a dedicated bike lane, a bus coming from the left hit me with its front corner. Fortunately, it threw me to the side and not in front under the bus. Lucky me!!!

P.S. yes, the traffic lights were green for me.

Lives used: 1 Lives left: 8

Sebastian Spaeth

2024/03/29

Fertig zum großen Osterfeuer in Volksdorf, wo ich morgen wieder einmal etliche tausend Bratwürste und hundert Kilo Pommes verputzen, ähh, verkaufen werde.

Making your blog a micro-blog

I like decentralized social media and I really like ActivityPub/Mastodon & co. But I have been running my blog since something around 2001 (b2evolution!) and I really do not feel like setting up a ruby server (pleroma is nice though). So it is very cool that you can convert your wordpress into a mastodon server, using the ActivityPub plugin to publish to the Fediverse, the Friends plugin to read and subscribe to ActivityPub content and the Enable Mastodon apps plugin, to post via a Mastodon App. Cool!

Norway

Happy to be away from the daily routine for a while, spending time with my family. Days are spent hiking, fishing, more hiking and enjoying the terrific and scenic landscapes.

A small island in the middle of a wild river which is Øye waterfall.
Spactactular view from our resting place into a lake.
A tetra-pak of chili con carne, withe the norwegian label 'fiksferdig'.
This chili is ‘fiksferdig’ already…
A cotton-wooly lookalike plant, whith unfocused Norwegian mountains in the background.
A small wooden hut cabin from the 1800s which serves as our holiday cottage
If you are larger than 1,65m you will leave many of your brain cells smashed at the ceiling or door entrances.
A toilet raised a 2 layers of brick and standing on a great slab of slate.
The toilet throne (probably had to be raised in order to make the sewage actually flow fown)
A cozy living room in our wooden cottage
If you are talker than 1,70 you will have problems standing upright in the room, not to speak of the door.
Me, sitting on a stone by the sea, with a beer in my hand, and a fishing rod next to me, enjoying life.
A very neat and pretty garden belinging to a neat red house.
This is around 50m from the military zone which is closed. It is one of the best tended-to gardens I have seen.
Three trees that have fallen in a storm, complete with impressive (but flat) roots.
A path leasing through a very green and mysteriously looking forest.
If Little Red Riding Hood just came along this path, I would not be surprised.
2 mushrooms growing on a tree twig full of moss.
A scarily old wooden ladder (with steps partially missing) with an old rope as a handrail, for climbing up a rock on the hike.
View from Storafjellet over the landscape and the sea.
Sky and sea and green grass during our hike.
A lake with the Eldsfjellet peak behind and some heather in the foreground
Another view of landscape on the sea on our way upwards, with a bright blue sky and a few interesting clouds.
Our clothes hanging on a line for drying on the peak of the mountain.
Our family sitting 200m over a fjord and watching the terrific view.
Slottet close to Mo in Modalen is also nicknamed the ‘Little Preikestolen’
A row of 5 very colorful wooden houses.
Høgabu, the wooden hiking hut, in a gray and rainy weather in the midst of the mountains.
We hiked there and stayed for the night.
Our family standing on top of the mountains with a terrific view of all the other mountain peaks

Mug Shots

Am Wochenende war es wieder soweit, der obligatorische Bartvergleich. Noch 6 Tage, dann darf wieder rasiert werden!

Das Wort Seebär fällt in meiner Umgebung jetzt häufiger…
Oh Baby schüttel Dein Haupthaar für mich…

Bärte

Theresa und Thiemo kamen am Wochenende vorbei und wir haben einen Bartlängenabgleich gemacht. Sonntag früh in der Fischauktionshalle!

Portrait of Thiemo and me in the Hamburg Fischauktionshalle
Zwei Langbärte

Und was haben wir vorher unternommen? Holy Moly & The Crackers! YES!

Holy Moly & The Crackers in Hamburgs Nochtspeicher. Mit Special Guest “Beans on Toast” (ja, das ist wirklich sein Künstername!)

Der Bart

Nachdem Almut die Sponsorenschaft für einen Bart verweigert (sie zahlt nur für die Rasur), bin ich bisher mein einziger Sponsor für den Movember. Stand heute ist folgendermassen:

Bart am 5.4.

Und heute hat mich eine Studentin angesprochen, dass mir der Bart stünde. Es geht weiter. Thiemo ist auch noch mit dabei, ich werde seinen Vorsprung schon noch einholen.

Movember

Thiemo and I agreed to not shave in April for a good cause. We have not worked out the details (like where to donate to and where the money actually comes from), but I will be looking weird in April. This is the start as of today:

Portrait of Sebastian Spaeth in a (not really) shaved version at the beginning of the experiment.
Before (the shaved version)
Thiemo mit seinem Bart an Tag "0" mit 12mm
Thiemo’s Bart an Tag “0” mit 12mm