

Not a point, but an area resembling a scaled image of the sun (if optimally focused).


Not a point, but an area resembling a scaled image of the sun (if optimally focused).


Guess who some time ago grapped the entry level guitar a friend wanted to give away and already mastered his first few accords! :-)
But things are going slooow when you have reached a certain age.
I just wish I already had started when I was still younger…


Would be guitar for me.
You can carry it around and has a nice social aspect…


Learning to play an instrument.


I think neither, but “Ursula von der Leyen” and so am not convinced… ;-)


Individually, each of the girls is super sweet, thoughtful and considerate.
As a group it is all about fitting in and punishing any kind of non-conformity.
They are slowly learning, though.
This type of group dynamic seems not to be uncommon, I’ve been told.
Especially (but not exclusively) within girl groups.
Hence my earlier call for caution.


I wonder if by now it would have become acceptable as a girl’s name by the German authorities.
There might already exist real-life Frierens in Germany!


That’s a British name, though.
In German, “Imogen” sounds like it is the name of some prescription medicine.


TIL that “Rosine” had been a common name in Southern Germany until the end of the 19. century, when it started being used the way it is today (as the name for raisins).
I also learned that the word for “raisin” before “Rosine” was “Zibebe”.


Unfortunately, you got that slightly wrong.
My daughter was one of the bullies… 🫣


If you are considering naming a child, think twice about using a “cool” exotic name.
Think about your child having to visit school one day and especially girl groups will happily take any strange standout feature as a source for bullying (own experience with a girl in elementary school).
Having said that, Mathilde will probably be ok, Brunhilde less so, although it is arguably much cooler.
It’s complicated…


That’s actually kind of a hard question, as most of the ones in common use are imports from other languages.
Not quite, pixel art is just a subset of mosaics.
So every pixel art is a mosaic, but not every mosaic is pixel art.
You got it backwards:
Pixel artworks are digital mosaics.
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