Simmering cleaning soap

My wife has been working on simmering on her Siedekessel (“boiler”) homepage for many years now. Since then we only use homemade soaps. Now that she also touches on shampoo, toothpaste and butt-spray (instead of wet toilet paper), she has spent the last few years trying to make cleaning products herself. Last year, “Grüner Putzen”… Continue reading Simmering cleaning soap

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Cosmetics for babies and children

Finally! The book “Baby- und Kinderpflege – natürlich selbstgemacht” (Baby and Child Care – natural homemade), written by my wife, was published by Freya. The book includes many basics, numerous recipes, all vegetarian, many of them even vegan, for self-stirring. In composing your own cosmetics, they are without artificial sweeteners, preservatives and allergenic perfume oils.… Continue reading Cosmetics for babies and children

Dekonom?

While hiking in the “Kemptener Wald” (Cambodunum Forest) in May 2015, we came upon a strange riddle. There was a tombstone with engravings on all four sides, written in gothic letters. There was a word looking like “Dekonomensgattin” and another one that seemed to say “Dekonomsgattin”. As you later see, this can’t be translated, but… Continue reading Dekonom?

XML Tools Plugin for Notepad++

For a class lecture on XML I searched for a free text editing tool supporting syntax highlighting for XML, check if XML is well-formed an perform validation (e.g. with DTD). After some research I found out that a plugin for Notepad++ called XMLTools. I was very lucky because I already use Notepad++ for years. The… Continue reading XML Tools Plugin for Notepad++

fei (swabian)

The Swabian language continues to surprise me again and again. Recently my wife and I repeatedly encountered the term “fei” (spelled something like “fy”). Fei is included in Swabian sentences to give them emphasis: “Des isch fei was wert. Do ka’sch fei was drauf geaba.” or similar. In the region called Allgäu where I come… Continue reading fei (swabian)

Disparity (binocular) and the thumb experiment

Isn’t it surprisingly, how easy it can be to experiment with human perception without any tools? Here is a very simple one for binocular disparity. Because of the space between our two eyes we perceives two distinct images. The difference of the images on our retinas can be easily recognized with the thumb experiment: You… Continue reading Disparity (binocular) and the thumb experiment

Changes

Sorry, if you don’t find all content you wanted to… this page is being updated right now. I am trying to update all posts I think are worth keeping – there will be stuff about perception again, soon. Please be patient. These words were written in March 2013…

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