Robby Raschke

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mostly music appreciation, some programming stuff here and there, a bit of systems thinking

Poster for The King Is Alive, a film by Kristian Levring. Poster shows in the upper half, darkly robed figures walking through a desert landscape, in the lower half dessicated lips in closeup
Screenshot of a Frogger game. You need to navigate your frog from the bottom upwards across a street avoiding zooming cars and trucks to the middle verge and then further up across a river, jumping across the moving backs of turtles (which may dive) and logs into a free safe space. There's a time limit.
Large clouds at an incline from left to right, being illuminated by the sun to give them a burning sheen. In the foreground a 70/80s style architecture hotel. And in front of that parts of a beer garden with a advert for the beer brand Veltins.
Old Hole T-shirt from around 1991, pale violet with silver and dark violet band logo with silver swirly O and silver squiggly lines radiating outwards.
On stage, left to right, Otomo Yoshihide playing guitar and turntables, Mats Gustafsson playing some slidy brass instrument, and Erwan Keravec playing bagpipes. They are standing in front of a yellow brownish illuminated curtain with violet spotlights highlighting the musicians.
No pictures, just the sound of that sparrow that is working hard on destroying my chill
Page from Franquin's Idées Noires showing in a series of panels various weaponry turning to literal shit in the hands of the military. Unfortunately it ends up being a dream, with the dreamer saying "Shit, the nightmare is when you wake."
Richard Burton, Lino Ventura, Lee Remick in The Medusa Touch. Poster shows a blue washed out, slightly blurred picture of an airplane crashing into a residential housing block. The scene this is taken from comes from a central part of the movie, where the main character shows off his telekinetic abilities during a party.
German(!) scrabble board, where the computer went first and placed "yards" across the middle, but with the value 10 "y" not on the available triple score tile.
An overground tower above a ventilation shaft made from a series of stacked concrete rings, where the gap between rings gets ever wider towards the top.
Wisteria growing along a fence, with its pale violet hanging blossoms starting to open all along its length
Artwork of a very good friend. A circular stitch frame holding a bit of old blue t-shirt cloth from a recent ex, with the German word "unheimlich" stitched on it in a darker blue colour. Translated the word means "spooky", but literally translated it would be "not homely".
A plate with 3 boiled potatoes, chopped raw onions, lots of Quark topped with very yellow linseed oil and chopped chives, and some very dark rye bread
A small sloe bush in full bloom, with lots and lots of small white blossoms.
Excerpt of a Windows application installation window saying "Please wait while the Setup Wizard installs ... Status: Removing backup files"
Drummer of the band Help bashing away, shaved head, naked upper body, tattoo visible on his right arm, lower arms are a blur. Backdrop and kick drum show the band name. The drum set appears to be held in place by a truck tire placed in front of it. Two red lights above are shining into the audience.
Ticket for gig with Melt Banana, Late Night Foreign Radio and Hassle Hound at 13th Note Club in Glasgow on Friday 5th October 2001 at a price of £5.
"I heard about the measles," Joanne said. "Strange. Even if people can't afford immunizations, measles shouldn't kill."
"I am not a ceramicist." - Linde Burkhardt Exhibition poster showing, in black on black with only lighting shadows, something resembling an elongated urn or maybe an angular bowling pin. Exhibition in Berlin at Bröhan Museum from 30. January to 26. April 2026.
A dozing stag with a impressive antlers sitting in a green meadow in front of very blue sky.
Paperback book of Octavia E. Butler's novel Parable of the Sower. The cover is showing a woman of colour in a white shift dress walking barefoot down a path through a barren landscape. Everything is tinted dirty orange.
Soziale Medien Merz will Klarnamen im Internet lesen Stand: 19.02.2026 • 08:32 Uhr Internet-Nutzer sollen sich nach dem Willen von Kanzler Merz künftig nicht mehr anonym äußern dürfen. Merz setzt sich für eine Klarnamenpflicht ein, um die freiheitliche Gesellschaft zu schützen.
Black and white panel from the Bakemonogatari manga by Nisioisin and Oh! Great showing the (saber-tooth) Tyrannical Tiger with multiple heads, each being ridden by a skeleton holding a flaming spear.
Several people, most of whom are wearing shorts, walking down a snow covered street in a Scottish town. Caption reads "Help me understand, when will the Scots wear long trousers?"
Farmer who killed his 76-year-old aunt using a teleporter had sentence reduced by 18 months
SMALLTALK-78 In 1978, 16-bit Microprocessors were coming into production, offering us the chance to build a portable Smalltalk computer. Memory costs were also dropping, so that it was reasonable to fit an entire Smalltalk image in main memory without OOZE. Alan managed to find some extra funding for a young Xerox engineer, Doug Fairbairn, to build a prototype portable machine. The machine was named "NoteTaker" and used three Intel 8086 processors on an innovative bus structure that Doug had designed, coupled to 256K bytes of resident memory. (Footnote 21) Footnote 21: The NoteTaker actually had three 8086's; one to manage the disk, one to run Smalltalk, and a special "fast" 8Mhz 8086 to manage the Ethernet. Ever looking for more cycles, I wrote a special version of BitBlt that ran in the Ethernet processor, and took BitBlt commands off a queue from the main Smalltalk processor. This nearly doubled the speed of text-heavy operations.
A selfie of three main characters of the TV show Lucifer, from left to right, Aimee Garcia as Ella Lopez (forensic scientist), Lauren German as Detective Chloe Decker (homicide detective), and Lesley-Ann Brandt as Mazikeen (demon), who also appears to be the one taking the picture.
Vinyl record playing next to the LP cover of the original motion picture soundtrack of The Lord of the Rings (1978) composed and conducted by Leonard Rosenmann. The cover shows the title chiseled into a cracked wall.
Cover of 1987 live album Jane's Addiction showing Perry Farrell with naked torso wearing a girdle.
Cover of 2019 album Wakage Ga Itaru. The four members of Atarashii Gakko are drawn manga cover style in front of a fence, through which dark blue-white blossoms and green foliage can be seen. They all have nose bleeds and are holding one hand to their faces.
Grey wall with graffiti showing the backs two people wearing dark grey shirts and white trousers as the are walking away. Their shadows are visible, lending a very 3D appearance to the graffiti. Some very faded unreadable text from a red marker is visible below the figures. The wall appears to be made from large breezeblocks, with joins visible through the plaster, some of which has broken off.
"He could have turned himself into a bird to waft up to the Cliffs on his own damn wings. He could have turned himself into a baby elephant or Céline Dion or a hot-air balloon made out of lettuce and diamond dust."
The Droogs from A Clockwork Orange in their white uniforms and bowler hats, some of them carrying long batons, heading out for an evening of ultra-violence.
Das Wort "Meer"
Two people on a domed glass roof.
Epson HX-20, an early laptop computer with keyboard, a 4x20 character LCD screen and a tiny dot matrix printer, first released in 1982.
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Sunset that looks like something is burning behind some high rises on Potsdamer Platz in Berlin
Empty hazelnut shells stuck in a woodpecker made hole in a tree where the bark had previously split open wide.
Courgette, aka zucchini, plant, showing a relatively leafless trunk until the zucchini start growing.
Upside down architectural model made by hanging weights from strings.
Bruce Willis, naked apart from what looks a bit like a bomb strapped to his chest, injecting himself with an industrial strength syringe in the film Twelve Monkeys (1995)
Oscar Wilde
The robots "Vital Information Necessary Centralized" aka VINCENT, Maximilian and "Bio-sanitation Battalion" aka BOB from the 1979 film The Black Hole
Franka Potente running, in Run Lola Run (1998)
Drummer of the band Help bashing away while bathed in red light
Young peach tree, ca. 5 years old, situated amongst some low fern.
Drummer, guitarist and bassist from the band Help bathed in red light
Ticket and wristband for All Tommorrows Parties festival 2003
Lots of blossoms, bright pink in front, purple here and there and a red rhododendron in the middle.
Cover image of The River Has Roots by Amal El-Muhtar, showing pinkish red flowers interspersed with a meandering line, in which it looks like a tree and countryside can be seen.
The two guitarists of Big Brave, at either side of the picture, Robin Wattie, who also sings, on the right and Mathieu Ball on the left, joined by a bass player on the left, drenched in fog, making the picture appear black and white
Map of German private jet flight destinations in 2024 above 50 flights. More than 200 each between London and Paris, Paris and Nice, Cologne and Mallorca, Cologne and Munich, Cologne and Berlin, Cologne and Hamburg, Berlin and Munich, Hamburg and Sylt. A lot more for 100-200 flights per year, and loads more for 50-100 flights per year.
Gif of the living biomechanoid spaceship Moya, of a species called Leviathan, from the TV series Farscape, flying in front of what looks like a bright galaxy.
A bank of 8 huge bass speaker cabinets sitting on the floor in front of the stage of the Gretchen venue in Berlin, flanked by speaker stacks on either side, all of it bathed in purple light