Watched: Shrinking Season 3 🍿
Yesterday, I watched the 11th episode thinking it was the season finale and was thinking that it was very interesting to leave so many story threads unresolved. Seeing there was one more episode left made me chuckle. Very solid and emotional ending for third season. While I still think Harrison Ford is the GOAT my favourite is now Ted McGinley. I love Derek
Watched: Shrinking 🍿 Season 2 completed. One of my favourite things right now. I am starting to relate to older characters in these TV series. I obviously love Harrison Ford’s character but hidden gem is Ted McGinley. I can imagine being Derek in few years
Started re-reading: The Mercy of Gods by James S. A. Corey đź“š
New book in the series in a week! Can’t wait to see how this story moves forward
Watching Hamnet I unlocked a new level of nerdery by thinking ”that sounds like a hawk from an American continent” during the movie and it was! They used harris’ hawk and not something you would have seen in William Shakespeare’s England
Watched: Hamnet 🍿
While an excellent movie it was not an easy watch, I don’t cope well with these themes in fiction. Acting was amazing.
I’ve angered someone today by spoiling the first season ending of Twin Peaks. Apparently, it is too recent
Currently re-reading: Abaddon’s Gate by James S. A. Corey đź“š
I got some extremely weird spam today to my business email. The email itself was pretty normal “answer our survey” but it was addressed to Mr. Xxxx where Xxxx is my original family name I changed 22 years ago. Pretty spooky as this email was established 10 years ago, way after changing my name.
Is moderation something that can be done at all in internet scale and without hurting people in the process? I’ve read so many horror stories but are there positive stories or stories of success of keeping systems safe?
Watched: Royal Ballet & Opera 2025/26: Woolf Works 🍿
Very impressive ballet, even on silver screen recording.
Started re-reading: Caliban’s War by James S. A. Corey đź“š
NCAA Basketball has been pretty hard to catch in Europe before, but this year DAZN shows all the March Madness games for free. Pretty good line up of games this evening
I think the first day of spring already was a couple of days ago and it doesn’t feel particularly spring-y today, but I am still playing my favourite spring song “VĂĄrens Första Dag (First day of Spring)” by Laleh:
Throwback to 1980’s Finland. A coach was fired for being visibly drunk during the Milano 2026 Olympics and his defence was “I was only slightly too drunk”. Matti Nykänen would have never
Never registered or clicked that ”epstein drive” in Expanse could be a reference to that other epstein. Is it just a coincidence?
Another weird name coincidence Allison Becker the chararcter from Silo vs. Allison Becker goalie of the Liverpool FC
Currently reading: Leviathan Wakes by James S. A. Corey đź“š
Re-reading this and ”The Mercy of Gods” before the next part of The Captive’s War trilogy comes out in April
Currently reading: Machine Learning: New and Collected Stories by Hugh Howey đź“š
As one would expect from collection of short stories: there are some good ones and then those that are completely forgettable. Picked this up to read the Silo short stories. Those had their moments but somehow I didn’t find the timelines converging so neatly satisfying. At least give better explanation why some events that could have been decades off each other still managed to co-incide randomly.
This audiobook came with commentary from the author. The same uneveness is the problem here – some are pretty illuminating but some just should have baked better into the actual story
The ”local” newspaper now offers full New York Times subscription as part of their digital subscription. Suddenly the value proposition is much, much better. While I feel like the paper (and even NYT alone) offers me very little but the Athletic and NYT Games are very nice sweeteners. And without NYT cancellation hoops
Met my ex three months after we broke up. This was the first face-to-face after that. It was lovely as our discussions always were and i got bombarded with some high precision truth bombs. Been reflecting on those all the evening after that. She managed to shake me and not the bad way
Watching: Shrinking Season 1 🍿
I will return to my old rant: everything is too damn dark on TV nowadays and require almost pitch-black surroundings and a pretty good TV set up just right. How about we go back to night scenes lit up with flood lights and let us imagine it is dark out there? Suspense of disbelief and all that?
Currently reading: Machine Learning: New and Collected Stories by Hugh Howey đź“š