Finished reading: Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke 📚. I thought I have read this book decades ago, but ending was not what I expected and I think I have read one of the latter Rama books.

This book is a mixed bag. On the other hand, this is very much a male author book from the 70’s with all the baggage it comes. There are some cringeworthy passages here and there. In addition, the characters are completely forgettable.

On the other hand, the story is exciting like books written for boys my age in the 70’s and 80’s. I mean, it has first contact, action scenes, mysteries, and a cliffhanger ending for almost all chapters. I think it will make a very enjoyable movie, when it comes out.

Hello, @help this is the issue with Epilogue I promised a video about

Finished reading: Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly 📚. Hidden figures is story about black women mathematicians and engineers in service of NACA and NASA. It covers the personal and professional lives of the people and tells the wider story of racism trying to block these people living their lives and building their careers.

Took time to get started and at times felt like a list of things that happened but still managed to surprise me positively. A part of history I had no idea, super interesting (real life) people and I am now super fascinated about the work of a computer. I could read a book with just the math involved in development of airplanes and spacecraft.

Currently reading: Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke 📚

I wonder how much studies there are about harmfulness of following the news too closely? I don’t think our minds were made for constant bombardment of distressing things we can’t do anything about. Since 2019 Fall, when I dropped Twitter, I’ve also limited my exposure to news, and tried to stick to more slow paced information like books or even scientific papers (or, alternatively, husky tiktok), but I feel like I could have even more strict information collection regime – I think as a person one should look for a place where as little as possible of our consumption was selected by others. I should be more aware of the things I receive, consume, and enjoy

It was a 📸 worthy winter day today in Helsinki

Epilogue seems not to clear the text box after posting a book blog post. I suppose this is a known bug @help ?

So, how do you label your zettelkasten notes when using a digital tool. The original method of using a numbering scheme looks sort of unnecessary in digital world (maybe @matti @jayeless ?)?

Currently reading: Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly 📚

Finished reading: The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal 📚. I have conflicting feelings about this book. Good: alternative history book that is still very believeable and that touches on themes that I love like space exploration and computers (human, not machines). Not sure: main characters (especially the male) do I really care about then? Will pick up the second book on the series sometime soon to give the main characters a chance

I have had a keen interest in computing before the machines took over and I started ”Hidden Figures” by Margot Lee Shetterly

Finished reading: A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk & Robot Book 1) by Becky Chambers 📚. She has a recognizable style and if you like it, you will like this. This is a story that happens well after an AI awakening and it mostly is a wandering monk talking to someone living in the wild. Touches topics that really interest me like consciousness but I felt like the story sometimes could have gone where it wanted to go faster.

Trying to get Obsidian habit going, wish me luck. I’ve had earlier Zettelkastens using Foam | A personal knowledge management and sharing system for VSCode for a project and it did work quite well. This time I want to have everything in there so I can go back regardless of whether I thought it for work or for a hobby or just for general interest.

Watched episode 1 of the season 6 of the Expanse and didn’t remember they come one episode per week. Noooo….

Strange dogs was the episode title and that is my favourite novella (or novelette, never can remember which is which) of the Expanse universe. I hope we get to see more of that story, both sad and lays down some important story bits for future.

It will be interesting to see how they handle the missing parts of the story in the TV series that ends after this season.

Winter sun laying low. Twenty minutes past mid-day solar time and shadows are this long.

Also completed Expanse book #9 Leviathan Falls and as a fan of the series I am very happy about the conclusion (still one more novella to come but main story is now complete). Hard to say anything else without spoiling, but I will need something new on my reading list

It has been uncomfortably cold for few days, which means uncomfortably hot and dry indoors. But it has been pretty

Read Web3 is Bullshit and while I try to keep an open mind about web3, I’ve yet to see anything convincing. Either that or I am an old man hopelessly out of touch.

Started reading: Leviathan Falls by James S. A. Corey 📚

Today’s the day. Expanse book #9 is out

This is a weird story (I have no means to check its truthfulness) about a Finnish soldier who doped himself up with meth and skied away from Soviets in 1944 The Finnish Soldier Who Took His Entire Troop’s Methamphetamine Supply While Skiing Away From The Russians | IFLScience

The service that automatically signs you to a cheaper black friday deal and cancels the old subscription. I need you.

This is a rather cool ad in a short movie form for Christmas from Norwegian Post Office about sending the packages and a love story including Santa

This kind of blog post (about referee boards fourth official wields in a soccer game) is my favourite ”I got interested in this topic and did a bit of an investigation and the story turned out to be rather boring” Hublot and the referee board. – Soccer Politics / The Politics of Football

Nice, long write up of a CSS reset with just 13 rules at www.joshwcomeau.com

Never was a Manchester United fan but I always rooted for Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, back in the day as a player and now, to a lesser degree, as a manager. This exit interview of him is pure class