Currently reading: The New Bloomsday Book A Guide Through Ulysses by Harry Blamires 📚
Finally, the companion to Ulysses trip
Currently reading: Orlando (Annotated) by Virginia Woolf 📚
Also started this as a slow reader, chapter here and there (reading the Finnish translation this time)
Currently reading: ULYSSES by James Joyce 📚
Starting a new project with a couple of friends. We read a chapter a month (at least in the start) and then discuss
Finished reading: The Martian by Andy Weir 📚
Exactly my kind of book like Project Hail Mary was. Loved every minute of the audiobook and got a bit emotional in the end when he is saved
Watched: Taken 🍿
Funny how old a 20 year old movie feels: Nokia phones, teenagers trying to get into a U2(!j concert. My Gen Z asked ”what is U2” and I answered: ”exactly”
Silly plot but action goes fast and Qui-Gon Jinn kills 40 people
Watched: Rosemary’s Baby 🍿
Movie week continued with Rosemary’s Baby. For some reason I have never seen this before. Very efficient at building up the conclusion and the feeling of world conspiring against the main protagonist.
Watched: Annabelle Comes Home 🍿
Better than I expected. Very old-fashioned horror-movie but didn’t get bored
Watched: Sinners 🍿
One of the better movies I’ve seen in years. Tense and amazing cinematography
Every time I remember FIFA peace prize I just laugh, it is so laughably corrupt and odd I go past angry and just think “this is kind of awesome, like looking at a great artist working”. Their chosen art form just happens to be corruption
Watched: The Odyssey 🍿
First row of the IMAX screening. I am overwhelmed. I loved the Cyclops and Circe. Very much a movie I want to see a second time
Retired dating apps to have a break. These are apps are great for meeting people you wouldn’t ever meet in real life but also, sigh, they are so tiring as well. After four years and meeting about 100 new people it is time to take an indefinite break and touch the grass
To me the best football is played in July when qualifying rounds of UEFA cup competitions take place. I love seeing random matches between champions of San Marino and Gibraltar and forgotten giants of 1970’s.
Another one of my experiments in web-app form: cavepad.com
Second news story from Finland just reminds us how clueless boomers most politicians (both ex- and current) are. Ex-minister lobbied for sports arena directly to prime minister and put all the actions he did in emails he sent. Even if there was nothing to see there it just looks extremely bad
There is a weird dance going on in Finnish media about a story of well-known (but unnamed) artist grooming an 12 year old AND completely unrelated news of certain artists canceling all their gigs for the year. I can imagine legal departments of Finnish media houses working very hard these days.
If they ever pull the plug on the cloud and the frontier models, my backup plan is to ditch the watch too and go stand in a forest like some kind of animal. Truly the darkest timeline. Not
Currently reading: The Martian by Andy Weir 📚
I am lying in my hammock and reading a book. This is Summer
Finished reading: The Complete Persepolis: Volumes 1 and 2 by Marjane Satrapi 📚
Sadly, Marjane Satrapi passed this week and she will be missed by the whole world. This book is a master piece – powerful mix of personal and history happening around her
Currently reading: The Complete Persepolis: Volumes 1 and 2 by Marjane Satrapi 📚
I’ve been thinking for long how hard would it be to animate my ink doodles. Turns out it required a simple helper tool and a bit of patience and yes, these little guys walk!
Video alt-text: Inked stick figures meeting on a hand-drawn country road; a small cluster of hearts rises softly above them.
My Dr. Pepper relationship is like:
“hmm, there is a can of Dr. Pepper in the fridge. I haven’t drank it in a long time”
“Ah, yes, don’t like the taste, that is why”
I wonder why Dr. Pepper taste is something that you forget
Currently re-reading: Cibola Burn by James S. A. Corey 📚
Finished re-reading: Abaddon’s Gate by James S. A. Corey 📚
What can I say, I like Miller and Anna as characters. I had forgotten this quote that is awesome: ”She felt that politics was the second most evil thing humanity had ever invented, just after lutefisk.”
Lutefisk 🤢