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 đź“š
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 đź“š
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 đź“š
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 đź“š
Finished re-reading: Abaddon’s Gate by James S. A. Corey đź“š
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 🤢
Finished reading: Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir đź“š
This one was fast and fun as I expected. One of those books that feel like it was already paced as a movie. I liked the friendship, the science that was just above my paygrade that any inaccuracies would have bothered me and the optimism for human ability to fix problems.
Read it as a Finnish paperback and as an English audiobook. The Finnish translation felt at times sloppy. I think the casual internal monologue didn’t really work in Finnish
There is a Finnish saying: works like toilet of a train. It comes back from the days there was a hole under the seat
Meanwhile, modern train toilets:
I guess this is literal enshittification
Alt-text for video: toilet door closed with a tape saying ”suljettu - stängd - closed” and red light blinking
Slack features I miss: ability to move main thread message to a thread, if it belongs there. Also: let me post to main thread from a sub-thread after editing a message that was originally only on that sub-thread.
Finished reading: The Faith of Beasts by James S. A. Corey đź“š
I had two questions starting this book: will second book gives us clues how to get to trilogy ending we already told about in prologue of the first book? Secondly, would this book tie together somehow the stories of The Mercy of Gods and Livesuit?
Answers are: sort of and yes.
Like any of their books there is plenty of action and surprises in the story. Every character is expendable and life is short and brutal if you make mistakes. As they say: what is, is.