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Finished reading: Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir 📚

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

Turns out my smart TV also can show me actual TV broadcasts. But I needed to google how to do it

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 📚

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.

Currently reading: The Faith of Beasts by James S. A. Corey 📚

Here we go!

Finished re-reading: The Mercy of Gods by James S. A. Corey 📚

Just in time before the next one in the trilogy coming out today.

Tense and kind of overwhelming premise, not quite Expanse level but then again, what would be?

One thing is that I would need a summary of characters. Many characters managed to exit the story before I started remembering who is who (often a random death makes a character leave the story💀)

I like the variety of aliens and I hope we get more of non-Carryx characters in the future

Italy’s Serie A and Serie B might not be the top leagues of ⚽️ any more but those teams do have the best looking jerseys. Especially those that have Kappa branded jerseys like Venezia FC 🔥

Kids history test was about fall of Soviet Union and the end of Cold War. Oh no, I remember watching all that on TV! It was only like 10-15 years ago

Amazingly Finnish news story: Jason Segel visited grocery store in Tampere and tried to small-talk with other patrons and as a result was talked to by the store security. Yes, we don’t approve of small-talk, try that with Danes or other extrovert nations

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 📚

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 📚

Finished re-reading: Caliban’s War by James S. A. Corey 📚

So good

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 📚

“Never lose access to your Microsoft account”. Please don’t threaten me with a good time

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

One more step towards being a full adult: got my first shingles vaccine dose today.