🎵 Recomposed by Max Richter: Vivaldi, the Four Seasons (2014)
Vivaldi had never been my thing. Then I was going through old emails and was reminded that a friend had told me, “Yes, but this is different.” It’s so good.
🍿 Bo Burnham: Inside (2021)
I’m on the “mostly enjoyed Bo Burnham’s Inside” of history.
📚 Head On (2019) by John Scalzi
I appreciate the things Scalzi is accomplishing in this universe. This one was just a little too procedural for me.
🎵 Candid (2020) by Whitney
A lovely cover album for a Friday afternoon.
🦹 Ascender (2021)
Ascender is a fascinating series with beautiful watercolor art. I liked its predecessor, Descender, a bit more, but still very entertaining.
Does anyone else have an iCal (macOS) that is completely buggy? For years mine has: given me multiple email alerts for a single event, continued to give me a notification even if the event is email-alert-only, and loses my email-alert settings on an event (failing to alert me).
🍿 Spectre (2015)
The Daniel Craig Bond movies are always good. Maybe it was lack of sleep or impending sickness, but I was nodding off a bit during this one, however.
The story of Mark Wunderlich’s poem Cuthbert rolls along so well. I didn’t realize until the last stanza that it was a rare poem that I’ve read recently that actually has rhymes! I think it’s pretty clever to include suprising rhymes in a poem about a lamb.
For the fourth webapp I’m setting up in 2022, I’m trying Elixir and Phoenix rather than my comfortable Ruby on Rails. This is certainly a mind-bend.
🍿 Ron’s Gone Wrong (2021)
Pretty decent little family movie. It had a few interesting ideas for the kids to chew on, I think.
🍿 Last Night in Soho (2021)
I love me some Edgar Wright, but I’m still not sure what I think about this one. I did love the creativity of shots in the first half. And the music was 😙👌.
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🎵 An Evening with Silk Sonic (2021) by Silk Sonic
Bruno Mars, Anderson .Paak, and Silk Sonic – seems like a perfect start to a Friday.
📚 Fish: a tap essay (2012) by Robin Sloan
What an interesting experiment. It has some things to say.
🎵 What Kinda Music (2020) by Tom Misch & Yussef Dayes
Was listening to this on repeat today.
📚 The Obelisk Gate (2016) by N. K. Jemisin
I read this with audio. It’s a book two that found my attention straying, but certainly did well in setting up an exciting conclusion (I hope).
🎵 I Don’t Live Here Anymore (2021) by The War on Drugs
🍿 Letters to Juliet (2010)
I wouldn’t use movie art to describe this movie, but it still becomes more interesting with a little backstory. It seems Vanessa Redgrave and Franco Nero have a story with some similarities to the movie.
This has been a wild ride. A horror comic with many surprises. Volume 8 found me mostly confused, though. Volume 9 brought it back into focus a bit. I need to get my hands on volume 10.
I have a series of photos I want to share online. I want the page to basically just be the picture, possibly with a caption. I want the photos to be as large as it can be. I want them to be the focus. I want it to work well on mobile, with swipes.
🎵 The Dream (2022) by alt-J
It’s finally out. Let’s see how it sounds…
The poetry books I’m currently reading have quite the titles. Will see if these bring out my angst or if they are just clever irony. 📚
With my return to daily coding, my wrists and left pinky are hurting while using my Apple keyboard. I ended up getting a Kinesis, which is long overdue. I also broke out my old Logitech thumb trackball. It’s working OK, but I might try one of their new versions.
🦹 Eternals (2006)
Neil Gaiman lends his considerable talents to revisit Eternals. The book felt like there was more to come, but I don’t think there was?
I’m coding more again and starting to get pained using my magic keyboard. Though I wish for a new magic keyboard with Touch ID, I think it’d be good to try an ergonomic board. Anyone have a good recommendation for an ergo board with no right-hand numpad and Apple key mapping?