November was a blur.1 We were preparing for a move (new apartment!) and dealing with a number of things. I didn’t have many spare cycles left for mindful consumption of anything media. 🎮 Dragon Age: The Veilguard, Xbox – GLORIOUS. Dragon Age: Inquisition is one of my favourite games of all time, and Veilguard looks like a worthy follow-up, at the very least! Elle Griffin: Mondragon as the new City-State – Great, clear-eyed independent look at one of the largest group of worker coöperations in the World, the Mondragon Corporation in Spains Basque region.

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A roundup of noteworthy things I’ve played, read, listened to, or watched over the last few weeks. It was simpler times. 🎤 Gary Gulman: “Born on 3rd Base” (2023) – For me personally, a funnier special than his previous two. 🎮 PowerWash Simulator | Xbox – I have no excuse. I liked it a lot for some reason. At some point my mind turned this game into part 2 of the excellent Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture.

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A roundup of noteworthy things I’ve played, read, listened to, or watched over the last few weeks. 🎤 Steve Hofstetter: “Secret Optimist” – Hilarious stand-up special. Time well spent. 🎤 Steve Hofstetter: “The Recipe” – Excellent, very personal stand-up comedy special. This one had me lightly tear up once or twice. I love comics that tell personal stories, not just jokes. 📚 Phoebe_Zeitgeist: “Standard Operating Equipment”, Archive of Our Own – A short fan fiction story, placed in the late, great Iain M.

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A roundup of noteworthy things I’ve played, read, listened to, or watched over the last few weeks. I was surprised myself, but I spent several hours watching outsidexbox’s videos and live streams on Youtube. Just what the doctor ordered: A great team of adults with good chemistry, playing games I don’t want to play but enjoy watching, bantering. Entertaining. 🎥 Tenet (2020) — Late to the party as usual, but I’ve enjoyed that weird-ass movie quite a bit.

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A roundup of noteworthy things I’ve played, read, listened to, or watched over the last few weeks. Busy times, so I kind of forgot about this list, so I’m trying to reconstruct it from memory. Which, incidentally, is a good yard stick! If I can remember it, it obviously was “noteworthy”, right? That’s just science, people. 🎥 The Fall Guy (2024) – Loved it. The whole movie just worked for me.

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A roundup of noteworthy things I’ve played, read, listened to, or watched over the last few weeks. In May, we were on vacation in Sweden in celebration of our respective birthdays, and I still am/was working a lot on my new macOS app, UI Actions. (Which is coming along quite nicely, thank you!) Redwood Material’s Nevada EV Battery Recycling Facility Attempts to Rival China - Bloomberg (Archive) – Recycling FTW.

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A roundup of noteworthy things I’ve played, read, listened to, or watched over the last few weeks. Not much, this time; I am/was working a lot, new macOS app and all. Late Night with Seth Meyers on YouTube – Love it. When he talks about “jackals”, I feel wholly included, which either tells you everything you need to know about my sense of humor, or nothing at all. 🎤 “Live (At the Time)” by Demetri Martin – I had a blast listening to this stand-up special, but it’s a different form than what I’m used to.

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A roundup of noteworthy things I’ve played, read, listened to, or watched over the last few weeks. A bit late, as usual, so … not really late. 📚 “Childhood’s End” by Arthur C. Clarke – A classic scifi work, new to me. Enjoyable, and painted in broad-enough strokes to not feel super-old. I love reading these really old foundational works and then discovering their clear influences in other novels, movies, stories that came later.

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A roundup of noteworthy things I’ve played, read, listened to, or watched over the last few weeks. It was a busy month, and I didn’t have much time for reading a book or playing some games. It happens. March is going better already. 😉 🎙️ “Socio” by Daniel Sloss – Funny stand up special by a funny Scotsman, a bit crass at times, enjoyable. I liked his earlier specials a bit more; I think it has something to do with him not being as professionally self-assured as he is now, if that makes any sense.

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A roundup of noteworthy things I’ve played, read, listened to, or watched over the last few weeks. 📺 For All Mankind: Season 3 – They don’t let up! The farther the show goes into speculative territory, the broader it gets. And it felt a bit rushed at times. High points: everything on Mars, even if the timing and logistics of the North Korean capsule don’t make sense to me (did they travel from Earth to Mars in that bucket?

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A roundup of noteworthy things I’ve played, read, listened to, or watched over the last few weeks. 📺 Star Trek: Discovery: Season 2 — Hoo boy, that was way, way too much. Everything was on fire, all the time, all at once, everything was at stake yadda yadda yadda. I think if it had 5-10 story arcs less the season would’ve been better. I’ve realized once again that Disco is not made for me, and that’s okay.

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