I’ve installed home assistant and started configuring as many things as I can. I needed another timesink.
Return to the Filmhouse
My first time back at the Filmhouse in several years, and the little one’s first full film in a cinema experience, had me feeling quite emotional.
I didn’t realise that just walking up the steps with him to the front door would have bring such a wave of feelings.
With any luck, and a little persuasion, hopefully we can make this trip a regular event.
Ninety minute slack huddles are why I’m glad I invested in lightweight, open backed headphones.
Very excited to book tickets for me and the wee one to see Monsters Inc at the Filmhouse this weekend. Hopefully I can get him shouting “Mike Wazowski!” instead of “You’re a poo!” for a little while.
read Salammbô by Gustave Flaubert

I could certainly have started the year with something a little easier to read in small chunks.
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Started coming up with a complicated scheme to better account for paypal transactions in beancount. Zerosum accounts, statement parsers…then realised I could just stop using paypal completely and solve the issue.
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Beginning to think that shouting “Electric Boogaloo!” every time I see a variable name, heading, or just generally coming across anything with the number “2” in it might be making me look old.
My daily mug
At some point the wee one is going to ask why my coffee mug has blood and a knife on it.
Why yes, it’s an excellent use of my spare time to add activitypub compatibility to the blog instance I sometimes use to post to social media. What else would I do with my evening?
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We're going to need a bigger pot
We’re going to need a bigger pot
View from the edge
I was going to take a picture of the Pigeon Houses, but it never works well on the phone. Instead, here’s the edge of the world.
I’m getting my first exposure to the newer Jurassic Park films with Dominion. Is this now some cross between Mission Impossible and Taken but with dinosaurs?
No escape
Me: I’m going to ignore AI discourse for a while and focus on Japanese studies.
Phone: bing
Going for woke
Thanks to Consolevania, I’ll always hear Blue Stinger’s Dogs Bauser yelling “A woman?!” when reading nonsense like this.
The important things in life
My parents no longer have a record player, and have kept only a handful of records for nostalgic reasons. You’ve got to hold onto the classics.
I’d forgotten what an absolute belter Silent Night, Deadly Night. Great film to watch with pals in a pub.
I think Subway should have stopped at “Festive Menu” rather than “Ultimate Festive Menu”.
Disney+ has started having sync issues, I think. A couple of times a minute it seems to skip a few frames as if to catch up. Is this some kind of obsolete TV bullshit? It’s streaming over a Google TV which I hoped would mean we’d avoid that.
bookmarked Humble Comics Bundle: Monstrous Mignolaverse Bundle (pay what you want and help charity)
Humble Comics Bundle: Monstrous Mignolaverse Bundle
I’m trying not to stockpile any more digital comics, but…
I know, I’m old, but I really don’t need constant, slow motion, hi-def, blindingly bright video ads for food while blearily nursing a coffee before a flight.