Eh, to each their own. I liked it. I also liked the different pacing than the movie. It made more sense.

I recommended The Painted Man, which I had just read and thought was pretty good. A friend of mine read it (and liked it) and, contrary to my fate, proceeded to continue the series. Next time I saw him he was fairly mad at me, stating the the series took a sharp downturn in quality after the first one. After this I haven’t been able to get him to read any other books, despite the one I actually recommended being fairly good. So in a way, this was me recommending a really bad book. Which just happened to be good.

I have personally experienced librarians and they have helped me when in need.

Just a few old ones…

Art of Noise - The Best Of … but all are good

Yellow - Pocket Universe … but also The Essential

Moloko - ?

Kosheen - Kokopelli (I think)

Subtle. I loved The Grudge, which to be fair, isn’t incredibly subtle, but it has so many great ways to be creepy!

I too was about to day Dungeon Keeper for mobile. What a wasted game.

Fish

A few things.

If we look beyond my family, reading is a big passion of mine. This is more audiobooks lately due to the aforementioned family, but whatever keeps the hobby going.

I enjoy movies and have a nice surround sound setup at home. That can eat up a lot of time, just reading about how to improve, not to mention actually using it for both movies and music (again the family can make this difficult to achieve).

I really like photography and have a few of my own pictures hanging on the walls. I have spent hours at a time hunting for great photos, not to mention photo marathons where you take a walk for 12 or 24 hours with your camera.

I enjoy biking. I bike to work every day. When we had the time my wife and I went on longer rides up towards 100km. Small kids have killed the longer trips, but the daily commute lives on!

I recently got into home assistant, automating many a thing, preferably without pissing off the wife too much. That’s a precarious balance act, but for now we’re still together, so I haven’t messed up too badly - yet.

I might have left something out, and I know I had other passions that were left behind as my attention shifted that I haven’t mentioned. Lots going on always!

a fascist dictator leading the country; the complete and entire erosion of the rule of law

It’s more relevant in the states right now, but this is something we should all worry about all the time.

So many things. Sometimes I feel like going into politics, because everything there is so crazy. I take this as a sign that my brain is fried from too many meetings.

It would be cool to do a startup making something cool, but honestly I don’t want to put in the extra hours and I don’t want to risk the comfortable lifestyle my current job provides.

That sounds cool. Have new people entering taste 3-5 wines and score them. Based on that they get a recommendation. Score that to further refine the tasting profile. When they return they can just enter a code or scan a card from last time to pick up their profile to keep evolving it.

I would have that. If not for the fact that no one around me seems to have any clue what’s going on (either). You don’t have to be perfect, no one is. Everyone knows no one is. But compared to the people around you, who are also putting up facades, maybe you’re actually doing a pretty good job?

Grrl power. Pretty good art, decent story. Artist hypersexualizes everyone (almost), so be warned.

I have all discworld books, I would definitely reread most of them. I just reread The Hail Mary Project.

Oh, the rest of the world is definitely feeling the ripples.

We got gifted a plastic rack for garden utensils. My mother in law bought it for us from the local supermarket (which has various cheap crap every week). Anyway, we placed a few items in it and it broke in a day. Utterly useless.

Danish has: Far får får får? Nej, får får ikke får, får får lam.

This translates to: Dad, does sheep get (give birth to) sheep? No, sheep don’t get sheep, sheep get lambs.

I had the exact same experience when starting a new job. The team had very strict rules that absolutely could not be broken. When I finally asked an architect he said the same thing: it’s just a general guideline, but of course if it makes more sense to deviate, then by all means.

They fostered this culture because they mostly had junior programmers, but they never evolved beyond that because they were taught “good code” but never learned why it’s good code.

To me, what sets apart good coders from mediocre ones is one thing: understanding why we do things. Don’t just implement the thing because that’s the task. Understand why it’s required and your implementation will be better. Don’t blindly follow best practices. Understand why they are best practices and when they apply. Understand what’s going on rather than just do what you’re told (but probably also do what you’re told if you want to keep your job).

I know people who have been at it for many years and they don’t understand why we do things this or that way, they just know that’s how we should do it.

What do you intend to take macro photos of? I have the canon EF 100 f/2.8 and it’s pretty versatile, not to mention a pretty good choice for portraits (although on a crop sensor you do get a bit far away). For macro a little distance is good so you don’t block the light or, if that’s your deal, scare off the insects.