Lifenotes #25: December 2022
Have yourself a covid little Christmas 🎄
· 2 min read ⏱️✨ Highlights
- Got Juno back in daycare after getting him the implant, so he can play with his doggy friends again.
- Went to Manchester to see Kelly and Mark 💛
- Had a lovely christmas meal with my team.
- Caught up with some of the local tech pals at our Secret Santa social.
- Went on a fun christmas dinner + drinks with some lovely people.
- Caught covid a few days before Christmas 😅
- Had a nice chilled Christmas with Juno, cooking, watching films, and going on long walks.
- Went to my sister’s for New Years and hung out with my family for a few days 💛
🎮 Played/Read/Watched
- Bones and all - I wasn’t sure I’d like the premise of this but I really enjoyed it!
- Every “chronically online” conversation is the same by Rebecca Jennings
- The Crown Series 5 - meh
- Taylor Tomlinson: Look at you - I love her so much, so relatable, so funny.
- The Law of Stretched [Cognitive] Systems by Fred Hebert
- I may destroy you - this was a hard watch but it’s so good.
- Nope - went to a rescreen with some friends. It was a good rewatch.
- Boiling point I really liked the style and pace of this film.
- Who’s Afraid of Modern Art: Vandalism, Video Games, and Fascism by Jacob Geller
- Always be my maybe - a bit meh but I do like both of the main actors.
- Everything everywhere all at once - again, I know. Still love it.
- Meet cute - this was fun, I enjoyed it.
- Conversations with friends - I’d kinda forgotten the plot of the book by the time I watched this so I enjoyed the story almost anew.
- Knives out - an entertaining watch, Daniel Craig’s accent is hella annoying tho.
- Glass onion - entertaining too, but it didn’t really live up to the hype for me (sorry!).
- Love, Marriage & Monogamy - Dan Savage & Esther Perel (I think I’m in love with Esther Perel)
- Yard sale - The Pudding
- ReDoS "vulnerabilities" and misaligned incentives by William Woodruff
- Avatar - this was a hard watch, jesus, the white saviour protagonist irked me.
- Avatar: The way of the water - I also didn’t like this, shocker.
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