Enthusiastically Ambiverted Hopepunk
Day 272: When I’m at work (and the weather isn’t crap), it’s pretty easy to go wandering around the campus occasionally. On my work from home days, I have a tendency to get a little sedentary, so today I reminded myself that we have a treadmill in the basement. Something else I need to get back in the habit of doing!
The usual unplanned, random selection of whatever seems right in the moment.
Haunted Mansion (2023): ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Cute, mildly amusing, and inoffensive. Not outstanding, and certainly not likely to get multiple sequels like Pirates of the Caribbean did, but for a theme-park-attraction-turned-movie, it wasn’t bad. Though I’m mystified by the costuming choices for the kid — I mean, okay, it’s convenient shorthand for “odd socially inept geeky child”, but it was really pushing the concept harder than necessary.
8/2024
The fifth of this year’s Philip K. Dick Award nominees. No review, because I’m the award ceremony coordinator. I’m not remotely involved with selecting nominees or winners, just making sure the ceremony goes as it should, but it’s best to keep my reviews to myself.
Day 271: I keep telling myself I need to start devoting a little time on the weekends to practice mixing before the Thursday Night dance at Norwescon so I don’t spend the entire time trainwrecking. Today I actually managed to do it!
The setup is a Pioneer DDJ-400 mixer, the OBS video streaming software on the bottom monitor, and Algoriddim’s djay Pro on the top monitor (plus Rogue Amoeba’s Loopback and Audio Hijack running in the background to capture the audio stream so I can later upload it to my Mixcloud account).
Day 270: Lunch and a book on a grey, drizzly Seattle winter day.
7/2024
The fourth of this year’s Philip K. Dick Award nominees. No review, because I’m the award ceremony coordinator. I’m not remotely involved with selecting nominees or winners, just making sure the ceremony goes as it should, but it’s best to keep my reviews to myself.
Day 269: Forgot to take a picture until after I was in bed, so, much to my wife’s amusement, and in her words, I’m posting a nudie pic.
Day 268: We needed a new pizza cutter, so we decided to see if our preferred knife company (Henckles) made one. Turns out they do, so we ordered one, but somehow got one shipped from Japan that’s about 2/3 the size of the pizza cutters we’re used to. It should work just fine; we’re just amused at how tiny and cute it is!
Day 267: Yes, it’s a cheesy touristy t-shirt. But it’s a cheesy tourist-y t-shirt that I got in New York, and we really enjoyed our time there on our vacation, so it’s legit.