Notes from January 2026
2026-01-01
"Deadpool & Wolverine" from 2023 is the 34th MCU movie, albeit the first for both Deadpool and Wolverine; earlier they were under the 20th Century Fox umbrella. On one hand, it's funny and very meta and doesn't respect anything (vide the opening fight where Deadpool uses Wolverine's skeleton; after he died in "Logan"), but on the other hand, it's just so tired. They should call it quits. Luckily, I saw one season of Loki because I wouldn't know what's with the TVA.
I liked the motif with Chris Evans showing up as Captain America in The Void. That was nice.
And we finally got the proper Gambit (unless he was in "Dark Phoenix").
This also makes it my 22nd MCU movie. They took me by surprise.
We drove to Seville to see "The Neverending Story," but musical. It was in Spanish, so I had to figure out some parts and it helped that I read the plot on Wiki during the intermission. It followed the book closer than the first movie (which covers only the first part), but still not fully. The baby empress had a strong voice and someone else too. And the stepping section fell to my liking. And animatronics were good; at first, I thought they used a real horse.
On the gift stand, they were selling CDs, which I bought. And I had this reflection (again) that musicals are wasted in movies: it's a kind of show that you should see live in theatre, not on a screen.
"Nightmare Alley" is Guillermo Del Toro's movie whose existence was unknown to me, until I stumbled upon it accidentally. A story of a grifter who burns a house and gets on a bus and rides it until he gets to a travelling carnival. He joins to help and stays and learns mentalism. Then he goes on his own and the movie takes a more classic noir turn. Interestingly, there are no supernatural things here. The movie is cast perfectly, with each actor fitting their role.
"See How They Run" (2022) is the second whodunnit this last year, and I was not planning to see another one. It's very meta and self-commenting and funny, but all in the right proportions. Sam Rockwell and Saoirse Ronan make a really good duo of a detective and his sidekick.
For the last movie in 2025, we decided to go with 2013's "The Counselor." Highly anticipated at the time, due to Ridley Scott and Cormac McCarthy's cooperation, it was a bit of a flop in the box office, but not because it was a bad movie. It's a bit of its own thing, with a series of meetings driven almost purely by dialogues and action happening in-between and off-screen. It's also very bleak, way too much for the average viewer. It's like "Fargo," the show, with funny stuff taken out.
As for the rewatch, it landed way better than in 2013, when I saw it in cinema. Understanding Spanish helped, too, as those dialogues were left untranslated for some reason. And I think that the Polish translation was a miss at times; for instance, the story about Malkina fucking a car [sic!] translated the catfish into a wrong type of fish, and many people were baffled as to what that was supposed to mean. Now I watched it in original (and with added bilingual bonus).
And speaking of "Fargo," one of the secondary roles is played by Sam Spruell who had the honours of playing the season 5's Chigurh.
I'm visiting my hometown for the New Year, and I'm a bit bored, bunkered in a house because it's cold and dark outside, reading a book a little and listening to music (also watching videoclips, which is something I haven't done in a while), and it's making me realise how much of a daily rhythm I have, with work, dog walks, and occasional grocery runs. And I miss that.
At least I'll get to know Kim Petras a little bit more.
I am a great fan of wired headphones, but I broke myself and bought wireless ones for the airplane, as it's just easier to deal with them; especially that I have a Fairphone 5 which doesn't have a dedicated jack port, and I have to use an adapter, and it's a meh experience. But now I realised they are quite convenient for occasional listening around the house, like when couch surfing or doing Duolingo. So, win-win. I was concerned that I would use them once and then forgot about them.
2026-01-03
Yesterday, I drove a car, and it must have been more than 10 years since I drove a car in the Polish winter. In the end, there was no snow; it was snowing a bit when we were leaving but not later, when I was driving. The navigation managed to find a route which was almost empty; and I found this very relaxing, to be there alone on the road and just paying attention to the map and the car itself. And to think that I was not enthusiastic about going out at all, but I felt I owed that to our hosts.
On the surface, it doesn't look like much different from what was happening in the last 5-6 years, and yet, the invasion on Venezuela feels like crossing a certain line. A game changer.
2026-01-07
After a trip to my home city, which was ridden with big dishes on every single step, I realised that I will eat as much as I have on my plate; which must be some sort of an ancient programming in my DNA. Thus, the only way to keep my diet is to control how much food I have to begin with. And that is a very good outcome from a trip I didn't want to go on in the first place.
This and that lovely, one-hour drive through the Polish villages I had. It was way more soothing than I would have imagined.
2026-01-08
The first movie to finish this year (but not start) was 1995's "Cutthroat Island," the infamous record holder of the biggest box-office bomb. It's a very classic pirate movie, plot-wise, although the closer we get to the end, the more boring it becomes. That being said, there are motifs that looked like re-used in "Pirates of the Caribbean" movies later, so it's curious that this movie was such a failure. Music brings back the old Star Wars.
As a side note, I recognised that Jamaica's Port Royale was shot in Malta, namely in St. Elmo Fort, which was used for a Turkish prison in "Midnight Express." As I am a fan of "Midnight Express," I visited the aforementioned fort many times during my living there; though, I never got to that part. But here, there's more: they also use the streets and the shore in Valletta, where we used to walk many times. And that was a weird part, which was breaking the immersion for me a little. Not that it's anyone's fault, but still, I could clearly see that it's not Jamaica. Similarly to the later part, which was shot in Thailand; and while I was not there, I saw those mountainy islands in "White Lotus 3."
"Bored to Death's" season 3 turned out to be the last one, though because it was cancelled, not because it was planned like that. Season 2 was more of the same, but season 3 brings more of an arc structure to the show. Luckily, given circumstances, it manages to close it, albeit with a cliffhanger that will never be resolved (and unresolved, it might feel a bit cringy). I preferred this overlapping plots more than the Case of the Week. Really likeable characters, like an opposite of "Veep."
2026-01-09
Having enough games to play, etc., I decided to buy more books; my rationale being that if there is a global event that affects electricity or the Internet, then I'll be ready for that with a completely analogous solution. I bought William Gibson's "The Difference Engine," which I was avoiding for some reason for years (and got inspired by reading about the plot of "The Chaos Engine" recently), and also Ryu Murakami's "In The Miso Soup" (speaking of whom, I still haven't read "Tokyo Decadence").
There are two wolves living in me.
FIRST WOLF: You have to write like Cormac McCarthy.
SECOND WOLF: You have to write like Herman Melville in "Moby Dick."
I let each win in rotation.
The fact that so many institutions and people are still on X is a testimony to how good Twitter was at building its product; but also, to why we need open standards and protocols for these sorts of things.
The Dream About Poetry
I had a dream today. There was David Strathairn there. And I remember saying: "The difference between poetry and prose is that poetry is about capturing the moment, while prose tells a story." And I read it years ago, so it's not an idea that would be revealed to me in a dream, but in the dream, I said it like I meant and understood it completely.
The reason why they would have poems rhymed in the past was, because it helped remembering them, but with the invention of written word, and later press, this was no longer necessary; and so rhyming started to fade. Now even poetry omits that sometimes. It's not crucial to capture a moment, it turns out. But then again, I heard or read that poetry in Latin wouldn't rhyme either, and would be based on rhythm instead. But that was not in my dream.
2026-01-11
"Snake Eyes" (1998) is a thriller about a cop who unexpectedly ends up running an ad-hoc investigation, when a murder happens during a boxing gala. It got old very well, with all the then-growing surveillance technology and cameras everywhere, which are pretty normal now. There is also a number of mastershots here, which are always welcomed. And the plot is more about why, not who, which was criticised at the time but tastes better years later. Also, I did not expect to see young Carla Gugino.
2026-01-12
Scrolling sideways with shift+scroll on mouse is seriously under-taught at school.
2026-01-14
Speaking of Scott Adams, I ran a blog with comic strips back in 2004, and one of them was a nod to Dilbert.
If that's not the best moment to dig it out, then I don't know.
The title was "teleKinesis," to highlight that K does it.
2026-01-15
"I drive. That's what I do. That's all I do."
(Driver in "Drive")
The newest "Animal Crossing: New Horizon's" version supports "The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom's" Amiibo. Crazy. But what's crazier is that we have one of the supported Amiibos in our household, so now my daughter has a Zonai denizen on her island. Nice.
There are also clothes from Zelda, and when you put them on, sounds from Zelda games play. You can even put a broken guardian (which we always call "bells" with me wife) in you garden. Twice nice.
But my heart is still with "Hexen."
I don't really like stand-up comedy and I don't watch it, but sometimes I get to see a short bit, oftentimes as a preview on Netflix, and every time it happens, I like to imagine that I am doing a stand-up somewhere. In December, I was freestyling stuff during the company event, and at some point I told to my colleagues, "I could easily do stand-up," such good my flow was; and they agreed, my colleagues, I mean.
I brewed actual English tea yesterday, a leftover from last year's Christmas gifts from associated partners at work, and it's been a while since I drank proper black tea, and I made it very strong and drank it on an empty stomach, and I thought I'm gonna die there; it caught me when I was walking my dogs, far away from any potable water. In the end, I survived, but it was very painful. Once a staple of my daily hydration, I don't hang around black tea that much anymore.
2026-01-17
Federico Fellini's "Roma" (1972) is, on paper, a semi-autobiographical movie, but it feels more like a set of vignettes. Luckily for both of us, I like vignettes. The autobiographical part is rather implied, and the whole movie is a love postcard to the city of Rome. It feels more like a documentary on old times and a vibrant Italian culture (those Italian suppers). We agreed with my wife that if we didn't live in the South of Europe, we would think it's more of a metaphor. But no, it's how it is.
"Stranger Things" have finally come to an end. Volume 2 lays the foundation for the grande finale, where everyone teams up to face Vecna and his old pal, the Mind Flayer. It's all "the 80s as an aesthetic," but there are genuinely touching moments, especially after almost a decade of following the characters' journey. I know they went into shooting the last episode without a complete screenplay, but to me, they managed to come out just fine.
I wonder what the Duffer brothers are gonna do next.
Season 2 of "Severance" picks up after the cliffhanger of season 1, but paints the follow-up a bit differently: whereas the first season was about being trapped in the liminal space of the Lumon's office, the second one zooms out and places innies outside, as well as has a whole episode with Cobel. And we finally learn what the hell they are refining. I can't wait to see what they will come up with in season 3, which has been already confirmed.
And speaking about Ms. Cobel's episode, it was nice to see James LeGros after a while (as well as seeing him getting old pretty well), but the most impressive element is the Salt's Neck town, which was shot somewhere in Newfoundland. It's old and deserted and dilapidated, and somehow it fits the liminal character of the show because a lot of those are also old and abandoned houses. I would like to go there once and see it for myself.
Ron Howard's "Eden" from 2024, based on true events, is a story of 8 people who inhabited the island of Floreana in Galápagos Archipelago. As an aficionado of islands, I really liked the setting. It's a pretty well painted picture of why living on a remote island is not the paradise that people like to think it would be. Good casting, but the main award goes to Ana De Armas as a phony baroness who sows a dissent among all the islanders.
After the movie, I went to Wikipedia to read a bit more on the location, and I found it somewhat amusing that this happened on an island of size of 173 km². After living for almost 3 years on Malta, which size is 330 km² (although the main island itself is around 250 km²), I can clearly imagine all the 3 groups of people living in such a distance that they wouldn't have to see each other. And yet. But it's probably the baroness' fault.
Another interesting fact is that in 1800s the island burned down, due to a prank gone wrong; a prank that was pulled by a sailor from "Essex," or fully, "Essex of Nantucket," the ship which was attacked and sunk by a whale; all which was depicted in "In the Heart of the Sea," which I have seen last year. And which inspired "Moby Dick." It all connects nicely.
2026-01-18
As a form of defence against LLMs, many people write human-implausible texts. Six seven.
"Eddington" (2025) is a story of a small-town sheriff who, in the midst of COVID-19 pandemics, decides to run for the mayor. At first, it seemed that was going to be the plot, but as the movie progressed, it began expanding its scope, mixing a lot of stuff in (like conspiracy theories and Antifa, albeit with artistic licence). Overall, it was interesting because it was not possible to predict what will happen next.
Spoiler: The idea started as a western, something like a decade ago, and was covidified only recently. Lockdowns made the empty town plausible. The final shooting with Antifa goons plays out like a video game, especially taking the heavy gun that the sheriff brought (it tore off half of a leg of one person).
The plot was a lot, but was still more manageable to follow than the one from "Beau Is Afraid" from the same director. Due to epicness and a lot of things going on, it reminded me of "One Battle After Another," and perhaps, that's a new direction of movies. Less three-act arcs, and more dynamic stories that can even shift its focus halfway through. Now, I know this is probably not for everyone, but we are getting it, so I'm not gonna complain.
And honestly, I prefer "Beau Is Afraid" and "Eddington" to "Hereditary" and "Midsummer," director's earlier movies, which were straight horrors that disappointed me with their endings. Like, no, thanks, we had enough of those.
I understand the concern for SEO when you're a company, but personally, I don't give a damn. It's a bit like reversing the responsibility. If I have a properly done website, with correct HTML et al, then Google not picking that up, due to being gamed, is primarily Google's problem because this is their product's main selling point. If they can't handle this properly, then let them burn.
Markdown ignores new lines, so you can format a paragraph to be more readable in its raw form (I don't agree with it, but that's the rationale), so it's not easy to insert it. Or so I thought. Now, apparently two spaces at the end of a line will be treated as "break the line here," but my editor trims those, and anyway, there is always a future risk of that. You can use <br>, but that's mixing HTML in. However, it's also possible to escape the new line character with \ (backslash).
Deuteragonists
Alright, it's now or never.
So, Benoit Blanc shows late into the movie and for most of the time, he plays the second violin fiddle to the character of the priest being framed into the murder. I'm pretty sure that we can find characters like that throughout the history of literature, but now we have people raised on computer games, myself included, and Benoit feels to me, at least at times, to be close to a character controlled by a player.
He solves crimes and he has some characteristics, but there is almost no backstory to him, other than being a brilliant detective and being a thing with Hugh Grant, and that is probably not enough to capture people's attention. But he doesn't have to because he's not a full-blown character, he's there for us, to maybe identify with him but mainly follow along, while the main character is the person being framed.
Thus, Benoit Blanc is this stand-in deuteragonist. And I love deuteragonists.
Many times, I heard how characters from the South states would say "Jesus H. Christ" (sometimes also "Jesus H. Fucking Christ") in Usonian movies, and I always wondered if the H stands for anything, or is merely for the sound of it. I got an idea in "Eddington" yesterday, when one character said, "Jesus Horatio Christ." Could be it. The issue might require further investigation, though.
If so, is that a reference to Horatio Alger?
They're making a movie based on "Iron Lung."
One of the things that "Atlas Shrugged" left me with is calling the aesthetics of Art Deco "Taggartian," after Dagny Taggart, the main character of the book. We regularly use it with my wife. Other than that, luckily, the book left me largely unscathed.
With its inherent and omnipresent despise for LLM-flavoured AI, Fediverse might be one of the last places on the known web where people write for people and look for the connection. I don't think it's the only place, but the ratio here has got to be the most in favour of the people. Let's maintain that.
2026-01-20
Yesterday, I used phrase "to play the second violin," which, to my knowledge, is not an English expression but a translation of a Polish one ("grać drugie skrzypce"), which means being of the secondary significance. And yesterday, I had an epiphany that because English language doesn't belong to anyone, I can actually do that more often. Not all sayings will translate well, but some might. This will be my contribution to the great English language.
A good example of our saying that made it to English is "not my circus, not my monkeys," which I heard in one episode of "Department Q." If one made it, then others can surely follow. However, I don't wanna overdo this, so I will move cautiously.
- Response from David Cantrell: the native English equivalent is "play second fiddle". https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=play+second+fiddle&year_start=1800&year_end=2022&corpus=en-GB&smoothing=3&case_insensitive=false
TIL, "[...] anyone who has experience with strokes knows that the unusual smell of burnt toast is a sign of one approaching."
"Severance" reminded me heavily of Haruki Murakami's "Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World," and I haven't seen it mentioned anywhere, so let me fix that. The book was definitely one of the stranger and more original ones that I have ever read.
The resemblance is not only about having two sets of person in one, but the whole encrypting data feels similar to data refinement.
Did I just made a spoiler about a book from 1985? *backs off into the hedge*
I am using lists more on TIDAL than I hadz on Spotify, also grouping types of albums.
I just realised there is music that sounds like vaporwave (not all, but this dreamy one), only it come from early 1990s or similar. And so a new list was born.
But I also started collecting soundscapes, though I can't specify what it means. I know it when I hear it.
That's too personal to tag it, but not enough personal to have it published as Quiet Public. The choice of layers that Mastodon is giving me!
There is a running joke around devs, that if a pull request has 1 file in it, then the requestor will get 5 comments, but if there are many files, then it's just gonna get approved. So, in the light of this joke, I always feel internally challenged to give the same kind of review for even the biggest requests.
2026-01-21
I just read a long discussion about blocking the Bluesky bridge, and while there were misunderstandings on the way, it remained civilised. And this is what I like about this place. I do wonder, though, how much it stems from the fact that there is still a handful of us here.
2026-01-22
I found an album with lame music, which you could play as a background in a bar posing for fancy; or being played in an office filled by women, who don't really listen to music and imagine that's what people listen to when they listen to music, very much like "human music" that Jerry listened to in one episode of "Rick and Morty." Yes, it's a chill/lounge stuff. And yet, I'm giving it a shot. Let it be my neurofitness for today.
Two hours later...
And now, cinematic soundscapes from Alfred Newman. Yeah, I'm still exploring soundscapes. This keyword gives me a variety of music that still has something connecting them all. I need to look for more keywords like that.
2026-01-23
On Wikipedia deal with AI companies
Last week, I read that Wikipedia is finalising a deal with AI companies, and my initial reaction was: there goes my monthly donation to them; but this week, I read a little more on the subject, and I realised that the situation is tough, and Wikipedia could take up a fight with an opponent with far more resources on their hand, or they could minimise their daily damage.
AI companies will continue to scrap the Internet, and our options, as Internauts, are limited. There are different strategies, like poisoning the content served to bots, or blocking the bots, or going through a legal path. And here, we're back to the resources aspect. Also, the courts are not really siding with scrapped parties. Hence, it could be costly and in vain.
The deal, to my understanding, is about setting a separate instance of Wikipedia, which would be then used by AI scrappers to go over this data as many times as they want, because apparently that's what those bots do, anyway; they don't persist that information for some reason. And additionally, they would pay for it. Not ideal, but it would make normal Wikipedia users' experience somewhat more pleasant.
After all, Wikipedia is thought to be a common good, a shared resource. I don't think that people who use LLM-generated summaries are Wikipedia users, anyway. So, there is no loss here. Then, it's better for those hallucinations to use more robust sources than, I don't know, random, biased articles. Again, not ideal, but this is where we are, and the options are limited. You gotta play the hand that was dealt to you.
(I feel that the chess course is kicking in, too.)
Therefore, to conclude this thread, I decided to keep donating to Wikipedia every month.
That, however, is me. How Wikipedia editors will take it is another question. If they see this as trading their pro-bono work, they might abandon contributing to that shared pool of knowledge, and that would be a loss for everyone. Something similar, I believe, happened to Stack Overflow. But time will tell.
Sometimes, when you find a proper album, the mix after it can play for hours on long.
2026-01-24
"The Beast In Me" (2025) is a limited series about a writer who, experiencing a writer's block, gets an idea for a new book when an alleged, rich killer moves in as her neighbour. Literally, the killer offers the new book to be about him. The show was balancing on being low-quality pulp, but good characters and good casting definitely helped. There were a couple of red herrings here and there, but in the end, it landed on the good side.
2026-01-24
"Nomadland" (2020) depicts a live of Fern, a Usonian nomad: she's moving in her van, adjusted to living, through the U.S., and catching seasonal jobs, from Amazon during the Christmas frenzy, to beet root plant. The movie feels like a half-documentary, and for a good reason: nomads that Fern meets in her journey are real people playing themselves. It starts with a premise of a downer, but ends up to be a very heartwarming and touching story. Plus marvellous landscapes.
The movie reminded me predominantly of two things: the first are Wim Wenders' "Perfect Days," due to showing a sort of solace in every day's rhythm and routine; and the second is generally Werner Herzog movies, due to using naturals as actors; albeit, it mildly brings fond memories of "Stroszek," however without the horrible ending.
NieR: Automata
When I got Crunchyroll, I was surprised to find out that there is anime based on "NieR: Automata." I decided then that it's unlikely that I will play the game any time soon, so I went with the show. And wasn't it fun!
It's generally split into two distinguishable parts: the first 12 episodes tell a rather linear and straightforward story of a battle between androids and robots, while the second 12 episodes really go off the bat and into almost surreal narrative at times.
My main point of interest was how, knowing the game has to be finished a couple of times to discover the full story, are they going to achieve that in a show with rather linear progression. And I think they did a stellar job. Apart from following the Adam and Eve plot in the first part, it had many alternative endings presented at the end, with different animation technique: they used dolls-on-a-stick; crazy.
Two parts reminded me of Julio Cortázar's "Hopscotch," which second part acted a similar role to the first one. You could see the first 12 episodes and call it a day, or you can step into the madness of YoRHa machinations.
However, it would seem the plot got so convoluted at one point that a special episode was done, to explain in a terse form what's what. A bit like "Charlie Jade" had to have. I found it amusing.
The virtual city of Adam, as well as the tower at the end, reminded me of "NeissanceE," which itself was based off "Blame!" which might or might not have been intentional, but I still count it as something I liked.
Ruined remnants of the cities, taken over by the flora, looked very similar to how it was presented in "The Last of Us."
2026-01-25
I didn't know what was the story behind "Sinners" (2025), so it surprised me a bit when vampires showed up; and this was after I joked that it starts like "Lovecraft Country." Similarly to there, there is strong historical background presented. Moving forward, however, the movie started resembling "From Dusk Till Down," which is not a bad thing, as some sort of homage was maybe overdue. There is a lot of singing, bordering the movie on musical, but somehow, they made it work.
That being said, it was our plan B, after the selection for the evening had trouble with sound (those smart TVs do get dumbfounded by various compression methods, I reckon), and I don't think I would go for it on my own. As horror, it doesn't really work; I would categorise it more as supernatural action movie.
But the vampire leader was pretty interesting, by how deceptively affable he was.
If I can operate my computer from keyboard only, I am the happiest man on Earth.
2026-01-26
This is from a promotional video for a hackaton run by an AI company. At first, I scoffed, but I think that this unironically embodies what's wrong with this whole fad. It's like a self-own they don't realise it is.
I gotta admit that this Ishmael-inspired punctuation works for me, and I think it's because it allows me to use English in a manner closer to Polish, which is my mother tongue, after all, so I can make my sentences flow better. At the same time, my project of a children book written in Cormac McCarthy style is still progressing.
After a month and a half, I learned to type on my new, budget keyboard. Either the buttons needed breaking in, like they used to do with horses, or I learned to navigate its intricacies. Alas for her, I'll be buying a full-blown mechanical one, as typing is what I do for living, and I need the best equipment for that. I might present this one to my mother-in-law, who liked it, or I'm gonna stash it as an emergency keyboard for future.
4 days later...
It feels even smoother now, and I barely make any typos, but alas, a mechanical keyboard has been ordered today; on my birthday, which birthday present it's going to be.
So, the E.U. is going to investigate Grok. I would really like to believe that something, anything will come out of it.
A post from camwilson
no one will remember:
- how much money you made
- how many hours you worked
- how "busy you were"
they will remember:
- nothing
- the internet has destroyed my short term memory
- why did i unlock my phone again? i wanted to do something
2026-01-27
Speaking of the term "Doom clone," the Polish word was something like "Doom-alike" ("doomopodobne"), which sounds not far from "Souls-like."
After, like, 10 hours into "Hexen," I have to say that its soundtrack if far more superior to the "Heretic" one. I'm really glad that it got Andrew Hulshult's treatment.
2026-01-29
I am asking myself now, why hadn't I written a script for any presentation before? It's brilliant (the idea; the script remains to be seen, from the audience reactions). We learn something new every day.
90 minutes later...
It went well.
I've been asked to give a presentation on giving presentations, very meta.
2026-01-30
I can understand that they tried inviting Volodymyr Zelenskyy to Moscow for talks, but c'mon; that borders on a low-quality bait. 😅
Ernest Hemingway famously said to "make every word count," but I learned that additional words, which kind of don't really count, help with pacing, especially for texts that are meant to be read aloud, and the speaker might need to catch a breath or something; so, there's a practical side to this redundancy. But then again, maybe I'm just not quite there. Mayhap, I need to go see corrida.
Ever since I've seen "The Killing of Sacred Deer," I have been enamoured with an idea of hypnotising, not necessarily in a literal meaning, people with a slow-paced and monotonous way of speaking, and I've learned over the years that really terse text might stand in the way.
kill -9 is a very dependable friend. It has never failed me.
"But like every pirate, the tech companies dreamed of being admirals."
I just had a genuine discussion about a front-end implementation of a feature, and it made me think that if enough devs (of any stack) would follow hashtags related to their specialisation, and would start interacting with other users' posts, especially when they reach out for an opinion, then we could build a spiritual successor of Stack Overflow; by the people, for the people.
This, apparently failed, documentary about Melania Trump reminds me of an anecdote about Cato, one of the stoics, who, when asked about his monuments, and why there were none, replied: "After I'm dead, I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one."
Apparently, there is going to be "Copenhagen Cowboy's" season 2 this year. Good.
Although, this page is the only souce; but it's oddly specific when it comes to dates. I couldn't find anything on the byNWR's official website.