Should I spend $16 to buy a Kindle version of the book I’m reading so I don’t have to deal with small print? The pink highlight shows the Kindle viewport. 📚
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Vesper, 2022 - ★½
Monday, January 29, 2024
Wow, that was really boring.
The Big Lebowski, 1998 - ★★★½
Sunday, January 28, 2024
This movie makes me want to go bowling.
The Breakfast Club, 1985 - ★★★★½
Sunday, January 28, 2024
I think I’m older than the teacher now. He’s the guy I now relate to.
Once a Nerd…
Tuesday, January 9, 2024
I can draw a fairly straight line from my personality as a young fella to who I am today. I mean, look at this nerd. He’s got a Commodore computer running Workbench 2.04. Dot matrix printer. Stephen Lawhead books on the shelf. A thermometer that read the outside temperature. Basketball trophies. This would be a great submission for one of Hemispheric Views Desk Reviews. But it doesn’t end there. As listeners of my podcast will know, I maintain a depreciation spreadsheet tracking my major asset purchases.
I just did an internet quiz like it’s 1999. 
What Anime Hair Color Best Suits Your Personality?
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via Thomas Rigby
It was @Ddanielson that made me do it! A throwback to my younger years.
Candy Cane Lane, 2023 - ★★★★
Monday, December 4, 2023
A good old fashioned comedy that actually made me laugh out loud.
Who can resist a Blu-Tak snowman guy?
Thursday, November 30, 2023
I can’t.
The Mop Will Always Be Your Friend
Tuesday, November 21, 2023
A career is an interesting thing. I’ve never been a “career at all costs” kind of person. Probably why I’ve never made millions of dollars or been a CEO. At uni, I worked at a pizza shop and a liquor shop. The mop was my friend. Things always needed to be cleaned. I spent the first part of my “proper” career working to get ahead, to succeed in using my brain and to find new challenges to overcome.
I keep getting older. Not even an iPhone 15 camera can change that.
Look what arrived in Perth, Western Australia @rknightuk @prami@social.lol
Four months ago I took an opportunity for a career change. A move from consulting to managing two Centres of not-for-profit WA Police & Community Youth Centres. It’s been an opportunity to learn, grow and improve. What I love most is working for my staff. The people at Rockingham and Fremantle Centres are first-class. As their manager it’s my job to make their work days better. When employees are happy, customers win. Culture is king.
Tim Cook chasing more of that sweet services revenue. A 16% increase! Even though I don’t use Arcade & Fitness they still have me over a barrel.
Totally Killer, 2023 - ★★★
Saturday, October 21, 2023
A fun movie that doesn’t take itself seriously and works as a result.
Champions, 2023 - ★★★½
Tuesday, October 17, 2023
A fun, heartwarming movie that is a good reminder that sport should be fun.
Fair Play, 2023 - ★
Monday, October 16, 2023
Molasses moves faster than the plot of this movie. Bad in so, so many ways.
Wednesday, September 27, 2023 →
End of month YNAB life. 😅
Cannonball, 1976 - ★★
Tuesday, September 26, 2023
I really wanted to watch Cannonball Run! but I got this instead. The 1970s were a simpler time.
Climate Change Stripes for Perth, Western Australia
Sunday, September 24, 2023
Depressing; alarming. This is an emergency.
Dr Drang's Shell Script for Blank Calendars
Monday, September 18, 2023
A shell script for blank calendars - All this: I wanted a script to help me print out blank monthly calendars. Oh Dr. Drang, where have you and this script been my whole life? The steps I have gone to to get blank calendars in the past. Now I can simply run your script. Thank you!
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, 2004 - ★★
Sunday, September 17, 2023
Some nice moments but this film felt like it ran for 4 hours.
Saturday, September 16, 2023 →
Love this end frame quote from Young Sheldon. If this doesn’t describe Trump I’m not sure what does.
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, 2023 - ★★★★
Saturday, September 2, 2023
Just love the animation style. So impressive.
“Frugality, quite simply, is about choosing the things you love enough to spend extravagantly on—and then cutting costs mercilessly on the things you don’t love.”
— Ramit Sethi
The Value of Rest
Thursday, August 3, 2023
This article was originally written for the September 2022 edition of Hemispheric News, delivered as part of the Hemispheric Views podcast member bonus program, One Prime Plus. Beck Tench is a person whom I follow online. Beck has produced a range of content pertinent to her areas of interest as an academic. One of the topics Beck has written about includes the power of rest and what makes a restorative environment.
Week One Done & Finished With a Flourish
Friday, July 7, 2023
Today I completed my first week at my new job. It’s been a whirlwind, but every day has been better than the previous one. It’s been so many years since I started a new job that I wasn’t match fit in the process. I’d forgotten how to ‘start over’, so that in itself has been an experience. Learning what is expected of me, and figuring out how to implement that without getting lost in the minutiae becomes the next challenge.
That feeling when you’re enjoying the job of being a basketball commentator. 🏀
Creating rice outline islands with my boys.
