Die Hard 2, 1990 - ★★
Everything pales in comparison to _Die Hard_. It's like a freeze-dried version of a savory traditional recipe. 🍿
Die Hard, 1988 - ★★★★
We had planned to watch it during the Christmas season, but we missed all our opportunities and had to catch up. Yippee Ki-Yay! Following that, a video compiling all the references to Die Hard in Brooklyn Nine-Nine was a fun bonus.
Die Hard, 1988 - ★★★★
We had planned to watch it during the Christmas season, but we missed all our opportunities and had to catch up. Yippee Ki-Yay! Following that, a video compiling all the references to Die Hard in Brooklyn Nine-Nine was a fun bonus.
Here is my Year in Review from Letterboxd for 2024.
I love Letterboxd and have been using it since 2012. It has improved continuously over time. I also appreciate their commitment to web standards. Just look at the RSS feed icon on any user’s diary! 🍿 × 💻
Henry Rich on the R!sky Business podcast, about climate change:
I’m pivoting to more focus on this book on individual action and building climate identity as a consumer. […] I think a lot of the meaning of one’s life as you look back in it will be what individual parts they played in this massive success or catastrophic failure. […] The risk of looking back and not liking what I see is haunting for me. And I also think that there’s a lot of low grade anxiety that people feel about not the threat, but the paralysis. So trying to create tools and heuristics for people to actually tap into something to feel good about and not just feel low key sleepwalking toward armageddon.
I have a strong feeling that when I eventually move away from software engineering, I would love to open a sustainable bar or restaurant that fosters a strong sense of community. Bookmarking this for that time, and waiting for the book.
Also take a look at the restaurants Henry is running. They look gorgeous.
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Watching Magic Johnson receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Joe Biden brought me joy. Their interaction was a delightful display of playfulness, joy, and gratitude between two good people. We need more moments like this. 🏀 × 🏛️
The trick that made Mickey Mouse famous: a fascinating video by Phil Edwards explains how optical sound technology contributed to the success of the first Mickey Mouse cartoon by achieving perfect sound synchronization. 🍿 × 💻
oplets you manage 1Password from the command-line. (…) Its killer features is theop runsubcommand, which can dynamically inject secrets from your 1Password vault into your application’s environment. Instead of storing sensitive values directly in your.envfile, you reference them using specialop://URLs.
Smart. Replacing secrets by references also means that backups are easier. I also wonder if we could define a URL scheme for keychain items URL instead of op to fetch secrets. 💻
I just realized that The Ringer has removed their RSS feed with the latest redesign. What a shame. I guess this is goodbye until this is fixed then. 🍿 × 💻
Je viens de poster le numéro 321 de Statium, ma newsletter de foot. Si vous voulez suivre le foot pour le jeu, sans le bruit autour, abonnez-vous. Vous aurez les dates des matchs significatifs à venir, les scores, les résumés. Garanti sans journaliste de RMC Sport. ⚽️
This fun little game helps you choose your favorite monospace font from 30 candidates. My winner was Hack. I have been using it since 2015 and will continue to do so. 💻
The Super Mario Bros. Movie, 2023 - ★★★
My kids have watched this movie about five times this month, so I feel the need to log it again here. This is solid entertainment for kids, and some lines always get to me, with Luigi’s "You’d be surprised" ranking first. 🍿
The Super Mario Bros. Movie, 2023 - ★★★
My kids have watched this movie about five times this month, so I feel the need to log it again here. This is solid entertainment for kids, and some lines always get to me, with Luigi’s "You’d be surprised" ranking first. 🍿
Spirited, 2022 - ★★★★★
Spirited is a great movie. It’s funny, has layers of complexity, and its purpose is very ambitious. I don’t understand why it isn’t more popular. Perhaps it’s too long or requires too much attention. Maybe musicals are deterring potential viewers. Nonetheless, this film is an amazing instant classic for Christmas, and this year’s rewatch confirmed that once again. 🍿
Spirited, 2022 - ★★★★★
_Spirited_ is a great movie. It's funny, has layers of complexity, and its purpose is very ambitious. I don't understand why it isn't more popular. Perhaps it's too long or requires too much attention. Maybe musicals are deterring potential viewers. Nonetheless, this film is an amazing instant classic for Christmas, and this year's rewatch confirmed that once again. 🍿
My 7yo son starts beating me at Mario Kart on a regular basis. I am not loving it as much as I should. 🕹️
The Fall Guy, 2024 - ★★★
The screenplay is quite thin, but the real enjoyment comes from watching Ryan Gosling’s humor. He excels as a comedian. However, if you’re looking for more of his comedic brilliance, consider watching The Nice Guys (one of my all-time favorite movies) or his Papyrus (1 & 2) sketches from SNL. Ryan Gosling and Will Ferrell teamed up for the Knife Guys on Kimmel, but I hope Gosling can one day become the new Mark Wahlberg or Ryan Reynolds in a future Will Ferrell movie. Fingers crossed. 🍿
The Fall Guy, 2024 - ★★★
The screenplay is quite thin, but the real enjoyment comes from watching Ryan Gosling's humor. He excels as a comedian. However, if you're looking for more of his comedic brilliance, consider watching *The Nice Guys* (one of my all-time favorite movies) or his *Papyrus* (1 & 2) sketches from SNL. Ryan Gosling and Will Ferrell teamed up for the *Knife Guys* on Kimmel, but I hope Gosling can one day become the new Mark Wahlberg or Ryan Reynolds in a future Will Ferrell movie. Fingers crossed. 🍿
Apprendre à ranger une sale vide
Alors évidemment, le “consulting”, c’est comme tout, ça dépend comment c’est fait. Mais comment ne pas sourire et se rappeler des souvenirs de début de carrière quand on entend :
De temps en temps, il y avait des consultants qui venaient et qui expliquaient pourquoi il fallait virer untel, faire des économies là. Un mec qui était à son poste depuis 25 ans, ils lui disaient “non, c’est pas comme ça qu’il faut travailler monsieur”. C’était quand même à la fois violent et universel comme phénomène, ils étaient partout. Et puis après j’ai travaillé dans des organismes publics, ils étaient toujours là. Et ils faisaient la même chose, il faut faire des économies, il faut faire des gains d’efficacité, la performance. Et puis alors ce langage, ce langage avec plein d’anglicismes et puis ce langage expert qui exerce un pouvoir. Et comme des millions de français, je l’ai subi. Et ça s’exerce comme une science, comme les économistes un peu, ils pensent que c’est une science. Et donc c’est un discours qui est sans réplique quand on y est, sauf qu’après on peut écrire des livres. Et là on peut se venger. Alors vous dites avec un certain amusement, mais aussi avec pas mal d’ironie et la volonté de ridiculiser ces pouvoirs faussement savants. La littérature, voilà, elle a toujours à faire avec la bêtise de son temps. Le consulting, il y en a de mille manières. Donc il y a des choses plus ou moins vertueuses, des choses plus ou moins bidons. Alors j’en ai quand même rencontré des consultants. J’ai lu des livres, des consultants repentis, certains qui travaillaient encore, etc. Et il y a des phrases… “Être consultant, c’est prendre sa montre à quelqu’un pour lui donner l’heure et partir avec la montre”. Voilà. Enfin voilà, il faut raconter tout ça quand même. C’est apprendre à ranger une sale vide aussi ? Ah oui, alors ça oui, un consultant qui m’a dit ça, bah oui c’était apprendre à ranger une sale vide.
— Nicolas Mathieu, lors d’une interview dans la librairie Dialogues, à Brest
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My friend Who Are You Lutra Lutra ?? just released a new single, Dreaming Again. Go listen to it. 🎵