📺 Now I’ve seen the season finale of Rings of Power, I’m really looking forward to rewatching the whole thing to pick up on all the hints I missed first time around as to who was who and what was what.

Thoroughly enjoyed season 1. Don’t want to wait for season 2.

With the sun shining for the first time in a while, I walked my daughter to and from school the past couple of days.

And now my hip is aching.

I do not like this “getting older” thing at all.

Day in the life: Mt Annan, NSW Australia. Still can’t believe all this space is less than 5 minutes from home.

📺 That last episode of She-Hulk was weird. Was laughing all the way through it, but not sure how I feel about it all.

Thanks to a combo of public holidays, annual leave and illness, I haven’t worked a full week in a while. Which is probably why this week is taking forever to end…

I for one can’t wait to see the upcoming blockbuster from Marvel Studios, “Lad”.

(Always love when image cropping does things like this)

Finished reading: A Darkness at Sethanon (The Riftwar Saga, Book 3) by Raymond E. Feist 📚

This captures a good chunk of my feelings on the Metaverse:

It’s funny because VR is such a powerful technology, as anyone who has used it even once can attest. But Meta, its biggest proponent, doesn’t seem to know what to do with it beyond “what you already do, but worse.”

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The thing I can’t understand about the Metaverse is why.

Why would anyone want to subject themselves to this horror? If this is the best idea anyone has for convincing people to strap a big, ugly device to their head, then they are going to lose a lot of money.

Today my daughter brought home her prizes for school fundraising, which included an exceptionally cheap plastic “VR headset” - just a slightly better version of Google Cardboard. I stuck my phone in and she watched a 360-degree YouTube video of a roller coaster. According to her, it was the best thing ever. I tried to look through it and couldn’t make the image clear. But I don’t know if it’s because the headset is so cheaply made or because my eyesight has deteriorated so much. Continue reading →

Finished reading: Silverthorn by Raymond E. Feist 📚

The Ark Nova zoo is a little slow going, but I’m still out in front at the moment 🎲

Just watched the latest She-Hulk, and gotta say Daredevil was fantastic. The banter, the action… it was all spot on. 📺

Our expert judges have rated over 100 entries across 21 categories to determine the finalists for this year’s Innovation Awards. The post From simplified tax software to environmentally-friendly retail packaging, these are the Finder Innovation Award finalists for 2022 appeared first on finder.com.au. Continue reading →

Awesome trip out to Western Plains Zoo in Dubbo.

I don’t think Google can launch a new successful product anymore. Surely the weight of its failures is more than its successes?

Google is shutting down Google Stadia and refunding everyone’s money www.techradar.com/news/brea…

Managed to go out to dinner with the wife (and without the kids) for the first time since March last year. It was wonderful. I’ve missed those quiet meals.

How am I feeling right now? I’ve written a fair amount today. Nothing revolutionary – nothing that will change the world. But I managed to type out a bunch of words in sentences that made sense. Funnily enough, this feels like progress. Which is good. Because my motivational challenges at work are compounding. I’m hoping that I can offset some workplace lethargy with creative work at home. This blog is part of that, obviously, but I’m playing around with a few other ideas. Continue reading →

Today I had 1 meeting at work. It was designed to give me clear goals about what my role is supposed to be. Instead, I got goals to come up with what those goals should be. What annoyed me today? I am not enjoying work at the moment. Hell, I’m not enjoying much of anything at the moment. The problem with that is that it’s not really an “at the moment” problem. Continue reading →

Kids are finally at an age they can clean up after dinner. They don’t do a good job, but at least they do it.