Being able to go back to almost completely ignoring Halloween might be the only thing I’m looking forward to when the kids move out of the house in another decade or so.
Mickey 7 by Edward Ashton – ★★★½
I could have done without the handful of pretty average and vaguely sitcom/rom-com adjacent chapters when the multiple appears early in the last third, but I enjoyed the writing style and dialog of this quite a bit.
This ended up being pretty slight particularly with regards to the conflict/mystery of the planet itself and wrapped up the issue with the multiple quickly and unsatisfyingly, but the premise and execution (pun intended) of the expendable concept in general was really good so I’m interested in seeing where Ashton took this in the sequel. Especially considering because of the decisions Mickey makes at the very end of this.
(I’m also now excited for the Bong Joon-ho/Robert Pattinson movie version Mickey 17 coming out early next year I found out about while writing up this review.)
Rating: 3.5 stars
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Chrysalis (Jeremy Logan, #6) – ★★★½
Well after reading six of them I’m still not really sure what exactly a Jeremy Logan book is, but I’m not sure Lincoln Child knows either. They’re at least nice easy reads/listens.
I liked this book pretty well but its another Logan book where Logan doesn’t really do all that much. And does even less enigmatology (hey look that is actually a “real” word after all) related business. The final conclusion was flat out dumb/silly and the epilogue was not much better, but overall it was a mostly solid little tech thriller with not as much mystery or thrills as it should have had.
Despite my complaints, I still overall enjoyed the series and am looking forward to the Child/Preston books coming available via Libby. Hopefully those will be both better and more consistent.
Rating: 3.5 stars
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Elon Musk predicts X will replace banks
lol no
Slack logo still sucks
Four years later, old Slack logo is still way better than new/current Slack logo.
What’s the point of folding phones?
Until they get the thickness down a good bit more the tradeoffs don’t feel worth it, but having something that is usually phone sized that can expand to iPad size would be very useful imo.
The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap – ★★★★★
Wrapped up my Zelda: Minish Cap playthrough on the Anbernic RG35xx. What a fun, great looking game reminiscent of LTTP & so many unique items and gameplay features. Loved the Minish size transformation and puzzles.
Had some emulator hiccups during the final dungeon that caused me to have to switch from the RG35xx’s stock firmware to GarlicOS and then go Internet save file hunting, but after a few extra days delay beat the final boss just in time for Super Mario Wonder.
Rating: 5 stars
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Loki Season 1 rewatch
Gosh season 1 of Loki is just so fantastic. Rewatch done, now finally can start the new season with the kiddo.
I watched it through twice when it first came but glad I did it again because there was a surprising amount of spoilerly world building details I completely forgot about.
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny – ★★★
Maybe it was just the fact that I was watching on an airplane, but this movie managed to make me tear up about Mutt dying.
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Transformers: Age of Extinction – ★½
I miss Sam Witwicky.
All the human stuff is so bad in this movie, even in comparison to the first three Bay Transformers movies. The actual Transformer related content and action are pretty on par though, which means it is sometimes fun, sometimes dumb, and almost always less intelligible than it should be.
This may be the worst representation of small town Texas ever put on film. Why does Paris, Texas have a nearby beach with surfing, roving bands of half naked models, and mid 20s Irish guys hanging out around high schools?
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