Brian Behrend’s microblog
In Real Life
by Cory Doctorow & Jen Wang
Good art and message but definitely aimed at a younger audience. The in game stuff and parts about labor movements and about not making assumptions about people in other situations/cultures was solid despite its shallowness but the IRL parts of Anda’s life were the weakest.
Rating: 3 stars
The Atlantic published a list of The Great American Novels from the last 100 years and I’m eager to see if I can try to make my way through it. I have read very few of these and barely heard of even the ones from the last five years so will be nice challenge and education.
Still Life With Crows
by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child
So do the plot of these ever stop hinging on the world’s most moronic cops doing moronic things for moronic reasons to try to thwart Pendergast because they’re morons?
Rating: 3 stars
Played through SNES Aladdin for first time today on my Anbernic. Started it many times but not sure I’d ever gotten past Stage 1 before.
How did anyone ever beat this before save states? Thank goodness for GarlicOS’s ability to save/load states without even pausing.
Great looking game, just ok everything else. Still fun to get all the way through finally.
A group of women next to me at Dune 2 snuck in an entire pizza in a purse. Legends.
Finally the first Braves spring training game of the season that is available to stream on MLB.tv.
Spent an hour coaching my daughter’s U9 soccer team today (despite not playing or watching any soccer since I was about her age), and somehow my knees and every other joint in my body hurt now.
Twilight of the Æsir
by Dan Carlin, Hardcore History
I think it’s mostly on me, but I just don’t enjoy these like I used to in the old days. I used to devour them the second they come out and now they barely come out once per year and it takes me like 6 months to finally make time to listen to them.
Rating: 3.5 stars
What an obviously dumb and invasive and should be illegal if it isn’t already idea: Invenda M&M vending machines are capturing and sharing images and facial recognition data of people without user consent.
Yahoo lays off the leaders of Engadget to focus on SEO “content.” It hasn’t been the same in a long time but I’ve checked Engadget several times per day for close to 20 years and this news that they’ve fired a bunch of people to focus on SEO is super depressing. Guess it might be finally time to replace the bookmark with something else.