That was weird

July 20, 2018

Yesterday I started watching Zoolander on Prime Tv, because people keep quoting that at me and I never saw it.

About 5 minutes into the movie, the President of the United States appears on screen.

I turned off the movie.

End of the review.

technology

On Mandatory Tutoring in the Office

A while ago, I was discussing with a good friend of mine, and we were talking about mandatory tutoring. You know? That situation when the company decides a group of people needs a certain skill, pays for a consultant to deliver the training, and then

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books and literature

Tracy Chevalier’s Remarkable Creatures

You might say that this is a historical novel about two pioneer women hunting for fossils on the famed beach of Lyme, one of them being paleontology legend Mary Anning and the other being the less famous fossil hunter and collector Elizabeth Philpot.You’d be wrong,

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books and literature

Cixin Liu’s Hold Up the Sky

This is a really splendid collection of stories, some shorter than other, and I wouldn’t have collected them this way: you have proper sci-fi stories and fairy tales, stories about science (with very little fiction), a story on coal mines and a war tale. But,

September 19, 2026 9:00 am