Things I Have Enjoyed & Learnt 017
S02E02. Hello to my wife, who has finally subscribed to my newsletter, one year on.
Things I Have Enjoyed
This story on the British Library cyber incident by Ciaran Martin, who used to run the UK's National Cyber Security Centre.
Alstroemeria. They live for ages and they're cheap. My favourite flowers.
Twenty great performances snubbed by the Oscars.
"Come tell your father what you said to Lil Wayne."
The way this guy's attitude does a complete 180° when he realises what he's being asked. So cute.
The Blank Check podcast's series on the work of David Fincher. Fincher is my favourite director and I took a lot away from each podcast. (They are meticulously researched, after all.)
The numbers 0-99 sorted alphabetically in Engish, French, German and Spanish. Can you guess which one is going to be the outlier?
Allison Janney in The Creator. I also "liked" the suicide bomber robots: "It's been a pleasure to serve, ma'am." and loved the cutesy all-lowercase "us army" logo on the tank.
McMansion Heaven. "the renaissance (jumpscare)"
This guy's parents' neighbour's LEGO scale model of the Lake District.
Things I Have Learnt
the gentle setting on the vacuum sealer doesn't work on croissants
You can beat the Oslo metro by hiring a toboggan.
Steven Soderbergh loves Below Deck.
"Pettifogging" is paying too much attention to tiny details.
Macaronesia is a collection of four volcanic archipelagos: the Azores, Madeira, the Canary Islands, and Cape Verde.
To prevent the colour calibration targets on the Perseverance rover being covered by iron-rich Martian dust they have ring-shaped magnets underneath which pull the dust away from the centre of the targets.
The End
Off to Cologne soon, if anyone has any recommendations.
Alby