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July 28, 2025

Things I Have Enjoyed & Learnt 025

It has been a while since the last one of these. I don't think I stopped enjoying and learning things, so apologies.

Things I Have Enjoyed

Ice cream vans. You can take your organic little-tiny-black-specks vanilla and shove it; Mister Softee is elite.

A (horrible) alternative phonetic alphabet.. I tried asking AI to design a new phonetic alphabet that would work better internationally and it did a terrible job.

Final Destination: Bloodlines. It was time for another one and this one was much better than the last two or three at least.

Die Mimik der Tethys.

A floating buoy suspended in space, its movements controlled by real-time data from an Atlantic counterpart. Satellite transmissions drive motors that recreate its motion, bringing the rhythm of the sea into the space.

I love the idea of journeying as close to a line of latitude of longitude as possible. This is really impressive.

It is as if you were on your phone

The insane trailer for Megan 2.0. I hope the third one is called Megan 3.11 or Megan NT.

A very impressive short film: Trains.

The Power of the Calibration Lager. I'm a big fan of Boak & Bailey's stuff.

Open source wooden furniture.

We do probably need to Legalise AC.

The soundtrack (but not the movie) by Flying Lotus for his movie ASH.

Things I Have Learnt

The incredible scale of solar in China.

The correct name for that thing you've seen sometimes in books? A témoin, or witness.

The End

Hopefully not so long until the next one.

Alby

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