123 - Guardian Angel 👼
Hey there, !
Still no sight of the Zodiac book :( May have to give it a miss this year, or I’ll find an alternative source!
Anyway, a sillier post today - one of those ‘hey is this normal?’ callouts I need to do so that I feel less, uh…alone in this meaningless void of the universe.
Cool.
I have this feeling sometimes that a future version of me is watching over me.
There’s a lot of of times where I get a funny feeling that I’ve just missed something, or I’m unexpectedly in a place that seems dangerous, or I might have had a near-miss, and I just kinda look around to file it away in my head.
Usually, nothing happens, and I keep living my life. But there’s always a niggling feeling that something should have just happened that didn’t.
What I think happens is that Future Vince has built or has access to a time machine (good job Future Vince), and has remembered every single time that I thought something was a little off (which, okay - I have the worst chronological memory in the world), and goes back into the past to deal with the threat of whatever it was (or at least see if there was something suss happening).
If this means the threat doesn’t actually eventuate that’s okay because it doesn’t violate any time travel laws - it’s just checking up on a feeling that I had, and thus I wouldn’t have remembered something happening to prevent my future self from coming back to save me from it and creating a paradox.
If something did actually happen to me, then I’m safe in the knowledge that my Future self didn’t think it was serious enough to come and help / deal with the threat because he’s saving me from all the other stuff that was even worse.
Also, I’m sure he’s smart enough to plan some Butterfly Effect thing where he accidentally drops water on someone which causes them to delay their drive by 5 seconds which means they don’t crash into my car in an hours time.
I am thatmuch of an optimist in myself that I reckon I’ll develop a as-yet-unforeseen level of planning, which will also lead me to building that time machine.
Also, he can’t show himself to me because that would break the space-time continuum so it’s okay that he can’t give me advice about what’s going to happen in the future. Which, okay fine - maybe that’s part of it as well; I have to go through the experiences to become the person who gets access to a time machine and goes back to the past to look after myself etc. but…
…I just wish he’d tell me when COVID ends D:
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✔️Real Life Recommendations
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Les Traducteurs - if you liked the whodunnit nature of Knives Out, you’ll love this one. It’s a thriller / whodunnit where 9 translators are locked in a bunker to translate this bestseller into a number of languages, when suddenly the first 10 pages of the text get leaked to the world - gasp who did it?! It’s mainly in French (with subtitles), but there are some great scenes where they use the fact that they all know a few different languages to communicate without someone else knowing. Also, there are a number of actors in this that I was like ‘oh I’ve seen you somewhere before’ - like the kid from ‘Shut Up and Dance’ in Black Mirror, or Antonio D’Antonio from John Wick 2, or the Merovingian from the Matrix Reloaded…and Olga Kurylenko. It’s a great flick - a bit meandering in the middle but it lands really well at the end. Highly recommended!
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Nobody - the Bill Odenkirk ripoff of John Wick, where he’s trying to live a normal family life but gets robbed and then goes to piss off the Russian mob who messed with him. It’s definitely not as good as John Wick, but still really entertaining. I had low expectations and they were exceeded, so good job. The action choreography is quite good, but it misses a bit in setting up the reveals well. Still, recommended!
🚌 Adventures on the Information Super-Highway
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I Spent Hundreds of Hours Working in VR. Here’s What I Learned - it’s not all it’s cracked up to be. I think the main takeaway is essentially the same as social networks - if no-one else is there, you’re just kinda sitting by yourself doing jackshit.
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Using a mild Twitter addiction to actually get things done - a user learns how to use phone automations (iOs shortcuts) to improve their life. This type of control over your phone life is something I think is sorely missing from our public discourse - don’t let someone design your life away, take back control of it for yourself!
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How the Birth of the Influencerled to the Death of Hobbies - mostly agree with this sentiment (that it’s much harder to just…do something because you want to do it - someone will see it and say ‘oh you should sell that!’ or ‘oh how many views did you get’), but again, it’s about your own agency and what you choose to respond to in your life.