2025 media diet

movies godzilla minus one - highly recommended. great monster movie with solid effects and an even better story. alien: romulus - solid effects, really did a pretty solid job of keeping things in the weyland-yutani universe. i was entertained throughout. a quiet place: day one - solidly entertaining. blink twice - actually, better than i was expecting. i’m surprised that the broligarchy hasn’t been protesting this one. the fall guy - i loved this way more than i should have....

January 1, 2025 · steve ulrich

2025 books

goal target: 30 - read: 12 (so far) if i were a better man, i’d do something focused and high minded. like targeting research in a specific vein of study. i am not that man. books note: this is a running list. (in reverse chronological order) how should a person be? (sheila heti) i added this to my queue based on reading the work of art last year. i was left with the impression that this sparked a fair amount of debate and/or there was a fair amount of discussion around the format (somewhere between memoir and fiction) and the depiction of women-women friendships....

January 1, 2025 · sulrich

18-Feb, 2025 - morning links, etc.

links, etc Home | Kindle Modding Wiki i’m weirdly intrigued by this. Ruby on Rails on WebAssembly, the full-stack in-browser journey | web.dev more in WASM world. didn’t see this coming.

February 18, 2025 · steve ulrich

reading decline

links, etc Want to read more books in 2025? This simple trick can help. i’m not sure that advocating that people treat reading like exercise is the way to motivate americans. but i totally agree with the notion that reading immersive long form content is important.

January 7, 2025 · steve ulrich

2024 media diet

movies dumb money (2023) - watched this on the plane. if you remember this time, it was bonkers and kind of beautiful at the same time. (4/5) the gentlemen (2019) - watched this in the plane too. guy ritchie has a style. fun, solid cast, a couple of novel twists. (3.5/5) please don’t destroy: the treasure of foggy mountain (2023) - i watched this on peacock. i fell asleep through a chunk of it....

December 31, 2024 · steve ulrich