We all know the super high dopamine hit we get from buying things. But what happens after this purchase and the eventual crash? Of course, the regret of spending money you don’t have on things that you don’t actually need. So let’s make a quick recap of things I wanted to buy for myself, either as a self-gift for my birthday or for Christmas, or because it was discounted for Black Friday.

As you might already know, I’m posting photos from the concerts I go to and I also used to post videos on a separate page, which I’ve turned off, because the videos were crushing my hosting bill. Keep in mind, I don’t make any money off this blog — and I don’t want to! — but I want don’t want to break into my savings for what is, essentially, a hobby.

There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up. — Rex Stout

Simply the best of 2025

You have unpaid parking tickets. Time to die. — Parking Attendant

I am my scars! — Illidan Stormrage

Since I’ve been using my M2 Max MacBook Pro a lot in the last few weeks, making it my main machine, I decided to get a Thunderbolt 4 dock for it, as I hated having to unplug and re-plug 6 cables into it every time I moved it from and to the desk: USB-C to DisplayPort for Monitor 1, HDMI for Monitor 2 (both 3440x1440 @ 60Hz and 144Hz, respectively), Elgato StreamDeck, USB mouse (as its USB-C receiver is very wide and bluetooth is very shoddy, not to mention the 3 hour battery life this SteelSeries mouse gets if not unplugged), and MagSafe power.

My hometown, Câmpina, in 1975. Yep, 50 years ago. Photographs from the location scouting for the “Magic Circle”, the first fiction feature movie of the documentarist David Reu. Digitized by Cineclic

V.H. Belvadi is hosting this month’s IndieWeb carnival, and the theme is “Where do you see the IndieWeb in 2030?”. Thank you for hosting and I’m happy this time I could arrive in time! First of all, I want to mention that whenever V.H. Belvadi is hosting the Carnival, it seems to overlap with a crisis in my life. Back in January 2025, I missed his “On the importance of friction” challenge, because I was on a hospital bed, half an inch away from death.

I think it’s about 15 years since I’ve last seen something from the Battlestar Galactica universe, so I decided it’s the perfect time to start once again. The series itself is pretty decent in size (74 episodes) and also benefits of a TV spin-off (“Caprica”), a couple of TV movies (“Blood & Chrome”, “Razor”, “The Plan”) and some webisodes as well. The universe is absolutely fantastic, the music (mosly by Bear McCreary) is top notch, the acting and sets are very well made, making this one of the best science-fiction universes made after 2000.

About 4 years ago, I purchased from a thrift store a mini-pc from Gigabyte. It is a bit on the older side, as it’s released in 2014, but it’s still a very decent computer. I’ve used it every now and then with my projector, because it runs Youtube and shit fairly nice and it’s also a good hardware on which VLC to run on. In terms of software, I could have gone for any Linux distribution, but I didn’t want to fiddle too much with the thing, mostly because 64-bit Windows 7 Ultimate worked fine out of the box.

Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn. — Rhett Butler