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

You can’t sleep, there are monsters nearby.

After about 9 years, my Sony MDR-ZX770BN broke, of course, not because they were bad, but because I was a moron and pulled them the wrong way. I’m actually sad about this, because they were solid headphones, with great range and still a great battery life, even after all this time, giving me more than 15 hours of playback with ANC on a single charge. So I had to get some replacements as soon as possible.