Aotearoa Daily Kōrero 12/12/2023
Aotearoa Daily Kōrero 12/12/2023
Welcome to today’s daily kōrero!
Anyone can make the thread, first in first served. If you are here on a day and there’s no daily thread, feel free to create it!
Anyway, it’s just a chance to talk about your day, what you have planned, what you have done, etc.
So, how’s it going?
Indulging myself in a coffee and a toastie for brekkie after a long time! (my usual go-to is a smoothie). I don't really need the coffee, but I feel like today is going to be one of those days.
In other news, yesterday I managed to call out the lies of Microsoft (and another big vendor) - basically they said something like you can't/can do this, and I proved them wrong (I set up an entire test infrastructure in the cloud just to get to the bottom of it), so feeling chuffed I finally did something cool at my new job. :)
Oh it's always satisfying proving someone wrong! Not so fun being the one proved wrong though 😆
Thought for the day
Do you maintain a reading list?
I have a whole bunch of book on my to-read list. I add and subtract as I hear about things; and I make a notes about what I am reading, unless I'm reading fiction.
Not really. I still use goodreads to track what I've read (I know I know Amazon bad, I'm lazy to change)
Since I'm a dirty pirate I just grab the ebook when I see something that I might be interested in and throw it into Calibre for me to look through when I'm deciding on my next book to read. Ebooks take up so little space I have no issue hoarding them even if I don't end up reading them.
I also know how to sail. Calibre is wonderful software.
Yes, but the problem is I have way too many lists that just keep growing and growing, and I wonder if I'll ever get to complete them.
Like some of these from the top of my head:
- Movies to watch
- TV shows to watch
- Documentaries to watch
- Bands to check out
- Foreign songs to learn (don't ask)
- Food / recipes to try
... and so on.
I use bookworm.nz to track the books I've read, am currently reading, and want to read. I also have a spread sheet with the same data (though it goes back further, because that's how I started).
I'm not big on note taking, but when I do I normally create a page in my personal wiki.
Some things I've been doing recently - watching season 1 of Star Trek Picard, playing Ryse: Son of Rome, and reading The Explosive Child (who's name the author's dislike, as it mentioned in the re-released 2021 version I'm reading, as it's about a parenting aproach not exclusive to "explosive" children).
How are you finding Picard? I'm a fan of the OG show, but in my time-poor world am always hesitant to pick up a new show! I blame Lost and GoT for that! Once bitten and all that...
I'm not sure what I was expecting, but it probably wasn't this. It's a story that goes across the season (or longer?) rather than the individual episodes like TNG was.
One surprise was that I assumed it was a series about Picard in his youth played by another actor, like these sorts of things often are. When it turned out to star Sir Patrick Stewart that was a pleasant surprise (I read nothing going into it). The other surprise is how old he is. He's a frail old man (I guess the dude is in his 80s now).
He also does things that aren't characteristic of Jean-Luc Picard, though this is explained in the show.
I think after the initial surprises I'm starting to accept it as it's own thing, and so am enjoying it more. I'm only about half way through the first season, but I think I'll probably keep watching the next seasons. It sounds like it was written with 3 seasons in mind (which have all been released) and won't be getting a 4th season so you'll know what you're in for if you start. There are only 30 episodes of about 45 mins each.