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Thursday, 16 October 2025

One Battle After Another movie review

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  I saw the trailer, the posters, and the wildly positive reviews from nearly all the most known movie critics. Long and short of it, I want...
Friday, 3 October 2025

Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food book review

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  I invited a group of ten friends to have a big Chinese Sichuan Sunday lunch for my birthday this past summer, as a result one of my friend...
Thursday, 24 April 2025

Dennis Morris Music+Life

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  Absolutely fantastic expo of Dennis Morris photos in Paris at MEP - Maison Européenne de la Photographie - allez-y si vous êtes à Paris (...
Wednesday, 23 April 2025

New board gaming period with Scythe

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  I spend time reflecting to wrap things up at the end of every year, and then create things for the new year, like a context, motto, themes...
Friday, 4 April 2025

2025 ski season wrap!

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 It's a wrap for the 2025 ski season! Ups and downs ski wise - and yes, it is a pun. Last year ended a little slow work wise, and this y...
Tuesday, 1 April 2025

The Codex Alera Epic Fantasy series book notes

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I just finished reading the 6 books of the Codex Alera fantasy fiction series by Jim Butcher, the last three were a bit of a blur as I read...
Wednesday, 12 June 2024

Tinkering to best understand tech, then perhaps criticize it

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The Paris chapter of Creative Mornings had been dormant since the pandemic (as far as I know), so I was happily surprised when I found out i...
Friday, 7 June 2024

Perceiving different shades and textures of colours

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  "Ancient cultures have more developed and nuanced sensitivities to colour than contemporary societies. In all areas, there is not ju...
Friday, 1 March 2024

Debt: The First 5,000 Years, by David Graeber [book review]

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I don’t rave about non-fiction books as ‘absolutely riveting’ to my friends and family all that often, though I’ll admit it’s kind of more l...
Wednesday, 9 August 2023

A year of magic and insights at Disneyland Paris

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  I've been rekindling with an interest in theme parks and roller coasters in the past year, which started as I went to Disneyland Pari...