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Finished reading: Code by Charles Petzold 📚

Finished reading: Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza by Peter Beinart 📚

Finished reading: Who Ate the First Oyster? by Cody Cassidy 📚

Finished reading: Brave New Words by Salman Khan 📚

Past Lives, 2023 - ★★★★: Watched on Thursday September 26, 2024.

Finished reading: The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler 📚

Finished reading: Eloquent JavaScript, 4th Edition by Marijn Haverbeke 📚

Finished reading: Mastering Emacs by Mickey Petersen 📚

Ghostlight, 2024 - ★★★★: Watched on Saturday August 24, 2024.

Blade Runner, 1982 - ★★★½: Watched on Saturday August 17, 2024.

Fancy Dance, 2023: Watched on Saturday August 3, 2024.

Finished reading: Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro 📚

Finished reading: Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe 📚

Finished reading: Dune by Frank Herbert 📚

Anatomy of a Fall, 2023 - ★★★½: Watched on Saturday March 23, 2024.

Finished reading: The Gospel of J. Edgar Hoover by Lerone A. Martin 📚

Finished reading: Why Fish Don’t Exist by Lulu Miller 📚

Finished reading: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin 📚

Finished reading: The Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery 📚

Killers of the Flower Moon, 2023 - ★★★: Watched on Sunday January 21, 2024.

Finished reading: A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson 📚

Finished reading: Determined by Robert M. Sapolsky 📚

Finished reading: Rework by Jason Fried 📚

2023 Year in Books

Finished reading: Fire and Brimstone by Michael Punke 📚

The Boy and the Heron, 2023 - ★★★★: Watched on Sunday December 10, 2023.

GoodFellas, 1990: Watched on Saturday November 18, 2023.

Finished reading: Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman 📚

Finished reading: Outlive by Peter Attia, MD 📚

Finished reading: Seven Simple Steps to Personal Freedom by Gerry Spence 📚

The Green Knight, 2021 - ★★★: Watched on Friday September 29, 2023.

Barbie, 2023 - ★★★½: Watched on Sunday October 8, 2023.

Finished reading: Finding the Mother Tree by Suzanne Simard 📚

Finished reading: American Prometheus by Kai Bird 📚

Finished reading: Saving Us by Katharine Hayhoe 📚

Hobbit Dreaming: 

Heceta: 

Ebb: 

Finished reading: Bewilderment: A Novel by Richard Powers 📚

Sweet Creek: 

Thor’s Well: 📷

Multnomah: 

Finished reading: The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro 📚

Oppenheimer, 2023 - ★★★★: Watched on Friday August 4, 2023.

Finished reading: Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks 📚

Finished reading: A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson 📚

More summers like this. 📷

Finished reading: The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee by David Treuer 📚

Finished reading: Montana: An Uncommon Land by K. Ross Toole 📚

Jojo Rabbit, 2019 - ★★★½: Watched on Monday July 3, 2023.

A Few Good Men, 1992 - ★★★★: Watched on Sunday June 25, 2023.

The Fabelmans, 2022 - ★★★: Watched on Friday June 23, 2023.

Finished reading: The Fellowship Of The Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien 📚

Something to Sing About

Finished reading: Glacial Lake Missoula by David D. Alt 📚

Finished reading: Woke Racism by John McWhorter 📚

Finished reading: Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell 📚

The Big Lebowski, 1998 - ★★★★: Every time I watch it I learn a little bit more about the world and myself.

Finished reading: Waking Up by Sam Harris 📚

Loons: A Cry from the Mist, 2023 - ★★★: Watched on Saturday May 6, 2023.

Avatar: The Way of Water, 2022 - ★★★: Watched on Friday May 5, 2023.

Finished reading: The Birth Partner by Penny Simkin 📚

Finished reading: The Constitution of Knowledge by Jonathan Rauch 📚

Finished reading: Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer 📚

Finished reading: What’s Our Problem? by Tim Urban 📚

Finished reading: Diaspora by Greg Egan 📚

Finished reading: The Mythical Man-Month by Frederick P. Brooks Jr. 📚

Finished reading: Deep Learning with Python by Francois Chollet 📚

Crissal Thrasher

All Quiet on the Western Front, 2022 - ★★½: Watched on Saturday January 28, 2023.

Good Luck to You, Leo Grande, 2022 - ★★★½: Watched on Friday January 27, 2023.

The Hunt for Red October, 1990 - ★★½: Watched on Wednesday January 25, 2023.

2023 Oscars — All Nominated Films: Everything Everywhere All at Once All Quiet on the Western Front The Banshees of Inisherin Elvis The Fabelmans TÁR Top Gun: Maverick Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Avatar: The Way of Water Babylon ...plus 44 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Edge of Tomorrow, 2014 - ★★★★: Watched on Monday January 23, 2023.

Finished reading: Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel 📚

The Standoff: Inspiration: This photograph is brought to you by a sentient artist. There was no “prompt engineering” here. Only a photographer (that’s me!), a menacing bison, and a long telephoto lens (to maintain a safe distance between us). Perhaps there was a “prompt”, as in, inspiration for …

Waiting For The Snow To Pass: 

The Standoff: 

Tres Amigos: 

Morning Snack: 

Buffalo Pose: 

Finished reading: Ishmael by Daniel Quinn 📚

Finished reading: What We Owe the Future by William MacAskill 📚

Triangle of Sadness, 2022 - ★★★★: Watched on Friday January 13, 2023.

The Banshees of Inisherin, 2022 - ★★★★: Watched on Saturday January 7, 2023.

EO, 2022 - ★★★½: Watched on Friday January 6, 2023.

Finished reading: Islam and the Future of Tolerance by Sam Harris 📚

Finished reading: An American Sickness by Elisabeth Rosenthal 📚

Flathead Lake, New Years Eve 2022

Flathead

Coming in Hot

Try

My Neighbor Totoro, 1988 - ★★★★½: Watched on Saturday December 3, 2022.

Decision to Leave, 2022 - ★★★★: Watched on Saturday December 17, 2022.

Barred Owl

Northern Pygmy-Owl

Year in books for 2022: Here are the books I finished reading in 2022.

Finished reading: Free Will by Sam Harris 📚

Finished reading: Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport 📚

That Way: 

Take Wing: 

Sentry: 

On the Move at First Light: 

Hogwalla: 

Caddo: 

Beams: 

Bald Cypress Backlit: 

Finished reading: The River You Touch by Chris Dombrowski 📚

Finished reading: The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason by Sam Harris 📚

Larch Dusting: 

The Northman, 2022 - ★★: Watched on Friday October 28, 2022.

Finished reading: Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now by Jaron Lanier 📚

Finished reading: The Meaning of Human Existence by Edward O. Wilson 📚

Finished reading: Humans Need Not Apply by Jerry Kaplan 📚

Drive My Car, 2021 - ★★★★★: Watched on Tuesday October 4, 2022.

The Duke, 2020 - ★★★: Watched on Friday September 23, 2022.

Everything Everywhere All at Once, 2022 - ★★★★: Bizarre and delightful.

God's Country, 2022 - ★★★½: Watched on Wednesday September 21, 2022.

Still: 

Grand: 

Oxbow: 

Finished reading: Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom 📚

Finished reading: The Founding Myth by Andrew L. Seidel 📚

Moraine Lake Unveiling: 

Finished reading: The Once and Future Liberal by Mark Lilla 📚

Undulation: 

Palouse 2: 

Palouse 1: 

Finished reading: The Swerve by Stephen Greenblatt 📚

Two Dollars Fine

Patches

The Batman, 2022 - ★★★: It's raining again in Gotham City

Strix varia

Yellow-rumped Warbler

Evening Grosbeak

Fencepost Duet

Finished reading: Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman 📚

Finished reading: Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History by Stephen Jay Gould 📚

Finished reading: Atomic Habits by James Clear 📚

goto sun;

Erode

Erode: 

Finished reading: Why Fish Don’t Exist by Lulu Miller 📚

Amber

Oblique

Outta my way

Finished reading: On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder 📚

Finished reading: Rationality by Steven Pinker 📚

Luminosity: 

Terrain

Sawtooth

Smoky

Halcyon

Halcyon: 

Finished reading: Apollo’s Arrow by Nicholas A. Christakis 📚

Blow, blow, thou winter wind

Finished reading: Designing Data-intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, And Maintainable Systems by Martin (author.) Kleppmann 📚

Dune, 2021 - ★★★½: Watched on Friday October 29, 2021.

Dusk Larch

Finished reading: The Pragmatic Programmer: Your Journey To Mastery, 20th Anniversary Edition (2nd Edition) by David Thomas 📚

Finished reading: 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari 📚

Larch In Transition

Bitterroot

Bitterroot: 

Celebrating Steve: I was working at Apple in 2011 before Steve Jobs passed. I visited Caffe Mac while on a trip to Cupertino and remember nearly bumping into Steve and Jony while they were sitting at lunch. (The place was crowded!) They didn’t acknowledge me so it wasn’t quite a “near miss” but I could tell they were …

Autumn Sunrise

Autumn Sunrise: 

🌵🦜

Eventide

Finished reading: Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir 📚

Eventide: 

River stroll

CODA, 2021 - ★★★★½: Watched on Saturday August 14, 2021.

Finished reading: The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge by Peter L. Berger 📚

Finished reading: Leave Only Footprints: My Acadia-to-Zion Journey Through Every National Park by Conor Knighton 📚

Layered: 

Fathom, 2021 - ★★★: Watched on Friday June 25, 2021.

Finished reading: The Rise of Wolf 8: Witnessing the Triumph of Yellowstone’s Underdog (The Alpha Wolves of Yellowstone, 1) by Rick McIntyre 📚

Finished reading: Deep Work Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport 📚

Finished reading: The Distracted Mind: Ancient Brains in a High-Tech World by Adam Gazzaley 📚 This was a great read. Covers the full gamut of neurological limits to human cognition and how technology has aggravated our ability to manage tasks effectively. The authors end the book with some wonderful …

Finished reading: The Ethical Algorithm: The Science of Socially Aware Algorithm Design by Michael Kearns 📚

Au revoir 📷: One last walk up our favorite hill in the city. Hailey and I start a new adventure tomorrow. We’ve loved our time in Bernal Heights and will always hold dear this city, it’s people, and the friends and memories we made here. It isn’t a goodbye—just a see you next time.

I’m excited to see the new beta bookshelf feature for Micro.blog!

Finished reading: Free Will by Sam Harris 📚

Finished reading: Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline 📚

Finished reading: Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy by Cathy O’Neil 📚

Godzilla vs. Kong, 2021 - ★½: Watched on Friday April 9, 2021.

One Night in Miami..., 2020 - ★★★★: Watched on Friday April 16, 2021.

Wind 📷

Soul, 2020 - ★★★★: Watched on Saturday March 27, 2021.

Minari, 2020 - ★★★½: Watched on Friday March 19, 2021.

Zack Snyder's Justice League, 2021 - ★★½: Watched on Sunday March 21, 2021.

Currently reading: Machine, Platform, Crowd 📚

Nomadland, 2020 - ★★★★: Watched on Saturday February 27, 2021.

Let Them All Talk, 2020 - ★★½: Watched on Friday January 29, 2021.

First Cow, 2019 - ★★★½: Watched on Saturday January 30, 2021.

Wolfwalkers, 2020 - ★★★★: Watched on Friday January 15, 2021.

Blade Runner 2049, 2017 - ★★★: Watched on Saturday January 9, 2021.

Currently reading: A Promised Land by Barack Obama 📚

Wonder Woman 1984, 2020 - ★½: Watched on Friday December 25, 2020.

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, 2020 - ★★★: Watched on Friday December 25, 2020.

Not a creature was stirring

Klaus, 2019 - ★★★½: Watched on Thursday December 24, 2020.

The Social Dilemma, 2020 - ★★★½: Watched on Monday November 16, 2020.

The Last Tree, 2019 - ★★★: Watched on Wednesday December 23, 2020.

Drops 📷

Christmas: Anthropological Observations

Grove XXIII Clubhouse Instead of wide fairways leading up to the green, they tighten significantly past Jordan’s maximum range, giving him a huge advantage over the long-bombing tour pros he regularly plays with. Best version of “house rules” yet.

Is it pronounced gnu or gnu? 🖥

Basalt Reflection: 

What You Really See

Western Lake 📷

I thoroughly enjoyed this interview: The Price of Distraction on the Making Sense podcast. Yet another book to add to my already-too-deep reading list.

The Rise and Fall of Getting Things Done

Squall 📷

Dew 📷

Aquarelle 📷

Arroz de costa 📷

Great blue heron 📷

Upgraded to Big Sur–so far so good. 🖥

Finished reading: The Age Of Surveillance Capitalism 📚

Saint Frances, 2019 - ★★★★: Watched on Saturday October 24, 2020.

I uninstalled my social media apps the past 3 weeks and have not missed them! Expect more posts and photos here in the future!

Westslope cutthroat trout 🎣📷

Stacks

Finished reading: Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil DeGrasse Tyson 📚

Tempest

Endures

Out West 📷

First Light 📷

Currently reading: The Age of Surveillance Capitalism 📚

Spirited Away, 2001 - ★★★★: Watched on Saturday June 6, 2020.

if we want to bring about real change, then the choice isn’t between protest and politics. We have to do both. – Barack Obama, How to Make this Moment the Turning Point for Real Change

I refuse to be silent about racial injustices. I will acknowledge my short-comings and privileges. I promise to do better. #blacklivesmatter

Just Mercy, 2019 - ★★★★: Watched on Saturday May 30, 2020.

Portrait of a Lady on Fire, 2019 - ★★★★★: the orchestra

I went to the mountains and contemplated the simpler life.

Step

A Hidden Life, 2019 - ★★★½: Watched on Friday March 27, 2020.

Hala, 2019 - ★★★: Watched on Friday March 20, 2020.

Little Women, 2019 - ★★★★½: Watched on Saturday March 14, 2020.

Ad Astra, 2019 - ★★½: Watched on Saturday February 22, 2020.

Ford v Ferrari, 2019 - ★★★½: Watched on Friday February 21, 2020.

Joker, 2019 - ★½: Watched on Sunday January 26, 2020.

When Harry Met Sally..., 1989 - ★★★★: Watched on Saturday January 25, 2020.

Chernobyl, 2019 - ★★★★½: Watched on Thursday January 9, 2020.

1917, 2019 - ★★★★½: Watched on Tuesday January 7, 2020.

Die Hard, 1988 - ★★★★: Watched on Wednesday December 25, 2019.

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, 2019 - ★★★½: Watched on Saturday December 21, 2019.

Isle of Dogs, 2018 - ★★★★: Watched on Thursday December 12, 2019.

Moana, 2016 - ★★★★: Watched on Saturday November 23, 2019.

Parasite, 2019 - ★★★★½: Watched on Saturday November 16, 2019.

The Farewell, 2019 - ★★★★: Watched on Friday November 15, 2019.

Godzilla: King of the Monsters, 2019 - ★: Watched on Sunday November 10, 2019.

Bottle Shock, 2008 - ★½: Watched on Saturday November 9, 2019.

Apocalypse Now, 1979 - ★★★★: Watched on Saturday November 9, 2019.

El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie, 2019 - ★★★: Watched on Saturday October 26, 2019.

“There is something deeply hypocritical about praying for a problem you are unwilling to resolve.” Miroslav Volf

www.emptywheel.net Our shouts of patriotic fervor ring hollow today when one thinks of the undenounced tyrant occupying our White House making a mockery of this nation of laws through his numerous frauds and manifold obstructions while willfully, shamelessly persecuting helpless children and their …

I find it fitting that my first breakfast after being out of country for 2 weeks is avocado toast.

Sapa

Hanoi

Sentry: 

Fort Funston: 

Merry Christmas to all who celebrate!

Hello world.