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Movie Poster This movie made it on the list because it’s one of my girlfriend’s movies. She adores Julie Andrews and knows every song by heart. For context, I’m not a big musical person but I do enjoy them. Overall, I liked the movie! The setting was beautiful, the songs were fun and the actors/actresses were great. I think my biggest gripe was the length and pacing. The movie…
Movie Poster A Few Good Men was a movie I’ve quoted throughout my life but had never seen. Quick summary, a marine, Santiago is found dead in Guantanimo Bay. Two other marines are arrested and to be tried for his murder. Tom Cruise’s character, Lt. Daniel Kaffee is a lawyer known for making plea deals is assigned to the case. The movie follows the military court process and the…
Movie Poster Apollo 13 is a docudrama following the true events of the aborted Apollo 13 mission. I enjoyed this movie a lot. There were a lot of familiar faces, but as the movie was released in 1995, much younger. The movie was good! As a fan of space movies, this was a thrilling watch. It’s clear they used some CGI for the movie but they still kept alot of practical effect which I…
Movie Poster What can I say about this movie, its been a long time since I’ve watched a proper childrens movie, grew up on the old Disney, Pixar and Dreamworks movies and I adore them. Children’s movies feel like just spin-offs and slop now. Of course there have been diamonds released but I hadn’t given them the chance yet. The last couple children’s movies I’ve seen…
I’ve always thought about how I use my phone. Back during the COVID years, I rooted my phone and de-googled it. I made my own server to host media and music. Now that I have more time to think, I’ve come to realize my ultimate goal has been to better my relationship with technology, especially my phone. I don’t enjoy that my life is behind a phone or computer. I don’t like…
As mentioned in my Sixth Sense post, I was finishing my thesis in April so I didn’t watch any movies at the time. In May, I caught up but I didn’t make posts. I started procrastinating on writing my posts even though I would watch the movies and then the backlog about my backlog was beginning. To start fresh, I’m just gonna do a quick blast through the remaining posts, the goal…
Movie Poster Memento is another amazing unreliable narrator movie. In the same vein as Shutter Island and as many twists as The Departed. I really like it. It was full of misdirection and confusion by the movie structure, dialogue and setting. There are so many details I probably missed that would be worth multiple rewatches. I HIGHLY recommend this movie, which is why I’m giving it a 5/5.
Movie Poster I had a busy April finishing my master’s thesis, so I am 4 movies behind. I’ve watched 2 movies this week and will be watching 2 movies next week to catch up. The first movie I’m starting with is The Sixth Sense. It stars Haley Joel Osment and Bruce Willis and was directed by M. Night Shyamalan. Going into this movie, I only really knew the like “I see dead…
Movie Poster (From TVDB) Jojo Rabbit was a great experience. You experience the end of WW2 from the perspective of a 10-year-old German boy who is a Nazi fanatic, but soon grows to become disillusioned by it. Somehow, the movie was able to wrap satire and comedy around such dark tones. I thought all the actors and actresses did very well, and Stephen Merchant was exceptionally unsettling. I can…
Movie Poster This week’s movie was Alien, the sci-fi horror from 1979. Make sure not to call it Aliens because that’s the sequel. This was a great movie, the pacing was slow and suspenseful. It doesn’t hold your hand through the scenes either. There are long, drawn-out scenes with no explanations, where the viewer must draw conclusions based on previous events as well as what…
Movie Poster I have two sides to this movie. First, it’s a tragic and tender story of two people who want to be together but know they can’t because of the rules around them. The soundtrack amplifies the tenderness. It uses silences to project the emptiness and then fills you with happiness with songs of joy. The shots were crafted and intentional. It makes me want to spend a summer…
Movie Poster This is another movie that is going to need a spoiler-free and spoiler section for discussions. The spoiler section will be after the movie list. Spoiler Free I loved this movie. As someone who was highly pressured to go into STEM and is slowly growing his appreciation for art and literature, I resonated with a lot of the messaging of the movie. The movie follows a group of students…
Movie Poster (From TVDB) La Haine’s translated name, “Hate”, is very fitting. The movie centers around 3 friends, Vinz, Hubert and Sayid, after some Paris riots in 1995. Following the protests, their friend Abdel was taken and beaten by the police. The friends hear about it on the news, and the rest of the movie is kinda of just a snapshot of their day. My friend described it as…
Movie Poster (From TVDB) If you love something, set it free La La Land is a musical about Mia (Emma Stone) and Sebastian (Ryan Gosling) and their pursuits as creatives. Emma wants to be an actress while Sebastian wants to be a professional jazz pianist. It was a great movie. The plot and musical numbers were great. Mia and Sebastian’s lives started separately, and as the story progressed,…
Movie Poster (From TVDB) This is a movie that needs a spoiler-free section and a spoiler section. The spoiler section will be below the movie list! This is an amazing movie, there I say “Goddamn Cinema”. I was hooked the entire time, although I was confused at the beginning with people’s names and how they were connected. The actors were great, Jack Nicholson plays crazy so well.…
Movie Poster (From TVDB) This was my second Wes Anderson movie after The Phoenician Scheme. I enjoyed it a lot! The movie follows an almost absurd plot about a hotel concierge being framed for a murder after being awarded a priceless painting from one of his hotel patrons. The movie is witty and funny, and the plot is simple. I originally gave the movie a 3.6/5 because of that. I thought it was…
This weekend consisted of a lot of food! First I made us french toast for breakfast but I forgot to take photos of it :( Picanha with Maitake, Nardello Pepper, Mustard Seed, Marchande du Vin Heart cookies before baking Heart cookies after baking Pancakes for breakfast (she didn’t want eggs)
Movie Poster (From TVDB) “When Harry Met Sally” is a rom-com from 1989 starring Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan. It was great, this will probably be a quick post, cause the movie is just a great romantic comedy. I can see a lot of tropes that this movie inspired in future rom-com movies. I think both lead actors did great in their roles. We always love a good friends-to-lovers story, and…
Movie Poster (TVDB) This week’s movie was The Tale of the Princess Kaguya. I’ve heard a lot of good things about the movie, but it’s usually mentioned as a second-round draft pick from the Studio Ghibli catalogue. It’s one that I kept telling myself to watch for a couple of years, but I found myself picking Howl’s Moving Castle or Princess Mononoke instead. The first…
The game cover (From Backloggd) Last week I finished Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow. It was the third installment of the Castlevania series on the Game Boy Advance, but it was widely considered the definitive game for the system (Source: Wikipedia). I decided I’d start with this one. I haven’t played a Castlevania game before, and my only other Metroidvania experience was Metroid Fusion,…
Movie Poster (From TVDB) Drunken Master was one of Jackie Chan’s breakout roles from 1978. It is acclaimed as one of the original and best martial arts comedies created. It was directed by Yuen Woo-ping, who would eventually be the choreographer for the Matrix and Kill Bill series. Basically, I’m trying to say I had a lot of expectations going into the movie. After finishing it, I…
A lot of my video game playing lately has been on portable consoles, mainly the 3DS, DS and Gameboy Advance SP. In playing these games, I’ve grown a greater appreciation for game cartridges. It’s beautiful when you think about it, the entire game and save in a removable and highly portable form factor. I’m also amazed by the amount of content they fit in some of these games. The…
Look Back Poster (from TVDB) Look Back is a movie based on the one-shot by Tatsuki Fujimoto, also the creator of Chainsaw Man. The story follows Fujino, a child who loves to draw comics for the school newspaper. She is told by everyone how talented she is and loves the attention. She is told that for the following week, another student, Kyomoto will also be drawing a strip for the newspaper, and…
Philadelphia Poster (from TVDB) Philadelphia is a court drama starring Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington. The court case is about an illegal termination lawsuit where Tom Hank’s law firm purposely hid his brief to pretend like they could fire him for negligence when, in reality, they fired him because they found out he had AIDS. There wasn’t much actual law in the movie; there…
I like a combination of New Years Resolutions that a) remove negative habits but also b) add postive goals. One of the positive goals I want to do this year is watch more movies. I mean the movies that are the “Oh you haven’t seen that yet?” tier of movie. There’s so many movies on my list so this year I’m going to make a commitment to watch them. The list is as…
About half a year ago, I saw a youtube video by Savah Davis Baker called The Internet Used to be a Place . It was a phenomenal video about how the internet was treated. Growing up I had a computer room, my dad’s office dedicated to the computer. If I wanted to access the internet we had to do it on that computer. When I was done with computer, I left the room and disconnected.
Can’t go up the hill With Gym 1 defeated I continued to explore the town. There’s a museum with a scientist that mentions something about fossil research, probably something to note for later! I travel north to find a slippery hill that a biker said I need a bike to climb! They said I can get one at the bike shop in Eterna so I guess that’s where I’m heading next. Checking…
On my way! Okay! Officially starting our journey, still with no Pokeballs, we pass through Sandgem town only to find Dawn waiting for us in some tall grass to show us how to catch Pokemon. After a brief tutorial shes gives us our first 5 pokeballs. We can now get our first encounter of the run. So going back to route 201, our first is a Bidoof! A beaver looking favourite meme of a Pokemon which I…
Introduction to Nuzlockes This is new project documenting my blind Pokemon Platinum Nuzlocke run. It would have been cool to track my progress but I know I wouldn’t record enough clips to make a cohesive video. I decided that blogging it and taking pictures as I go would be a fun way to record the story… except I thought of blogging it after I started the save so the pictures will…
Over the last few months, I’ve been grossly aware of the how algorithms have been shaping my life. Content being directly streamed to my brain with no friction whatsoever. It’s been taking away from my attention span, my focus, my enjoyment and my well being. When I got into homelabbing and self-hosting, I thought it was going to be my solution to this. No more corporations, no more algorithms, I…
Overview We live in an age of software as a service (SaaS). For a monthly fee, these software give their users access to the conveniences of their product. Services like Netflix and Spotify give their users access to petabytes of content without the struggle of hosting or carrying that content themselves. The convenience is undeniable, but not without their concerns. Focusing on Spotify, their…
This year the guys and I decided to hike the perimeter of Frontenac Provincial Park! This was our trip. Route Here is a map of our route. It was a total distance of 46.6 km. This was the route we followed with the campsites we stayed at We stayed at the following campsites: 1a North Buck Lake 10b Devil Lake 7c Birch Lake The nice thing about Frontenac is that all the campsites had a firepit,…
One thing took me a while to get running was qBittorent with a VPN on TrueNAS Scale. The community application of qBittorrent doesn’t have that functionality, so the solution is to manually install it instead. This is how I did that! Overview Regardless of what you want to torrent, its probably a good idea to run it through a VPN. It masks your IP address so that way it shouldn’t be…
The guys in the lab and I started a book club together and the first book we read was Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan. Here’s the cover from Wikipedia Summary The story follows Takeshi Kovacs, an ex-private military, now-turned-investigator hired to solve the mystery behind someone’s suicide (or murder?). It takes place in the future, where humans have the ability to upload our…
I was at dinner with my girlfriend and she picked the restaurant based on a TikTok video. We couldn’t decide what we wanted from the menu, so we looked at the reviews on Google to see what dishes other people recommended. After we picked our food, I started to think about how much volunteerism there is on the internet. A lot of the participation on the internet is thankless and without…
In May of 2024, 3 friends and I hiked the Presidential Traverse in New Hampshire! Route Our route! This route is slightly off. We started at the Mount Webster Trailhead and added Mount Jackson to our hike! We hiked somewhere between 7-15kms a day! Gear This is the gear I packed: Clothes Shorts Shirts Underwear Socks Sweater Rain Jacket Rain Pants Hiking Boots Hat Sunglasses Hygiene - (I…
Last Updated: 2025-05-23 5 Friend and I hiked through 40ish km of the Western Uplands hike in August of 2024! This was my first time planning a hiking trip and I wanted to document my experience. Route This was the route we followed. Each colour is a different day We stayed at the following campsites: Islet 2 Tern 2 Ishkuday 1 Overall, the route was good! Most of the campsites were fine, but I…