Hi Gemini,
Things are well. I caught myself wishing I had a hotel breakfast, which is something I've never wanted before. The last time I had one was on Pascha this year, I sang the liturgy, slept a few hours, ate a hotel breakfast of biscuits and gravy, coffee, and a cinnamon roll, and drove 5hrs home. I think I had hash browns too.
I'm moving soon, and I'm looking forward to it, albeit with a little melancholy.
I've been trying to do more things by hand than by machine. Lots of handwritten notes at work, trying to pipe text streams rather than use binary files, using tools for what they're made for rather than contorting myself to fit a machine. It's sometimes more trouble than it's worth, but ultimately it's satisfying.
I saw Mission Impossible 8 recently. I might write a review of it. In short, it was like going to visit someone who's a really big fan of mission impossible and generative pretrained transformers. I didn't really know what was happening, and they missed out on a much more interesting premise at the start of the film. The big bad evil guy is some nebulous "AI" system that's fabricating information and sowing discord all over the world. I wish the movie was about spies in a world where all information, unless hand-written and/or personally verified, is untrustworthy. Instead it was a weird and somewhat disjointed nostalgia trip through an old scientologist's movie career.
Still a fun movie at the end of the day.
My birthday was recent, had a nice party with friends and family. All in all, life is good. Go smile at someone!
Yours,
~eph
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