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2024 Year End Review

01 Dec 2024 - 18 Oct 2026
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    • State: rough version for New Years Day release, but I will be adding stuff as I review notes.
    • Will not be sad to see the end of this year. Working as a consultant, which has ups and downs. One client with a specific public project and another with vague researchy goals that is making me kind of crazy. It's almost but not quite a KnowOS. Messing around with AI which honestly does seem to have transformative potential but I can't quite figure out what I want to do with it.
      • From Feb:
      • Having a salaried job is like being a domesticated animal. You have a place in a large economic household, you do your best to fit in, but everything is pretty much taken care of for you. Being an independent is like being a wild animal. Can't say it is better but I feel much free-er and realer somehow.
    • Oh yeah the US decided to go full fash. The year we decided to stop being a serious country. Electing Trump once could have been dismissed as a fit of silliness, electing him twice means we are a lost cause (maybe not, we could spring back, many things can happen and I don't know the future.).
    • Screwed over by a shitty lawyer and shitty therapist. Don't ask
    • Well its 2026 now, I never finished this

    • Health

      • Had appendix out, that was fun. Got Covid for the first time. Starting to get tinnitus, even more fun. Age is creeping up on me.

    • TV

      • Watch more than I care to admit. This list is biased towards streaming services that let you review your watchlist (Netflix).
      • Excellent: Dark, The Terror, Fargo (S5), Say Nothing
      • Good: Kleo, 1899, Slow Horses, Scavengers Reign, KAOS, Ripley, Three Body Problem
      • Soso: Disclaimer, Devs, Fall of the House of Usher, Your Honor, Bodkin, The Old Man, Black Doves
      • Bad: Silo, Las Palmas, Eric
      • Rewatches: Carnivale, Lost (while I had Covid), bits of Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul. And Severance which is in a class by itself.

    • Movies

      • Hardly any new ones. Rewatched some old classics: Nashville, Miller's Crossing.
      • The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
      • Adventures of Baron Munchausen (rewatch)
      • Some old Bond flicks for some reason
      • Halloween and some of its sequels, because it was Halloween and John Carpenter had been talked up on WS. Didn't do much for me. I don't see the point of slasher movies.
      • Carry-on (awful Netflix filler)
      • We Have to Talk About Kevin (excellent, disturbing)
      • Deep Sky, documentary on the Webb telescope (in an actual theater)
      • Lynch/Oz
      • Run Lola Run (rewatch)
      • The Killing, Kubrick
      • Civil War
      • Mad Max Fury Road (rewatch)
      • Zone of Interest (thought it was overrated)
      • Exorcist (rewatch)
      • The Dead Don't Die (awful)
      • The Birds (rewatch)
      • Bone Tomahawk (disturbing)
      • The Other Side of the Wind and They'll Love Me Whan I'm Dead (Orson Welles)
      • Hudsucker Proxy (nth rewatch, love that film)
      • Kill Bill (rewatch)
      • Godzilla Minus One
      • Hundreds of Beavers
      • Eye of the Needle (rewatch)
      • Dune Part 2 (theater)
      • Anatomy of a Fall

    • Podcasts

      • So many interesting ones, but who has time? I sometimes wish I had a long commute so I could keep up.
      • Weird Studies of course, although getting less enamored (no criticism but maybe not my scene after all – too much longing after the supernatural)
      • The Big Dig, excellent story of the Last Big Infrastructure Project
      • Ultra pr 2, about fascism in postwar US
      • Others: Chris Hayes'Why Is This Happening, Know Your Enemy, Very Bad Wizards, but just occasionally.

    • Social Media

      • Reducing use of Xitter (like every conscientious person) and spending more time on Mastodon and BSky. Have also been hanging around around Substack which seems to have a high concentration of interesting people (with an somewhat worrisome amount of wingnuttery but so far not enough to repel me).

    • Travel

      • Went to Connecticut for father in laws 95th birthday, that's about it.

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