Except my eldest cousin and my brother, none of the cousins who are married stay with their parents. In that respect, my eldest cousin was just very lucky to have seen his own kids now come of age and ready to go to college with both grand parents around t... https://stupendous.blog/2025/11/13/7646/

Looks like potential for more auroras tonight though not planning to driving to darkness unless prediction for a strong show. https://stupendous.blog/2025/11/12/7644/

MacOS Tahoe is now available on work Macs to update. Unless they force an update I am not going to update to that horrid travesty. Spare me the fucking overdone curved edges. https://stupendous.blog/2025/11/12/7642/

It was a fun experience to see auroras again last night, more so with our in-laws. This is a rare event to simply see as is, and is pretty much unheard off in India. It was pretty cool for them to also have seen it and wonder at wonders of nature! https://stupendous.blog/2025/11/12/7640/

Auroras at great falls @capitalweather.bsky.social

Looks like aurora night again out here but no luck so far except a faint look at auroras. https://stupendous.blog/2025/11/11/7638/

Thank you to those veterans who served the country and did not vote for Trump. https://stupendous.blog/2025/11/11/7636/

Last night met up with my colleague from my last team over dinner and drinks. He is here for an offsite from the west coast. Much fun was had reminiscing about our times in old group. And we drank a bit too much for a Monday night. Today is going to be suc... https://stupendous.blog/2025/11/11/7632/

Frankenstein (2025) (https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1062722) – ★★★☆☆ A solid 3.5 star but not more. The tension between Victor and Frankenstein never elevates and gets over sooner than it starts. 🍿 Frankenstein (2025) – ★★★☆☆... https://stupendous.blog/2025/11/09/7630/

Seriously considering switching from prime to Walmart+ – their shipping these days is insanely fast, with many items just being delivered locally same day. I don’t see the need for prime as before. https://stupendous.blog/2025/11/09/7628/

My kid has always hated anything to do with coding or computers. However we forced her to take part in an AI challenge at school and told her she didn’t need to do know coding or computers to build something. She wrote a long story format prompt for an a... https://stupendous.blog/2025/11/09/7624/

I finally cancelled my Apple One premier subscription today. I get Apple Music Family for 10$ through Verizon Fios Perks. With change in Chase Sapphire Reserve (and their increased yearly fee), I get 18 months of AppleTV+ free through it. All I needed was ... https://stupendous.blog/2025/11/09/7622/

Virginia House seats won by Democrats this century, out of the chamber's 100 seats: in 2001: 32 in 2003: 34 in 2005: 40 in 2007: 44 in 2009: 39 in 2011: 32 in 2013: 33 in 2015: 34 in 2017: 49 in 2019: 55 (first Dem majority since 1999) in 2021: 48 in 2023: 51 2025, i.e. this week: 64

Started watching Frankenstein. Cannot be watched in one sitting so it continues tomorrow. https://stupendous.blog/2025/11/08/7620/

I miss touchID. I still think FaceID is an over engineered piece of shit most folks did not ask for. Touch was more than enough. https://stupendous.blog/2025/11/08/7618/

I finally upgraded my personal Mac to Tahoe and honestly the design language on this new OS is just so weak. The over emphasis on curved edges is just not working for me and it looks way worse on a Mac than on a phone due to screen real estate. On phone it... https://stupendous.blog/2025/11/08/7616/

Costco Croissants are to die for. Prove me wrong. https://stupendous.blog/2025/11/08/7614/

The Great British Bake Off (2017) (https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/87012) – ★★★★★ In its 16th season still remains our family favorite. I still remember starting to watch this show years back when my kid was like 6-7 and it’s still a show that... https://stupendous.blog/2025/11/08/7612/

Every time I hear the OST of interstellar I wish Nolan made a sequel to it (but also not because it’s perfect the way it is) https://stupendous.blog/2025/11/08/7610/

A relative of ours is getting a completely souped up Alienware laptop via my inlaws. The thing is a beast of a configuration and cost 2k – Intel Ultra 9, 64gb ram, Nvidia 570 with has its own massive RAM, 2TB, 240Hz 16″ screen – you name it its the t... https://stupendous.blog/2025/11/08/7608/

First order of business after installing 26.1 IOS was to disable that stupid Liquid Glass effect. I can finally see again! https://stupendous.blog/2025/11/08/7606/

Me to inlaws yesterday: cmon let’s go to Costco you will see how Americans shop in bulk here! In laws: we don’t need anything. Our shopping is done! We can go but we don’t really have anything go for. Walk out with a 300$ bill. Costco is a fucking ... https://stupendous.blog/2025/11/08/7604/

The deserving winner won the great British bake off. There really was no competition to this baker this year and it would have been a travesty if somehow this baker was edged by another baker in finals. https://stupendous.blog/2025/11/08/7602/

Several people I worked closely with in my company are trying hard to build their LinkedIn brand as a product expert on how to build at scale. The thing is they were not very good at all. Here’s the thing – the people who are trying hard to build their... https://stupendous.blog/2025/11/07/7600/

This indian classical verison is weirdly awesome! — music.apple.com/us/album/bli...

At physical therapy for the kid who sustained an injury at swimming. Initial evaluation cost – 600$. Per visit cost – 350$. She is on her mom’s high deductible insurance plan. I can’t fathom this kind of insane cost. How do people afford this? It w... https://stupendous.blog/2025/11/06/7597/

At least Nancy didn’t cook up some BS like RBG that she wanted to see a woman president before retirement. Impressive career, but like a lot of ’em, stayed way way too long. That said, at least she was sharp and not a goner like Diane Feinstein. Thank ... https://stupendous.blog/2025/11/06/7594/

This.

Nothing about Pluribus looks exciting to me. Nothing in trailer says this cost 15million per episode to make, and suggests what it is about this one that Apple committed to two seasons already. I hope Vince Gilligan has something up his sleeve here. https://stupendous.blog/2025/11/05/7592/

On surface Winsome had everything going for her. A Jamaican immigrant, small business owner, 2FA lover and a complete loony bin with extreme views which is basically baseline republican these days. Except she was not a white man. I am fairly certain that h... https://stupendous.blog/2025/11/05/7590/

Your local elections are just as important as the main ones. Case in point, Virginia. Lets do this! https://stupendous.blog/2025/11/05/7587/

The VA elections were euphoric, but I am mostly glad that Jay Jones won the AG election by 7% indicating a lot of democrats did give up on purity tests and did not down him, which is a relief! https://stupendous.blog/2025/11/05/7583/

Can’t wait for white moms of Fairfax County to get hot and bothered again about their kids learning CRT again in 2025. Oh my fucking god, what a travesty! And even worse, protect trans kids. I can’t imagine the amount of stress and duress suburban whit... https://stupendous.blog/2025/11/05/7585/

LOVE IT!

I have see enough! HELL YEAH VIRGINIA! I have see enough! HELL YEAH VIRGINIA! 🥃🥃 https://stupendous.blog/2025/11/04/7580/

Looks like Jones maybe cruising through! Bring it home. Let’s make this a trifecta. Am I too selfish to imagine house of delegates from 51(D)-49(R) to like nearly 58-60? Gonna hold the champagne just a bit more coz I need mamdani to cruise as well! https://stupendous.blog/2025/11/04/7578/

Congratulations to Abigal Spanberger and Ghazala Hashmi on being the first women governor/lt governor of VA! Now we just need Jones to make it through (fingers x-ed!) https://stupendous.blog/2025/11/04/7575/

I am usually as pessimistic as they come, but just some mid-data of over performance in northern Virginia and under performance in South-West Virginia & Shenandoah Valley is making heart feel a bit more warmer right now. Too early to call and still lot of ... https://stupendous.blog/2025/11/04/7573/

Let’s do this Virginia! Dear Indians of Loudon county, remember just by voting red your skin color won’t turn from brown to white as much as you believe so, so vote accordingly! Dear black people – keep saving us as you always do every election! Dear... https://stupendous.blog/2025/11/04/7570/

The funny thing with AI companies like OpenAI making billions of dollars of investment – maybe even hundreds of billions at this point – you could have hired millions of people and they would have proven just as useful with real human intelligence. The... https://stupendous.blog/2025/11/03/7568/

Last night A and I were talking about how we are reaching a point that our parents trips to USA are going to be very limited, and at most we have a handful trips more before they decide long distance travel is not for them anymore. Already a couple of our ... https://stupendous.blog/2025/11/03/7566/

This season of the Great British Bakeoff was been one of the most one sided Bake-offs in a while. It’s been clear from week 3 who is going into final and is the one to beat – there really is no competition to this person this season and the finale is g... https://stupendous.blog/2025/11/02/7562/

Congratulations team India! on a spectacular victory!!! Congratulations team India! 🇮🇳 on a spectacular victory!!! https://stupendous.blog/2025/11/02/7560/

In Shastri speak, this final is “poised”! https://stupendous.blog/2025/11/02/7558/

I just discovered that I can change the voice on my vacuum cleaner and I didn’t even know I needed this feature! https://stupendous.blog/2025/11/02/7556/

The Woman in Cabin 10 (2025) (https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1290879) – ★☆☆☆☆ Rubbish. Utter rubbish. 🍿 The Woman in Cabin 10 (2025) – ★☆☆☆☆ Rubbish. Utter rubbish. https://stupendous.blog/2025/11/02/7554/

What’s the best that before this term is over Vance will divorce Usha and marry Erika? Match made in heaven! https://stupendous.blog/2025/11/01/7552/

Done and done! Virginia, let’s do this! Also saw surprising number of white women with republican sample ballot – without a shadow of doubt this is the worst bloc of voters who consistently will vote against their own good. Shame on them! But others go... https://stupendous.blog/2025/11/01/7550/

If Spanberger wins Va on Tuesday and Miyares also wins as the AG for split ticket then it’s proof enough that democrats are absolutely dumber than a bag of rocks. And it spells really really bad for the party going ahead. If Jay Jones loses next Tue ther... https://stupendous.blog/2025/11/01/7546/

Though coz it’s been windy and cold the turnout has been lesser than last year for sure! was expecting far more kids. https://stupendous.blog/2025/10/31/7544/