So yeah 2026 is the year of graduation AI booing

It's incredible to see how Nolan's Odyssey film is spliced together, manually, to achieve the editing cuts in the movie.

Indigo is the app I was waiting for since Twitter was taken over. A simple, chronological timeline that syncs. Thank you guys @soapboxsoftware.bsky.social

Pockets in London Fields, best falafel wrap in the city

My favorite video games of all time, in random order: Portal Anything Zelda Riven Return of the Obra Dinn The Witness

I am loving Indigo as a blusky reader app. Finally synced timelines!!!!!!!

I find it amazing that we still cannot measure the gravitational constant G that precisely.

This is next level marketing

The on-the-ground practice for capturing the August eclipse has started! Too bad London weather does not cooperate as much.

In reading more about Galileo, I found out he was a university dropout from the University of Pisa, where he returned a few years later to teach Ptolemaic astronomy, the theory he eventually proved wrong.

Celine Dion's new show in Paris is advertised in London because... Eurostar.

Best I could do on the Leo Triplet from London. 5h exposure with the Canon 80D and 400mm lens.

Back to my favorite room in the UK: the lecture hall of the Royal Institution

Replayed the Witness after 10 years. Cemented itself as one of my top 5 games of all time. Also discovered the presentation about the story on how the final challenge and eclipse video came about! youtu.be/MQbk_0u7thE

My first attempt at the Whirlpool galaxy pair. Canon 80D on the Meade ETX90, 5h total exposure time @60s ISO800 subs.

I wanted to like Project Hail Mary (the movie). I loved the Martian (both the book and the movie). But this does not land. it was edited like a tin Tok video, with a cut every 2-3 seconds, Come on, guys.

Casual Saturday

Random stuff when walking around in London

My highest ever foursquare single check in score: 759 points in one go.

Daylight savings time remains my favorite example of efficient mass manipulation. Asking a billion people to wake up one hour earlier? Impossible. Switching the clocks one hour ahead? No problem! Yet both methods achieve the same end result.

The highlight of my Foursquare career

Somewhat surprisingly, there is a very decent Ramen in Athens. Zuzuto! Does not compare with the best London ones but not bad at all.

Trying out a matter over Thread mm-wavw presence sensor today. Let's see if it delivers.

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One of the best Legos I've ever made. Because I had the original in the 90s.

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11 seconds is the portion of Avatar 3 that has absolutely no visual effects. www.fxguide.com/fxfeatured/f...

The trick was to basically install a wired WiFi access point per room (4 in total), but only enable 2.4 GHz bands in 2 of them, as that is enough to cover the whole house.

In a milestone in my home networking career, after adding 2 new access points and tweaking around the band settings, all 38 WiFi devices in my house have better than -75 dBm signal, hence appearing all green at the Unifi management panel.

The Lego Sherlock Holmes is really cute. Goes as a book in the library!

The edge of the Milky Way, near Andromeda galaxy (seen in the lower right). Captured last July from Greece using my Canon R6 and a Sigma 35mm f/1.4 lens.

Seen at the Museum of London. It's amazing how different the approach to immigration was just 50 years ago.

Half of the Milky Way, from Andromeda galaxy (the bright spot at the lower center) to the center of our galaxy. Captured with the Canon R6 and a 14mm f/2.8 lens last July from central Greece.

The most interesting, and promising, plot of 2025. Our species now produces more energy by solar than by coal!

Watched Avatar 3 in its full glory, laser IMAX 3D at BFI. Gorgeous looking but man story-wise the 2nd and 3rd movies could have been combined. I do not foresee more movies being made.

Isn’t is sad that the best Christmas movies remain Home Alone and Love Actually from 20+ years ago?

Orion, I am looking at you

A Galician steak

Santiago cathedral: not bad. Not bad at all.

Very happy to see Jonathan Blow's new game FINALLY has at least a trailer youtu.be/OIxuGF6CwnU. The Witness is one of my favorite games I have ever played.

Another Greek novelty: distance signs that include calories burned lol

They are actually doing it. Releasing the original Star Wars, unaltered, theatres. No one <55 years old has seen this. www.starwars.com/news/star-wa...

I'm loving the wonderful mix of old and new buildings in Thessaloniki

Πόσο ωραία μεταφράζεται το speed cubing στα Ελληνικά: ταχυκυβισμός

Thessaloniki and food, the relationship hasn't changed in years

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Living the dream of Mac to Mac transfer over thunderbolt

A very London corner

Rewatched the Titanic, this time in all its 4K UHD glory. Watched the movie 3 times in 1997-1998 in the cinemas, and it still holds up so well. The last major movie that did not rely too much in CGI. Obligatory side watch: New deGrasse Tyson's story with the wrong sky: youtu.be/8B6jSfRuptY

My oldest and most treasured subscription continues