Outstanding. Even if my number 1 movie of the year didn't make the list.

Not a bad first half for Manchester United. Lot of good pressing and movements, but let down by poor finishing and some sloppy passing. Lot of potential in this team. #mufc

I have like 12 PhD-level methods courses under my belt but somehow I can’t figure out how much pizza to order for a 7-year-old’s birthday party.

2025 was the year I got serious about Truffaut.

Whoa

Once again Amorim is insisting on the dumbest substitutions possible. #mufc

One of my favorite discoveries of recent years. Belongs in the Christmas movie canon.

I believe there are three types of Christmas movies and every year you should watch a mix. Fun: Die Hard, The Night Before, Bad Santa, Christmas Vacation Sad: Carol, Eyes Wide Shut, The Holdovers, Fanny & Alexander Messed up: Silent Night Deadly Night, Dial Code Santa Claus, The Silent Partner

I really don’t think we deserved to lose that game. Fought hard and challenged Villa often. #mufc

I love our Austin Public Library. The Holdovers isn’t streaming and the disc is out of stuck, but the library has 20 copies free for pickup at any location.

Uh oh.

Oh hell yeah! Blockbuster Spielberg is back. With aliens! youtu.be/UFe6NRgoXCM?...

Getting into the holiday spirits by watching the greatest Christmas movie of all time: part 1 of Fanny & Alexander, the TV version.

Pure filth by Bruno. #mufc

This is gonna be a miserable half. #mufc

I just tested some code to generate synthetic data (for fine-tuning an LLM), and I'm honestly quite impressed how well it turned out. Followed the sparse instructions fairly well (adhering to an ADICO definition for law provisions) and generated highly varied samples. Cheap too, even with GPT5.

Oh wow. This is one of the grimmest movies I've ever seen. IMO, it's a harder watch than Threads. But a really underappreciated masterpiece.

Chicago. Though I’ve avoided a lot of the stinkers of recent years.

Seriously, it’s a surprisingly thoughtful and moving story about faith, personal and political. And a fun mystery to boot!

WAKE UP DEAD MAN VERY GOOD MOVIE

Having flashbacks now to the debate about the efficacy of coercion in cyberspace from twelve years ago.

$20,000 a year in daycare is not a lot. In many major cities, it’s considerably more. When we were planning to move to DC this past summer, we were looking at nearly $3,000 a month for our youngest.

Unironically: Cinema!

Best thing I did for going to the movies was signing up for the Alamo pass recently with a couple of friends. Now we go once every other week or so to catch whatever new looks good. Also good cure for male loneliness.

Our 4yo has been obsessed with death ever since he learned about John Denver (in short, his classmates’ dad was trying to explain irony), so every time we listen to a song, he immediately asks “did they die?” Anyways, Paul is the only surviving member of Peter, Paul, and Mary.

This is a first. I know the quality on Tubi can be a bit spotty, but halfway through watching Crooklyn, the image just stretched!

Irreversible, Melancholia, Martyrs. All great movies that left me feeling nothing but despair.

Oh no. No, no, no. No.

Very excited about this new project I’m working on. Just successfully debugged and tested a pipeline using LLMs that extracts excerpts from law texts that match a set of ADICO statements. We’re using it to reconstruct text-coding data for fine-tuning an LLM classifier.

Am I the only one who finds the documentation on Azure to be immensely frustrating and confusing?

I demand a full prequel series where we don’t even meet Rick until season 2 and Ilsa in season 3. Then they meet at the end of season 4. Season 1 will mostly consist of bottle eps introducing random players in the resistance. It should also include a back door pilot for Captain Louis: Origins.

I just discovered that the guys behind Eephus made a Christmas movie last year called Christmas Eve at Miller’s Point. Evening plans sorted!

This is really concerning. I have not seen any clear indication what this means for theatrical and home video. Netflix is not a fan of the former, but it makes no sense paying that much for an albeit great back catalogue plus their IP just to stick it on streaming.

I do not like the look of that Manchester United defense + LWB.

Well, I definitely made the right call switching from the Fulham vs. Manchester City game to Newcastle vs. Tottenham...

I keep seeing people claim this is a cropping issue, but the original shot was basically the same. Seems like they missed some postproduction stuff when they did a 4k transfer of the film negatives.

Incredible. Also, good job on making the show look like shit with this remaster.

Wait, A24 remade Kind Hearts and Coronets?! www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxBo...

Having a really hard time not chuckling every five seconds watching the new season of Stranger Things.

LucasArts’ The Dig.

Starting to think that three-win run was a mirage. What an awful, aimless performance. #mufc

This is like watching Ten Hag’s team. #mufc

So excited for the return of Headless Chickens FC. I really thought they had retired after the last five games. #mufc

I have never seen someone sent off for fighting against their own teammate. Madness. #mufc #efc

Random question: what’s the best/cheapest solution for setting up email with my personal internet domain?

Train Dreams is a real stunner. Gorgeously crafted, achingly told. Chris Bentley and Greg Kwedar make good on the promise of Sing Sing, and Joel Edgerton gives the best performance of his career.

Absolutely brilliant stuff.

I’m watching the Italy vs Norway game and I’m just in a daze. I grew up with Egil Olsen’s team and Norway beating Brazil twice were formative memories for me, but they were never good like this.

Some inspiring words on cinema in the streaming era from the Pope. Yes, THAT Pope.

The strange thing about Pluribus is that the tone is comedic, yet the story is pure horror. I like the show but it doesn’t feel like it’s fully reckoning with the implications of what it’s showing.