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Month: December 2017

Books I read in 2017

31 December, 20171 January, 2018 James ForemanBooks

I read 35 books this year (reviewed here, except for A Horse Walks Into A Bar, a “serious portrait of a shocking stand-up” that I found atrocious and pointless). This was a slight disappointment to[…]

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Standing on my head

30 December, 20172 January, 2018 James ForemanFitness

Today I went for a lesson in standing on my head. I’ve tried to stand on my head a few times in the past, and it’s only ever resulted in me falling over and being[…]

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Last Working Day Of The Year

29 December, 20172 January, 2018 James ForemanSelf Improvement

It was pretty quiet in the office today, which suited me as it didn’t distract from writing reviews and planning for next year. I had a class at the climbing gym, which turned out to[…]

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Dogs Of War

28 December, 201731 December, 2017 James ForemanBooks

My wife bought me Dogs Of War, a book by Adrian Tchaikovsky, for Christmas. It’s about Bioforms, cybernetically enhanced animal solders, who start the book unwittingly committing atrocities for their masters, and gradually gaining awareness[…]

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Ferdinand

27 December, 201731 January, 2018 James ForemanFilm

Yesterday I realised that we hadn’t taken La Serpiente to the cinema at all this year, and decided to rectify this omission. There were two reasonably child-friendly films on offer: Pixar’s Coco, about a child[…]

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Back to work

26 December, 201727 December, 2017 James ForemanNothing Much In Particular

Boxing Day isn’t a holiday in Singapore, so I went to the office today after three days off. Most people had taken off the four days between Christmas and New Year (giving themselves 10 uninterrupted[…]

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Christmas 2017

25 December, 201727 December, 2017 James ForemanNothing Much In Particular

This Christmas morning, I awoke at 7:30, still mostly unconscious, and struggled through the first hour of child handling, before we ventured out in search of coffee. We limited the children to only making a[…]

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Gremlins

24 December, 201727 December, 2017 James ForemanFilm

Tonight, after a day of rushing to shops, trying to upgrade Tissy’s scooter with new wheels and inadvertently shearing a bolt off the axle, and then getting that fixed, and somehow managing to fit in[…]

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Empire Games

23 December, 201727 December, 2017 James ForemanBooks

A while ago, Charles Stross wrote a trilogy of books about world-walkers (shifting from one version of this universe to another) that was ostensibly a fantasy but really an excuse to write about economics and[…]

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Bright

22 December, 201723 December, 2017 James ForemanFilm

Bright is a big budget blockbuster from Netflix, who you may vaguely remember as a company that used to mail you DVDs, then metamorphosed into a company that would let you stream movies, and then[…]

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