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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Month: December 2017
Standing on my head
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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