2025-01-02 Fun with family

Dev & I have spent the last month visiting family. Much of the temperature this month was below zero, but we were well-dressed and drank lots and lots of tea. I cooked a ton. I made pies, tourtières, cookies, pizzas, breads, lasagnas, etc. Cooking for others is usually a stressful affair for me, but I do not experience this with family. I really love sharing meals with my parents, when I leave I will miss this.

ART. I released a new rabbit waves page about Ground to Air Communication.

MOVIES. We watched Alien: Romulus the other day. I am a big fan of the first Alien film (only that one). Alien: Covenant was so terrible, so full of gratuitous violence, that I was a bit concerned, I was not eager to have to sit through something like that again, but I remembered Lizbeth mentioning that it was very good, so we gave it a watch. It was excellent. I really loved David Jonsson's portrayal of a synthetic. The horror was well balanced, and the use of analog effects was so worth it — loved the facehugger animatronics(YouTube). I did not love that they revived Ian Holm for this film, the effect was not well done.
I also watched Vampire Humaniste Cherche Suicidaire Consentant, a vampire film produced in Quebec about a teenage vampire who refuses to kill to eat, and so searches for someone who consents to die. I loved this film.
Another notable film that I watched this month was Nope by Jordan Peele. I really loved it, it's a good cautionary tale, and to me was reminiscent of the book Le Péril Bleu by Maurice Renard.

MUSIC. I was introduced to Carousel From Hell by Lust$ickPuppy, it is excellent.

QUOTESImagination is more important than knowledge, for knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution.A quote by Albert Einstein

CALL TO ACTION. After being wrongly incarcerated for 5 months, Paul Watson, an activist, was released from prison in Greenland!

ARTICLES I READ AND LIKED

• You Should Have a Website, a manifesto.
• The Coach Screed, an amazingly detailed breakdown of how Coach bags have decreased in quality over the years, due to corporate greed.
• Commercial Tea Bags Release Millions of Microplastics When in Use, a study.

GREAT WEBSITES/PROJECTS

• Xavi Bou's Entomographies, overlapping photos of the rhythmic flutterings of insects to better describe their movements.
• Kristen Egan, a mixed media artist specializing in masks and sculptures, she uses natural materials like gourds, antlers and tree branches.
• Lia Pas, a hand embroidery based on a SciArt text/image piece.