Using her company benefits and not wanting to lose it, my wife gifted me an Apple Watch 11 as early Christmas gift! It was free for her, and though I was not looking to replace my series 9, she would have lost the benefit if she hadn’t bought it. Anyhow, getting the Apple Watch Series 11 to pair and work with my iPhone 17pro max was excruciatingly painful. After 3 reboots, one hard reset reboot and nonsense later, it’s finally paired. Gosh the software quality of Apple has gone down so so much.
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I finally seemed to have found a solution to my safari lag problem and the way to kind of fix it was to start and quit safari multiple times in a row and somehow the lag has disappeared since morning. I don’t know if it will stick but this is a positive development. Some user on reddit had posted that this fixed it for them.
What a fun tiring weekend in company of good friends and good food. This does not happen often but this time we had a party every night at someone’s place four days in a row starting Wednesday, with each night ending in our garage for a shisha and drinks night cap. Four nights of late bedtime have definitely tired me out today. We are no longer in our twenties, sigh!
3 episodes in, The Family Man S3 is not nearly as interesting as its other two seasons. I guess the controversies of the first two seasons prompted the writers to go the safe route and fallback to a ghisa-pita story line. Plus, how many of these national security stories can be set in North East India? This one feels like one too many too late. Anyway 4 more episodes to go and Manoj Bajpai is incredible as always.
🍿 Homebound (2025) – ★★★★☆
A poignant movie about two halves – of caste and privilege which had similarities with Dhadak 2 – and other half of how the govt failed to come in need of the very people that needed it most during the pandemic. The final act is very moving.
The fact that trump kids were there is all I need to know about the ultra shitty Indian billionaire wedding happening in India right now. Apparently the family however stays here in USA. And of course these people have no real friends so they get Bollywood and Hollywood celebrities as fillers coz normal people don’t hang around with shitty ass nazis.
Cool cool – if the Perth test match between England and Australia gets over in two days surely pitch had nothing to do with it and it’s only the brilliant quality of two white teams amirite? Imagine the pushback and criticisms India would get on a spin pitch that ends a 5 day game in 2 days. Anti brown hypocrisy is alive and well. FWIW, I don’t care if it’s a spin or swing pitch but if a test match is over in 2 days then it should be criticized equally.
🍿 One Battle After Another (2025) – ★★★★☆
I had some Amazon credits to kill so we rented this movie. Terrific pacing for a nearly 3 hour movie and entertaining but it’s mostly hollow shit. There is no way I would have spent 60+ $ to see this movie in a theater. Even at 10 bucks rental was fairly high. This is a great made for TV movie – I can totally see why it bombed.
If Ukraine agrees to the peace agreement it honestly is such a terrible look on Europe. They really cannot do jack shit even with a significantly degraded Russia without American support. Hopefully is a wake up call to them to take charge of their own destinies – as Jaishankar said it best few years ago – Europe needs to get outside of mindset that Europe’s problems are world problems to solve for. Anyway, looks increasingly now Ukraine will have to make a difficult choice.
A house came up for sale in our community with the exact floor plan that we have. We thought being end of November, dampening economy and federal impact, the house was priced higher than it should have been. Well, we were wrong. The house listed on Friday and under contract on Sunday evening. We are in some unhinged economic times.