A part of what makes Stranger Things so much fun is the collective nostalgia we 80s kids had, no matter which part of the world we grew up in – of unbridled freedom and staying out and doing random things as long as we could. Sure the settings are different, but my childhood in late 80s early 90s was no different – staying out all day, riding on cycles everywhere and coming home only after dark. Parents really didn’t give a shit – it’s funny to see how my teen does not relate to any of that and constantly asks us how could this be possible. And I am like yep, the world was much more nicer without the Internet.
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I doodle and draw abstract crap a lot. It’s a way for me to regulate my brain. I am no artist, but doodling nonsense has a way of calming me like nothing else. For fun sake I asked Gemini to analyze my doodles and my god it goes off on a tangent only. Boss my thoughts and art are not as complex as Gemini wants me to believe it is. Like kuch bhi!
The reason Wii is out is I guess genz has a new found love of nostalgia? Last time we had a party at ours the teens took out the Wii, connected it to tv and enjoyed themselves for hours! And now my kid is like we are going to make a regular thing in our get together. Everything old is coming back!
I did not know Apple and Google had a data transfer partnership where I can ask Apple to transfer all my iCloud Photos to Google Photos and I don’t have a thing. I wish Amazon and Google had a similar partnership – if I could move all my photos from my amazon photos backup to Google photos backup, I’d be set and I could get rid of Amazon photos forever.
Spent the morning tinkering around with my blog to import my tweets. Finally thanks to gemini I found a decent solution that works and also did not make my posts a mess with some 50k tweets. The tweets are still an archive on a separate page but within wp-content so I keep all of it one place. Works well and exactly what I wanted.
This Christmas I got a ultra cheap camera for the teen coz she’s even begging me for it. Clearly she is a part of Gen Z obsession with nostalgia filters. She spent the entire morning exploring how to best use the camera – I am so hoping she picks up photography with great interest coz I would love to have a partner in crime photographing!
After much thought I did decide to accept the new offer. I will say this both ChatGPT and Gemini were incredibly helpful in evaluating my current situation and the new offer, potential advantages and disadvantages of staying put, modeling financial aspects of offer over 2-4 year time frame and more. The depth of information both provided (especially, surprisingly ChatGPT) was very informational and ultimately swayed my choice to take the new offer. When used right, these AI tools are just very very helpful.
Didn’t think that a casual convo with an ex colleague about what do you think about working together again would end today with an offer in my lap that I am now seriously considering. And to think at beginning of December I was not even looking for a job! I am apprehensive snd excited at same time.
🍿 Dhurandhar (2025) – ★★★★☆
A solid 3 and half stars – I added half more purely for the soundtrack which I am fan off and how well it’s used in the movie. It absolutely could have done without the jingoistic nonsense towards the end coz it really didn’t need it at all – but for a three and half hour movie it was entertaining enough to wait for the next part. Just how good was Alshaye Khanna though in his role? And refreshing that for pretty much majority of the movie the “hero” of the movie is actually in the background.
Is it just me or just getting older that I can no longer remember lyrics to a song as I once used to? Used to be that if heard a song 5-6 times I would know the lyrics all through but it’s no longer the case – I can hear a song tens of time and still struggle with remembering the lyrics. And yet any of those older songs? I can sing them straight through.