📺 Task (2025) – ★★★★☆
Nothing original in terms of storyline but beautifully acted and situated. How good was Tom Pelphrey?
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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.
For some reason I always thought New Zealand was a lot more welcoming and tolerant of immigrants but boy that video of white nationalists doing the haka dance to intimidate the Sikh procession is disturbing and hilarious at same time. Hilarious coz it’s white boys doing a Māori dance and the motherfuckers don’t even realize they are doing a stolen dance and they literally stole the land from the natives. Anyway, hopefully not that I plan to move there but certainly thought NZ was better than that.
A cheerful day today because today is the shortest fucking day of the year and from tomorrow it only gets better!
Had an excellent Italian meal at a quaint restaurant in Herndon today. Looked so unassuming but the reviews were great and it didn’t disappoint. Every single dish was superlative!
Between last night and afternoon nap I have slept nearly 9 hours! Gosh that means I am gonna be an owl tonight.
Parampara! Pratistha! Anushasan!
Gemini at this point seems to be leapfrogging Claude and OpenAI. Case in point today: When we bought our house, it came without a floor plan. During our kitchen renovation time I found a similar listing from years past in our community with exact same floor plan that helped us get some initial mental model in for renovation. I never saved the second floor floor plan and now I have no idea where it is. Today I needed the second floor floor plan for measuring. I decided why not use Gemini to figure out what the second floor floor plan might be based on the first floor floor plan I could imagine. Within no time Gemini found the exact fucking match of the floor plan style, community, city and the time it was built and by whom. It then gave me dimensions of my second floor with descriptions. Color me fucking impressed.
So I tried the same question with Claude and OpenAI. Both of them failed miserably. Both of them went on a tangent trying to read the image uploaded, looking at metadata on the image, trying to find out who uploaded the image and generally were inconclusive and did not yield anything meaningful. Both of them gave up and said they did not have any idea, however both did say it’s a common floor in VA area after I prompted them that I lived in VA (duh!). Betting against Google in AI is a fool’s errand and I have no doubt in my mind that Google will win the AI race.
So tell me something that we don’t already know out of Epstein files release? Too late for it to be anything of consequence. Not like pumpkin will resign lol.
Furniture rearrangement complete. Thank heavens for the handyman! One unexpected side effect is that all rooms feel bigger than before. I wonder what gives? Maybe we ended up having the right sized furniture in each room? Whatever, this configuration will stay for a few years.