Week Notes 25
Week Notes for September 23-29, 2024
Things I made:
Personal
- I linked to a new site I created, hand-coded in plain HTML: https://contrasts.srgower.com. I wanted a place to catalogue the various combinations the Random Color Contrasts bot generates. It still needs some work with the CSS but I'm holding off making any further changes to that stuff until I've finished entering all my current saved combinations.
- This week's week notes are...a little fuzzy. I was in Calgary with my wife Thursday to Sunday evening and whenever you travel, things kind of fall apart. I don't know what day it is today. Wednesday, maybe?
Nerdy Blog Stuff
- Robert Birming continues to do cool stuff with his Bear theming. I didn't use this in the way that he implemented it but I found out about this 'share' service through his share buttons post.
Links
Just some things I've read online that interested me and I didn't get around to writing about them.
- Linkfest #24: Secret Cars, New Euripides, and "The Torino Impact Hazard Scale" • Buttondown
- Think your dog can understand words? This scientist says you might be right | CBC Radio
Media
- Heard a new track from Our Lady Peace called "Sound The Alarm". I liked it okay I guess, better than what they released on Spiritual Machines II (I wanted to like that album more than I did). It definitely sounds like their late work, which I'm mixed on. Incidentally I heard it while listening to Indie88 via James Harris' project, scrobblerad.io.
- Finally watched Arrival (Denis Villeneuve, 2016). Visually it is a stunning movie, and the plot moves along at a near-perfect pace. The movie reminded me a lot of the visuals in Dune. Everything in the movie felt real as well, in the sense that the spaceships looked like they were physical objects occupying space in the world. They weren't just CG creations. The score was great, as well. Highly recommend.
- Re-listened to The Strumbellas' 2013 album, We Still Move on Dance Floors. I remember I first heard their music while shopping in...I can't remember the shop to be honest. I think it was a sports store in a small town. Either way I still really like the album, I recommend it. Their album Hope is probably the most popular with "Spirits" hitting Top 40 radio here in Canada but I like Dance Floors a lot. The album art was my phone wallpaper for a while.
- I started watching two new TV shows: "Slow Horses" (Apple TV+) and "The Good Place" (Netflix). The latter I started a while back but never really got into it, so when I re-watched the first two episodes again I forgot quite a lot of what I watched before. It's a fun show! Slow Horses - I really liked the first episode. Trying to find time to get my wife to watch the next one with me to see if she'll enjoy it with me so I don't have to carve out time to watch it, we can just throw it on.