“Demon Slayer: Mugen Train” (2020) is a Japanese anime movie about the journey of a younger apprentice demon slayer as he confronts demon after demon on a train.

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“Together Together” (2021) is an American comedy starring Patti Harrison and Ed Helms . It follows the entire pregnancy process of a single guy and his surrogate as they both navigate the experience and the boundaries around it.

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“The Father” (2020) is an British drama starring Olivia Colman and Anthony Hopkins . The film is a tour of the experience of dealing with life changes brought on by increasing dementia and how they appear through the mind of the person undergoing that horrible mental degenerative process

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“Wrath of Man” (2021) is an American action/thriller starring Jason Statham in one of his typical stone cold bad-asses, this time in the form of a mysterious cash truck guard with next level skills.

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“The Unholy” (2021) is an American horror movie about a young deaf girl who believes she was cured by the Virgin Mary who speaks to her but is it all what it seems?

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“Four Good Days” (2020) is a heart wrenching dramatic film about a mother helping her daughter through heroin and other drug withdraw for the four days before she can get a shot that will help her reset her life.

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“Voyagers” (2021) is an entertaining the merger between “Lord of the Flies” and Passengers (2016) .

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I’ve long recognized that I’ve let pop culture pass me by in all areas. I was never the most plugged in person on that matter to begin with. Like most people as I got older I’d rather listen to old songies, now definitely “oldies”, or my favorite older movies, now often definitely “classics”. That has left me feeling more disconnected than ever from the modern world. I have no idea who current actors, singers, writers, directors, etc. are. I am somewhat plugged in to some of the shows on the streaming services but that is not exactly the same thing. So for 2020 I decided I’d make an effort to see every first run movie that came through my local movie theater. COVID killed all that. Now that I’m fully vaccinated I’ve decided to revive the challenge.

About a month ago I decided to try a head to head match up of various Linux rolling release distributions, documented in this blog post. A month in I’ve added a few new distributions and have some initial observations.

NOTE: the continually updated results spreadsheet is hosted on a NextCloud server here and the repository with all of the most recent data, commands, etc. is hosted here .

For a long time I’ve felt that we need a better way to do capitalism, or more generally a market based economic model. My first foray into actually studying that was running across John Abrams’s The Company We Keep back in 2007. I was suffering extreme burnout from starting my own company with the traditional workaholic model and thought there had to be a better way. In my own company at the time I started advocating for and pushing some of these sorts of things within the bounds that we could. If I ever started another company, I said, I wanted to do a radically different model of ownership, governance, and culture to really test out these newer ideas. In recent years I ran across the writings of the founders of Basecamp , David Heinemeir Hansson (DHH) and Jason Fried . They have a whole podcast called Rework which covers these topics as well. It is very much about rethinking a lot of the conventional wisdoms in the corporate world using techniques they’ve used at their own company for 20 years or so. I thought they were a good model to look at when trying to formulate what my own new corporate culture and structure should be. That fact is what made the events of the last two weeks even more distressing to me. I decided to re-read their two books It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work and Rework as well as looking at how these events unfolded to see how if I was confronted with the same scenario I would handle it differently. I’m not doing this as a beat up on Jason and DHH exercise but instead to try to process this to learn from this whole thing.