Curious about stuff
One thing I like about Bluesky (and Mastodon based apps, in general) is the fact I can use my domain name. Like, yeah, @bobbyvoicu.com.
Well, Bluesky makes it quite easy to do (go into Profile -> Handle and choose there your domain name, add a DNS field and that’s it).
So now, I have @bobbyvoicu.com at BlueSky.
More complete steps (the one I used) here.
I was traveling to Greece a few years ago and this happened on the flight:
Flight Attendant: what do you want to drink?
Me: Fanta, please.
FA: I don’t have, but I can make it for you!
Me: 🤔
FA: I have Sprite, I have orange juice. Then I combine them: FANTA!
Me: 😅🤦♂️
FA: I’m serious, I made one for someone last flight…
Greek people, especially in hospitality, never say no. Even when they should say it. While this can be frustrating if you’re not used to it, it also means they go out of their way (most of the times) to make whatever they agreed upon happen.
And, yes, sometimes they flake on you. But you get used to it, as well. It’s the cost of doing business.
I think I use Apple’s Notes app more than any other app on my devices. And I didn’t know most of these things:
Write This Down: 17 Things You Didn’t Realize Apple’s Notes App Could Do
Not me, don’t worry about it!
But there is someone blogging from the South Pole base where they stayed over the long winter.
Here’s the first post in a series about actually leaving the South Pole.
During the winter, many departments, IT included, are subject to a more casual daily task schedule. Our goal over the winter is to stay on top of day-to-day upkeep, to execute on long-running projects, to respond to incidents, and to tackle any larger maintenance items that can’t be done when the station is “full” over the summer.
There’s more to read there, so stop by and say hi!
Kuno Lechner; cropped by H Debussy-Jones (talk) 08:31, 14 November 2009 (UTC), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
I recently went to a Candlelight concert. If you don’t know what it is: a string quartet playing tributes of popular music.
I’ve been to a Coldplay/Imagine Dragons mash-up concert and it was one of, if not the best, concert I’ve ever been to.
Here’s an idea of what you can see:
I recently found out about this French sweet pastry and I want to try it:
I just don’t know if I can find it anywhere close to me in Portugal.
Later edit: well, maybe here?
I’ve been a little bit more tired than usual these days, so I wanted to watch something on Netflix. I remembered hearing a lot of good things about Blue Eye Samurai, a made-for-Netflix anime.
It is really good. The art and animation are really good, the voice acting is amazing. Weird to hear English in an anime, especially since there’s no Japanese audio (at least I didn’t see it), but really good.
Here’s the Wikipedia entry.
I’ve discovered Mixed Reality with the new Meta Quest 3 I bought in December last year and I’ve been excited about it since.
I’m even more excited about the soon to be launched Apple Vision Pro.
But if you’re interested, here’s a list of all devices we might get this year.
I always loved reading gaming magazines. I started after the communism fell in Romania, in 1990, and never truly stopped.
Here’s a list of every English-language video game magazine still in print: GameHistory.org
Several years ago I made this startup reading plan for The CEO Library’s newsletter.
The setup was that every month you need to read a book (or two, if you have the time) and by the end of the year you would have a general idea of what starting a startup means.
Here are the books, along with the links to the reviews I wrote for all of them. I recommend one main book and a secondary one, in case you read it already or you’re a faster reader.
