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I finished the audiobook of Stephen King’s ”The Langoliers” from Four Past Midnight the other day. I really liked it!

I remember watching the tv movie (tv show?) of this story in class back in high school but I remembered very few things about it. I remembered the main premise, Dinah, and how terrible the langoliers looked, but apart from that I didn’t remember any of the other characters or the plot.

It’s a fun premise and engaging characters. The audiobook is read by Willem Dafoe who’s clearly having a lot of fun.

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It seems like I’ve neglected my ”Reading” page quite a while. As is apparent for anybody still reading this piece of the internet, I’m also blogging very infrequently these days. Some days I feel bad about that, some days I feel like that’s the beauty of blogs and RSS. If anybody subscribes to me they will see what I post when I post, regardless of how infrequent the posts are.

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At first the protestors gave him mean looks for driving a huge gas guzzling dually, until they saw through the glass that he was a person of color and then they didn’t know where to direct their moral indignation.

  • Neal Stephenson, Termination Shock
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Jag drack en klunk av drinken, blundade, och i tre sekunder kände jag mig som någon annan, någon annanstans, i en annan tid. Det var belöningen efter en lång, händelserik och ansträngande dag, att få en drink som gjorde att man kände sig som någon annan, om så bara i tre sekunder.

– Klas Östergren, Gangsters

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I started listening to Stephen King’s Four Past Midnight yesterday. I’m three hours into Willem Dafoe’s reading of ”The Langoliers” and I love it so far. Late yesterday, when the rest of the family was sleeping I was doing some tidying on the deck while listening to this. As the wind and the rain blew around me I got genuinely scared by this story. Can’t really remember when a book scared me like that the last time.

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With inspiration from the excellent The Stock Pot, and in particular the full tutorial for how to Make Your Own Universal Remote (ESPHome + Home Assistant), I’m slowly starting to wrap my head around Home Assistant and ESP8266/ESP32. I’ve managed to wire up a button to my ESP8266 and I can register single, double, or long presses on said button in Home Assistant.

There is a lot more work to be done in Home Assistant itself before I can get anything proper out of this, but I’m making progress and having fun.

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Here’s a thought on season two of Andor. SPOILERS AHEAD

The empire’s plan for Ghorman is to provoke the people to the point where they counteract in such a way as to ”forcing” the empire to invade fully. That’s a really neat mirror to how Luthen works as a whole, and to the arc he takes Mon Mothma on.

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I just finished Andor season two the other day and Linn and I are making our way through season two of The Last of Us. Both shows are amazing and I have a strong feeling that this is peak tv for a while and things will only get worse.

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I’ve recently gotten myself a Home Assistant Green. Up until now I haven’t used it for anything in particular. My smart home consists almost exclusively of IKEA stuff at the moment and as long as I keep it that way the Ikea’s own app works fine. I would like to be able to add stuff from other manufacturers though, so that is why I got the Home Assistant and will slowly migrate over to using it instead.

Right now I’m reading up on some ESP32/ESP8266. I would like to make my own simple home automation hardware and this seems like the way to go. I bought a cheap ESP8266 board the other day and I think I’ve managed to install ESPHome on it. It shows up in my network logs so it seems to be connecting to wifi. I’m considering this a successful first test and I’ll keep playing with this more in the future.

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It’s getting increasingly hard to use Office365 without being forced to interact with Copilot. If Microsoft love AI, good for them I guess, but I just want to read an e-mail or create a form or something similar. Don’t put your prompt in the way of me getting my job done.

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