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🎧 Listened to: H.I. #113: Thelma & Louise — Hello Internet

I like the fact that Grey accidentally put a car with automatic transmission into manual, because that was exactly what I did the first time I drove in the USA. I tried to get on the freeway out of Las Vegas and was accelerating to try to get to 60 (or 75 or whatever speed the rest of traffic was in) and the engine just screamed in pain. I had the take the first exist, park at a fast food restaurant and try to figure out what the hell was going on. Wasn’t this supposed to be a car that I didn’t have to shift gears in?

In my defence it was the first time that I drove an automatic, because Sweden – that likes to claim itself being one of the worlds most modern countries – have somehow failed to realise how driving a stick is like using a non-graphical user interface on your computer.

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🎧 Listened to: The Incomparable | Panspermia, but for Clothes (Episode 328)

I really, really liked the movie Arrival. (I’ll write more about it, soon.) Therefore I had high hopes for this Incomparable episode, but I was kind of disappointed. They never got down to discussing the interesting issues that the movie brings up, or at least brought up in me.

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🎧 Listened to: Cortex #77: The Effective Executive – Relay FM

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It seems like Apple has fixed the bug in Compressor 4 (or more likely in the underlying frameworks) that prevented me from encoding wave-files into Dolby Digital AC3s.

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🎧 Listened to: Flödande gratisreklam för GW:s kändisvin, uppföljande granskning av Kalla faktas uppföljning och framtidens spelreklam 1 december kl 11.03 – Medierna | Sveriges Radio

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🎞 Watched: Ant-Man

I’d heard a lot about how this one was different from the earlier MCU movies and while it felt less serious – mostly in a good way – I don’t think it was this radical shift that some made it out to be.

Anyway, it was enjoyable but also a bit forgettable. I probably won’t rush to rewatch this anytime soon.

One interesting thing was the scene in the beginning that was set in the past, where they’d digitally de-aged Michael Douglas. I knew this was going to be a thing and after my negative reaction to Tarkin in Rouge One I expected to dislike this as well. Turns out I was wrong. Technology marches on fast and this digital effect looked really good. Funnily enough I actually though digitally de-aged Douglas looked more real than the real Douglas in the rest of the movie.

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🎧 Listened to: The Incomparable | My Favorite of the Chrises (Episode 416)

I wonder if having watched Agents of Shield makes The Winter Soldier a better movie. I mean, I liked The Winter Soldier and the original Captain America movie as well, but the movie that The Incomparable speaks about sounds like better movie than the one I watched.

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🎧 Listened to: Robot or Not? | Soup (Episode 144)

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🎧 Listened to: Robot or Not? | Phones (Episode 143)

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🎧 Listened to: Phil and Lisa Ruin the Movies | Phil Ruins the Age of Ultron (Episode 9)