Watching: Rounders (1998) with @cathpacker 📺
A young, reformed gambler must return to playing big stakes poker to help a friend pay off loan sharks, while balancing his relationship with his girlfriend and his commitments to law school.
🔗 5 Tips For a Better Mobile Photography Workflow - Moment
A couple of handy tips here. 📷
Watching: Venom (2018) with @travispacker 📺
When Eddie Brock acquires the powers of a symbiote, he will have to release his alter-ego "Venom" to save his life.
Watching: Black Mirror: Hated in the Nation (S3.E6) 📺
In near-future London, police detective Karin Parke, and her tech-savvy sidekick Blue, investigate a string of mysterious deaths with a sinister link to social media.
Watching: Black Mirror: Metalhead (S4.E5) 📺
In the post-apocalyptic landscape of the Scottish Moors, a woman attempts to survive the land full of "dogs".
Watching: Black Mirror: Hang the DJ (S4.E4) 📺
Paired up by a dating program that puts an expiration date on all relationships, Frank and Amy soon begin to question the system's logic.
Watching: Black Mirror: Crocodile (S4.E3) 📺
A woman interviews various people using a device that allows her to access their memories.
Watching: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) with @travispacker
An ancient prophecy seems to be coming true when a mysterious presence begins stalking the corridors of a school of magic and leaving its victims paralyzed.
I finally kicked @travispacker’s butt at a game!
Just beat him 5-0 at Super Smash Bros Ultimate using Kirby, Donkey Kong, Zelda, Link, and Samus.
I won’t elaborate on how often he destroys me at FIFA and Fortnite, or about that time when he destroyed my Minecraft world…
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Thinking about streaming some games this year…
Teaching my kid about timezones as another load of fireworks go off on Fortnite. 💥
The “great escape" is almost complete!
Already deleted my WhatsApp and Facebook accounts, and am now deleting around 700 photos from Instagram before I delete that account!
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Happy New Year Everyone! 🍻 Hope you have a fantastic 2019! 🎉
Watching: The Handmaid’s Tale: Offred (S1.E1) 📺
Offred, one of the few fertile women known as Handmaids in the oppressive Republic of Gilead, struggles to survive as a reproductive surrogate for a powerful Commander and his resentful wife.
Having a wild New Year’s
I’m done with Summer, it’s too damn hot!
🔗 A New Mailing List, Goodbye Instagram?, Future Book Hello Again — Roden Explorers Archive
Sign up for Craig Mod’s new mailing list.
🔗 Drivers demand reminders for car rego as NSW rakes in $240m in fines
Fines for driving unregistered vehicles have accelerated in NSW since the removal of car registration stickers in 2013, with hapless motorists blaming the state government for not sending reminders to renew registration.
How about putting a reminder in your calendar, and stop blaming everyone else. 🤦♂️
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (2001) 📺
An orphaned boy enrolls in a school of wizardry, where he learns the truth about himself, his family and the terrible evil that haunts the magical world.
Finally, convinced @travispacker to watch Harry Potter ✨
I had been putting off starting Zelda: Breath of the Wild…but I guess I have no excuse now
🔗 We Should Replace Facebook With Personal Websites - Motherboard
But for people who came of age in the early 2000s, sharing our lives online is second nature, and largely came without consequences. There was no indication that something we’d been conditioned to do would be quickly weaponized against us.
🔗 The 21 (and Counting) Biggest Facebook Scandals of 2018 - WIRED
In 2018, the social giant juggled so many crises, you probably forgot half of them. Here's a refresher.
Facebook’s had quite the year… 🤯
🔗 Sydney bakes as heatwave sets in, with no end in sight beyond New Year’s Eve
Roads are melting, beaches are full to bursting and air conditioners are getting a serious end-of-year workout as residents in Sydney and across the state swelter through heatwave conditions, with no end in sight until 2019.
Are we still debating whether Global Warming is an actual thing or not? 🤦♂️