Tom Scott stopped making weekly videos today after 10 years. When I first discovered his channel, I binged through all of his videos - at least the ones about travel, and science, and stuff. His departure feels significant. Signaling me to change as well, shed some of my old skin. . . . Read more

Netflix has created a masterpiece with Blue Eye Samurai. There are some standard tropes - lonely samurai, mad skilled, dark past, revenge/mercenary for hire, amateur and naive apprentice, etc. A female protagonist with non-japanese ancestry adds a bit of novelty but not sufficient enough a . . . Read more

I saw Severance a while back when it was released but was reminded of it by a brilliant episode of Very Bad Wizards. I enjoy reading and watching sci-fi dystopian world . . . Read more

“When people finish their day and hurry home, my day starts. My diner is open from midnight to seven in the morning. They call it “Midnight Diner”. That’s all I have on my menu. But I make whatever customers request as long as I have the ingredients for it . . . Read more

Memories of Murder, which is a Korean movie, is one of my favorite detective movies. I like K . . . Read more

Of late, I’ve lost the patience to watch long TV shows. Surprisingly, the pandemic made me want . . . Read more

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I have always loved sci-fi. I love sci-fi more than I love actual science. Sci-fi is hardly ever about . . . Read more

I am fascinated by Japan, the country that has produced Naruto, Bleach, Akira, Ghost in the shell, Mur . . . Read more

Every day for the past few months I would excitedly look forward to my work commute across this dreary city; I was listening to Malcolm Gladwell’s Revisionist History. As I was fiddling around with the various podcast apps trying to find one that . . . Read more