POST is LATE

It's been another two weeks. What have I been up to the past two weeks?

We did go play some Ingress and eat Cutty's chicken with some Ingress friends last week.

I actually have managed to get in a bit more long-form media than usual:

I read Alex Honnold's memoir Alone on the Wall, which was pretty interesting, including Honnold's account of the El Capitan free solo climb.

I've also been reading Radicalized, Cory Doctorow's new collection of four novellas. I like it, but expect people will like the book or not depending on if they generally like Doctorow's stuff.

I watched the first season of The Promised Neverland. Really good. I really like how it doesn't let the usual focus on the protagonists' cleverness and determination undermine the stakes, and it does a great job of making the motivations of the villains (at least, the ones in the foreground) understandable.

Finally, I've been playing Baba is You, a block-pushing rule-changing logic puzzle game where the rules of the game are set by blocks of text in the level and you can change the rules by manipulating those blocks. It's mind-bending and quite hard and one of the best-designed puzzle games I've seen. Often the levels seem so constrained and yet so impossible, until you have an aha moment about how it works. The mechanics are consistent and the individual mechanics are fairly simple, but the interactions are complex and the game is all exploration, no explanation. (It's actually complex enough to be Turing complete.)

That aside, work has been busy and it's been a struggle to get Eris to sleep on time. Nothing new.