Now
What I'm up to, listening to, and tinkering with these days, on one short and perishable page.
This page follows the /now tradition, the opposite of a biography, a snapshot of what's keeping me busy these days. It goes stale fast, that's the point, and the date above is the one that counts.
On the screen
Three series, one anime, and Dragon Ball with my daughter.
Season 3 of Silo is leaving me cold, while season 3 of The Walking Dead: Dead City goes down easy, carried by Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Lauren Cohan, two actors I'd follow anywhere even after watching The Walking Dead twice over. My partner and I are working through Yellowstone alongside it, halfway into season 2 and still glad we started, after getting hooked on Dutton Ranch, its more recent offshoot. When I have twenty minutes over lunch, I put on an episode of Frieren, a gorgeous anime. And I've started Dragon Ball with my daughter, the uncensored version, which plays out with a four-year-old about the way you'd expect. Father of the year.
Controller in hand
Cyberpunk done, Dead as Disco still going, and WoW back through the window.
I finally wrapped up Cyberpunk 2077 and its Phantom Liberty expansion, seventy hours in, and came out lukewarm, as I wrote here. Dead as Disco still has me, that brawler you play like a rhythm game. And a cousin and I just started on Ascension, a World of Warcraft private server we'd only heard good things about, since we wanted something to play together from a few hundred miles apart. I'd weaned myself off WoW years ago, but an MMO is still an MMO.
In my ears
Rap, K-pop and pop, following my daughter’s taste.
I'm introducing my daughter to current artists and discovering them right along with her, which pulls me out of my comfort zone and shows me where her taste is heading. Some rap, a lot of K-pop, pop along the way, a tour of the world without taking the headphones off.
On the plate
Two weeks of restaurants in southwest France, no restraint.
Fifteen days of vacation in southwest France, just me and my daughter, so we're going from restaurant to restaurant with no restraint at all. Too greasy, too salty, too sweet, and the same excuse every time, "we're on vacation." The first trip back to the gym is going to hurt.
On the desk
A brand-new HP Omen Max 16, RTX 5090 inside.
I caved in June, right as RAM prices explode and graphics cards cost a kidney. My faithful seven-year-old PC handed the desk over to an HP Omen Max 16 with a 175 W GeForce RTX 5090, a Core Ultra 9 275HX, 64 GB of RAM, and a 2 TB SSD. A handsome beast, a nice discount, and a serious budget all the same.