Started watching The Sopranos after years of seeing clips online and hearing how good it is… one episode in and I am hooked.
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June 2026
In other news it’s eighteen years since I smoked a cigarette. 💨
Seneca: Take wandering outdoor walks, so that the mind might be nourished and refreshed by the open air and deep breathing.
How a Tesla-SpaceX merger of equals might be built. x.com
Watching van life videos again and thinking I need to take some long slow road trips to places I’ve never been.
Finished reading East of Eden by John Steinbeck. 📚
A genius engineer just became the world’s first trillionaire and some of the media class are losing their minds. x.com, x.com
Visited this glorious fire hazard of a second-hand bookstore.
Painting of a bison in Altamira cave, believed to be tens of thousands of years old. theguardian.com
All about shoelaces. fieggen.com
Seeing a total solar eclipse is on my bucket list, and I’m in luck: there’s one in Otago in 2028. timeanddate.com
What the science says about walking. youtu.be
Kazushi Kurihara.
May 2026
Epicure. digg.com
My second-hand washing machine flooded my house in 2020 and it’s still outside the circle of trust.
Marcus Aurelius: Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.
Finished reading Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell. 📚
Liftoff. x.com
I started eating carnivore six months ago but lately have stalled. Committing to a 28 day hard reset right now. 🥩
If not now, when?
Napier you have the best pizza. 🍕
Counting down to Starship 12. spacex.com
“Do you wish to be buried or creamted?” I’m not sure what my lawyer means in his email but being creamted sounds fun so I might just go with that.
Hopamine (n) The dopamine hit you get from reading, watching or hearing helpful information, without ever taking action to apply that information to improve your life.
Marcus Aurelius: Count the blessings you possess, and think how much you would desire them if they weren’t already yours.
Ripped out pages tell stories too. #sixwordstory
Guided Wim Hof breathwork. youtube.com
Tick tock. debtclock.nz
Forgetting is a filter.
April 2026
“Do less, better.”
Finished reading Season of the Jew by Maurice Shadbolt. 📚
Just applied beard oil for the first time and now I smell of rich mahogany and am kind of a big deal.
The future is now. patentscope.wipo.int
I’m part way through Spartacus and it’s like watching a really long oil painting with an incredible chin. 🍿
The Big Bear eagles have two chicks again. youtube.com
Earthset. nasa.gov
Room with a view. x.com
Artemis II, days since launch. x.com
March 2026
Uncredited.
Guillermo del Toro: A notebook is a reliquary, a time capsule and a confidant, but more than anything, it is an involuntary portrait of who we are.
Guillermo del Toro’s lost notebook. jennibick.com
My neighbour, who is Serbian, gave me a big piece of her daughter’s left-over birthday cake. It is Serbian too, and delicious, and now it is all gone.
Tesla is not a car company.
Handy CD cover generator. vhs.texs.org
Pio Andrea Peri.
Kakeibo (n) Japanese A physical, hand-written household ledger; a mindful financial management method.
What is important? What needs repeating?
Laura Makabresku.
Uncredited.
Finished reading The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx. 📚
February 2026
The Motels, Total Control 🎶
Joan Didion on keeping a notebook. pdfobjects.com
Lady Bird 🍿
Tsundoku (n) Japanese The act of buying books and leaving them unread, often piled together with other unread books.
The Lazy Eyes, Fuzz Jam 🎶
Less > more
Fifty ways to unplug and feel human again. insidehook.com
Anberlin, Fin 🎶
Greg Manchess.
Having the intention to do morning zazen is good, but having the alarm clock across the other side of the bedroom is better.
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January 2026
TIL that umop apisdn is upside down, upside down.
Finished reading For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway. 📚 But in the meantime all the life you have or ever will have is today, tonight, tomorrow, today, tonight, tomorrow, over and over again, and so you had better take what time there is and be very thankful for it. You have it now and …
Michael Paulus.
Ian Fisher.
Beautiful day for a big big boat ride.
Daniel, aged about six as we lay on our backs on the grass at the park: “Big, big clouds. Small, small me.”
It’s good to be back on the West Coast. This might just be my favourite part of the world. I woke at dawn to thunder crashing down from the glacier, and now I’m in a warm dry cafe drinking good coffee and about to drive north to Rapahoe, a special place for me and which I know Daniel …
Holidaying and celebrating a big birthday with family in a luxury lake apartment rn. Life is good. ☀️
I spent a few hours with a friend walking around Christchurch. We checked out the city gardens and the food and retail precincts. New buildings and businesses are everywhere. The arts centre was a highlight, the stone heritage buildings have been strengthened and restored to their former glory. …
Epictetus: The chief task in life is simply this: to identify and separate matters so I can say clearly to myself which are externals not under my control, and which have to do with the choices I actually control.
Katrina Cosgrove.
South Island I am in you.
December 2025
Léon Spilliaert.
Richard Osman: Learn to count the good days. Tuck them in your pocket and carry them around with you.
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North Canterbury, 2014-2016.
I finished my first rewatch of the reimagined television sci-fi Battlestar Galactica. I enjoyed it, despite seasons three and four getting increasingly weird and the wrap up feeling sloppy and rushed. Seasons one and two are great though, and if you don’t mind darker endings the end of season …
Eihei Dogen: If this one day in the lifetime of a hundred years is lost, will you ever get your hands on it again?
Become unfuckwithable.
If contentment is a key life metric, 2025 might have been my best year yet. I’m healthier and happier than I’ve been in a long time.
Mike Brodie.
I read Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy and found it much akin to his other novel The Road in that it features tortured characters roaming bleak landscapes in search of succour and punctuation and encountering grimness and violence and despair and dead babies hanging from trees all round. I know …
Starting right where I am, again.