📚 Finished reading Where The Light Gets In by Kimberly Williams-Paisley. The author is best known for playing Annie Banks in the 1991 version of Father of the Bride. This read as a very honest narrative of her mother’s diagnosis of primary progressive aphasia and her subsequent decline. It was a useful, insightful and easy read. The book ends with a section of useful references and brief guidance for anyone dealing with dementia, or the potential of it, in their lives.

This is an incredible discovery. Peanut butter infused with mince pie filling. I was skeptical, but it was an unexpected lunchtime delight.

📚 Finished reading Wrestling Merchandise of the 1990s by Kevin Williams. Bought for me as a niche Christmas present. This short book consists of what I assume are photos from the author’s collection of professional wrestling-related things, along with an enthusiastic narrative. The text could have benefitted from a little proofreading.

📚 Finished reading Taming Silicon Valley: How to Protect Our Jobs, Safety, and Society in the Age of AI by Gary Marcus. Having occasionally read the author’s AI-focused newsletter, I picked this up to get myself up to speed ahead of a presentation on Generative AI that I was due to give to one of our company boards. It was put together in a hurry and the result itself is a quick read. I agree with pretty much everything in the book, but there wasn’t much new for someone that has been following the progress of Generative AI closely since the release of ChatGPT a couple of years ago.

Big. Huge.

📷 East 53rd Street, Manhattan, 28 September 2024

📷 Cloud blanket over New York, found as I ran around the reservoir in Central Park.

📷 Important advisory notice on the New York subway.

Yes, I’m absolutely going to do this right away. The kids are going to be stoked.

📷 Randomly stumbled across 6½ Avenue in Manhattan. I’d never heard of it before. All the drivers seemed to completely ignore the stop sign.

What does this even mean? What preparation do I need to do? Do I need to worry about the other half, or do they just live in the Southern Hemisphere and are instead getting ready for summer? 🤷‍♂️

📷 Had a lovely meal out for my mum’s 70th birthday last night, along with my dad and my brothers. I had to compare it to a photo taken on our family holiday almost exactly 30 years before. My two boys are now exactly the same ages that my brothers and I were in 1994.

📷 Beautiful bougainvillea in Zakynthos, Greece.

📷 Zakynthos cafe vista.

🎶 Very excited to hear the new Magdalena Bay album, Imaginal Disk, which was released on Friday. Their debut album, Mercurial World, is one of my favourite things I’ve heard over the past few years.

📷 I think this Greek ice cream might be overplaying its hand.

“Ah, yes. I see that you know your judo well.”

So much meme gold in such a short video. Sad to hear that Jack Karlson has passed away.