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I read “LAN Party” last week: LAN Party: Inside the Multiplayer Revolution, GoodReads. More here: LAN Party, Read-Only Memory. It’s more of a photo book with occasional essays and interviews. I went to a lot of LAN parties in high school (circa 1995-1998, a couple after this) and it was awesome. I ended up hosting many parties because I had a ton of network cards, cables, and space. The best lan parties were the all day affairs. The worst were overnight/all night as nothing is fun when you’re sleep deprived. ...

I finished Tim Berners-Lee’s autobiography yesterday: This Is for Everyone: The Unfinished Story of the World Wide Web The description early years was good. The latter part of the book was a push for his Solid Project. More here: Solid (web decentralization project), Wikipedia It sounds like something like this (private date wallet) is a good idea. Maybe even this approach.

I’m watching the TV show “For All Man Kind”. I’ve finished S1 and I’ve just started E1 from S2, and it keeps getting better and better. I can’t believe such an awesome show has just been sitting there and it took me 4-5 years to find it, and to then pull the trigger. It looks like another meh apollo program show, but it’s so not. It’s hard scifi + alt history. Win! ...

I’ve been doing research into the release chronology of some Quake2 bots. This is for the Quake2 Bot Archive. Specifically: Famkebot C.R.Bot Eraser Bot The idea is to nail down exactly what files were released and when. This helps when searching, e.g. what files to look for and how to disambiguate multiple releases with the same filename. It’s also a lot of fun.

I’m re-reading “Lies My Doctor Told Me”. It’s good. What I really like is the structure. Something like lie, science-backed truth and it finishes with further reading or “homework. It encourages the reader to do their homework and come to the same conclusions. And the book recommendations are solid. Great stuff.

I just read two books on celebrities whose lives were ruined by addiction: Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing, Matthew Perry. The Book of Sheen, Charlie Sheen. I’m so glad this disease does not afflict my wife or myself, and I really hope my sons are spared. It also reminds me of a Charlie Munger quote along the lines of “the hard thing about being rich/famous/powerful is not losing your mind” ...

I fatten quickly when eating carbohydrates. Not just sweets and ice cream, but bread and pasta. You might even say I’m carbohydrate intolerant. I think it’s because I was plump as a young kid and I have too many fat cells, especially around the mid section. They’re just sitting there all day waiting to grow. Begging. This is a reminder to myself that my eating operating system is to eat meat and vegetables. ...

Yesterday, I was listening to the Modern Wisdom podcast interview with Eliezer Yudkowsky about his new book (which I’ve read). The podcast: #1011 – Eliezer Yudkowsky – Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All The book: If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All, Eliezer Yudkowsky & Nate Soares, 2025. Yudkowsky always gives great analogies, this interview was no different. The climbing the ladder analogy hit for me: ...

I was travelling for some time recently. Many weeks. During that time, I pulled back on reading books and even on consuming long-form podcasts. Instead, I consumed vast amounts of social, specifically Instagram and TikTok. They are amazing at narrowing in on my interest of the moment. But I found that I felt off. Wrong. The best way I can describe it is my brain was fuzzy. I could not think clearly. I didn’t care so much about “stuff”. I was lethargic. I didn’t want to eat right or go to the gym. I just stopped caring. ...

I read “I’m Too Young To Die” by Bitmap Books last week. Here’s the official homepage with lots of cool photos of the book: I’m Too Young To Die: The Ultimate Guide to First-Person Shooters 1992–2002 Here’s the blurb: I’m Too Young To Die: The Ultimate Guide to First-Person Shooters 1992–2002. Covering the early, experimental years of the first-person shooter, we celebrate more than 180 games as we track the genre’s explosive entrance onto the ’90s gaming scene. Whether obscure oddities or genre-defining behemoths, first-person shooters transported players to alien worlds, alternate universes and the shores of Hell itself, and in doing so helped to trigger the 3D-graphics arms race. ...