BTW I’m not in the US at the mo’ just on Netflix ;)

I’m so excited you watched Sherlock! I’m in the middle of house moving right now just took a little break from packing and started browsing your blog. Good to see you’re keeping yourself busy with various things-lotsa things here that made me smile. Lets catch up on twitter or something once I’ve moved. Cheers from Oz.

Games:
Borderlands 2 in local co-op with a friend. We’re playing once in a while, and we’re nearing the end.
Might and Magic X Legacy: Because it is turnbased and remind me of my youth. And those games are hard and this is comparatively easy. :D
Marvel Puzzle Quest. Because match-3 games can be played in short bursts, and King are evil and I don’t like Candy Crush.

TV:
Formula 1 season 2014. My sister got me hooked. Next weekend is Malaysia.
QI (We’re currently watching “I” – (2011/2012) on BBC Entertainment)
+ Whatever seems interesting when we sit down and eat our evening meal.

Books:
Theoretically reading Lord of the Rings again. I started reading for my son, but he read ahead of me in between, so I need to read the parts I miss in between… and failing.

Movies:
I think I’ve seen something at the cinema after Batman Begins, but I can’t remember what. Not a movies person, though I did enjoy The Avengers and Iron Man 3 on DVD… or our PVR box.

Coding:
Coding Java for monies.
Also want to find time to put into my current project of a remake engine for Eye of the Beholder 1. Like that hasn’t been done before. Right now I want to make something more in the style of Might & Magic (not Heroes of) 3, 4 & 5. (WIP screen: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/134973/eob/eob_current-state.png)

PS. Java is much more fun when it is legacy code, 10 years old and written by a Fortran programmer.

Game: This thing which is a bastard but I can’t quit until I win. Which I have almost but not quite managed to do ever.

TV: Old episodes of 3rd Rock From the Sun and in new stuff there’s the wrapping-up of How I Met Your Mother, Bones, Castle and Elementary for some nice easy formulaic detective-ing and Big Bang Theory and Community for the funny. Nothing terribly groundbreaking.

Books: The Wise Man’s Fear, having read Name of the Wind at a pace the sequel has grabbed me less intensely but is still a lot of fun.

Movies: Not really anything recently, but Guardians of the Galaxy does look like fun.

Code: nope.

@ StuartB:

Yeah, have to agree with that, but when the holy crap moments happen then it’s the best.

@ Luke Maciak:

Well The Stick of Truth is truly a good addition to the show.

@ Liudvikas:
I just finished, I believe, the preceding book to Like a Mighty Army, assuming that one *just came out. Wasn’t bad, but seemed to just advance the story, didn’t have any of those “holy crap” moments I’m used to in the series.

Games?
Currently spending most of my time between The Last of Us (not really liking the stealth aspect of this game), Far Cry 3 (get burned out quickly, just want to complete the campaign), Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag (just started), and when I just want to game but mindlessly, Zen Pinball 2. All on Xbox 360, of course.

TV?
Finishing up most recent Parks & Rec season (I need my Rashida Jones fix), started watching Clone Wars on Netflix again (own a few seasons, getting back into it)…that’s about it at the moment. Finding time or desire to just sit and stare at a screen passively has been tough lately.

Books?
Just wrapped up the most recent David Weber Safeworld book, assuming one didn’t come out in the last month or so. About to read one of those zombie Star Wars books next…

Movies?
I should really go see that new 300 just for Eva Green…but other than that, movies have dried up at the moment.

Coding?
I don’t code, lol. I’ve been very purposeful in avoiding coding in my life as that’s not the career track I want to go down, yet somehow I find myself in an ecommerce manager role that requires a lot of HTML, some CSS, and it’s looking like javascript, of which I know nothing. I find myself responsible for finding an entirely new ecommerce platform and it’s been daunting. Beyond that, an utter fail at trying to help a friend set up a WordPress website from scratch has left me pretty drained and mentally fried with acute knowledge of my limitations. Going to try to earn my Google Analytics certification sometime this year though.

What game are you playing right now?
I’ve been playing Fallen London for a year or more. No other games, but I’m not very fond of gaming anyway.

What TV shows are you watching right now?
I am always watching a shitload of stuff, but not a lot of it is decent. True Detective was good in a weird way, mostly due to actors and atmosphere. Black Sails is delivering some visuals, but it’s not that exciting as it could/should have been. House of Cards, s2 – well, that was fun. Still like A Good Wife a lot. Looking forward to another season of GOT, of course. Grimm is quite watchable. Hannibal is one of those things, like watching an accident – horrible, but you can’t turn away. There’s a lot of others – my escapism levels are cranked up to the max considering the events in Ukraine and Crimea.

What book are you reading right now?
Words of Radiance by Brandon Sanderson. He’s trying to keep up with his GRRM ambitions and failing, main reason for me being that I cannot care about his crowd of characters. Martin made me care even about those I hated. I still have half the Wheel of Time series on re-read, before I get to the last ones, that Sanderson wrote, and I dread that moment.

Surprisingly, I have recently downloaded Transmetropolitan too, I have read parts of it a few years ago, but I saw it on Comixology and decided to start from the very beginning. I have been reading a lot of comics lately. Lazarus is doing well, Private Eye too, and Saga, of course. I have recently finished Locke & key and it was awesome. East of West is full of post-Apocalyptical goodness.

What movies have you watched lately?
The last ones were Hobbit and Gravity, I think. I sat through the boring stupidity of Hunger games 2: even hungrier, and I deserve a medal. I also watched Don Jon and loved it, which was quite surprising. It was recommended by a friend, I would never have watched it based on the trailer.

What movies are you excited for?
Maleficent. Seriously, I keep looking at the promo images. Angelina was born for that role. Too bad the movie itself is probably going to be goofy. I am going to watch Veronica Mars, even though I wasn’t a huge fan of the series, I just like the whole ‘fan crowdsourcing’ deal.

What are you coding right now?
I am trying to get back to Javascript (despite hating it for the longest time), all that Backbone, Node.js, the whole gig. I decided that I needed a real-life application so I started a blog with Ghost on my hosting, doing translations of ‘Song of Ice and Fire’ essays that I found interesting, to Russian. The translations themselves proved to be harder than the learning :) mostly because the ones I found interesting were in the range of 6K words.

@ Liudvikas:

My students have been telling me about the South Park game. As a rule I’m kinda weary about games based on things because they rarely turned out well but I hear it is good.

I have been meaning to check out Cosmos as well. I’m thrilled that a documentary about science is getting so much exposure. This is good. :)

@ k00pa:

Everyone’s Firefly experience goes more or less like this:

I think this has a lot to do with the fact that by the time you get to the end all the characters kinda come to their own, and their dynamic clicks into place. There are hints of wonderful things that could unfold in the future if the show was given a chance like:

– Relationship between Kaylee and Simon
– Mal and Innara’s “will they or won’t they” thing
– Shepperd’s deep dark secrets
– River’s deep dark secrets (though these are explored in Serenity)
– Wash and Zoe having best marriage ever
– Jayne’s journey to actually become a genuine hero
– etc…

You have all of that, and this wonderful crew who could get in all kinds of crazy hijinks.. And then it’s over. Forever. Except for that one movie which will rip your heart to shreds if you watch it. :P

If you decide to watch Breaking Bad keep in mind that Walter is actually the villain of the series, and the show chronicles his transformation from an ordinary guy to an absolute fucking monster, without ever ceasing to be a likeable, releasable and compelling protagonist. As I was watching it there was a number of scenes that literally made me go “OMG, what the fuuuuck Walter!!!”.

As for Game of Thrones: never get attached to anyone. Everyone keeps dying in horrible, horrible ways. But the show is great. It starts very low key – with a standard, mostly “realistic” fantasy setting with no for the most part no magic or monsters, and it ramps up from there.

@ IceBrain:

Ok, I’m writing down all these comic book titles so I can investigate them later. My brother just signed up for Marvel online thing so that he can read the original Guardians of Galaxy. I kinda want to see the movie first, so the comics don’t ruin my enjoyment. :P

I haven’t really played much with Haskell outside of just doing some of the online tutorial to get the feel of it. It is really interesting and I want to do more in it, I just don’t have any project ideas either. :P

@ IceBrain:

Oh, nice. Glad to hear that. I was kinda ignoring that movie specifically for that reason. Nice to hear they managed to make it more nuanced. I might need to check it out now.

@ alphast:

Aaand now I’m playing Minimetro. Thanks’ a lot dude. lol

I’ve heard of Murakami before, but so far I have yet to read any of this things. I think 1Q84 is on my reading list already, but if it isn’t I will probably add it.

As for Java, I spent most of my college years coding in it, and I’m kinda over it. I like it, but I hate it. The verbosity of the language and the obtuse way it chooses to do things drives me nuts.

@ Scott Hansen:

Holy crap, just watching the video for the Spartan Race made me tired. Much respect for doing this. I’m the kind of guy who would make a spreadsheet calculating how many times I could “forget” my gym clothes in high school and nope-out of phys-ed activities without it affecting my overall grade point average. :P

Games: Well, I’m actually not a gamer, but I did a Spartan Race last year and have been training for another :)

TV: Walking Dead (of course), Game of Thrones, Helix (Syfy shows can be a little iffy…), Falling Skies. My wife decided on Korean dramas =-O

Movies: New movies, foreign language movies, etc etc

Books: Listening (slooowly) to Peter Hamilton’s Commonwealth saga. I’m on book 5 of 6 and I think I’ve been listening for over six months now. Great books…probably not for everyone, but it sure passes the time commuting!

Coding: Working with Docker containers. I’ve now got Plex, Sickbeard, Couchpotato and Sabnzbd all in separate reproducible containers and playing nicely together! It’s a learning curve but it sure feels like a clean way to manage different applications. Anyone know how to get Transmission to speak Upnp to my router from inside a container??? So close….

Scott