what Dave thinks about movies, books and everything
{5/5} “Just one of the spars would have an internal surface area equivalent to fifty thousand Earths. And there are twenty of them. That’s a million Earths’ worth of living space — and that’s if they don’t utilise the cross-struts. If they do, you can easily double that figure… Is that enough room for you, […]
{3.5/5} “I wish I could forget I ever met you.” Three Thousand Years of Longing, released in 2022 Alithea is a narratologist, trying to make sense of the world’s stories. While in Istanbul to give a talk, she buys a glass bottle in a shop. Back in her hotel room, while cleaning it the top […]
Here are all the movies featuring archaeologist Indiana Jones played by Harrison Ford. The first 4 were directed by Steven Spielberg and co-written by George Lucas. I’ve seen the first 4 more than once. I also read 3 of the novels. Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark 1981 -> 3.5 (+) Indiana […]
I stayed at a cottage near Carnarvon, in the area known as Algonquin Highlands. The first 2 photos are from the lake the cottage was 30 seconds away from, Twelve Mile Lake. After that they’re from these trails: Dorset Lookout Tower Ridge Trail Hiking Network Circuit of Five Viewpoints Crests of Kennisis Beech River Trail […]
{5/5} “‘You were dating the woman that killed our father and kidnapped my son.’ ‘And that was bad…’” — Rafael & Luisa Jane the Virgin season 3, aired in 2016-17 Jane and Michael are married. Anezka is impersonating Petra while Petra is in the hospital looking like Anezka. When Michael figures out that Susanna is […]
{4.5/5} “But then there were the ‘deep commands,’ which allowed one to make a sudden, abrupt, inexorable change to reality itself, an edit so swift and complete that the world never even knew it’d been changed. Yet the deep commands came with a price: human life.” Locklands by Robert Jackson Bennett, published in 2022 Berenice […]
{4.5/5} “‘She’s hoping it’s cloaking technology. What do you think it is?’ ‘Something none of us have thought of yet.’” Spectral, released in 2018 Clyne invented a new type of goggles for soldiers to use on the battlefield. Now soldiers are seeing things on the goggles that they won’t be specific about — he has […]
{5/5} “‘Everything’s different now.’ ‘We can still think our own thoughts.’” Leave No Trace, released in 2018 Will and his daughter Tom live in a forest near Portland. They go into town once in a while for supplies — other than that, they live in a tent and keep to themselves. They are doing all […]
{5/5} “What happens on the Mile stays on the Mile.” The Green Mile, released in 1999 In 1935 Paul was a prison guard working on death row where prisoners were electrocuted. The chair is nicknamed “Old Sparky” and they have killed some men who did very bad things. When John Coffey, an enormous black man […]
{4.5/5} “Be advised, lots of smiling faces in this room and all over the world, over.” Apollo 11, released in 2019 The Apollo 11 mission landed on the Moon and returned to Earth in 1969. Thousands of people camped out to witness the spacecraft’s launch live. Hundreds of people were involved on the day, getting […]