Month: December 2018

Bird Box Quick Review/Thoughts

I just finished watching Bird Box on Netflix. I liked it with a few caveats that would be mild spoilers that I’ll talk about at the end.

The movie is about a woman, Sandra Bullock, and the young children living in a post-apocalyptic world trying to make a journey to a safe haven. Through flashbacks, we learn what happened to the world and how the woman ended up where she is.

Content warnings for suicide, blood, implied and mild gore, close-ups of eyes, imaginary voices.

I found the movie to be very tense and unsettling. More thriller/suspense end of the horror spectrum than shock/gore. I’m not normally a horror fan because most end up in high in shock/gore which I don’t like. Suspense horror pushes my fear/anxiety buttons in a way I do like. The payoff isn’t the point. Not knowing what but knowing something is out there.

Bird Box pushed those buttons in the best ways.

Rating 4/5

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I’m learning to knit

So the other day I bought a beginner’s knitting kit. Eventually, I will have a small scarf.

yarn-and-needles

These are the first “good” rows I knitted after about three attempts.

goodish-rows

For my first practice session, I learned the knit stitch, purl stitch(which is a reversed knit stitch), and how to castoff(ending a piece so it doesn’t unravel). My first “finished” piece was wider at the end because I didn’t pull the yarn as tight at the end.

first-finished

The next day at work I had an interesting experience looking at a sweater. I could ‘read’ the stitches. It was like seeing the code of the matrix. Honestly, it reminded me of how I felt when I started learning how to program. The realization that this complex thing (program or sweater) is made up of these small parts (lines of code or individual stitches) and you can make it, is just really good.