Mandaris

Recently Dave Rahardja posted a link to the clip that I had not seen in years.

I remember watching the VHS a lot when I was younger and still enjoy the thought of it. Check out the wikipedia page related to the movie.

This is the fourth installment of a movie franchise that has been going on for more than a decade. There are countless memes and jokes about making sure you don't mess with John's dog. It's fun, but it has also gotten formulaic.

The formula goes a little like this:

1. John is in a low point and things are really working out for him
2. Things get a little better and he’s making some progress
3. Big bad guy is introduced
4. State that John is a unstoppable killing machine
5. Big bad guy sets up a situation where lots of little bad guys go after John
6. John overcomes said obstacle
7. Queue something that increase the complexity of the lore around the franchise
8. Big bad guy sends even more people to fight John. Maybe even a Little Big Bad guy
9. John gets some help from someone
10. John overcomes Little Big Bad guy and minors
11. Brief reflection on how things aren’t getting better for John and he says he wants out of the game
12. John Kills Big bad guy

Through it all, we would wonder how is he going to get past this? There are variations and a couple jokes along the way. The film tries new things by adding some other characters, but I don’t know if I ever really care at this point. Maybe it was because I saw them all in the span of a couple weeks.

I would say the movie is good and it certainly brings the action, but I wouldn’t mind if this was the last one.

John deserves a rest.

Overview

With the price on his head ever increasing, John Wick uncovers a path to defeating The High Table. But before he can earn his freedom, Wick must face off against a new enemy with powerful alliances across the globe and forces that turn old friends into foes.

I was walking Lilliewhen I saw this furniture by the garbage.

It’s old but it didn’t look excessively dirty. I started thinking about how long the people who had owned this had kept it. How it had probably moved from one place to another before ultimately ending up here.

How much of my stuff have the same story or will someday in the future?

I’ve been reading some of the responses to the price increases coming to 1Password. I feel that a lot of the grumbling comes from the fact that it has been a little flakey after the change to the infrastructure in version 8 and the rise of some affordable alternatives.

For me, I will continue to use the application because I store more than just passwords in the system. I’ve also spent a lot of time training my dad to use 1Password.

Part of me wonders if I had wasted some of my time and energy being passionate about things that ultimately doesn't matter as much. Greg was talking about some of the tech that he uses and it got me thinking about what I use as well.

Part of me misses the enthusiasm. There was something genuinely fun about getting excited over a new app, tinkering with a workflow, spending a Sunday afternoon setting up a system that would last three weeks before I tore it down and started again.

I remember having a discussion about how some people like android over iOS, and a coworker that I trusted stated that it’s tribal. Maybe the feeling of belonging is missing.

Just a little reminder to check the things that you make have some way of being used by those who might have trouble seeing. I had a scare years ago and try to remember to check my site on a regular basis.

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