My hometown, Câmpina, in 1975. Yep, 50 years ago. Photographs from the location scouting for the “Magic Circle”, the first fiction feature movie of the documentarist David Reu. Digitized by Cineclic

V.H. Belvadi is hosting this month’s IndieWeb carnival, and the theme is “Where do you see the IndieWeb in 2030?”. Thank you for hosting and I’m happy this time I could arrive in time! First of all, I want to mention that whenever V.H. Belvadi is hosting the Carnival, it seems to overlap with a crisis in my life. Back in January 2025, I missed his “On the importance of friction” challenge, because I was on a hospital bed, half an inch away from death.

I think it’s about 15 years since I’ve last seen something from the Battlestar Galactica universe, so I decided it’s the perfect time to start once again. The series itself is pretty decent in size (74 episodes) and also benefits of a TV spin-off (“Caprica”), a couple of TV movies (“Blood & Chrome”, “Razor”, “The Plan”) and some webisodes as well. The universe is absolutely fantastic, the music (mosly by Bear McCreary) is top notch, the acting and sets are very well made, making this one of the best science-fiction universes made after 2000.

About 4 years ago, I purchased from a thrift store a mini-pc from Gigabyte. It is a bit on the older side, as it’s released in 2014, but it’s still a very decent computer. I’ve used it every now and then with my projector, because it runs Youtube and shit fairly nice and it’s also a good hardware on which VLC to run on. In terms of software, I could have gone for any Linux distribution, but I didn’t want to fiddle too much with the thing, mostly because 64-bit Windows 7 Ultimate worked fine out of the box.

Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn. — Rhett Butler

You can’t sleep, there are monsters nearby.

After about 9 years, my Sony MDR-ZX770BN broke, of course, not because they were bad, but because I was a moron and pulled them the wrong way. I’m actually sad about this, because they were solid headphones, with great range and still a great battery life, even after all this time, giving me more than 15 hours of playback with ANC on a single charge. So I had to get some replacements as soon as possible.

Alex Sirac is hosting this month’s IndieWeb carnival, and the theme is “Cycles and fluctuations”. Thank you, Alex, for hosting! The day/night cycle, the turn of seasons over the year, getting excited about something new and tossing that thing into the rubbish bin. We’re surrounded by cycles and we’re operating on a cyclical demeanour, until we realize we’re running around the same behavioural patterns of the humanity itself. It’s easy to be philosophical about this, I think every one of us just took a moment at some point in life and started to ponder on why we make the same mistakes over and again.

Yesterday was a really nice and warm autumn day, so I went out with my nieces to take some photos. Enjoy!

Bix is hosting this month’s IndieWeb carnival, and the theme is “Ego”. Thank you, Bix, for hosting! Me. Me. Me me me, mememememe. ME. My site, my rules. I don’t usually like to talk about myself. I consider myself to be fairly common (not pretty common even!), and I don’t always think that I have anything in particular to say. I am sometimes funny, I am sometimes reliable, I try to do my best in all situations, both at the keyboard and away from it, and sometimes I get inspired by things, other times I just rant about some shit that really grinds my gear.

…and then my father says, “It’s the right goat, but it’s the wrong end!““ — Hunwald

Sizeof.cat hosted this weekend The Quake 2 Thunderdome!, where a group of dorks gathered into a nice death match of Quake 2. Of course, I got splattered over and over, but it was pretty fun, although Quake 2 is not on the top of my shooters list, this being the first time I play it for more than 10 minutes, as the match descended into mayhem, with over 20 people concurrent players!