People want to be involved early in the planning phase of things, but when I introduce some new ideas they immediately start asking details about how to achieve those plans. If I instead go to them with ready made plans on a detailed level they are upset why they weren't involved earlier in the planning phase.

Doing something for a hobby sounds like doing that thing more casually. But many hobbyist are the most enthusiastic people I know and take their hobbies very seriously. There is a thin line between those serious hobbyist and professionals who do similar things. Sometimes the hobbyist can even outperform the professionals. The only difference is that the later group does it (mostly) for the money.

I feel like there hasn't been any memorable theme songs in recent movies or series. The latest one that comes into my mind that I could immediately recognise must be the Game of Thrones title theme. And that show came out already 13 years ago.

Is this again one of those "getting old" things? Remembering all those good old times and all the awesome shows and movies with a banger soundtracks. Or don't they just put that much effort into those anymore to make them more recognizable?

One big reason to prepare my own food is that I can make it the way I want. Of course some things can be added to those ready made meals as well to make them taste more the way I want. For example making them more spicy. But there is already something I don't like it's almost impossible to remove.

I rarely buy such meals. There are obvious benefits making your own, but the taste is one big thing for me. I usually only buy them if I know I wont have time to prepare anything for my self (or am feeling lazy).

It's nice to have all those safety and driver assistant features in my car, but in extreme weather conditions, when you most would need them, they struggle to work. In winter the sensors are often blocked by snow or ice and render them useless.

Of course those are just nice additional features. When they don't work it's just like driving regular car the old fashioned way. You just need ro rely on your own perception to catch all those potentially dangerous situations (which you should still do even when all the assistive functions are operational).

One of the great things working on a consulting company is that there are always new services released. Even though they are projects for our customers it's still thrilling to finally get your work out there for the wider audience.

It was bice back when I was still working on those projects, but it has been years since I have last time done that. Sure I get to participate on those launches and celebrate all the success, but it's not the same when you haven't been directly involved in those projects.

A good cliffhanger can keep me reading for hours. Some authors have really mastered the skill of keeping their readers captivated. But some take it a bit too far, weaving too many story arcs that intervene each others.

Privacy is big thing these days when it feels like every other service is just trying to harvest your data instead of just serving you. Their product is just a tool to get you hand over that data and the real product is you.

This has led to some people being extremely conscious of their privacy, even with the services that don't necessary collect their data. Or at least intend to sell it. Of course there is also the "traditional" privacy of being concerned who can access your data in the first place. Especially for the more personal and sensitive things.

While deploying our internal A.I. service I have been looking for GPU options to speed up the local models I want to enable as an option along the premium services. There are definitely no shortage of options, but they all come with quite hefty price tag.

As foretold the new Dune prequel series' first episode was just released. Even though the episodes will be released one at the time a week apart I couldn't resist watching the first episode right away.

It's too early to judge the series based on just one episode. The first one in a series is always a bit slow start. Setting the background, introducing the characters and setting the foundations of the main plot(s) takes time.

Since I have been cooking mostly for myself I tend to plan my weekly menu at once. That way I don't have to do groceries so often. Cooking for one means there is usually food for several days at once, so it's not really that many dishes I need to come up.

The problem is sometimes a food lasts for two days, other times three. That combined with the short expiry dates of some products can lead to situations where I still have food left, but need to already prepare the next one so the ingredients don't expire.

Couple of days ago there was an ad hoc inquiry whether anyone would be interested playing some boardgames today in our playgroups chat. There were few interested (as usual) and a couple of games suggested as well. I also suggested a game I just recently got, given that I have enough time to get familiar with the rules.

After not being able to finish building the ornithopter yesterday I could barely wait until I was able to get back to it after work today. It didn't took that long to go through the remaining bags and I was able ro put it together just in time before I had ro leave to play some badminton with my wife and her friends.

I finally got started building the LEGO Royal Atreides Ornithopter model from the Dune movie. I've had it waiting on my shelf since it's release back in the spring (around the time the part 2 movie was released). I wanted to build it much earlier, but for some reason LEGO decided to use some colourful brick and connectors in some parts of the model.

Today I visited one of our smaller offices. It's not actually even pur own office, just a co-working space where our employees can book desks and meeting rooms. The team is also not that local - put of the 6 people working at that "office" over half are not actually even living at the town, but around that area. They also mostly work remotely so it's rather uncommon for them to be at the office at the same time (we still missed one though today).

Sometimes you encounter a problem that you don't seem to have a solution. Searching for an answer doesn't bring any help either. You just need to figure it out somehow.

It often helps to step back and take some distance to the problem. Keeping hitting your head against the wall doesn't help. It's hard to come up with new possible solutions when your mind is fixed trying to solve the issue in certain way. Giving it some time. This can give some new perspective and getting back to the problem with new angle can help solve it. Try again the next day.

Over the weekend my wife's cats were staying with me as she was away. My own cat usually doesn't interfere with my LEGO building, she just comes there to hang out on the table. But my wife's vats are different. Especially the other one was constantly trying to play with the pieces I had laid on the table so I had to keep an eye on her not to lose any bricks.

Since I started collecting all those LEGO sets my plan has been to make a display of epic battlefield between the two classic castle factions the Lion Knights and the Black Falcons. The rest of the themes were just going to sit there on the side without too much thought on the scenery.

Building those older LEGO sets reminds me how bad things were back in the eighties. The instructions were quite challenging to follow. Not because they weren't detailed enough, but was sometimes hard to figure put those details.

Today I finished building the Stellar recon voyager, the biggest spaceship in the nineties LEGO M:Tron fleet. I always wanted that one, but back then could only afford the smaller Particle ionizer model.

I really like the M:Tron design of red, black and neon green. It really stands out from other LEGO space themes with their boring blues, grays and black. Another nice feature of the M:Tron line is the magnetic connectors that added a new dimension to the building.