media log
logging and reviews of books, movies and videogames.
- >Unmasking Autism24 Dec, 2025 - 26 Dec, 2025★★★★(book)
- >Demian26 Sep, 2025 - 03 Oct, 2025★★★★⯨(book)
Amazing characterization.
...but I have to say the second half is weaker.
- >The Grand Budapest Hotel06 Sep, 2025★★★★⯨(movie)
It's soooooooooooooooooooooo good. Classic Wes. I loved the snow with the music that I think was in Dorian. Just keeps twisting and turning and takes an interesting concepts and keeps it fresh.
- >Everything is Tuberculosis03 Jun, 2025★★★★(book)
- >The Five People You Meet in Heaven04 Apr, 2025★★(book)
This book is a fun read, honestly, but it just seems... amateurish? It also seems almost dishonest at times. When it makes me feel something I feel like I'm the one doing the heavy lifting, and while that may be on purpose, it definitely doesn't seem intentional here.
Again, it was engaging and went quick as a book! It's not that bad, I just feel it pretends it's deeper than what it is.
- >I Who Have Never Known Men09 Mar, 2025★★★★★(book)
Woman this is good.
- >Fahrenheit 45126 Jan, 2025★★★(book)
- >The Merchant of Venice31 Dec, 2024★★★(book)
- >An Introduction to Thermal Physics11 Dec, 2024★★★★⯨(book)
Feels weird to rate a textbook in terms of other books, but I'm giving it 5 stars because I don't see how this could be considerably better.
Maybe I'm biased because I ended up really liking the topic of statistical physics in general, but I feel that this textbook really contributed to that. Everything is explained well and rigorously, it clearly states when/what assumptions are made, but still does back of the envelope calculations (e.g., finding an almost-formula for something using dimensional analysis) in a way that really resonates to how I would think about it. Some other textbooks are more like reference catalogs, but this one is clearly aimed at helping you learn and understand the topic.
A few other things I appreciate in the book are the quick calculations and gut-checks done throughout the book (e.g., exercise 1.10: estimate the number of air molecules in an average-sized room), and the fact that Schroeder speaks in first person, in a way that feels very personal.
I think this is a good read for science-inclined people, even if you don't do physics, especially because it's something that is not commonly talked about in internet science education the way quantum and relativity is (which I now feel is a crime lol). Having done chemistry in high-school, I felt that this book helped me to "open my eyes", which I think is best characterized by the fact that I now know what temperature actually is.
- >Divorcio en Buda31 Aug, 2024★★★★(book)
Pages ~10-70 are kind of repetitive and boring, but the start and mostly the end are actually quite quite nice
- >Snow Angel (Reneé Rapp)12 Jun, 2024★★★★⯨(music)
This is such a good song. It starts of as a nice if not generic and boring ballad, but the second chorus is already kind of interesting with the contrast and a very nicely done high point. However, it just keeps getting better. You go to the bridge directly from the chorus and it does a number of turns that are just right. It's not something magical harmonically, but it just is so well produced. Everything is exactly where it needs to be, the intensity just keeps building and building. There's almost three times where it seems that there is a modulation (or tonization) to the "relative minor", but of course that should only happen once! It honestly reminds me of the invisible "half-modulations" of Jacob where you don't know when it happened. Of course this is not nearly as complex but it still a damn nice effect. The technical justification isn't the point, the point is that it just an amazing example of an artist knowing exactly where and how to put every element in a song.
