Pablo SB @iPabloSB@qoto.org

Giving your best is different each day. Sometimes giving your best means taking a day off to fight a cold and recover. Hopefully I feel better tomorrow. 💪

Yesterday, after failed negotiations, the Writers Guild of America went on a strike. I support them and wish them success in their petition for a fair treatment by the industry giants.

WGA on strike https://www.wgacontract2023.org/announcements/wga-on-strike

Happy International Workers' Day: https://ipablosb.com/2023/05/01/on-april-australian.html

Opened a bottle of 2013 Cab today. Rutherford has some of the best wines in the US, and Inglenook never disappoints. 🍷

When consuming books 📚 I always go through the book vs audiobook dilemma. I love the audio format, but I feel like I miss the chance to stop, reread a passage or highlight. I have the impression that audiobooks help me consume content while driving but it is more “superficial”.

If I had to choose the technique I love the most from my work it would be microscopy 🔬. Getting to see life at a cellular level remind me how complex we are and the amount of organization that goes into a single living being.

What can you expect to see - and not see - here: https://ipablosb.com/2023/04/27/what-can-you.html

Today’s pluralistic.net - Death panels post is extremely disturbing. Hard to read, but a good reminder that we need to keep politicians accountable for their despicable actions (or inaction). https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/26/death-panels/

I try to be politically correct, but this headline is making it very difficult.

Eat the rich https://www.bbc.com/news/business-65308769

The last two episodes of Ted Lasso (no spoilers) have been amazing. This season is perfect storytelling so far and I’m loving how they’re developing all the characters.

As a non-coder, I felt incredibly proud of myself when last week I managed to set up a macro for ImageJ that lets me execute a selection of actions on all image files within a chosen folder. It’s about 20 lines of code, but it works like a charm. I even coded a “Batch processing done” final message!

After almost a year, retook our Legacy campaign of Machi Koro Legacy. Had a fun quick game and managed to win, even though my wife always beats me it! Five games done, five more to go. https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/259081/machi-koro-legacy

Just finished the Mandalorian. It was good! And (no spoilers) I still think it’s the best Star Wars and Disney have published to date. Some episodes this season were better than others, but the last two are really, really good!