Jason Kottke

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  • Total Recall Mixed on

    Total Recall. First time! Maybe a little too Verhoeven/B-movie for me. (C+)

    kottke.org 2025-11-26

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  • Fantastic Four Mixed on

    Fantastic Four. It was ok? Aside from a few things, I’m having trouble getting excited about post-Infinity Saga Marvel. There was just a special alchemy about that whole arc that is proving impossible to reproduce. (B)

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  • Tron: Ares soundtrack Liked

    Tron: Ares soundtrack. Better than the movie. (A-)

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  • Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (season three) Liked

    Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (season three). Maybe didn’t enjoy this quite as much as the previous two season, but I love spending time with these people and look forward to doing more of that when season four drops. (B+)

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  • Iyoshi Cola Loved

    Iyoshi Cola. Craft colas are often disappointing, but this one was absolutely delicious. Wish I could get it in the States for less than $14 a can. (A)

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  • A House of Dynamite Loved

    A House of Dynamite. A very tough watch, but I thought this was fantastic as a tour of some of the different kinds of people who hold the fate of every single person on the planet in their hands every damn day. They’re tired, stressed, distracted, at cross-purposes with themselves, set in their ways, more celebs than leaders, and mediocre. And none of them have ever seen Dr. Strangelove? (A)

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  • Princess Mononoke Loved

    Princess Mononoke. I saw this in the theater on my last full day in Tokyo; they recently released a 4K remaster. Absolutely breathtaking. (A+)

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  • Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy Loved

    Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. Great spy thriller. Gary Oldman is fantastic in this. Cold War? Spies? Britain? I will pretty much watch as many of this type of movie as you can make. (A)

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  • One Battle After Another Loved

    One Battle After Another. Great. Especially Sean Penn. And it reminded me of a Wes Anderson movie for some reason? Like one that he would have made had he followed the Bottle Rocket path instead of the Rushmore Path. (A+)

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  • Leaving America Liked

    Leaving America. This is a 12-part podcast on the logistics, benefits, and challenges of leaving the United States. Oh, no reason. (B+)

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  • Awakening Your Ikigai Mixed on

    Awakening Your Ikigai by Ken Mogi. Perhaps a little over-simplifying when it comes to Japanese culture, but I appreciated the message of having a purpose. (B)

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  • In Praise of Shadows Liked

    In Praise of Shadows by Jun’ichirō Tanizaki. Read this book about Japanese aesthetics while visiting Japan — it provided an interesting context. (B+)

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  • Shopkeeping Liked

    Shopkeeping by Peter Miller. This was recommended from a couple of different vectors — pretty sure one was Robin Sloan. Lots of resonance to my work here and how I think about it (and want to think about it). (A-)

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  • Deacon King Kong Loved

    Deacon King Kong by James McBride. This was my first time reading anything by McBride and maybe I have a new favorite author? I love everything about this story and the way he tells it. (A+)

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  • Proust Was a Neuroscientist Uses

    My white desk doesn't work so well with the optical mouse, so for some dumb reason I'm using a 242-page book called Proust Was a Neuroscientist by Jonah Lehrer as a mousepad.

    usesthis.com 2012-01-27

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  • Sequel Pro Uses

    I also use Terminal, Mail.app (though I mostly check email on my phone these days), TextMate, iTunes (cannot get into Spotify or Rdio for whatever reason), Photoshop (grudgingly), Sequel Pro, and very little else.

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  • TextMate Uses

    I also use Terminal, Mail.app (though I mostly check email on my phone these days), TextMate, iTunes (cannot get into Spotify or Rdio for whatever reason), Photoshop (grudgingly), Sequel Pro, and very little else.

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  • Safari Uses

    Three browsers running all the time on OS X. Safari is my blogging browser, Firefox is my development browser, and Chrome is my fun browser.

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  • Magic Mouse Uses

    I REALLY should go and get that new mouse. [Twenty minutes pass.] I now have a Magic Mouse.

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  • Emeco 111 Navy Chair Loved

    So, I switched from a wheeled chair to a plain old chair and voila, no more back issues. I ended up getting an Emeco 111 Navy Chair in green from Design Within Reach.

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  • Shure SE115m+ Liked

    Connected to the MacBook Pro is usually a pair of Shure SE115m+ earbuds, my third pair of Shure earbuds. They cancel office noise and play music into my ears. They hurt a bit for the first week I wore them, but they're better now.

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  • Western Digital My Passport Uses

    I am typing this on an Apple Keyboard with Numeric Keypad connected to a 23" Apple Cinema Display connected to 15-inch 3.06 GHz MacBook Pro connected to a 1 Tb Western Digital My Passport portable hard drive on which I back up my files with Time Machine.

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  • Deacon King Kong 26 Nov 2025 Lovedaffiliate link
  • Shopkeeping 26 Nov 2025 Likedaffiliate link
  • In Praise of Shadows 26 Nov 2025 Likedaffiliate link
  • Awakening Your Ikigai 26 Nov 2025 Mixed onaffiliate link
  • Leaving America 26 Nov 2025 Liked
  • One Battle After Another 26 Nov 2025 Loved
  • Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy 26 Nov 2025 Loved
  • Princess Mononoke 26 Nov 2025 Loved
  • A House of Dynamite 26 Nov 2025 Loved
  • Iyoshi Cola 26 Nov 2025 Loved
  • Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (season three) 26 Nov 2025 Liked
  • Tron: Ares soundtrack 26 Nov 2025 Liked
  • Fantastic Four 26 Nov 2025 Mixed on
  • Total Recall 26 Nov 2025 Mixed on
  • Western Digital My Passport 27 Jan 2012 Uses