After making their way through high school (twice), big changes are in store for officers Schmidt and Jenko when they go deep undercover at a local college.
In the evening Esme and I watched 22 Jump Street. I liked the movie and rate it a 7 out of 10.
As Finn, now 17, struggles with life after his captivity, his sister begins receiving calls in her dreams from the black phone and seeing disturbing visions of three boys being stalked at a winter camp known as Alpine Lake.
In the evening Alice, Esme, and I watched Black Phone 2. I liked the movie and rate it a 7 out of 10.
Famous movie actor Jay Kelly embarks on a journey of self-discovery, confronting his past and present with his devoted manager Ron. Poignant and humor-filled, pitched at the intersection of regrets and glories.
In the evening Esme and I watched Jay Kelly. To me the movie was mostly extremely boring and I rate it a 4 out of 10.
A wedding reception is coming to a close in the Hollywood Hills when the blissful day is shattered by the death of one of the newlyweds. Though the incident appears to be an accident, Homeland Security Investigations agent Carmen Sanchez and her partner, security expert Jake Heron, discover that the tragedy is the third in a series of similar deaths and conclude something far more sinister is at play.
The two uncover chilling evidence pointing to a serial killer who has taken evil to the next level. Dubbed the Honeymoon Killer, this man isn’t interested in his victims but in creating his own macabre masterpiece from their graves—focused on the survivors and reveling in their grief. And now his dark obsession has turned to Carmen and Jake…
The Honeymoon Killer has decided they are the perfect next target. Take one out and delight as the other crumbles. Time is running out as a deadly game between predator and prey begins.
In the evening I started in The Grave Artist by Jeffery Deaver and Isabella Maldonado.
After waking from a four-year coma, a former assassin wreaks vengeance on the team of assassins who betrayed her.
In the evening Alice, Esme, and I watched Kill Bill: Volume 1. I had seen this movie years ago, together with Esme and my mother. I liked the movie once more and rate it a 7 out of 10.
Today I finished reading Coyote Hills, Clay Edison book 6 by Jonathan Kellerman and his son, Jesse Kellerman. I really liked the book; a page turner.
In the early afternoon I finished Evil Bones a Temperance Brennan novel by Kathy Reichs. I liked the story, it was a good read.
Clay Edison has left behind the Alameda County coroner’s office to strike out on his own as a private investigator. He’s perfectly happy working low-stakes embezzlement cases—that is, until PI Regina Klein calls him with a mystery only he can solve. The son of a wealthy couple has washed up dead on the shores of San Francisco Bay with drugs in his system and a head injury. The police are calling it an accident. But the parents are adamant something’s not right—and as Clay digs deeper, he uncovers a horrifying tangle of betrayal and lies.
Originally I planned to work some on tumblelog in the afternoon
but… the Fusion drive of my Mac Mini Late 2014 had died.
So I started to recover a Time Machine backup on a 2TB external hard
drive. As this would take many
hours I started reading in Coyote
Hills,
Clay Edison book 6 by Jonathan Kellerman and his son, Jesse Kellerman.
A group of friends trapped in a time loop, where mysterious foes chase and kill them in gruesome ways, must survive until dawn to escape it.
In the evening Alice and I watched Until Dawn. I liked the movie and rate it a 7 out of 10.
A pair of underachieving cops are sent back to a local high school to blend in and bring down a synthetic drug ring.
In the evening Alice and I also watched 21 Jump Street. I liked the movie and rate it a 7 out of 10.
During my afternoon break I finished Wolf Hour by Jo Nesbø. Although a bit slow in the beginning, in my opinion, it soon became a page turner. Recommended; very good.
Small creatures—a rat, a rabbit, a squirrel—have been turning up throughout Charlotte, North Carolina, mutilated and displayed in a bizarre manner. But one day, as Tempe is relaxing at home alongside her aimless, moody great-niece Ruthie, she’s diverted by a disturbing call. The perp is upping the ante. This find could be human.
Tempe visits the scene and discovers that the victim is a dog. Someone’s pet. As one who has always found animal cruelty abhorrent, Tempe agrees to help apprehend the person responsible, and she acquires an equally outraged ally in semi-retired homicide detective Erskine “Skinny” Slidell. Needing a better understanding of possible motives, Tempe seeks input from a forensic psychologist. The doctor has no definitive answer but offers several possibilities, warning that the escalating pattern of aggression suggests even more macabre discoveries—and a shift in the perp’s focus to humans.
And then it happens. A woman is found disfigured and posed in a manner that mimics the animal killings. Subsequently, people Tempe cares about begin to go missing until it becomes clear she is being taunted, the target in a sick game that has her and Slidell racing against a ticking clock and facing a terrifying question: “What is pure evil?”
In the evening I started in Evil Bones a Temperance Brennan novel by Kathy Reichs.
Three 6th-grade boys ditch school and embark on an epic journey while carrying accidentally stolen drugs, being hunted by teenage girls, and trying to make their way home in time for a long-awaited party.
In the evening Esme and I watched Good Boys. The movie was funny and I rate it a 7 out of 10.
A young girl who goes through a difficult experience begins to see everyone's imaginary friends who have been left behind as their real-life friends have grown up.
In the evening Esme and I watched IF. I was expecting more from it and rate it a 6 out of 10.
In the evening I fixed a nasty bug in the Perl version of tumblelog
introduced the 28th of March, 2025. I had replaced a todo
counter with taking an array slice, wrongly assuming that if in Perl
one makes the slice larger than the actual number of elements the
whole array was used. Instead new elements, set to undef, are added.
This resulted in the Perl version failing with a lot of warnings on a
blog with just a few entries. This didn't occur while running the Perl
version for Plurrrr because this blog has well over a thousand entries.
The fix was an easy one: calculated the minimum of the size of the array and the desired size and use it, minus one, as an upper bound in the slice.
After a test with the tumblelog included example Markdown file passed
successfully, I pushed the new version to GitHub.
When their evil enemy resurfaces after 16 years, a group of ex-revolutionaries reunite to rescue the daughter of one of their own.
In the evening Esme and I watched One Battle After Another. It took me a while to actually get into the movie. I rate it a 7 out of 10.
Two weeks shy of his wedding, a socially awkward guy enters into a charade by hiring the owner of a company that provides best men for grooms in need.
In the evening Esme and I watched The Wedding Ringer. I liked the movie, it's funny, and rate it a 7 out of 10.
In the evening I finished The Proving Ground. What a page turner: excellent. Highly recommended.
Minneapolis, Minnesota, 2016. When a small-time criminal and gun dealer is shot down in the street, all signs point to Tomas Gomez, a quiet man with a mysterious past—and deep connections to a notorious gang—who has seemingly vanished into thin air. Other murders soon follow, and it appears Gomez is only getting started. Meanwhile, Bob Oz, a down-and-out suspended police officer with a dubious past of his own, becomes fascinated by the case: he is obsessed with the notion of hunting down a serial killer who only he can understand, a killer with a story as tragic as his own.
Minneapolis, Minnesota, 2022. An enigmatic Norwegian man with ties to Minneapolis—a self-described crime writer—has traveled to the United States to research the Gomez case, in the hopes of writing a book about it. But as his investigation progresses, the writer’s seemingly neutral position reveals itself to be more complicated than the reader is initially led to believe.
In the evening I started in Wolf Hour by Jo Nesbø.
In the early afternoon I finished Faithbreaker, the final book in the Fallen Gods trilogy by Hannah Kaner. Of the three books in the series I liked this one the most; a lot of action.
Burned-out ex-baseball player Hank Thompson unexpectedly finds himself embroiled in a dangerous struggle for survival amidst the criminal underbelly of 1990s New York City, forced to navigate a treacherous underworld he never imagined.
In the evening Esme and I watched Caught Stealing. I liked the movie a lot and rate it an 8 out of 10.
Following his “resurrection walk” and need for a new direction, Mickey Haller turns to public interest litigation, filing a civil lawsuit against an artificial intelligence company whose chatbot told a sixteen-year-old boy that it was okay for him to kill his ex-girlfriend for her disloyalty.
Representing the victim’s family, Mickey’s case explores the mostly unregulated and exploding AI business and the lack of training guardrails. Along the way he joins up with a journalist named Jack McEvoy, who wants to be a fly on the wall during the trial in order to write a book about it. But Mickey puts him to work going through the mountain of printed discovery materials in the case. McEvoy’s digging ultimate delivers the key witness, a whistleblower who has been too afraid to speak up. The case is fraught with danger because billions are at stake.
It is said that machines became smarter than humans on the day in 1997 that IBM’s Deep Blue defeated chess master Garry Kasparov with a gambit called “the knight’s sacrifice.” Haller will take a similar gambit in court to defeat the mega forces of the AI industry lined up against him and his clients.
In the evening I started in The Proving Ground, a Lincoln Lawyer novel by Michael Connelly.
In the evening Esme and I watched Roofman. I liked the movie and rate it a 7 out of 10.
Dr. Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant but egotistical scientist, brings a creature to life in a monstrous experiment that ultimately leads to the undoing of both the creator and his tragic creation.
In the evening Esme and I watched Frankenstein. I liked the movie and rate it a 7 out of 10.