Tomasino Blog

Today in the United States many people are partaking in a boycott of major businesses as a protest against the policies of the current administration and the preemptive acquiescence of these mega-corporations.

Plex Media Library Plex is a home media platform which lets you catalog and manage your media.

I recently learned about the Criterion Challenge.

Photo by Diane Helentjaris (https://unsplash.com/@dhelentjaris) In the late 90s I had a website called “A Film A Day” where I tried to review 365 films in a year.

It’s Christmas time again and with that comes so many wonderful cozy traditions.

It’s time to clean the keyboard.

Comic book superheros are modern myths.

REGOs and Greenwashing I recently had a nice discussion with my hackerspace about Renewable Energy Guarantees of Origin (REGO) and Iceland’s role in the scheme.

I’m so bad at blogging.

The critic speaks The Rings of Power has wrapped up its first season and my friends are sharing their joy with one another.

What is happening?

In the wake of the news that the archbishop of San Francisco will bar Nancy Pelosi from receiving communion in his archdiocese I’ve been thinking about canon law, the catechism of the Catholic church, St.

Tomorrow is the first of three wonderful holidays in Iceland that make up Fastelavn, a carnival leading up to Lent.

Today is the Icelandic holiday Bóndadagur, or “Husband’s Day”.

Here we are in mid-August and the world is still crippled by the global pandemic.

COVID-19 (The Coronavirus) has been in Iceland now for a few weeks.

This winter has been quite a ride.

Iceland has so many wonderful things to offer, from an amazing public education system to lush natural beauty.

Click to see the 3D Panorama Today I needed to peel the boy away from his tablet and Minecraft, so I tossed on some boots and a light jacket and we went to explore the mountain behind our apartment, Helgafell.

The previous two weekends in Icelands have been full of parties.

Today was Wit’s first day of school.

Today we got our keys!

On Friday I took off from work and we went whale watching from the Reykjavík harbor.

Wit made a friend!

We have an apartment!

We’re wrapping up our second week in Iceland.

There’s one aspect of the journey to Iceland that I haven’t mentioned much and that’s money.

I’m sitting at a beautiful airbnb in Reykjavík across from my fabulous wife while my son flips through some activity books on the couch.

With one month to go before we hop on the plane to Iceland our days seem mostly filled with nervous anxiety and panic over how much stuff we still need to purge.

We’re just under 2 months away from the big move to Iceland.

Tonight is my last night in this house.

There is so much data in the world that’s now available to all of us.

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Yes!

TL;DR Amazon Fulfillment does not offer a vacation hold for package delivery.

I’ve been interested in obtaining Italian citizenship since my time in the Navy, about 17 years ago.

I weighed myself today.

We’ve been planning the move to Iceland for a few years now, but there’s not much we can do until Italy processes my application for citizenship.

In the last year I’ve become increasingly interested in the ancient Greek philosophy of Stoicism.

A cord-cutter’s life The cord-cutter movement is growing quickly and with good reason.

I have a problem.

I just looked to the side and noticed the pile of stuff building up on the corner of my desk.

I haven’t written in a little while, so I thought it would be a good opportunity to give some background on things that have happened, and where I would like to see life going for a while ahead.

My rating: 1 of 5 stars Xanth was the first series of books that caught my attention as a child, and I have Piers Anthony to thank for my love of reading today.

My rating: 5 of 5 stars This was hands down one of the very best technical books I’ve ever had the pleasure to read.

My rating: 2 of 5 stars I had to take a few days to think about how I should review this book.

It’s become somewhat of the popular joke to have a post about Zombie Survival these days, so I guess I’ll toss my two-cents into the fray.

My rating: 2 of 5 stars This book started out very strong for me.

Last night at exactly 5:14:39 UTC, the latest NASA project touched down on the surface of Mars.

My rating: 4 of 5 stars Short review: I loved it.