Some people use horoscopes or magic balls or dice to decide on something they don’t want to decide themselves. I have been relying on "probability" in the sense of using the first picker wheel google has suggested. For years.

Today I used my spider-tingling autistic pattern recognition curse talent to decide on something very scary and important. The default set of outcomes is 4 on this website, look what happens:

See the pattern? If we started on the specific field in the even cases, we land on exactly the same cases.

I tired the odd numbers, the opposite happens - start with no, end on yes and vice versa.

To sort-of quote my new favourite mini-series "The Other Bennet" on BBC: happiness is in our own hands.

I do have a funny feeling some evil rules of combinatorics are at play, but this is not my part of math, I am more of an Analysis girlie, so the mystery remains mysterious.

I have had the most stressful evening today. After trying to purchase a case for an upcoming delivery of a very special e-ink tablet, amazon has decided to have some beef with me.

For context - they have been denying the purchases of ebooks recently and today they kicked me out of logged devices and apps - kindle and audible included. Then came a request to change password, which I obliged to, but it turned out that all my downloaded books were not downloaded anymore. The same with audiobooks. And dictionaries.

I quickly turned Viwoods AIPaper mini into an offline back up for everything, so I won’t loose my library, at least. The 4 ebook preorders-orders for the year were all cancelled without notification. 

Such a nice situation, eh. The reason might be me not being the perfect customer - I only subscribe to prime once or twice a year for a month and this May they have charged for the new cycle with this thing actually being cancelled three weeks before. 

For the past couple of months, I have been using other sources for ebooks - numilog for French (the app is horrible, though) and ebooks.com, but still the biggest chunk of my digital library came from Bezos. Well, not anymore. The Universe has spoken and I don’t want to wait till these guys close my account. I have more than 150 books in total, many used for re-referencing stuff, so these licences are important to behold. As it is not possible to calibre the fuck out of kindle books anymore, there was no choice other than to "brick" a whole device (which is actually good for the battery, won’t lie).

The story with the case is interesting, though - I found it on another website for more than half the price. So it all made me think a bit harder and come to a decision to avoid amazon for good. 

It used to be cheaper and more convenient, but not anymore. 

There is a whole other level of unethical and barbaric working conditions, which I tried to ignore and now am ashamed of. Should have purged it all earlier.

P.S. the guys on Reddit have been most helpful and suggested some other cool resources for ebooks, merci beaucoup ☺️ 

P.P.S. Asterix stuff had to wait, hopefully, tomorrow will be a bit more merciful in terms of time.

Late to the party, but I have just catch up with the second trailer for the upcoming myth adaptation and it looks like they have decided to h&m everything. Visually bland; casting with their American accents is, I do beg you pardon, generic; the snippets of writing in the trailer sounds more like a ChatGPT trying too hard. If you have recently (in the last 10-15 years) been to H&M or any fast fashion shop or website, you might have noticed many shades of beige and grey with façons being copy-pasted across market.

Original Odyssey is fun. Odyssey is adventure. Odyssey is gods being gods and humans being humans, and sometimes gods being like humans, too. If you have never read Homer, I highly recommend the audiobook by Stephen Fry, he did it justice. His whole quadrilogy did Ancient Greece justice. In comparison, I doubt that Nolan will include the part where Odysseus had to wear a dress of a princess. The audacity of the probability of skipping it, but I just don’t have the faith anymore. Heroes in dresses and the long faces do not go hand in hand, unfortunately.

Don’t know about you, but I would like to see colour, passion, remarkable characters instead of another reincarnation of Game of Thrones in its last-seasons-dying-agony. Sometimes art is not about pretentiousness, like the more serious something is, the more credibility it deserves. NO. Bronze Age was distinct - just go and check any suitable museum’s archive. Homer‘s (or whoever actually did it) story will live on, while this movie will be forgotten by the end of summer.

Rant over, thank you for your time!