Kevin C. Wong

Spot Reviews 08/26/22

Movie - SAS: Rise of the Black Swan (2021) [/] UK action film where SAS soldier Tom Buckingham (Sam Heughan) and his fiancée Sophie (Hannah John-Karmen) are held hostage along with the people on a Channel Tunnel train. Grace Lewis (Ruby Rose) leads the mercenary Black Swans, disavowed and burned by the British government after one of their operations went viral on the Internet... An ok action film.

Novel - Red Mars (1992) [/] The first of Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy. In this book Mars is begin colonized and it's already been a couple decades with several cities settled and more people coming. There are various groups who have different philosophies of what to do about Mars (between just doing more colonization to more exploitation to more conservation) and the conflict escalates into murder... Although interesting it was a bit of a hard read and I'll probably not finish the trilogy.

Super Agent for Safari (2021) [/] Tried this for a bit. It's an extension that automatically fills out web site privacy dialog (toggles for accept/reject advertising cookies, functional cookies, performance cookies, other cookies). For one web site (Pinnacle Entertainment store) it kept showing the dialog then maybe filling it out then closing it, for every page load. Luckily you can turn it off for specific web sites.