Kevin C. Wong

Spot Reviews 05/26/23

iOS App - Ivory (2023) [+] Tapbots made a well-regarded Twitter client and when Twitter shut down their 3rd party API they had to pivot and make a Mastodon client, so I guess the UI is much like Tweetbot. Compared with the official Mastodon client, Ivory is available as a Mac app not just iOS/iPad. I feel it has a cleaner interface (Mastodon client seems a bit too busy). Ivory is $25 per year subscription so if you're needs are very modest the standard Mastodon client is good enough.

KFC Secret Recipe Fries [/] Kind of salty french fries, more or less normal size. Bigger than McDonalds and Popeyes fries, which are very good fresh but because they're thinner they stale fast and are easy to overcook. By the time I returned home the KFC Fries were a bit cool but still tasted fine and had good texture.

Movie - Hunt (2022) [/] This is a South Korean spy thriller set in the 1980's. There's a high placed North Korean mole in South Korea's intelligence apparatus. National Security subchiefs Park Pyong-ho (Lee Jung-jae), head of the Foreign Unit, and Kim Jung-do (Jung Woo-sung), head of the Domestic Unit, are pitted against each other trying to discover which of them is the mole. Although there's a twist -- one of them is indeed an NK mole but the other is part of a plot to stage a military coup so neither has South Korea's best interests at heart. I did find the actors a bit too similar so I got lost about who was who in certain scenes but it was still a moderately exciting movie.