Fahim Farook

I haven't been writing much lately — too much coding 😛

But I'm looking at writing a bit more and it all started with this poem ...

https://write.farook.org/efflorescent/

#Writing #Poetry #Art

Oh that looks nice 🙂I wish I could draw like that ... Started to get into art several times but can never get things to look the way I want them to and then something shiny comes along and I forget all about it 😛

Dear really smart person who doesn't really understand the words that you use, keep being you. Others will definitely know that you are "smart" 🙄

It's interesting how when people can't make sense of something, they decide that it has to be AI ... I thought I AI was supposed to make things more intelligible 😛

I read your text and I thought it was poetic .. not AI. But I guess it takes all sorts?

Screenshot of fake LinkedIn account showing how they managed to make their follower count look huge

Ran across a new form of (at least for me) scammer on LinkedIn. Of course, I reported the account to LinkedIn.

But in case you're interested, the full details are on my LinkedIn post:
www.linkedin.com/posts/fahimf...

Image shows the profile in question.

#Scam

An image of a game screen showing various fruit and the combined numerical value for a row of fruits. You have to figure out what the value of a particular fruit is based on the provided information.

This is a game that I developed and forgot all about after the problem was solved 🙂

The full story is here:
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/fahimfarook_ive-always-got-a-side-project-going-on-that-activity-7348890391158370305-pO-n?

Should I publish it? What do you think?

If it'll help I can send you my really abysmal numbers 😛 Haven't had a sale in months? years?

But I'm working on a new book. All we can do is write ... if the impelling force is to write for the sake of writing 🙂

MacWhisper has this new Parakeet model which transcribes audio at astonishing speeds. I created subtitles for a 30 minute video, which normally takes about 15 minutes, in under 1 minute!

#MacWhisper #Transcribing #Subtitles

Tourist Family (2025) ⭐ 8.4 | Comedy, Drama 2h 30m | Not Rated

"Tourist Family" (www.imdb.com/title/tt3491...) is a movie that's well-worth watching — humours, heart-warming, and full of heart.

I started watching it due to the Sri Lanka connection and didn't expect much but it easily exceeded my expectations.

#Movies #Tamil

Jaat (2025) ⭐ 6.3 | Action, Drama, Thriller 2h 38m

Watching "Jaat" (www.imdb.com/title/tt3222...) at the moment.

All the hallmarks of Indian movies these days — harkening to mythology, disregard for facts, Sri Lankans with Sinhala names with Tamil mothers and non-Sinhalese named brothers etc.

#Movies #Hindi #HodgePodge

Planning a trip to the beautiful island of Sri Lanka? 🌴 Want to connect better with locals? Saying "hello" is a great start, but knowing how to greet people... Sri Lankan Greetings for Vloggers. How to greet Sri Lankans correctly in both Sinhalese and Tamil. - YouTube

Been busy getting ready to move, but we managed to get another video done about how to greet people in Sri Lanka in the local languages 🙂

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTrRY_n-7Uc

#SriLanka #YouTube #MultiLanguage #Travel

🥥 From Fuzzy to Flavorful: The Art of Coconut Preparation! 🥥Ever wondered how to transform a whole, hairy coconut into the creamy, delicious goodness used ... Coconut Basics for Vloggers - YouTube

Ever wondered how you open up a coconut to get at the flesh inside for making coconut milk?

Wonder no more 🙂 We did a video explaining how we do it in #SriLanka:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clxnEHRxKGk

#YouTube #Coconuts #CoconutMilk

It's certainly fun 🙂 The wife is very excited by the prospect of doing more stuff. But since we aren't travelling at the moment, it feels like a lot of work to write scripts, record things, edit it etc. 😛

Probably more exciting if you record and upload while on a trip (possibly)?

Thank you 🙂Just read your post about your own YouTube channel just now. Subscribed.

We are still new to YouTube and don't really understand how some of it works. Apparently, some people can hide their subscriptions ... didn't even know that existed 😛

A wide river in Austria

The golden roof in Innsbruck, Austria

A deep bank of snow, Austria

10 days since we started our "world tour". I'm writing a blog now but we're also trying a bit of "travel vlogging" on YouTube. It's a bit rough and ready but here's the channel link if you're interested! #writingcommunity #travel #youtube #amwriting
youtube.com/@chrandalf?s...

Congratulations! And good luck 🙂

TravelTales - YouTube Welcome to "Laurie & Fahim's Travel Tales!" 👋Join us, Laurie (your friendly Canadian) and Fahim (your insightful Sri Lankan), as we embark on new adventures...

We're really missing Sri Lankan food. So, as one does, watching a lot of YouTube travel videos.

This led to us discovering some funny mistakes made by vloggers very often 😛

We started our own YouTube channel to (possibly) help prevent them:
https://www.youtube.com/@TravelTalesLF

#LKA #SriLanka

There's an extra "CA" in "psychological" isn't there? Or am I hallucinating? 🙂

I'm sure you'll have a lot of fun!

We (the wife and I) loved gallivanting around and trying out different places. Now we are kind of tethered in place due to health issues, but the itch to go roaming still comes up every once in a while 🙂

I didn't know this feed existed!

Thank you for the feed. I'm bookmarking it 🙂So many interesting posts ...

Uptime robot screenshot showing 100% uptime for the last 90 days.

I do understand thatI have minimal traffic to my custom Sri Lanka feed. But quite happy with my quick and cheerful #golang app running on #podman is doing good. Listening to the @bsky.app fire horse and keeping trending #lka tweets on #sqlite

bsky.app/profile/ukr....

Congratulations on the sale of the house. And good luck with the travels 🙂Wish you get to see all that you want to see!

Well, we are kind of better. We both had this virus thing which lasted for about 2 weeks. So, so tired and all we could do was sleep.

Hope you're over the tiredness yourself.

Nilavuku Enmel Ennadi Kobam (2025) ⭐ 6.5 | Comedy, Drama, Romance 2h 16m

"Nilavukku En Mel Ennadi Kobam" (www.imdb.com/title/tt3059...) is different, young, fresh, funny.

First third was great. Then melodrama. Then better. Then complicated. Then melodrama again.

The songs in the movie were totally on point!

Also, written and directed by Dhanush.

#Movies #Tamil

I've seen Libgen mentioned a lot yesterday. Libgen has had copies of my books for over 10 years.

Stewing about it, or saying "They are taking money from me!" will not help me.

So I consider Libgen a place where others can find my books. LIke a library. And I continue to write.

#Writing #Piracy

I'm in there too. But I decided not to worry about it. Why worry about things you can't change? 🙂

Piracy has been around for years and it happens no matter what you try to do. Ask the MPPA 😛 So I can't stop it.

And if Meta turns pirate and uses my books to train AI, I can't stop that either.

I might (possibly) know how you feel 🙂

Kids today, I tell you 😀

I once had a guy call me about my Windows computer being infected by a virus and he continued on trying to convince me after I told him that I had no Windows computers at all.

He even persisted after I asked if he was calling from the moon base 😛

What's wrong with scammers these days? They are so low-effort. You call them out on their scam and then they never speak to you.

Back in the day, they would have spent half an hour trying to convince you that they are not scammers 😛

#Scams

The ending picked things up a bit again despite the leads not being able to emote. All I got from them was wooden expressions and monotonous delivery.

All the heavy lifting was done by the supporting cast.

#Movies #Hindi #Netflix 3/3