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July 12: Rooting around for a USB drive and found one with a capacity of 1GB given to me as part of a swag bundle by a vendor trying not to lose a contract back in, hmm, 2007? 1GB sure seemed like a lot of capacity when I got it. Right now it's about 1/32 of what I actually need.
July 11: Domestic Man (cape flaps): one light fitting replaced, one guestroom TV restored to operation.

Bit of wheel re-invention: hacked together enough python to take a blob of text and one image URL and post it to Mastodon as a thread. For reasons. As it currently has an oauth token hardcoded in it I'm not sharing it right now, but the only real tricky bit was that when the API docs say media_ids[], the square brackets are part of the parameter name.
July 10: Hurrah, Silo is back! (well, it was back last week, but we saved up an episode so we could have a feature-length one tonight). I'm not sure how I feel about the whole amnesia thing, although it makes sense in the context it's being played in.
July 05: Went to watch our two missing Voyager episodes only to discover we had in fact watched them, I'd just not recorded the fact. Oops.
July 04: Biiiiig virgin media outage - 3pm to 7, roughly, and no acknowledgement of it until about 4pm, either. Oh, and there's no customer support over the weekend.
July 03: Echo Valley: well, that was a mistake. Featuring a cast of terrible people who make worse decisions than the Twilight woman, and that's saying something. By the time we got to the "clever" ending I'd long since stopped caring. I mean, sure. There are people - families - like this in real life. I don't watch movies for real life. I watch movies for escapism. I do not want to have to sit through terrible people making terrible decisions because "it's how life is".
June 27: Anna was a lot of fun. It had that same borderline silliness that Luc Besson's other movies have, but also worked well as a fairly solid thriller. I do want to see a timeline, though. The whole thing is full of flip-back reveals.
June 26: Things have been a little hectic of late, hence the lack of updates, but anyway. We're on season 6 of Voyager. We watched all the classic Jack Ryan movies (confirm distance to target, Vasilly). We watched Clint doing Pale Rider. We took a powerboat tour of the Dun Laoghaire / Dalkey / Killiney area courtesy of Goat Boats. We sweltered, since that is currently the done thing in these parts. DVD rip project: languishing. Other nerdery: proceeding in fits and starts.
June 05: Finally got to the end of Voyager, except for the end of season five / start of season six which by my estimation will show up on reruns in a few weeks' time. The ending was, eh, ok. I wasn't keen on the whole in media res way they pitched it: never mind how they got where they are, they got there, and that's that. And of course the storyline never clears that up. But, ok, I guess they could've done worse. I guess now we'll be ploughing through Deep Space Nine a good deal more quickly.
May 31: Went to Howth and had a mediocre brunch at a too-hip, too-expensive spot on the main street. Feh.

Since we'd watched some old Jack Ryan previously, we opted for The Sum of All Fears this evening. For a Belfast lad, Ciarán Hinds makes a pretty convincing Russian... this was again a lot of fun, but not too much for the deep thought. Like, Our Hero Jack the smart analyst commandeers a pickup truck (from a guy who just stands there and lets him take it) and goes driving around a locale that's both on fire and radioactively hot with no ill efects for the purpose of getting to a shipping warehouse which the local police are evidently plenty capable of getting to, in force, by themselves. Well done, Jack. Anyway, it's a good yarn for all that, and even though you pretty much know how it will work out they do a good job of cranking up the tension at the end.