A rough account of what I did with Emacs recently.
June 25
Deadpool is quite possibly the best
movie I've ever seen (it's entirely possible that this is because
I'm pretty much the target audience). The pop-culture and movie
references, the wisecracks, the music, the self-referential gags,
the self-referential self-referential gags... it's just one smash
hit after another. Strongly recommend, but that may only apply if
you're, well, me.
June 19
Log into Health Insurer's website, check their travel insurance
offerings. First question: "does your health insurer provide
overseas coverage?". JEEZ, GUYS. WHO MIGHT KNOW THAT?
(off to read my policy to find out)
And then the mandatory button requiring me to select a gender
wasn't working, so I figured someone else could have my
business.
(...which turned out to be significantly cheaper, too)
More: "$COMPANY is here when you need us. Please do not
hesitate to contact us if you have any questions." This is
after telling me multiple times that since I didn't sign up for
their €10 after-sales service package, I would have to fork
over cash if I wanted to contact them.
June 17
A cute hack, or how I discovered that a site was using
python-compatible hashing:
Build script which parses HTML generated by site into
objects. Lots of use of hashes (or, ok, if you insist, dictionaries).
Validate output by adding code which regenerates the
HTML.
Convert the whole thing to Django; in the process, things
that were in hashes are now being stored in the DB
backend.
Note that the HTML validation is failing due to an ordering
issue.
order = {e: e for e in [ep.title for ep in self.ep.all()]}.values()
Went to Bloom in the Phoenix Park; same problem as I had last
year - there's not a clear demarcation between "food you can
eat right now because you are hungry" and "food to buy
and bring home", leading to an amount of confused wandering
followed by opting for the same thing we had last year (pulled
pork, admittedly very, very nice).
Becoming Jane was a good enough
movie, but I didn't much like that they basically attributed the
opening line of Pride and Prejudice to one of her male
friends. If you're going to make a movie about an
independently-minded successful woman, why undermine it in this
way? Anyway, that aside, it's a bit of fun, and we did enjoy
it.
June 1
Apparently I've watched over a thousand movies since I started
this diary (August 2000), although it looks like I didn't
seriously start taking notes until late 2002ish.