Hacker's Diary
A rough account of what I did with Emacs recently.
- October 7
- Dinner and a show! How novel!
Dinner was at the recently-opened Eddie Rockets branch at Point
Village; there's another restaurant beside it advertising that
it's opening in October, but it looks a little ... static so I
wonder about that. In any case, I think I first visited a Rocket's
in 1992 and I've been back periodically in the interim without
ever having a bad experience. It's not haute cuisine, but they do
what they do well. The only slight niggle was that the music was
(ha ha, old man Waider) a bit on the loud side. As in, "let's
shout across the table at each other to converse"
volume. Hopefully they'll sort that out because I'll happily go
back. As it was we chose to decamp to the nearby Costa for
post-dinner coffee and chocolate.
From there, Blade Runner 2049 in the
iSense screen at Odeon Point Village. I don't think I've been in
the iSense screen before, and it was totally the right thing for
this movie. First take: incredibly good movie. It's beautifully
filmed, it respects the original without cannibalising it in the
way that The Force Awakens did to A New Hope
(and hey, I liked TFA!) and the cast does a stellar job
of conveying the whole thing. Yes, it's not perfect: for some
reason the design team felt that Las Vegas wasn't gaudy enough
as-was, and what it was really missing was a bunch of giant
statues of naked women; likewise, there were bits of gratuituous
titilation elsewhere in the movie that could have as easily been
omitted with no loss to the atmosphere or plot. Then the music:
for the most part, it worked, and it echoed Vangelis' original,
but there were a few spots where it was hard to tell whether
Sudden Loud Noise was the foley or Hans Zimmer dropping an anvil
on a stack of Korg equipment. And I'm still turning one tiny plot
point over in my mind with dissatisfaction (basically the whole
bit with K/Joe being lo-jacked) but for a movie of this scale I
think that's a pretty short list. Given that I'd skipped almost
all the pre-movie faff (I watched the two trailers, and that was
it), I'm gonna go back now and watch the mini-features and wait
for the inevitable taking of sides over whether it's a worthy
sequel or some sort of huge mistake driven by a desire to strip us
rubes of our cash.
- October 4
- Errrrr... (BBC, as ever)
| 2017-10-03 23:12:02 | America's gun culture in eight charts |
| 2017-10-03 23:12:02 | America's gun culture in seven charts |
| 2017-10-03 23:12:02 | America's gun culture in nine charts |
| 2017-10-04 18:15:45 | America's gun culture in 10 charts |
(timestamps are BBC's; actual timestamps are more like 2am, 6am,
5pm and 6pm on October 4th)
- October 2
- My upgrade to "High Sierra" seems to have been fairly
straightforward, although I notice ClamAV crashed on
startup. About the only thing I've checked so far is if they've
upgraded the version of OpenSSL, and yes, they have, so now my
various SSL-scraping Perl and python scripts are once more
functional.
Oh, and I need to figure out what types of keys MacOS (macOS,
whatever) allows by default because I keep having to fix the
client-side "can't use that key" setting every time I
upgrade.
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