A rough account of what I did with Emacs recently.
June 21
The Accountant:
aside from a bit of preaching to the camera, actually a pretty
good movie, although I'm not sure "People with Autism can be
Relentless Killers too!" is the sort of positive and uplifting
message autism support groups would go for. Oddly enough, I saw
the "final" twist coming well in advance, but didn't expect the
twist before it (I was expecting a character to have met a tragic
end somehow). Anyway, yes, worth watching.
June 14
I think I may have watched Unforgiven
with Dad many years ago, but it's certainly been long enough ago
that I'd pretty much forgotten most of the story and confused it a
little with some other western where coffins wind up on the
sidewalk. Anyway. It's actually slightly comedic before it gets
very much not so, with Clint Eastwood almost hamming up the "Old
Cowboy tries to get it together for one last gig" routine along
with Morgan Freeman. It's a good movie; a little grim, a little
predictable, but good nonetheless.
June 8
Wrapped up Good Omens tonight. A few things didn't make
the screen, and I felt like the balance of events in the last two
was a little off (basically, if your TV series is about
Armageddon, it's a bit weird to have half an episode or more about
what happened after Armageddon didn't) but I don't want to suggest
I didn't enjoy it. A lovely piece of work, fantastic performances
all round, and I think I want to have another run through the book
now (probably my fourth or fifth read of it!)
June 7
After some investigation I have concluded that my GoPro camera
creates files which its own built-in webserver will not deliver to
a client in their entirety - the connection closes at the 2GB
boundary, while the files may run somewhere past that. Tsk. (You
can't retrieve the rest using HTTP's Range header, either.)
Arrival
was stonkingly good, the more so because I'd absolutely no idea
what to expect so - as I presume was intended - I spent a good
deal of effort trying to figure out what was going on and
gradually recognising that clues had been left along the way. It's
a slow movie, and nothing explodes (well, mostly) and you're
probably gonna have to actually engage your brain for it, but it's
definitely one to see.
June 2
Finished Season 5 of Bosch
which was really good except for the very obvious hooks for Season
6, and the whole Bosch/Chief confrontation where you're wondering
if Bosch didn't just copy the file he brought with him, and if not
why not.
Also now working our way through Good Omens
which is basically perfect, and I do like the speculation that you
could've swapped Tennant and Sheen's roles without
difficulty (i.e. Tennant playing Aziraphele and Sheen playing
Crowley). I think Sir Terry would've been very happy with how this
has turned out.