A rough account of what I did with Emacs recently.
February 28
Wrapped DS9 Season 3 - a very flat sort of season end, but
apparently the studio caused that - and into season 4, wherein
Worf.
February 25
Restart did indeed fix persistence, which is mildly annoying
because if I hadn't done that and hadn't been poking at some
graphs I wouldn't have realised: no warnings in the UI or anything
else to tell me there was a problem.
February 24
Persistence still seems to be a bit hinky, or at least the
graphs that make use of it aren't working right. I think
it just needs a restart now that I've reconfigured it, but who
knows.
February 23
OpenHAB was looking for an update so I took the opportunity to,
once again, reconnect a stray Z-Wave device to the network. The
update itself was a bit lumpy: it breaks persistence, and the
automatic database upgrade tool failed to run because it couldn't
find Java 21 even though that was installed as part of the bundled
updates. In my humble opinion failure to run part of the update
should cause the whole update to fail, but what do I
know?
February 21
The Informant!
felt like they never quite decided how they wanted to play it -
comedy or drama. In the end, it was neither, and mostly I just
wound up feeling annoyed at the protaganist more than anything
else.
February 20
I've been looking out for Force of Nature: The Dry 2
since we watched The Dry, and it showed up on the box
earlier this week so I grabbed it for weekend viewing. It's
beautifully shot, and seems to stick fairly closely to what I
remember of the book. Also, ironically enough, it's very
wet.
February 19
And back to S5E15 which turns out (a) to be another
"Part 1" and (b) has a much bigger cliff-hanger.
February 18
We opted for S6E1. A bit disappointing how it pivoted: no
heroics from the crew, just some weird change of heart.
February 17
Accidentally watched Voyager S5E25 (the series cliffhanger)
instead of S5E15. Doesn't make a huge difference, although we'll
need to decide if we watch the second half (S6E1) or S5E15
tomorrow.
February 16
Back from a few days in Londinium, where we got the down-low on
the Freemasons (can't tell you, it's secret), ate at Caldera which
is still fabulous and not just because of the face-meltingly good
smoky Margaritas, and watched a few things on the glass box on the
wall. Of note:
Good Fortune
was described by Internet-famous nightclub owner jwz as "Keanu
is a guardian angel who is an idiot. You should already be sold
on this." Which, I mean, yeah, fair enough. But still. We
watched the trailer. We thought, hmm, ok, looks alright. We
rented the movie. We laughed. We snorted. We guffawed. Many
were the amused noises we emitted. There are a bunch of lovely
digs at "gig culture" and what not, and sure, the ending is very
much wishful thinking, but jeez. What do you expect if the main
character is a guardian angel who is an idiot?
See How They Run,
which could be described as "Saorise Ronan is a policewoman who
is an idiot." but that's not entirely correct and also
maybe not as compelling. This is a sort of a send-up of
murder-mysteries based around the 100th performance of The
Mousetrap and while I understand from reading the trivia
that you might pick up a few extra jollies from being famliar
with that play, it's by no means a prerequisite. We'd sort of
figured out who the murderer was despite the varied misdirection
and also figured out that there was a certain deliberate
telegraphing of events going on, but that's all part of the
fun.
February 9
I have a script to process the email reciept Tesco sends me that
turns it in to a note on the Apple Notes app, with each item part
of a checklist, so we can go through the delivered groceries and
verify that we actually got what the receipt claims we got. (Tesco
used be flaky enough about this - one missing or incorrect item
every two or three deliveries - but I don't think we've had a dud
in a while now). Of course, this stopped working today when Tesco
changed the format of the HTML they use for the receipt. It's
fairly hideous HTML - tables inside table headers sort of
thing. And I am using a HTML parser to pick it apart,
because that's how you do it. But they'd made some non-trivial
changes that I had to adjust for before it'd work. On the plus
side, their seven-column table with four actual columns now has
... four columns, so we'll pretend it's an improvement and move
on.
February 7
Mostly we watched The Adventurer: The Curse of the Midas Box
because the cast looked pretty sharp, but it wasn't great. It's
kinda Harry Potter and the Temple of Doom, complete with
subterranean digging using kids. Oh, except the magic is mostly
just stagecraft, and the MacGuffin is a prop stolen from
Stargate. The hero, such as he is, was so inept that I
kept wondering if Michael Sheen's character wasn't supposed to be
the actual hero. I mean, Mariah gives up every advantage
he has at the first possible opportunity, almost the whole way to
the end of the movie. Ah well. I'm probably not the target
audience in any case.
February 6
The Ides of March:
I felt like we'd watched this before but couldn't quite recall,
and definitely didn't remember the story. Turns out that yes, we
watched this back in May 2012. I think I'd rate it about the same:
it was ok, not great, and the twists were fairly
predictable.