A rough account of what I did with Emacs recently.
November 30
Deadpool and Wolverine:
wow. What a waste of money, time, talent... I think they could've
maybe spent some effort on a script, or at least a story. I mean,
yeah, I laughed at bits of it, but I also spent a lot of it
waiting for the next bit I could laugh at.
November 29
The Two Jakes:
I liked it better the second time around, although as with
Chinatown it's been long enough that I'd forgotten much
of the details.
November 23
Milestone! Ran my 50th Parkrun this morning, and somehow
contrived to finish 50th place overall in a field of just over 100
runners at Poolbeg. The going was a little tough on the 3-4k
stretch due to a headwind, but I still made it in under 26 minutes
(just!) and have duly ordered my "I have done 50
parkruns, I'll have you know" swag. Shout-out to Sanctuary Runners
who have been my team from my first Parkrun and who celebrated
with me today with some cake and good cheer!
November 22
I'm pretty sure I read The Day of the Jackal
but I don't recall ever seeing the movie, which is about as old as
I am. Obviously somewhat of its time, and in some funny ways, like
the prevalence of luxurious moustaches and the fact that every
single person smokes like it's going out of style, but it holds
together well.
November 20
COVID booster and flu shot. So I'm kinda broken right now.
November 16
Rewatched Lucky Number Slevin.
Such a great movie. I'm inclined to watch it again and
try to figure out at what point you've been given enough clues to
figure out the twist.
November 13
Did Run In The
Dark. Despite recent form, kicked ass mightily, clocking just
under 25 minutes for the 5k.
November 9
Cary Grant, dragged out of a premature retirement, opposite
Grace Kelly, half his age. To Catch A Thief
is fairly lightweight but fun. I didn't figure out who the real
thief was until the unmasking, and the list of possible suspects
was pretty slim.
November 8
Busy week: not much by way of nerding. Tonight's entertainment
was The Fisher King,
a movie I can't recall when I first saw, and which I am rather
fond of for no particular reason other than perhaps the whimsy of
it. I dunno. It's a good 'un.
November 3
Every single time I touch CDK, I wind up having a fight with
homebrew. And a fight with homebrew usually involves me nuking the
contents of /opt/homebrew at some point, which randomly breaks
other stuff I'd inadvertently caused to depend on whatever's in
there this week.
November 2
Equilibrium
(last seen some time in 2004) is a reasonable reimagining of
Farenheit 451, kinda-sorta-ish. It's a bit silly, but it works
well enough.
November 1
Offical Secrets
is not just based on true events but apparently hews quite close
to them. It's an account of a GCHQ employee who blew the whistle
on a memo asking for dirt on UNSC members in the run-up to the
vote on the Iraq war. There's not a lot to the story - she did the
thing, a paper published the memo, the legal system, the end - but
it never feels artifically drawn out or otherwise padded. And I'm
sure it was a harrowing time for all involved, given the potential
outcomes.
DVD project got distracted by a side-quest again:
converting a bunch of YouTube videos to work within the same
constraints as I've been doing with the DVD rips. This proved to
be an entertaining trip through formats offered by YouTube
and what magic set of options I needed to make the
otherwise straightforward "mpegts with ac3 audio" work on the DLNA
player (I'm still not 100% sure if it's the resolution, the aspect
ratio, the bitrates, or some other damned thing that finally make
it more-or-less work).