kind note
I always meant to become a member of the Filmhouse in its previous incarnation, but never did. This time, I’ve decided to take the plunge and get the little red card.
Hopefully I can make time next weekend to see the Sorceror rerelease as my first member’s ticket.
This also means I get to futz around with beancount and try to keep track of how much value I get out of the upfront cost. Cos, y’know, it’s not a hobby if I don’t write some custom code.
We didn’t make it all the way through Happy Feet in the cinema for our second trip. There’s a lot of “mild peril” in there.
Just won my first round of lunchtime mahjong!
Last night I had the honour of introducing two people to the wonder that is “jurassic park melodica” on youtube.
Cars and TVs don’t need jingles and dancing light sequences for switching on and off. What possible benefit is there to this?
With everything becoming a general purpose CPU but with wheels/a screen, product owners are just saying “Sure, why not?” instead of “No, that’s pointless”
Sadly, it doesn’t look like Oldboy is in the Wee Filmhouse section, so I don’t think it’s a kid friendly screening. He’ll just have to put up with the louder volume.
In the last three days I’ve watched three films of my choice, start to finish without interruption. It’s been a while.
And let me tell you, 28 Years Later, Monsters Inc, and then Bone Temple is a great run of movies.
The amount of highland cow themed AI slop on display in Edinburgh is quite something.
I’ve installed home assistant and started configuring as many things as I can. I needed another timesink.
Ninety minute slack huddles are why I’m glad I invested in lightweight, open backed headphones.
Very excited to book tickets for me and the wee one to see Monsters Inc at the Filmhouse this weekend. Hopefully I can get him shouting “Mike Wazowski!” instead of “You’re a poo!” for a little while.
Started coming up with a complicated scheme to better account for paypal transactions in beancount. Zerosum accounts, statement parsers…then realised I could just stop using paypal completely and solve the issue.
Beginning to think that shouting “Electric Boogaloo!” every time I see a variable name, heading, or just generally coming across anything with the number “2” in it might be making me look old.
Why yes, it’s an excellent use of my spare time to add activitypub compatibility to the blog instance I sometimes use to post to social media. What else would I do with my evening?
I’m getting my first exposure to the newer Jurassic Park films with Dominion. Is this now some cross between Mission Impossible and Taken but with dinosaurs?
I’d forgotten what an absolute belter Silent Night, Deadly Night. Great film to watch with pals in a pub.
I think Subway should have stopped at “Festive Menu” rather than “Ultimate Festive Menu”.
Disney+ has started having sync issues, I think. A couple of times a minute it seems to skip a few frames as if to catch up. Is this some kind of obsolete TV bullshit? It’s streaming over a Google TV which I hoped would mean we’d avoid that.
I know, I’m old, but I really don’t need constant, slow motion, hi-def, blindingly bright video ads for food while blearily nursing a coffee before a flight.
I’m sure pubs are struggling, but I got charged £5.90 for two pints of soda and lime this evening, so I’m not feeling all that sympathetic.
Getting tempted to try and make the wee one watch Mysterious Cities of Gold. Can’t take any more “trio of friends learning lessons” shows.
The wee one was sick today so we ended up watching films.
Watched the original Pete’s Dragon and there’s a lot more alcoholism and child violence than I remembered.
Of course, Disney+ immediately offers the remake, so we watch that. It opens with a deadly car crash and features guns.
Doing great on the “What’s that, Daddy?” today.
Time for some Horror at Fang Rock with lunch.
Bumped into an old friend I haven’t seen for several years…decades?
Him: “Still writing code?” Me: “Oh aye, still at it” Him: “Fuck that AI nonsense, right?”
Double whammy of pleasant morning feelings.
Strongly considering shifting my work day to include 2-4am so that when I’m inevitably awake and staring at the ceiling, I can at least run down the daily count of work hours.