Watched Baby Doll (1956) 🍿
The neat trick this plays is having you not like Eli Wallach’s character at the beginning and mostly rooting for him at the end.
📷 Who leaves their suitcase locked to a bike rack?
Lushious Massacr’s Dragvestigations first anniversary episode.
As a cis-gendered person, I love drag as being punk as fuck. What can be more transgressive than violating gender norms? So, of course, my favorite forms of drag aren’t the androgynous ones but the gender-fuck ones.
Watched Far from Heaven.
A sad little movie.
Watched Megadoc.
The earlier parts are more interesting than the later ones. Things are fun for a while, then, not so much.
There are segments where the director does video blogs about the process of making the documentary, making the comment
Because all the really good documentaries about filmmaking has [sic] actually been stories about disasters.
Completely ignores the sexual abuse allegations.
Shia LaBeouf comes off as a dick.
Got reminded that one of the benefits of digital music is that the days of having to pay $40 for import CDs are over.
📷 Icy branches
Watching Jarman’s “The Garden” and the ladies doing the singing glasses in the rocky area with the old style green/blue-screen effects are giving me old Doctor Who vibes.
Today’s reason why I like dynamic languages: being able to do “caveman debugging” via print statements in libraries.
Bought the entire Curve catalog on Bandcamp and now I have monthly playlists of things to listen to through February 2027. (Merged with my ongoing trek through the Too Many Zooz oeuvre.)
Today I learned of the existence of https://github.com/«username».keys.
The fun in watching an Orson Welles movie that you haven’t seen before is the anticipation of what his nose will look like this time.
Hooray for brew bundle dump.
Bash’s treatment of empty associative arrays when set -o nounset is in effect is infuriating.
Worked around it by putting a bogus value in the array so that it is never empty.
Spent a few minutes finding all the status pages for all the services I use so that I don’t have to find them later when I’m having issues.
systemd enable is such a misnomer.
Barely set up box keeps defaulting to using nano and I’m confused as anything.
📷 Loop support
Getting Overcast listening statistics into a usable form
- Screenshot list view a page at a time to clipboard.
- ⌘-N to create new document in Preview.app, which uses the image on the clipboard.
- Use text selection to do the OCR.
- Paste into text editor and massage into CSV.
- Repeat until complete list copied.
Yeah, one could try to hunt down the SQLite database and reverse engineer the schema, but it isn’t worth it for a once-per-year thing.
Woman making announcement at a concert in the desert:
Can the girl who brought Redd Kross here come up here? Caroline or whatever?
(pause)
You got lost with us.
(pause)
My acid is in your car. It’s an emergency.
(from Desolation Center 2018 )