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Barely set up box keeps defaulting to using nano and I’m confused as anything.

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📷 Loop support

Abstract looking blue field. It's a closeup of one of the supports for the Chicago L tracks on the east side of the Loop. There’s layers of postings that have been removed imprecisely, leaving ragged edges. There’s a blue light shining on the surface, causing the monochromatic look of the image.
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Getting Overcast listening statistics into a usable form

  1. Screenshot list view a page at a time to clipboard.
  2. ⌘-N to create new document in Preview.app, which uses the image on the clipboard.
  3. Use text selection to do the OCR.
  4. Paste into text editor and massage into CSV.
  5. 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.

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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)

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Personal state of streaming at the end of 2024:

  • Dropped Disney Plus and Curiosity Stream.
  • Continuing Criterion Channel, WOW Presents Plus, and Nebula.
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📺 Breakmaster Cyliinder - “Mad Max: Fury Road Rescore”

The iconic chase with the soundtrack completely replaced by a mashup artist.

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📺Abandoned - Soviet Space Shuttles

The old Buran program craft remnants continue to decay.

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Just watched They Drive by Night (1940).

A really wandering plot. Criterion labelled it “noir”, but I don’t know that I would consider applying that label.

I might never think of automatic doors the same way again.

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Recreating approximately 15 years of accumulated mail rules is not fun.

Glad that I was forewarned so that I could save a webarchive of my old rules.

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Today’s fortune(8) is another fine Zippy the Pinhead quote:

I HAVE to buy a new “DODGE MISER” and two dozen JORDACHE JEANS because my viewscreen is “USER-FRIENDLY”!!

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Watched Arrival (2016) again.

It is so good, but 😭.

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Today I learned that Slack has a per-person limit of 23 reactions per message. There can be more than 23 reaction “reacji” on a message, but they’ve got to be from multiple people.

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RISC V continues to progress in measured steps.

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I find the existence of the yes command to be a failure.

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yes | sudo unminimize

🙄😞

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Finally learned how to get Zsh help to work properly. Had to do a bunch of other stuff to get HELPDIR set appropriately for my setup, but, finally.

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Sticker graffiti got me to go to a band’s Bandcamp page and listen to them. Unfortunately, from their YouTube channel, they broke up last month. (No, I’m not going to link to them.)

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Watching Parents. What a good weird movie.

A boy in 1950s suburbia suspects his parents may be cannibals.

Michael: “What are we eating?”

Mom: “Leftovers, honey.”

Michael: “Leftovers from what?”

Mom: (laughs) “From the refrigerator!”

Michael: “We’ve had leftovers every day since we moved here. I’d like to know what they were before they were leftovers.”

Dad: “Well, before that, they were leftovers-to-be.”

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Criterion Channel's current “Rebels at the Typewriter: Women Screenwriters of the 1930s” collection

Finished watching all 16 movies in Criterion Channel’s current “Rebels at the Typewriter: Women Screenwriters of the 1930s” collection.

The ones worthy of rewatch:

You and Me has a miserable first half, but the latter half goes some wild places.

What Price Hollywood? is decent and is rightly known as a A Star Is Born precursor.

But the one that is head and shoulders above the rest is Finishing School. It turns “condemned by the Legion of Decency" into a recommendation.

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📺 The Moon’s Orbit is WEIRD

Really nice discussion of why the Moon’s path around the Sun does not involve loops.