You go into an Errol Morris documentary with high expectations, and The Pigeon Tunnel meets them. I really liked it.
I thought my web app’s date/time display functionality was broken. Went chasing things down, and it turns out that, if you turn on Firefox’s fingerprinting resistance, it forces Intl.DateTimeFormat().resolvedOptions().timeZone to UTC.
Roger Ebert - Night of the Living Dead (1969) audience review
Interesting observation of the state of movies and matinee audiences at the end of the 1960s.
(Read due to the The Incomparable episode on Night of the Living Dead.)
Slack interprets Mastodon post bodies as “mrkdwn”.
🤔
libyaml doesn’t support emitting comments? 😞
Sonoma apparently breaks wallpaper settings in all kinds of ways. I was able to mostly get things back the way that I want, but you apparently cannot have two different shuffled images on separate monitors.
Simple little zsh function that makes my life easier every day:
function newdir {
if [[ $# != 1 ]]
then
emit-warning usage: newdir directory
return 1
fi
mkdir -p $1 && cd $1
}
There’s nothing in the JSON specification that says that Graham’s number is an invalid value, although finding a computer that could do anything with that would be challenging.
Make everyone’s life easier and just statically link everything. Including libc.
Watching Andor again. I know what happens and yet I’m still tense.
One of my favorite lines from any movie— Roberta Muldoon from The World According to Garp:
I mean, I had mine removed surgically under general anesthesia.
(Yes, it doesn’t mean much out of context. No spoilers, but, what a context it came from…)
In the (northern hemisphere) Fall 2023 Apple operating systems, you can disable animated images throughout the system, with an option on a context menu to enable individual animations.
Finally.
So apparently, due to a 1920s Supreme Court case, all the data that current cars gather on you (e.g. every place you’ve been in the past however long) can be searched by the police without a warrant.
Watching old movies reminds me: I don’t miss dealing with paper maps.
Cicada season is annoying.
The most jarring thing when watching non-English language films is when some random English pops up in the middle of the dialogue. You’re left with a “where did that come from?” feeling.
Hour and a half documentary on the creation of the Apple Newton and the fandom that developed.
Hang in after the credits for the poutine scene.
Sunny X, composed by Tyondai Braxton, performed by Third Coast Percussion
Oddball and out there and awesome. 📺🎵
The most epic Wikipedia article I’ve ever read: Air Canada 143: Gimli Glider. Someone had fun writing this one.