A rough account of what I did with Emacs recently.
May 18
The Help is another movie rendering of
something that Selene's read (and that I haven't) and it stands
well enough on its own. I think I'd like to read the book for
comparison.
I deleted the Facebook app off my phone as it's become
increasingly unusable of late. I was somewhat amused at the
phone's suggestion that deleting the app would delete all
Facebook's data, too. If only.
May 15
Jane Eyre wasn't really my sort of
thing, but it was made well enough at least. Herself says they
left out a bunch of bits from the book.
May 14
Happy birthday, Dad! (I've been a bit slack about including
these lately...)
May 12
Beery evening with some coworkers (and an ex-coworker). Great
food at Bear, too.
May 11
Tintin was
so-so. There was nothing really wrong with it, it just lacked that
unknown quantity that raises movies above the average. It was
certainly fun to watch, and the rendering of the various
characters into fully-animated people (while retaining the cartoon
look, feel, and occasionally physics) was all well done, but at
the end I felt pretty underwhelmed by the whole
thing. Still, better than that Twilight
nonsense.
May 6
Back in Dublin again. I just spent more time than was strictly
necessary trying to get a photo from a camera to that
social media website: iPhoto purports to facilitate this, but put
the picture in my "Wall Photos", which is something that
appears to have disappeared from any easily findable link on the
destination site, and the other choices (Profile photos, Mobile
uploads) don't appear in iPhoto's view of the world; then I get
the photo uploaded the old-fashioned way, i.e. upload file, and
discover there's no preview option, which leads me to upload it
with privacy set to me-only so I can fiddle with it first. I
thought the point of these things was to make it so that I didn't
feel any pain as my demographic information is effortlessly prised
away from me.
Breaking Dawn - Part
I was about as miserable as we expected - I think at this
point we're just watching it out of some sense of seeing just how
bad it can get. It's an awesome display of characters you don't
really care about lurching from one crisis to the next all because
of the female lead and her complete inability to make any sort of
sensible choice about anything, ever. I can't recommend enough
that you avoid this at all costs.
May 5
Off to Galway for a spot of family-visitng and craft beer
consumption.
May 4
The Ides of March was... I
dunno. It could have been, and given the cast, should
have been an absolutely top-notch piece of cinema. Instead it was
fairly mundane. I caught one of the plot twists, but missed
another, and expected at least one more. Not really essential
viewing, I think, in the end.