Monday Links from the Gap Between Teams Meetings vol. DCCCLVIII

[NickFitz]

This evening’s viewing was a new episode of Traffic Cops

And tonight in Future Noir, I completed the very long scene-by-scene chapter - though it appears there’s additional stuff in later chapters relating to the differences in the assorted later cuts

Better...

[NickFitz]

I was quite looking forward to having shepherd’s pie for tea tonight, but my memory had led me astray and there wasn’t any in the freezer. Oh well, at least I got the drawers organised a bit better while I was hunting for it. In the end, I had the last bit of some chicken casserole from a few weeks...

[NickFitz]

Boomed! ...

[NickFitz]

Another week done!

Today I learned more than I wanted to know about threading in Python. But it was worth it because I ended up with a script that allowed me to reproduce the concurrent updates problem reliably, which meant that I could finally get in there with the debugger and...

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Cloudy and spitting here. From what the forecast says, it seems we can expect a whole day of drizzle punctuated with rain, without even the saving grace of a brighter, sunnier evening that we’ve had for the past few days. 11°C at present but it “feels like”...

[NickFitz]

In Future Noir, I’m into the very long chapter where he goes through the whole film scene-by-scene, filling in details about actors, props, general stuff that happened, and so on. It’s actually quite interesting

There’s been more showers. Still, after the recent heatwave, I reckon...

[NickFitz]

For tea, I had some lamb mince that Needed to be Eaten™ but I couldn’t be bothered dealing with anything too complicated. So I fried it up with some onions and garlic, mixed together various spices, and made a quick curry. A few dollops of that with chips; sorted

I didn’t...

[NickFitz]

Lunch: cold sausage bap (wholemeal) with red sauce

It’s turned gloomy here and been raining quite a bit

Down on the lawn, the bossy crow was wandering around just now, with the male magpie shadowing it a few yards away. The crow tried to assert its dominance...

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It’s a sunny start, with a few clouds about to make things scenic. Looks like it’ll generally get cloudier though, with rain likely (40-50%) after lunch (assuming I have time for lunch today). It’s 10°C but “feels like” 6°, with the high for the day expected...

[NickFitz]

In Future Noir, they’ve managed to assemble a cast and crew, and have built the largest set ever (at the time). All they need to do now is film it!

It doesn’t feel very warm tonight. It’s odd that a room temperature that would have had me turning the heating up a couple of months...

[NickFitz]

Tea has been chicken thighs, roasted with a smoky BBQ seasoning, with slightly spicy mini roast spuds, all with lashings of ketchup

Accompanying this, an episode of Forensics: Crash Scene Investigators (which is the one on 5, not the one from BBC Wales)

[NickFitz]

It’s been such a busy day that I didn’t even have time for lunch!

Quite Simpsonesque out, with a cooling breeze which was appreciated just now when I popped round to the chemist’s for the monthly prescription, it being that time again

The busyness was due...

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Sunny(ish) start for a change, but getting cloudier with a chance (35%) of a spot of rain around 9am. Not as warm either, being 11°C which “feels like” 5° and only expected to get to 16°. The barometers are steady at 1000/1008mB

[NickFitz]

In Future Noir they’ve ended up arguing over the script, brought in another writer (who thought the first script was excellent), and ended up taking parts of both. And, of course, funding being pulled and new funding secured, because that always seems to happen

Goodnight all...

[NickFitz]

The interviews and other stuff might turn out to be interesting, but I’m not sure I’m too bothered about the 2049 stuff

I sometimes think I should watch it again to see if it grows on one. But then I decide not to, or not yet ...

[NickFitz]

Tea has been sausage casserole out of the freezer with chips

This was initially accompanied by Apple’s developer conference thing, in which they got the embarrassing stuff out of the way right at the start: admitting that they’ve had to deal with a load of tech debt in terms...

[NickFitz]

Links are up

And after a hectic morning, lunch has been a hastily-prepared pancetta omelette

Back to the fray now…

[NickFitz]

Late today because I’ve had an extremely busy morning chasing an urgent bug. Weird thing is, I can’t see how it never happened before because if my theory is correct, the function in question has been wrong for over two years

• You Can Run - ”When their parents ripped two young sisters from

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[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

As expected, it’s a gloomy, grey, drizzly start to the day. Must still be quite breezy too as the current 13°C “feels like” 8°. The expected high for the day is 16°, the rain will dwindle away during the morning, and there may be a bit of sunshine in the...

[NickFitz]

This afternoon’s viewing was more watery wildlife, and this evening I watched Surgeons: At the Edge of Life

Tonight’s reading is Future Noir: The Making of Blade Runner (Third Edition, 2017) by Paul M. Sammon

Monday again tomorrow. The rain’s here and should...