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[NickFitz]

Lots of Monkey Life today, followed by lemurs and baboons and such

This evening, in addition to a bit of mucking around with the SwiftUI/Bluesky stuff, I read more of Shepperton Babylon, specifically all about Gainsborough Studios and its stars

Early night now, ready for more Monkey Life in the morning

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea has been brought to me from KFC

The "limited time offer" hasn't ended yet, so there's plenty of leftovers. The time limit seems to be a few months at the least

[xoggoth]

utterly gobsmacked by the stuff you write

My puppet parrot does it for me now. Google Translate turns his squawks to English.

Initial set up of me new PC this morning. No problems so far. Transfer of favourites etc all done automatically. Just need to copy me essential files and programs.

[NickFitz]

Is that the Final Final Cut or the Final Cut or the Director's Cut?

Obviously not the Theatrical Cut or the Euro Theatrical Cut.

I like the Workprint Cut, this being the one I watched most recently.

Time to die. .

The Final Cut, being the voiceover-free 2007 version according the IMDB's rather lengthy "Alternate versions" page

My UHD Blue-ray edition turns out to include the Workprint one (along with three other versions, not counting the Final Cut) so I'll have to give that a watch some time

[DoctorStrangelove]

Is that the Final Final Cut or the Final Cut or the Director's Cut?

Obviously not the Theatrical Cut or the Euro Theatrical Cut.

I like the Workprint Cut, this being the one I watched most recently.

Time to die. .

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Overcast. 100% cloud cover. Damp. Currently 13 degrees with a high of 14 expected. No rain forecast. Barometer at 1024 mBar.

HWMBO is on his way down. I didn't go to the farmers' market this morning. Scrambled eggs on toast had for breakfast.

[NickFitz]

I seem to have forgotten to hit the "Post Reply" button on this this last night, so here it is for the record

Tonight's major motion picture premiere was The Conversation (1974). I wasn't sure this would be a premiere as I figured it was probably on the telly some time when I was watching. But it's one of those ones that I've somehow managed to never see in the intervening fifty years, so it was. It's one of those 1970s corporate paranoia things in a noirish tone, and also one of the five movies John Cazales was in before his early death. It's good, but pretty bleak to say the least

Incidentally, I think the reason they no longer make these things that Pakkula in particular was famous for is that back then, the idea that a multinational corporation would clandestinely hire somebody to murder a journalist whose investigations threatened to reduce shareholder value seemed outlandish enough for a movie plot. Now? Nobody would approve of it (or not openly), but nobody would be much surprised either

To follow, a rewatch of Blade Runner (1982) - the "Final Cut" version, as it's necessary to specify versions with there being so many. This is the only version I've ever seen, though a chap I only know through Twitter created a bot that tweets the script line by line endlessly, and it uses the version with the voiceover that Harrison Ford didn't want to do. I reckon Mr. Ford was right

And then the second episode of The Plot Against America, which ends with Lindbergh winning the election for President

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Grey day out, but with clouds comes insulation, and it was one of those times when it warms up during the night and into the morning. This brings us to the current temperature of 13°C, and maybe to 14° in a bit. The barometers are down a little bit more at 1010/1018mB

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Saturday apparently.

Grey.

Sunless.

Damp.

Dreary.

Very mild out, 13.7 deg in here, 12.5 in the kitchen & leanto.

1017.5 mBar, 30.05 in Hg, 763.2 Torr, 14.7575 psi, (up from 1016 last night), 65% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 5th of December 2019 WTFH was concerned the client was wasting money on travel rather than wasting it on him, whereas his mrs was away so he had to cook his own tea, which was in the oven, and, in passing, scored an OM, which, curiously, is now on a 027, NF had potato famine pork from the freezer, and everyone went OM.

Walk (unabbreviated) walked in the grey gloom: having dressed suitably for the day before yesterday I nearly passed out from heat stroke.

Happily enough I missed the park run this morning. Which was good.

Lunch: brunch.

Entertainment: Moneybox. No Dead Ringers, something else instead that I didn't bother with.

Freecell score: 92%, running average: 80%.

Book.

Tea: the last portion of that experimental bol, glad to see it gone.

Entertainment: PBS: Wrecks: the one that went down with Lord Kitchener on it, plus HMS Vanguard (1909) that blew up in Scapa Flow. Watched it again since I'd missed bits previously.

5: Britain's favourite adverts. Mildly amusing.

DMAX: Massive Engineering Mistakes: Italian bridge falling down in Tuscany (not the big one: this one was 100 years old and quite low: no one was killed when it collapsed in 2020 though a couple of van drivers descended with it). Tallest university library: spalling bricks which is a bit concerning when the bits fall from 28 stories up: not structural, it's a bog standard steel frame tarted up with brick facing. St Francis dam in California or why it's A Bad Idea to have a self taught "engineer" design such things, especially when 20 feet is added to the original dam wall design. Why it's a bad idea to try to remove a flyover with a mechanical digger when it's a cantilever design that you're removing from one end: it doesn't end well.

[WTFH]

More importantly it's invoicing day.

GPWM.
I spoke to ClientCo on Monday and said that with me being off on Friday, I would submit my time & invoice on Wednesday. The PM wanted my timesheet, but the accounts were keen for me to delay submitting the invoice until Monday. Since the payment terms are months end + 30 days, I explained to them that my system was not configured to do that.
My “system” is me. I’m not going to wait until the end of January for November work.

[NickFitz]

Met up with 3 other old farts this morning to discuss arrangements for the new creative writing group. Starts 9th Jan. Need summit to force me to start writing bollox again. PM was usual Friday Loony Lady 1 walk.

I like the idea of a bunch of genteel old farts meeting up for their writing group and being utterly gobsmacked by the stuff you write

[xoggoth]

Met up with 3 other old farts this morning to discuss arrangements for the new creative writing group. Starts 9th Jan. Need summit to force me to start writing bollox again. PM was usual Friday Loony Lady 1 walk.

[NickFitz]

Tea: oniony chicken casserole, being a fresh batch and thus having the sliced potato topping, browned by the heat of the Remoska

this was accompanied by an episode of Trucking Hell as I continue my attempt to get through this series before the next one starts

[ladymuck]

Morning all
I see from the calendar that it is Friday.

For those of you who submit timesheets and have not done it yet for this week (I did mine on Wednesday), may you enjoy the final billable day of this week.

More importantly it's invoicing day.

[ladymuck]

Evening all

Got home from Mum's yesterday. Had to leave her without a working shower as the company doing the reconfiguration noticed the pump was faulty and said they could ignore it but then they wouldn't guarantee it. So an extra £90 and more time was needed to deal with that. I don't think it happened today so it'll either be tomorrow or Monday, I'd hope.

Today I went to clientCo's office for a workshop. Then to Kall Kwik to pick up some A1 print outs for another workshop next week.

HWMBO arrives tomorrow for a brief visit before he goes off to brainwash more people next week.