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March 29: J. Edgar: well, you certainly couldn't accuse this of being a sympathetic portrayal of the man. Funny that some of the cast here also showed up in last night's fare.

Note, we wound up watching this because the Virgin Media box was supposed to record something for us, but chose instead to crash. Quality stuff for which we pay a not insignificant amount of money monthly.
March 28: Zodiac was an excellent piece of work that seems to have stuck closely to some version of reality. I think I had some vague idea about this story - I certainly recall the breaking news about the DNA testing in the 2000s, but didn't remember how it had come out. Was the DNA trawl for this guy the one that turned up an unrelated serial killer? I can't recall.
March 27: Last episode of the current season of Reacher. Chekov's gun was indeed fired. Also Chekov's riptide, and a few other props. The climactic Reacher/Paulie fight was a bit silly, particularly when it got into "he's definitely dead" "no he's not" territory, and the finish was ... kinda stupid. Still, it was fun while it lasted, and now we get to trawl for more supplemental eye-bubblegum to cleanse the palate of the Timeless episodes.
March 26: Down to maybe five or six discs to rip. Still contemplating how to handle the TV ones. It's a shame DNLA is so limited in its presentation mode.
March 25: After a bit of noodling around I have the ripper comparing the video durations rather than the file sizes. Funny thing, the first video I applied it to has a smaller file size but a fractionally longer duration... next thing to deal with will be TV Series discs, wherein it's insufficient to rip whatever the longest track is, since a TV series disc typically will have one 20-minute/30-minute/50-minute track per episode, but may also have other noise of similar duration, like behind-the-scenes stuff. Given a finite collection there may be some manual work here.
March 24: Starting on the exceptions while there's still a tiny handful of ripping left to do. It seems like either the code or the command-line switches I'm using may result in a slightly smaller file size than previously, which is something I'd been using as a validation check on the ripped files (since it's easy to check). Replacing that with something that looks at the actual movie duration should improve things and hopefully knock a bunch of exceptions into the "done" pile.
March 23: DVD ripping project almost done with the (re)ripping part: 271 discs backed up to the Synology and probably another dozen or so to do. Then I get to figure out how best to handle the 50 or so discs that didn't succumb to a straightforward ffmpeg transcoding. Some of these are TV series for which I haven't got a coherent automation plan just yet.

Rooting around in the attic for some failed electrics, noted I still have a Mac Cube parked up there in a box. I contrived to install OS X on this back when it was running.
March 22: Doing some pruning on the RSS collection, not least after recently learning some details of the ownership of EuroNews which I had added as a European news source a few months back and then never really read much of.

Random movie selection for the evening was Predestination, and I loved it. The whole "Unmarried Mother"'s story in the bar would have made a compelling movie all by itself, and was only part of the whole thing. Really funny that we tried to guess the possible twists and, well, we were right about all of them. But you'd need to see the movie to understand that that didn't help...
March 21: Rewatched Go. Funnier than I recalled, and there were some story details I'd forgotten. Glad I bought this: it's a keeper.
March 20: Yay, new Reacher episode! Boo, it's the second-last one of the season!