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September 02: Interminable DVD-ripping project: yak-shaving still incomplete. Currently watching the Giant Script of Doom working its way through TV series chapter by chapter as I don't have a better automatic way to split the discs into episodes right now.
September 01: Bandits was light. Bit of fun, a bit too silly in places. But the denoument was excellent and I honestly did not see it coming.
August 30: Scanned available movies, eventually got tired of looking and opted for Automata. Which turned out to be surprisngly good, both in story and visuals. I mean, sure, some minor quibbles with the story, but yeah.
August 25: OpenHAB box spontaneously wedged itself some time after midnight. (a) this is why my home automation forays are still a hobby, rather than something I depend on (b) I wonder if I have any hope of finding out what happened (c) I guess I should've hooked this box up to a screen so I'd at least have seen its last words to the console.

Cursory inspection reveals some MMC access issues and there's also a logged kernel reboot around 00:17 but I've reason to believe that's actually the 08:00 reboot when I powercycled the thing, just that it came up with a bad clock time. The only potential trigger I can see is a periodic refresh of package data which ran just before the system stopped responding.
August 24: Since I mentioned it a while back: Rizzoli and Isles is our current "TV" and it's... not bad. Homicide procedural, buddy show, no real continuity, some background story fluff, and typically everything is solved in a matter of minutes towards the end of the episode.

All I can really say about Nandor Fodor and the Talking Mongoose is that it felt like it should've been funnier.
August 23: Ugh, well, Stephen King's Cell is definitely not worth your time. It could possibly have redeemed itself marginally without the fake ending, but it was pretty far gone at that point. Samuel L. Jackson and John Cusack, you have betrayed my trust.
August 18: Spent a few days in the Kingdom, i.e. County Kerry. Notable incidents included a parkrun, a tasting menu, and Operation Mincemeat which is a pretty decent dramatic telling of the story of the WWII caper of the same name, although certain aspects are amped up a bit in the interests of what we shall call Dramatic Effect.
August 10: Given last night's enterainment has not one but two sequels we figured we'd try them out. Alas, no. 2 seems to have disappeared into BBC's memory hole as noone seems to have it for rent or streaming or what have you, which is a bit nonsense, because no. 3 is widely available. So we watched Salting the Battlefield, which was good and didn't suffer too much from us missing the intervening movie (there's a little bit of continuity but you can easily fill in the gaps sufficiently to keep the story straight) but it wasn't quite as good as the first one, and the end was a bit... I dunno. Felt like it could've moved a few different ways, I guess.
August 09: Page Eight: once again, Bill Nighy is a National Treasure. Excellent movie - it comes across in places more like a play - and about the only thing that didn't quite land for me was the idea that some of the people involved could have morals, or principles.

DVD subtitle quest: shaving yaks. Many yaks. Large, stinky, hairy yaks.
August 05: Mastodon notice: I've moved from octodon.social to mastodon.ie as the former will be shutting down. The move process is ... a little lumpy, to be honest, but it looks like follows/followers is correctly updated.

Prime Video (Ireland) is finally offering Rent/Buy options on things that aren't part of your subscription. Which means, unfortunatly, it's now a good deal more difficult to find things that are in your subscription: the entire home page yesterday was Rent/Buy options, including things that a week or two ago were "free". Also, the metadata quality has not improved in any discernable way, so I'm still finding movies directed by "N/A" (to pick a random example).