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Being The
Geekly Diary of Waider
(may
contain traces of drinking, movies, and sport)
- October 04
- The Debt
is criminally underated on IMDb, possibly because of the lack of
exploding helicopters or something. It's an excellent drama and
beautifully carried by a stellar cast.
- October 03
- Figured out how to debug the iOS mail client issue and yeah,
it's doing what I think it's doing which is deeply annoying. Gonna
see if the patch update to iOS fixes it before I reconfigure my
frickin' mail server to compensate.
- September 30
- Weird and annoying new behaviour from the iOS Mail client: I
have an IMAP server is set up such that dovecot thinks my
entire account is fair game for indexing (yes this is bad, I know,
thanks) and complains periodically that a file which looks like a
From_ mbox file can't be indexed. This has never caused
client-side problems, until this morning: iOS claims it's getting
a server error: 'Server code "CANNOT", server message "Mailbox
isn't a valid mbox file"'. However, macOS Mail continues
not to have any trouble. And here's the really weird part: the iOS
client is configured to only look in the Mail directory,
while the macOS client has no such configuration, meaning that the
iOS client shouldn't even be able to see this problem file.
It occurs to me that maybe it's complaining about a different
file, in which case UNHELPFUL ERROR, THANKS.
- September 27
- Passengers:
good enough. I like that they didn't shy away from the morality of
Chris Pratt's actions, although dampened a little bit by the
denoument. The visuals were definitely quite pretty but done in
such a way as to not steal the show. And Michael Sheen was an
absolute treasure.
- September 23
- Well, that was interesting: apparently I deleted
/var/tmp on the OpenHAB box at some point. Might explain
the mysterious crash I had.
- September 22
- And we're back from a week in Paris. Which was nice.
- September 21
- Of course a good run of movies had to come to an end. More
Pierce Brosnan, this time in The Misfits
which I think might best be described as a movie which had a
non-trivial budget, all of which was spent on the two lead actors
(Brosnan and Tim Roth) and a bunch of high-end vehicles. Notably,
none of the available cash was apparently spent on making a
coherent script.
- September 20
- Not sure which day we watched Damaged
so I'll just wedge it in here... this was a bit lumpy in spots but
nowhere near as bad as the reviews on IMDb made it out to be. I
note that at least one reviewer complained about loose ends and
then cited a loose end that basically indicated they hadn't been
paying attention. About the only bit of this I would complain about
- and I did - was the portrayal of "Dublin Port" at the end: some
back-of-beyonds little harbour with a portakabin for the customs
officers. No idea why they didn't just play Glasgow for Dublin or
some such if they weren't even going to try.
Tonight's fare was Fast Charlie,
in which Pierce Brosnan has a bit of fun and a sly nod or two to
the audience about his Bond days. Not much to say about this: it's
a simple enough story, no real twists, expected outcome is
expected, etc. but it's a light bit of fun for all that.
- September 16
- Chaplin
seemed to star everyone and was really quite
good.
- September 07
- Freud's Last Session
felt like a movie in search of a plot. The idea - Freud and
C. S. Lewis have a discussion about religious belief - might have
had some legs if they'd focused on that, but instead we had all
these sidetracks and ultimately by the end of the movie it didn't
seem like anything had actually happened.
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