The Wicker Man soundtrack is on Spotify now
I think it’s got some extra bits compared to my CD, too
I very much enjoyed The Hour on Netflix
Wikipedia quotes Nancy Franklin in the New Yorker
“almost absurdly gratifying. With its casting, its look, its unfolding mysteries, its attention to important historical events, its sexiness, The Hour hits every pleasure center.”
I was very slightly disappointed that Soho was a bit generic rather than specifically recognizable…but that’s just me
Marking the changing of the seasons, and the turning of the great wheel of the year with this semi -annual-ish post / tweet / toot
The word ‘equinox’ reminds me of this
Bob Marley - Exodus
The Bible tells us that i is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
I feel that Levi Colwill could pass a camel-sized football through the eye of a needle
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Powershelling my twitter archive
I’ve been looking at my twitter archive, with a view to importing bits of it into micro.blog (the automatic import didn’t quite work…I’m blaming Musk!)
I’m using PowerShell
Anyway so far I’ve learnt two things
You have to take this bit out of the first line of the tweets.js file for convertfrom-json to work:
window.YTD.tweets.part0 =
Some tweets seem to be truncated with a special character that looks like three dots….but this seems to mainly but not exclusively be retweets and the display url
"created_at" : "Sun Apr 16 12:55:38 +0000 2017",
"favorited" : false,
"full_text" : "RT @SkrMkrSean: I'm at Ashton United v Blyth Spartans and all the Blyth are dressed as Mexicans holding up a wall banner behind a guy in aā¦",
I’ve been watching The Hour on Netflix.
It’s set in an office in the 1960s.
I’m particularly enjoying the fact that they refer to each other as Mr Wengrove, Miss Rowley, Mr Cilenti etc, just dropping into first names for friends, or in moments of stress
It seems quite complicated
I don’t agree with Marina and Richard about twitter but I like this quote
“To be insulted by you is to be garlanded with lilies” - Aristophanes
Spoiler alert for 1930s play Gaslight
I learned today that the play Gaslight was renamed Angel Street in the US.
It was being performed as such into the 1970s
The other thing I learned (or, I guess, re-learned since I’ve seen the play twice) was that the ‘gaslight’ in the film isn’t actually part of the gas lighting.
The villain in the film is trying to make his victim think that they are going mad…but the gaslight effect is accidental.
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David Horspools on football in More than a Game, quoted here: The fixtures that forged a nation
A small part of me is pleased that Old Street roundabout has retained its character, even if that character is being a bit crap
“Boasting hovering haloes and futuristic forests, Old Street roundabout was meant to be a shining beacon for Britainās very own Tech City. Instead, we have 120 hefty bollards and paving built to deter rough sleepers”
This evening’s Quorn chilli will be enlivened, and hopefully enhanced, by this sauce
I’m slightly dubious about chilli sauces with overly macho branding*, and I’m never quite sure how to use the for-cooking-only ones….so we’ll see what happens
- Psycho Juice is an exception because it’s good
#TodayILearned, from watching the TV quiz The Chase, that “Originally, rhinestones were rock crystals gathered from the river Rhine”….that had never occured to me before
Something I didn’t know…
Henry VIII’s disappointment with Anne of Cleves began when she failed to recognize him when he was in disguise, and they’d never met before.
Six wives | 4. Anne of Cleves - History Extra podcast
I google-ized ‘England fixtures’…and as well as tonight’s fixture it gave me a little summary about our national team.
All good…except for ‘Fight Songs’, for which it lists both Three Lions and the Take That song ‘Greatest Day’
Neither of these seems much like a ‘Fight Song’….and what’s that anyway?
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Since I’ve seen a few posts about people using or not using Linux, I thought it might be time to explain my personal IT strategy.
It’s this.
Buy a cheap Windows laptop, and keep using it until it can’t run Windows any more.
Then install Linux
It won’t work for everybody, but it works for me.
I’ve been creating a page of podcast episodes I’ve liked
I’ve extracted all of those I’ve commented on on Mastodon
The photos in Salisbury railway station, and the Clock Tower
Took a picture of this to say how much I like the old photos that they’ve got at Salisbury railway station now
….but my inner smartarse can’t resist questioning the date on the caption. It says 1930, but the clock tower was built on top of the structure at the end of the bridge
This has some great photos and clipping about the clock
https://salisburyhealthcarehistory.uk/clock-tower/#lightbox[group-32051]/11/
…and this says it was built in the 1890s
www.salisburyjournal.co.uk/news/2346…
I’m sure there have been letters :)
In any case, the old photos are great
I asked Alexa to play the Sisters of Mercy this morning (yes….I’m an aged Goth, I guess), and got this
I quite like it, tbh
I’m pleased for fans of Oasis, but it’s triggered a form of Fear of Missing Out
They’ve reminded me that I’m never going to have the excitement of seeing any of my favourite bands reform.
Not in this life anyway šµ
