Week 211
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Some work.
Is there a term of art for the āthen every _ minutes untilā or āat these times past the hour untilā things in the presentation of public transport timetables? They can save paper, but on a web page where the canvas is infinite they only save a bit of bandwidth, and theyāre annoying and confusing. Someone had even written a script to expand a copied-and-pasted abbreviated bustimes.org timetable, I think it might have been an Emacs Lisp thing but I canāt find it now. Stupidly, Iām reluctant to throw away all the hard work it took to implement these abbreviations, but at last Iāve stopped the āthen hourly untilā and others who donāt save much screen space, so thatās something.
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š¦ Pearl (2022), lovely stuff.
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Infinity Pool (2023) has a plot some have called āsillyā, which of course I thought was great, but I grew to resent having to sit through all the rich buggersā antics. I suppose managing to be boring despite everything is a sort of achievement.
Thereās a bit where Alexander SkarsgĆ„rd takes a protracted moment to lock a door, and I could relate because earlier Iād used a toilet cubicle with a loose-hanging door latch, had to use my bag to hold it shut, wished Iād had a screwdriver with me but realised it probably needed new holes drilling. Immersive cinema!
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Turns out the Odeon private API does distinguish between broken and occupied seats. The possible seat-availaility statuses are āAvailableā, āBrokenā, āHouseā and āSoldā. But itās complicated, youāve got to use the seat-layout endpoint to work out which seat each seatId refers to, and Iām so tired.
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To Londonās wooden Shakespeareās Globe to take in two candlelit early Edinburgh previews.
The coach stop arrangements at Stratford City bus station have changed, the information has become more contradictory, and itās a desolate place to wait at night-time. But itās character-building, and slightly cheaper than the train.
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To the ancestral home, a bit cold and musty, I never remember to bring thick enough socks or an extra jumper. Nevertheless, nice.