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  1. w/e 2022-11-20

    Mary’s back; writing code to fetch feeds; deciding on web hosting; improving bread baking; three more Éric Rohmer films and Listen Up Philip.

  2. w/e 2022-11-13

    Dry Cleaning’s Stumpwork; re-writing a Django app; raking more leaves; Twitter, Mastodon, MetaFilter, and TypePad; four 1980s Éric Rohmer films; jelly bags.

  3. w/e 2022-11-06

    A pheasant; pond leaves; Good Night and Good Riddance by David Cavanagh; Twitter, MetaFilter and TypePad; Drive My Car; and Community season five.

  4. Linocut printmaking resources

    A collection of links to useful blog posts for anyone interested in starting linocut printmaking.

  5. w/e 2022-10-30

    Martha’s Please Don’t Take Me Back, The Flames of Injustice, Cloudflare failure, Le Père de mes enfants, Red Road, Farewell Amor, and Cinema Paradiso.

  6. w/e 2022-10-23

    Oomph deficit.

  7. w/e 2022-10-16

    Jacki Apple, Conversations with Friends.

  8. New and old, big and small

    On W. David Marx’s description of Generation X as cultural crate-diggers, the Band Aid-era division between mainstream and indie, and identifying when Britain split.

  9. w/e 2022-10-09

    The NTS Early Bird Show, Prolapse Peel Sessions, searching for duologues, The Eddy, and Ghosts season four.

  10. w/e 2022-10-02

    A quiet week, cooking, more John Peel, Kajillionaire, An Autumn Tale, and Irma Vep.

  11. w/e 2022-09-25

    The Beths’ Expert in a Dying Field, Obsidian, The Roads to Freedom, The Souvenir: Part II, and an acting class.

  12. Very beautiful

    On listening to some 1967 recordings of John Peel’s show The Perfumed Garden.

  13. Exporting notes from Simplenote into Obsidian

    I wrote a Python script to convert an export of Simplenote notes into a files that are more suitable for importing into Obsidian.

  14. w/e 2022-09-18

    Highpeak Autos, Tuluum Shimmering, The Queue, preparing for an acting class, Paris, 13th District, Katalin Varga, and Lean on Pete.

  15. w/e 2022-09-11

    More faffing around with a VPS, Ladhood season three, a couple of Adèle Haenel movies.

  16. w/e 2022-09-04

    Everything Everywhere All at Once, Interesting 2022, more London, Borgen season four, and Metal Lords.

  17. w/e 2022-08-28

    Breakfast, trying out Render, season two of Ted Lasso.

  18. w/e 2022-08-22

    Walking across London, a Nick and five Toms, setting up a VPS, For All Mankind season three, the end of Better Call Saul, and season one of Ted Lasso.

  19. w/e 2022-08-14

    Muslimgauze, scything and strimming and raking, a horse-fly bite, Annette, Zero Fucks Given and The Souvenir.

  20. w/e 2022-08-07

    Not scything, Neighbours.

  21. w/e 2022-07-31

    Live telly, including the women’s Euro 2022 final; improving at scything; a free 4G aerial; Nous, First Cow, Undine, Pleasure, Swimming Pool, and Petite Maman.

  22. w/e 2022-07-24

    Learning to scythe, improving my Django “DX”, True Things, Jiro Dreams of Sushi and Bergman Island.

  23. w/e 2022-07-17

    The Recruiting Officer, more web hosting, a Vonnegut quote, season two of For All Mankind, Rohmer’s A Summer’s Tale, and I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson.

  24. w/e 2022-07-10

    Flying Ant Week, website updating and hosting nonsense, and Slow Horses season one.

  25. w/e 2022-07-03

    Opticians, smoke, and For All Mankind season one.