Month: October 2020
After a long pandemic break, I’m finally returning some books from January/February! Sadly, there’s no book returns on the back side of the library, so you’ve got to walk all the way around to the front to put them in the curbside boxes.
Just saw this on the way to the Altadena Library. Stopped to check it out and ended up adding it to the map. Picked up a copy of Bad Kitty Meets the Baby.
View of the library from across the street
Home made wooden library with wooden shingles on the side and black tar shingles on top amidst several political posters
a close up of the brown wooden library with a white trim door and large glass window
Picking up some fruit and veg. Also got a bottle of Windex because we’re almost out and they had some.
Picking up a copy of The Celtic Myths by Miranda Aldhouse-Green to finish reading it.
Front walk of the library with a plastic folding table blocking the entrance with signs regarding “curbside” pickup
Curbside pick up instructions
It is the first release in 3 years and has a large number of bug fixes. It also is the first version that includes support for new types of feeds as described by the IndieWebCamp community. These feeds are made up of h-feed and h-entry microformats, which allows the feed to be parsed from the html rather than a separate xml file. SimplePie will now detect when it finds such a feed and parse them when it finds the php-mf2 parser available.
Wow! Look at the movement on this finally! Way to stick with it David Shanske!
An early commit for WordPress 5.5 (which isn’t even in beta, don’t get scared) is a long awaited update to SimplePie! That’s right #36669 has finally gone through. The library has…
Reminder: this month’s A Domain of One’s Own Meetup is just around the corner.
Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2020 at 9:00 AM Pacific
Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2020 at 9:00 AM Pacific
Stop by and show us what you’ve been creating or ask questions. How are you using your domain?
Picked up a few books for the monkey.
Their coronavirus procedure has one enter from the parking lot and exit on the street so you’ve got to walk all the way back around the building.
Thirteen year-old Natalie Minks loves machines, particularly automata — self operating mechanical devices, usually powered by clockwork. When Jake Limberleg and his travelling medicine show arrive in her small Missouri town with a mysterious vehicle under a tarp, and an uncanny ability to make Natalie’s half-built automaton move, she feels in her gut that something about this caravan of healers is a bit off. Her uneasiness leads her to investigate the intricate maze of the medicine show, where she discovers a horrible truth, and realizes that only she has the power to set things right. Set in 1914, The Boneshaker is a gripping, richly textured novel about family, community, courage, and looking evil directly in the face in order to conquer it.
Purchased an autographed copy at Vroman’s for $7.99.
Directed by Thomas Schlamme. With Allison Janney, Bradley Whitford, Rob Lowe, Janel Moloney. Stage version of the season 3 episode "Hartsfield's Landing"
An apt episode to be doing for this particular purpose, but of course almost all of them could be really.
Incredibly well done and well-directed as a stage version. Definitely not something easy to do, though it also wasn’t quite live either. I’ll want to revisit the original again and then do a side-by-side comparison. A few smaller characters are definitely missing and the Josh/Donna relationship has shifted massively–in part because she no longer reads as “Bambi”.
It was a nice touch to have Ainsley return for stage directions, but I suspect that it may have been because Stockard didn’t want to come back for it?
Merriam-Webster dictionary changed its definition of “sexual preference” to include the word “offensive” as Democrats slammed Supreme Court nominee Judge Amy Coney Barrett for using the term during Tuesday’s Senate confirmation hearings.
Interesting to see historical linguistics playing out in real time in the news apparently.
Starter content. It was a grand idea, one of those big dreams of WordPress. It was the new kid on the block in late 2016. Like the introduction of post formats…
Directed by Vincent Misiano. A fictitious small town in N.H. is the site of the first presidential primary vote, and the results from Hartsfield's Landing, announced at 12:07 a.m., will dominate the news all day until the final tally, so Josh wants favorable press for the president, prompting to ask Donna to persuade a local couple she knows to reconsider their vote. Elsewhere, Bartlet has just returned from India with a ...
I immediately notice a few specific differences. I really want to do a side by side viewing of the original episode and the remake now.
Directed by Tony Scott. With Will Smith, Gene Hackman, Jon Voight, Lisa Bonet. A lawyer becomes targeted by a corrupt politician and his N.S.A. goons when he accidentally receives key evidence to a politically motivated crime.
Watched on Thursday October 15, 2020.
Rating: ★★★★
Seems odd watching this so many years later that we were worried so much about the government spying on us instead of worrying about corporations spying on us. Reminds me of the dichotomy of the way Americans and Eurpoeans view Government versus Corporate overreach.
I always mean to watch this in a double feature with Walter Murch’s The Conversation. One of these days I’ll get around to it.