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Preparing for Sunday.
I just almost died laughing watching a horse puke cotton candy.
Got an email that told me Clearwater Creedence Revival are playing in London in January. I thought, “What?!!?”
Then I noticed that the first two words are inverted.
I mean, “tribute” bands, fine, if you must. But at least pick a name that doesn’t look like passing off.
Well that’s me told. Arrr.
Hamilton was every bit as amazing and wonderful as I had hoped. A fantastic piece of work.
I didn’t listen to the soundtrack first, in the end, and that was fine.
Tonight! Hamilton! Just waiting for the family and friends to arrive.
A week till we see Hamilton. Should I listen to the soundtrack first, or not? I don’t want to spoil the show, but often gigs are better if you know the material.
So far I’ve only heard the opening song, and odd other bits. Also: I grew up hearing my parents’ records of musicals long before I saw the films.
The Indieweb, the open web, and now: the “decentralised web, or DWeb.”
We used to just call it the web.
Little has changed except for the fact that people are now rightly suspicious of the centralised services.
And I’m willing to bet that the term “DWeb” does not catch on.
Serial‘s Season 3 trailer just dropped. Jumped to the top of my podcast queue… dated 1st July? Today, for the record, is the 5th of September.
Probably just a mistake, but it’s odd behaviour.
“iCloud photo sharing limit reached”? What is this madness?
Three weeks on holiday puts you super far behind on podcast listening, doesn’t it?
Piano steps, Calle Beethoven, Valparaíso.
This storm feels like it’s been building for weeks. Finally to break just as I’m trying to get to the theatre.
Dreams Before the Start of Time by Anne Charnock wins the 2018 Arthur C Clarke Award.
Expecting leadership challenge, vote of no confidence… we could have a general election within weeks. Hope it’s not while I’m away on holiday.
Feels like the major influence on British politics this century — if not in my whole lifetime — has been the Tory party feuding over the EU. If the fuckers had just split in two twenty years ago we wouldn’t be in this mess now.
I feel strangely drawn to the idea of watching the World Cup today. It’s particularly odd, since there’s tennis on.
I visited Sweden once, so that makes me more-or-less Swedish, right?
On @atpfm episode 280 @marcoarment says that playing music from your own library on Sonos is buggy. In my experience it’s flawless. And it’s what Sonos has done since before there was Apple Music or even Spotify, so it should work.
Orwell would have had something to say about their use of “unanimous”:
The judges praised her “whole set of amazing stories” and said they believed that “if George Orwell had been here he would have been unanimous in choosing our winner”.
(Emphasis mine.) From the Guardian.
When you manage your dependencies with Maven, the transitive dependencies mean you can find you’re using a library that you never explicitly said you depended on (because some library that you do depend on included it). This can lead to confusion, as I learned today.