@manton Ah, yes, I see.
@bradenslen Thanks. You read quickly!
@manton I’m glad to see Categories back on the sidebar. 👍 But I’m curious to know why you think moving it was a mistake.
@jack That makes perfect sense. Every decision you make closes off some option(s).
@canion Gosh, it is more than 20 years, isn’t it? That’s how long it has taken for Walton Goggins to become an overnight sensation!
@JohnPhilpin Not quite as bad as the torture nexus, I suppose.
@thedimpause I find that “based on a true story” films are often quite dull.
@JohnPhilpin “This page is intentionally blank.”
@thedimpause Never heard of this film, though it sounds as if it would have been right up my alley. I do vaguely remember the “unmasking” of Melita Norwood, on whose story the film seems to have been indirectly based.
@alanralph I used to get a certain amount of mild enjoyment by replacing small bits of text inside PDFs, e.g. turning a “Witness Summons” issued by the Court Service into a Witless Summons.
I think you’re right about the docx. I guessed it was some kind of binary file, opened in a text editor.
@cdevroe Don’t give them ideas!
You know when you’ve had a dream and you can sort of remember it in the morning — but not quite? That’s what my visualisations are like.
That’s an excellent description of what it’s like not being able to visualize. Very well put.
@Annie I think it would be impossible not to miss anything in this book. After three reads, I still feel as if I missed plenty.
@devilgate I found the adaptation really disappointing. It covers the first two books, i.e. this one and The Likeness. I felt that it didn’t capture much of their strangeness, their off-kilter quality. The characters seemed no different from those you’d expect to find in any run-of-the-mill police procedural.
@john-self.bsky.social Thanks for this. I remember the Reginald Perrin books much more fondly than the tv series but assumed that because he did the adaptation himself that the books mustn’t be as good as I had thought.
@michhham.bsky.social I love the “almost upright” italics.
@Annie FWIW here’s what I wrote about it. It’s a bit too long, so I can’t exactly recommend it but you might find parts of it interesting. I should probably prune it.
@john-self.bsky.social “A zoo-like ambience” is right.
@john-self.bsky.social Same here. I often walk between Heuston and other parts of the city. Generally, I’d rather walk than get the Luas.
@john-self.bsky.social That’s what I’d do too, though of course you could get the Luas.
@JimRain I’m not a great admirer of Hopkins’s poetry. I’d move Marvell up.
@reeamilcarscott.bsky.social +1 for “boat”.
@adders I might be getting back to the daily grind, instead of the twice-daily grind.
@adders I’m thinking about halving my consumption: one espresso a day instead of two. There was a time not long ago when I’d have had three or four.
@manton Thank you, Manton, this seems to be exactly what I was hoping for. For a long time, I was adding a description to my newsletter posts (i.e. ones with titles), using a JSON data template. Then I switched to putting the description in the first paragraph and styling it differently using the pseudoclass :first-of-type. Unfortunately, that pseudoclass doesn’t seem to be recognized by most email clients. More recently I started to use a real class <p class="description"> for the first paragraph. Unfortunately, that meant that my description was being displayed in the RSS feed as if it was the first paragraph of the post, indistinguishable from the body. But this looks as if it will solve my problems. I’m looking forward to trying it out. Thanks again.
@Miraz lá breithe shona dhuit. Happy birthday!
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