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  1. CW: Bit rude m8.

    IWJLTS that Tcl's Advanced Regular Expression engine really should have been called Advanced Regular String Expressions, abbreviated as Tcl ARSE.

  2. Not telling you anything you didn't already know here:

  3. I love it when, in your IDE, you do a horizontal split and it carefully lines up the split to be exactly between your two monitors, to save you from hunting the divider yourself. It really flubble w'gubble wuff *wakes up* ah bollocks to it all anyway.

  4. Sometimes I regret my policy of putting some video fare on 'in the bcakground'. Like, I just had a movie called Mr. K on, and, these are the plot points I remember.

    Guy gets trapped in a hotel.which I think is probably owned by the Kafka estate and decides to join the staff. Eventually the desire to escape becomes too much, and then the rest of the staff turn agin' him, and so obvs he has no option but to crawl down a giant colon to meet an octopus. FIN.

    It might have been a squid. I'm no Jaques Cousteau, and so far as I can tell they're all in the genus 'Sea Glop'.

    It *did* star Crispin Glover though, and that will rescue pretty much any movie. 10/10.

  5. OK I know I'm pinging about a bit but now I'm doing S7. It's a shame that John Voight is (or so I read) a devout MAGA, because he'd be the perfect guy to play Trump in the biopic. I've previously suggested Ray McAnally for the part, but he remains stubbornly dead and I'm starting to think it might be permanent.

    In this one, CTU is mostly dead, meaning that the FBI is playing the part of 'nest of traitors, office politicians, and pencilnecks'. Doing it well though.

    I bet Kurtwood Smith is a bit of a giggle, unlike the characters I've seen him playing. Same goes for Sebastian Roché, whose modal role can most generously be described as "a bit of a cheeky monkey".

    #24

  6. I just watched a movie which I won't name so as to avoid a mahoosive spoiler, but if I ever get trapped in a lift I'm just staying there. I shan't be making use of the 'summon assistance' button.

    Please use one of the other cars.

    This one is my home now. I'll have some ventilation fitted, and get a few objets delivered. I'll check with the council for the soil cart schedules.

  7. Do you know how I know it's not space ? Apart from prosaic reasons to do with physics, psychology, biology and economics?

    It's because I, for one, do NOT welcome alien overlords who fly pathetic half-arsed gasbags.

    Sorry ET, my little grey light-fingered chum, but the deal is: I welcome you, you take me joyriding round the galaxy in your warp-10 hotrod.

    A little light on the table, is also, er, on the table.