Two in one: When work gets in the way of blogging, plus I finally finished writing my big manuscript: https://ipablosb.com/2023/09/27/two-in-one.html
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Good news. Looking forward to being able to read and vote on the proposed deal. Hope that they now can close an acceptable deal with SAG-AFTRA.
Has Armageddon ever sounded so good? 👼 😈
The main theme from @neilhimself's #GoodOmens, composed by David Arnold, was one of the delights performed by the BBC Concert Orchestra and Huddersfield Choral Society at the #BBCProms this year. The concert was conducted by Anna-Maria Helsing.
📺 Watch Fantasy Film Music at the Proms now on BBC iPlayer https://bbc.in/3LvUbba
#StarWars #LOTR #LordOfTheRings #NeilGaiman #fantasy #film #soundtrack #OST #movie #BBCConcertOrchestra #AnnaMariaHelsing
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Today was ... interesting. If you followed me for the past months over on the shitbird site, you might have seen a bunch of angry German words, lots of graphs, and the occassional news paper, radio, or TV snippet with yours truely. Let me explain.
In Austria, inflation is way above the EU average. There's no end in sight. This is especially true for basic needs like energy and food.
Our government stated in May that they'd build a food price database together with the big grocery chains. But..
TIP: Any fans of the excellent natural language calculator app Soulver? This action, and associated shortcut, make it easy to select text in Drafts, and have Soulver calculate a result and return it (works with Soulver on Mac and iPad). https://directory.getdrafts.com/a/2M1
Due to global warming, Vivaldi's Four Seasons have been reworked so that the Summer movement is 30% longer and played fortissimo, winter is 10% shorter and played pianissimo, with some random bars played sforzando, to account for the slowing of the North Atlantic Current, and both Spring and Autumn are now played very quickly and with abrupt changes in key, indicating their chaotic nature.
@drdrang I read using RSS but normally I just skim over the equations. In the rare case I wanted to go into the details of your (way advanced to me) math, I’ve opened the rss link in the browser.
@grumpygamer I also switched to Kagi a few months ago. The adapting time is weird, and paying for a search engine is something that took me a while to process, but the results are so much better than DDG and specially Google, that the 5$ a month I pay don’t hurt at all.
@dotage and do they pay attention to the old man or they just try to ignore him until they’re all doomed?
@dotage I really like the idea of a turn-based survival game where it seems like an old man is yelling at everyone to do the right thing.
He/Him. Molecular scientist, Postdoc at Stanford. Plays with flies for a living.
I'm interested in too many things for the time a lifetime has. Some of them: board games, RPGs, music, playing my guitar, learning new languages, TV shows, tech and visiting new places.
I toot in English and Spanish.