D2

Fahrenheit 451 (2018) edition.

I'm not convinced the authors of this adaptation understood the book.

2/4. Mostly, it was boring.

At least the room I'm sleeping in has a ceiling fan.

I hope the trades working in the apartment have the A/C on. Something ask on phone in tomorrow.

Still reading Dungeon Crawler Carl books. #4 was a bit of a slog (parts were confusing) but #5 has the juice.

You might ask "if you weren't enjoying it, why continue?", but I read all of the Fred the Vampire Accountant books, and those were a B+ at the best of times. Sometimes I'm willing to plow through just to see what happens later on. It's the same thing that has kept me from ever giving up on a movie or walking out of a theatre.

The Grauniad recently published a list of "The 100 Greatest Novels of all time" and I have read almost none of them on account of not having much of a taste for so-called "literature". And yet, maybe I should give something from the list a go? People seem to like Middlemarch.

I think it's time to admit my Sketchers slip-ons are giving up the ghost: they no longer fit particularly snugly, and the supporting foam no longer really, er, supports. It's a floppy too-squishy experience.

This does raise the question of what to replace them with. In the "low-rise casual slip-on sneaker(ish) in not-leather" category, the Merrell Jungle Moc remains a classic, even if the outsole looks a little busy these days. There's always ye olde chequerboard Vans, too.

Or perhaps I should do something truly radical and go looking in a store. There are a thousand variations of the "canvas slip-on with elastic" out there.

The Transporter 2 edition.

Cartoonish and silly, like a Roger Moore-era Bond film: it's got implausible gadgets, a potentially cataclysmic MacGuffin, two barely-clad female characters who throw themselves at Our Hero (who, in a rare moment of interesting, declines), over-the-top car chases, and violence in crowds that only attracts the attention of the authorities when the plot demands it.

In honour of Pride Month, let us ask: does Statham portray "the first gay action hero" here? I defer to the director Louis Leterrier who said, upon rewatching the first two films in the series, "they aren't that gay".

2.5/4. All that and nary a scratch on his S8.

Every time I get a new personal Mac I use the Migration Assistant to move my user account from the old one. It's pretty neat, everything from old documents to the open Chrome tabs makes it over.

But I've been doing this since the x86 days and I fear that somewhere along the way I have mucked some things up related to compiling and libraries, because I can't get OpenTTD to build. It works fine on the work machine.

The solution might be to (ugh) install Claude and tell it to figure out what's going on. I haven't been able to Google a solution (although people have seen this error before!) and Gemini was less than helpful.