Ethan Gates @The_BFOOL@octodon.social

The fact that we're all somehow still joylessly slogging through House of Cards and Sense8 is going to make do with an abbreviated run and wrap-up movie is an underrated arbiter for how profoundly dull the mainstream's taste is. I am so sorry for having contributed this travesty.

Just diagnosed with flu and stuck at home for the rest of the week. What should I binge-watch?

If you're into movies, I wrote up my end-of-year awards and favorites! An annual tradition that lets me get a little goofy.

https://bestfilmsofourlives.wordpress.com/2018/01/07/the-11th-annual-emos/

OK, so the Mozilla Looking Glass extension debacle was a phenomenally misguided choice, and I'll be keeping an eye out to make sure we do indeed see some heads roll (or, more productively, that processes change) as promised here.

But as much as I dislike spectrum arguments, I don't get people blithely returning to Chrome over this. Yes, they're closer than we'd like to think, but can you really call Mozilla and Google the same??

https://blog.mozilla.org/firefox/update-looking-glass-add/

The best thing about incorrectly baking ginger cookies is that you can just pop em back in the oven for too long and boom ginger snaps

I returned to the Terminal and the Library of Congress GitHub repo for a new rundown of the various implementations and contexts for the BagIt spec.

#digipres folks plz share and comment if I missed anything!!

https://patchbaytech.wordpress.com/using-bagit-in-2018

Harry Potter and the End of Tsarist Russia

I have been very on board with Jake Gyllanhaal's recent hot streak but in "Okja" he's....a bit much

Like Tilda Swindon needs to sit him down and give a lesson in how going big for satire doesn't mean over-emoting every single gesture?

But, to be positive, I am 1000% on board with this movie's tone and really dug the whole ALF truck robbery sequence

Searching for new music - what's in your summer playlist?

Let's play "guess how many co-workers bother to come in to the office on July 3". I say two.

(And for the record I'm only doing this so that I had leverage for more vacation time later this month)

I just want everyone to know that it is a year in real-time later and I am still grinding to find all the Prehistoric bone piece artifacts in Stardew Valley

Does anyone out in the Mastosphere use Blackmagic devices for capturing analog video? Is there a way to pipe analog audio input to the computer's sound card so I can monitor audio live during digitization with desktop speakers?

I know I could route the analog audio outputs on the Blackmagic to speakers- but then that requires two separate audio signal paths for monitoring live audio and QC-ing the captured clip. Seems really inconvenient.

Revisiting all of Edgar Wright's stuff before seeing "Baby Driver" this weekend, and I had forgotten how every single actor in "Hot Fuzz" is ON FIRE 🔥🔥🔥

But actually Timothy Dalton is having a medically dangerous amount of fun

Finally caught up with the finale and I'm extremely disappointed by how badly The Americans faltered this season. I love a slow burn (see: seasons 1-4) but boy you have crossed the line into wheel-spinning when you can summarize the *character development* for 13 episodes in about two sentences.

That said, very confident that it'll come back around next year (I mean, it's the final season, SOMETHING has got to go down)

I work with a volunteer group that always schedules dinner meetings for 6:30 in the evening and I never not once ever have know what to do with myself for that hour and a half after leaving work

Dear media,

Please stop using pictures of St. Basil's when running stories about the Kremlin. You don't run pictures of the National Cathedral when you mean the White House.

Signed,
A very grumpy (if vindicated) undergrad Russian major

Me and my roommate need to have a talk
https://octodon.social/media/HGXp4qsGo3dy7DVA1Kc

Trying to set up my own instance for fun, and this is really one of those times that existing documentation casually skips over a horde of things that can/will go wrong