I wrapped up my rose bushes for the winter, but I didn’t really expect them to survive. And I just unwrapped them now.
But look! New leaves!
This has been a kinda warm winter, though. And it’s the hottest March ever, according to… somebody…
Anyway. Exciting!
According to experts, apparently long hair can get trapped in pipes leading to a less than optimal drainage situation.
The solution here, according to the same experts, is to pour a liquid called “Mudin” down the drains twice a year. Or, as the experts said, “or, for you, every three months”.
I’m just reporting what the experts said. I take no responsibility for any negative effect this advice may or not may have for you.
They left me a bottle.
One feature that I’ve been missing from mplayer for years and years is the ability to remember how far you’ve watched a movie. Like, if I’ve been watching a movie, but then I stop the movie because I want to watch a TV show, then mplayer doesn’t helpfully remember where you left off.
So I’ve added a totally trivial fix to mplayer that just records all the shows you’ve watched (and how far into the file you’ve watched them) to the ~/.mplayer.positions file.
I’ve put the result (along with the previous hacks) on github. And, of course, I’ve amended movie.el to use this data to start off the movie at the correct spot.
This will save me several seconds per week, I bet.
The changes are probably not that useful as is, but if somebody wants to take this idea an add it to mplayer proper, then … that would be nice. Perhaps.
I’m pretty sure there’s no air raid going on.
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| The Floor |
What is that lovely expressionistic piece of art on the right, you say?
Let me tell you a story.
I went shopping for groceries at ICA today. I left the bags on the floor in the kitchen.
The kitchen floor has heating cables. The cables switched themselves on.
The red text on the plastic bags melted.
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| The Bag |
No, the the floor does not get toasty warm. It just gets pleasantly warm. But obviously ICA is using plastic that melts at very low temperatures.
I should sow them for a million megabucks!
Or I could just get the floor repainted, which I was kinda planning on doing, anyway…
(The picture on the top right was taken after scrubbing at the redness with White Spirit for ten minutes. It didn’t help much.)
So much drama!