Dispatches from the front.
This week my beloved spousal unit bought me a bunch of computer components, which I assembled inside a rackmount case we had lying around. We are definitely the sort of people who have > 10 working and non-working computers sitting around in corners at any given time. This is an occupational hazard. So is being entranced by the sexiest power supply ever. Anyway, I built it, installed Ubuntu 11 server on it, built a bunch of software for it, and then taught myself some new sysadmin skills.
I are trendy. I are doing devops.
I made a diagram to remind myself what talks to what and how, then I learned how to play God. Then I fired it up. It is, how shall we say? just a teensy bit faster at running all this stuff than my Macbook Air is. Best belated Christmas present ever.
I watched last weekend's Sherlock and enjoyed it, though not quite as much as the "Scandal in Bohemia" script. I wanted to re-read "Hound" before I wrote up my thoughts overall, however. This one struck me as the most interesting adaptation of the scripts; it was primarily adaptation of well-known story, and not the riffing-from-the-starting-point that the other scripts have mostly been. Though now that I think about it, "A Study in Scarlet/Pink" was adaptation-stunting as well, and that was by far my favorite of the first three.
Anyway: wanted to re-read ACD. Forgot to make time for it. Might do that today in the bath. I have read zero other fannish reaction about it, but I am going to make one wild guess: They liked it a lot better than the one that prominently featured a woman flirting with Holmes. Oh fandom, how I wish you would change.
Music: Today's track. Another easy-to-like one. I liked Ottaviani's set for ASOT 450, too.
EDIT: Wow, I am already too used to being able to type Markdown in anything that has a text field. I forgot that I can't just do that on LJ. Snort. Also, I love that Wikipedia article, in the sense of "enjoy laughing at". Primary sources aren't as reliable as third-party sources, guys! Link to an garbled mainstream journo's article about the tool, not to the tool's documentation! It's more authoritative that way!
I are trendy. I are doing devops.
I made a diagram to remind myself what talks to what and how, then I learned how to play God. Then I fired it up. It is, how shall we say? just a teensy bit faster at running all this stuff than my Macbook Air is. Best belated Christmas present ever.
I watched last weekend's Sherlock and enjoyed it, though not quite as much as the "Scandal in Bohemia" script. I wanted to re-read "Hound" before I wrote up my thoughts overall, however. This one struck me as the most interesting adaptation of the scripts; it was primarily adaptation of well-known story, and not the riffing-from-the-starting-point that the other scripts have mostly been. Though now that I think about it, "A Study in Scarlet/Pink" was adaptation-stunting as well, and that was by far my favorite of the first three.
Anyway: wanted to re-read ACD. Forgot to make time for it. Might do that today in the bath. I have read zero other fannish reaction about it, but I am going to make one wild guess: They liked it a lot better than the one that prominently featured a woman flirting with Holmes. Oh fandom, how I wish you would change.
Music: Today's track. Another easy-to-like one. I liked Ottaviani's set for ASOT 450, too.
EDIT: Wow, I am already too used to being able to type Markdown in anything that has a text field. I forgot that I can't just do that on LJ. Snort. Also, I love that Wikipedia article, in the sense of "enjoy laughing at". Primary sources aren't as reliable as third-party sources, guys! Link to an garbled mainstream journo's article about the tool, not to the tool's documentation! It's more authoritative that way!
Hound is pretty famous and should probably be read as well, just for familiarity with the famous stuff. It's novel-length. Well, short for a novel these days, but definitely much longer than the short stories.