Installed Emacs again on Pop OS (I wiped it after my GPU issues), and now I realize I’ve had this weird issue in org-mode, where images are displayed in landscape mode. Some of my images are rotated 90 degrees in the wrong direction. Anyone familiar with this, what causes it, and how to fix it?
Feels like this vacation ended before it even started. We still have some time to spend tomorrow, and we’re planning on pizza1 at some point before we head back.
It took me too long to stop thinking of work. I haven’t realized how deep I’m in. It helps to have this understanding though. As always, I’m glad to be going back home to my little cave, where Hedwig the second - my Pop OS desktop - is waiting with my games, after the latest issue seems to be resolved.
Turns out I can take pretty good photos 📷 with the iPhone. I know, not a huge shock there. In the past, I used my camera for “the serious” stuff; this time, all the photos you see from the last couple of days on the blog are taken with my phone. I only took a couple with the camera that ran out of battery quickly. Considering the ease of use of syncing these… well, we will see.
Footnotes
1 : Since I stopped eating cheese, Pizza has been one of the top things I miss. Fortunately there’s a good place here that has vegan options.
Between the shops, there was a green space, a shed, and plants for sale in the yard. The owner was attending to the various plants, apologizing continuously for the long hose that was snaking around the visitors' feet.
Discovered Harper in this blog post but not sure how to get it to work. Installed with homebrew, evaluated the default lisp they have on their site and… ok, now what? I don’t see any Harper-related commands. Has anyone figured it out?
Short version: Harper is a frontend to Server Language Protocol (SLP). Emacs has a built-in SLP called Eglot. This means you use Eglot on Emacs to run Harper, so the interactive (M-x) command is Eglot (and it helps if you spell it correctly 🤦♂️). The E-Lisp configuration they have on their website (above) works fine, provided Eglot is configured to run and you have Harper installed.
I will expand later after I experiment some more.
I enjoy industrial buildings since I ever seen one I think. Not sure why. Another iPhone picture of opportunity 📷.
After the thunderstorm, the heat broke to a cool breeze. We had a nice walk next to the water 📷.
Attempting to take photos 📷, I realized two things:
- I forgot my camera’s charger at home, and it’s too old for the local CVS to have the right USB cable 😖.
- My photography skills are rusty. I can see the “spirit” of the photo and the reason I took it, but it’s not quite there.
of motorcycles and he-mes
I’m at a motorcycle cafe reflecting on an alternate dimension with a different version of me.
I didn’t realize how hard it would be to stop working. Im constantly CCed in emails and I see issues that need resolution and worried people who need help. This is a critical time at work, but it has been like this for a while and it’s not going to stop tomorrow. Trying hard not to answer and relax…
Short Vacation Time
Time for a vacation again. I’ve been responding to a couple of work emails this morning, even though I’m off, and I suspect I’ll probably answer a few more while I’m away.
This vacation would be a good time to reflect on my workload and if I enjoy being so busy (I suspect that to a certain degree, I do. I get that guilty pleasure out of it). I also want to re-evaluate my org-mode setup, particularly the agenda and my calendar, and how to work with or around those.
I’m taking my camera with me, and I hope to shake some rust off in the photography department. It would also be interesting to see how Journelly plays into all the locations ' “check-ins” I plan on doing. If anyone has a system like that in place, I’d love to hear about it.
And… that’s it I think. Not much more is planned besides general laziness and sleep, especially in the heat, away from the explosions of fireworks.
My latest GPU issues updates
What has been happening with my GPU: After a fresh installation of Pop OS, I discovered that Nvidia drivers from the Pop OS store caused system freezes.
Now that I see the Pop OS store was what caused the issue (from what I can gather) I’m thinking of ditching Pop OS altogether in favor of Mint, my favorite classic, or maybe try for Xubuntu again. Warranty and support work only with Pop OS though.
Now that my games have been wiped, I am thinking of only installing three games at a time. One for just playing and having fun, something light (Helldivers 2), something that is story-based (trying to get back to Signalis), and one… well, we’ll see.
After wiping my Pop_OS desktop and starting fresh, I was able to update the NVIDIA drivers without issues - that is, until I tried to install a newer version from the Pop_OS store, which caused the computer to freeze again. So that’s what caused it.
I ran into another issue with my System76 desktop – and this time, it doesn’t seem like there’s an easy fix. The GPU crushes every now and then, and updating the drivers causes this to happen immediately. If wiping and starting anew doesn’t fix it, I’m told I’ll need to send it for repairs 😖
I think I found my new avatar🦉📷
The Terminator, 1984 - ★★★½
The Terminator is a classic, but I don't think that should automatically earn it high ratings. After all, the idea for the movie is redundant (even back then), and the skinny plot is a rough skeleton meant to serve the action scenes. But there are a few gems in this movie.
I was surprised by the attention to detail they took. There is a quick scene where Sarah (Linda Hamilton) and Reese (Michael Biehn) escape the police station and hit the Terminator with the car. It's only a second, but you can see their bumper is all bent from hitting him since he is made of steel. Earlier, the Terminator gets his face burned lightly, and it took a while to understand that the "something is weird about his face" was the lack of eyebrows he lost in the fire after that scene, going forward (until he put on the sunglasses). Some details in the background and people seem so natural in LA because, well, as it turns out, James Cameron shot some of these scenes raw, without asking permission and without warning people who were captured on the camera without knowing.
Watching the film also made me realise that it really is about The Terminator, not about Sarah Connor. As for Reese, I forgot his name entirely until I watched this movie again today.
The Terminator is one of the best and few examples I can think of where the sequel is even better than the first. In order to see and understand it fully though, it's best to watch the first. I'm glad I got to watch it again today on a whim.
A year later, I still stand by what I wrote about Photoshop then and Darktable before that.
Adobe is still a shit company that creates great software.
In case you don’t know, it’s very hot 🔥.
Yesterday, I went to see The Muppets Take Manhattan at the Museum of the Moving Image. The Muppets are ageless and always relatable, as were the people who came to the viewing - all ages, colors, and sizes - just like the muppets themsleves.
As Pete said, “We’re all just people.”
