Category: Notes

The Babysitter

Not to be confused with the 1995 erotic, straight-to-video film starring Alicia Silverstone. 2017’s The Babysitter is a violent, fun watch and completely ridiculous in all the right places.

I was recommended this by a friend and did really enjoy it. I was surprised that it was a 15 though.

Looking forward to watching the sequel some time soon.

Friday the 13th part 3

Friday the 13 part 3 was a lot of fun.

I didn’t enjoy it quite as much on the whole as I did part 2, but it was still a great ride. And it was great to finally see Jason don his infamous hockey mask.

I found myself wondering about the director’s taste when I kept noticing things being pointed right at the camera. Like in the camera’s face. It wasn’t until half way through that I had the distant memory come back about this film having been made for 3D.

Plus a pissed-off 80s biker gang. What’s not to love?

You know what? Fuck Google. Just when I think I couldn’t hate them more. Exporting my previous uploaded music (about 100gb worth) from their Play Music service. Do they put the songs into Artist / Album folders?

Nope.

Instead they package it up into 54 zipped folders and stick random songs along with loads of csv files with dumb stats in.

Seriously.

Now I’ll have to write a little script to read the song meta data and organise into folders myself.

I’ll share the script once it’s done and tested.

Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice

After seeing so many good things said about it, and seeing some many gorgeous photos taken in it, I finally started playing Hellblade.

My first impression is that this game is so thrilling to play, once the combat begins to open up.

There is a really interesting “perma-death” mechanic which, although I don’t fully understand the rules, does mean that I am super switched on at every moment of the game.

The world looks stunning. And the story development through finding stone tablets in the world is an interesting way to fill out that world’s history.

Started working on a side project I’m calling “Pitch”. It’s an end to end encrypted website starter inspired by SiteJS by the Small Technology Foundation.

Got a basic vue app set up with the vue-cli but now can’t work out why my private key generator sometimes returns what I expect — a Uint8Array — and more often a mess of random characters.

Am I misunderstanding something I wonder?

Nymphetamine album — Cradle of Filth

Released in 2004, this is one of my favourite albums from my younger days.

Thanks to a work mate, my love for this band has been re-ignited. I have been listened to their albums lots over the past couple of weeks, but this one has stood out to me above most.

Possibly helped along from the nostalgia I feel for this album.

Stand out songs for me

  • Track 2 — Gilded Cunt
  • Track 3 — Nemesis
  • Track 5 — Nymphetamine overdose