Weeknotes 184

On Monday I braved my local Everyman to see Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One.

Surprisingly, it was great! Of course it’s mainly Tom Cruise sprinting and driving and punching and stuff, but if you can accept that inherent silliness, it’s a visceral, exciting and even occasionally funny film. The widely-publicised bit with a motorbike in freefall is impressive, and the closing sequence is so inventively relentless that I laughed out loud.

Such a waste that the “Part One” section of the title doesn’t get its own punctuation. I’d have sandwiched it between an ellipsis and an interrobang, although not necessarily in that order.

The film probably seemed a bit better because I saw it in a cinema with a big screen and dangerously loud sound instead of watching it on my telly at home and having to turn it down every time something exploded.

Apparently the last time I went to a cinema was three and a half years ago. In principle I wasn’t keen to ever return, but the Everyman turned out to be the most comfortable and pleasant cinema experience I’ve had since the Alamo Drafthouse Austin in… 2014‽ Wow. Maybe I’ll do it again sometime.

It goes without saying that there were still some other people in the audience who came close to ruining the experience by being selfish dicks, but that’s what happens when you leave the house and go to a thing isn’t it?

On Friday I popped down to Brighton and had lunch with Alice & family. Brilliant.

I had time to get some WebAssembly interpreter commits off my laptop at last: I tidied up the preprocessor & parser and replaced an earlier hack for dealing with type uses inside instructions.

It was a relief to stop tinkering with these and just sail them out into the indifferent void of the internet. That’s about 45 commits shorn off my backlog; now I need to ship the remaining 90-odd commits which actually get the type use abbreviation working so that I can move on to something else, presumably.

I can’t even remember where I’m going with this project. It’s become purely meditative at this point.

The Bear season two: this is such a creative, beautiful show! Ugh! Fishes is one of the most remarkable episodes of TV I’ve ever seen.

The first episode of Foundation season two is so saturated with abstract nonsense that you might as well be watching a screensaver. Erm… good costumes?

My Tears of the Kingdom maths joke didn’t get much traction but it makes me laugh every time I read it. An unattractive trait.