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“Incredibles 2” and Other Birthday Thoughts
I went to see Incredibles 2 for birthday week. I had been a bit worried that it was going to be “superhero Mr Mom” based on an early trailer, but that was a bit misleading. Bob quickly steps up as primary parent, giving most of the screen time to Helen. The on-rails aspect of the plot with predictable twists is secondary to the family drama. Overall one of the better releases, and Brad Bird’s mid-century animation style is a welcome break from the sameness of a lot of 3D animation these days.
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ksh Hacking: Misc Prompt Options
Wrapping up some of my earlier ksh prompt work. Functions to:
- print the exit code of the last command (or nothing)
- print the number of background jobs
- shorten $PWD by multiple prefixes
I’m not entirely happy with the raw escapes for the color codes, but it works.
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Link Post: “Cyberpunk 2077,” Margaret Cho, David Brooks, and How to Make Bi Less Intimidating
The forthcoming Cyberpunk 2077 release was previewed for developers. Projeckt Red confirmed multiple and diverse love interests. The protagonist will be entirely customizable.
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More ksh Hacking: Mercurial Prompt
I’ve been back and forth between zsh for most of the last month. Some of the big differences I see between them:
zsh: You can get everything you ever want, and a lot of things you don’t want, but you’ll need to look through a dozen man pages or a half-dozen plugin frameworks to find it.
ksh: Here’s the language, go build it.
And of course, one of the things I do is try one thing and do it again in a different programming language. While enabling Mercurial for zsh is just a matter of turning on the right options, doing it for ksh involves dipping into Mercurial internals. Code and commentary under cut:
NOTE: Updated with git code. Full library fast_vcs_prompt.ksh.
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Zsh Prompt Hacking
I’ve been doing some work porting my stuff from git to mercurial because it fits my workflow better. Which involved some tweaking to my prompt. Some of the key features include:
- a horizontal white line to separate the prompt from previous command output
- hostname, username, current directory, history number, and error code from previous command
- mercurial or git status
Code under the fold. See my earlier post for more information about how I set up my
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Link Post: Biphobia and Violence, Trans Weddings, Why Not “They,” and Leonne Zeegers
Two studies came out this week documenting increased risks of violence faced by bisexual people. The Statistics Canada study (bar chart above) looked at self-reported crime victimization for LGB adults 18 years and older. The U.K. Office for National Statics study looked at self-reported relationship abuse. It had the following conclusions:
Bisexual women were nearly twice as likely to have experienced partner abuse in the last 12 months than heterosexual women (10.9% compared with 6.0%). When we look at the specific types of abuse, bisexual women were again twice as likely as heterosexual women to have experienced non-physical abuse (6.8% compared with 3.9%), but were nearly five times as likely to have experienced sexual assault by a partner or ex-partner (1.9% compared with 0.4%).
Happier topics under the fold:
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“Space Opera” to be Movie Musical
Catherynne Valentine’s story about Decibel Jones and Oort St. Ultraviolet, the glam-rock saviors of humanity is headed to the big screen. Choice quotes on the formation of The Absolute Zeros:
Decibel Jones was ready to go again at a moment’s notice with no refractory period at all, rolling back and forth between the soon-to-be Absolute Zeros—drummer, serial keyboard assaulter, and “girlfraud” Mira Wonderful Star and instantaneously gratifying man-of-all-instruments “boyfrack” Oort St. Ultraviolet—like the future could wait forever. Of course, they never made a real go of it much beyond that first night. Oort was mostly straight and hardworking, Mira was mostly monogamous and militantly cynical, and Decibel was mostly none of those things, except when he thought they’d look good with a paisley coat. But they agreed to keep up the pretenses of an android-alien-demigod orgiastic musical-erotic triad for the studio label.
And on the impulse for Halloween:
You might think that Musmar the Night Manager could not possibly have known about the regional human holiday known as Halloween, but by one of those many curious coincidences that comprise the only real evidence for a divine and wobbling hand in the design of the universe, some variant of Halloween is celebrated by every sentient species in the galaxy. There is, it would appear, something about the achievement of sentience that immediately fills the afflicted with the longing to become something else, something brighter, something wilder and more fearsome and morbid and covered in felt and glue and glitter, to escape into the mask of some other impossible life, and to afterward consume vast quantities of sweets.
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Show Me the Money, or Why I'm Not Holding my Breath on Pan Lando
It’s nice that writers and actors are embracing the possibility, but I’m still waiting on studios to make the million-dollar decision.
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Link Post: World Goth Day, Stephanie Beatriz, and PrEP
Yesterday was world goth day.
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Bi Local Savannah
“It would be nice to have a bi group here.”
“So why don’t you start one?”
I seem to be co-running Bi-Local Savannah and setting up our first themed discussion, “Let’s Talk About Dirty Computer.” It’s all very new and I’m working to boost our attendance beyond an average of 1.5. To be fair, we’ve not been promoting it very well, or at all so far.