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Command Line Loading Animations

Entry created on 2022-05-28 author:steeph (374) cat:Bash (31) cat:CLI (1) cat:Computer (78) cat:Scripts (28) cat:Shared (17) lang:en (253)

Around the time I implemented the neat little waiting animation in SBWG I stumbled over a bash script that displays such animations. It actually gave me the idea. I mean, it's not a useful feature at all in SBWG. I just did it because I liked how fancy text based waiting animations can look with modern unicode fonts. I didn't use the code from the bash script that I found, or one of the animations (although there is a similar one there). So it effectively has nothing to do with SBWG and I don't know why I had to mention it here again. Anyways.

Here is the script on GitHub by Silejonu. There are some very nice and really creative single-line example animations in there.

Film: Hesher

Entry created on 2022-05-27 author:steeph (374) cat:Death (7) cat:Films (22) lang:en (253) top:Films (15)

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This is a movie that I quite like but because I don't know it for long and because there are signs that the movie contains an artistic allegory or something that I don't understand as a major part of the story, I don't include it in the list of my favourite movies that I've started recently.

IMDB plot summary: A young boy has lost his mother and is losing touch with his father and the world around him. Then he meets Hesher who manages to make his life even more chaotic.

For me the movie is hard to fit into a caregory. 1-star reviews call it "silly", a "rediculous script", "horrible and offensive" and a "waste of talent". Some say it's saved by good acting. Others at least give it that it's still a comedy and not supposed to treat its topic only with sincerity. I say it's a funny, chaotic and offensive comedy with a rediculous script, great acting, telling a silly story with horrible moments and it doesn't care to take any of the topic it touches seriously. I don't really agree with other reviewers about the point it supposedly is trying to make. I don't even think it's mainly about loss of a family member. That's just part of the chaotic story that's dominated by a chaoric character. Does it need to make a point? Does it need to take a side in something? Can't it be rediculous and weird with no fixed statement built in? I don't mind misinterpreting movies as long as I get to enjoy some of them precisely for not getting a point out of the story. This is a movie that performs that rare, fulfilling gratification that I mainly remember from watching great comedies for the first time in my teens. And it may be because I don't understand the parts of life this movie is depicting like I didn't understand life when I was 16. But if it means that I can enjoy a movie because it's funny and weird, I take it!

Entry created on 2022-05-19 author:steeph (374) cat:Thoughts (71) cat:World (1) lang:en (253)

Maybe the world has, from the western luxury-chasing society's view point, already started to end and we're just stretching it out.

Maybe the clearest turning point, that will be seen as the cluster of events that started the big change, is this year.

Maybe shit will really start to go down in the coming years, as most seem to expect.

Maybe more than one of those are true.

It probably doesn't matter. Either way I'm starting to think that it's interesting how different people react to the very slow realisation that this society's midlife crisis is real and here.

Entry created on 2022-05-07 author:steeph (374) cat:Exercise (2) cat:Health (1) cat:Silly (29) cat:Thoughts (71) lang:en (253)

Sitting next to my training bike, procrastinating using it and reading a review of research papers about the benefits of aerobic exercise for executive functioning. But not without interrupting my reading to check emails and write this post.

Entry created on 2022-05-18 author:steeph (374) cat:Corona (9) cat:Nose (1) cat:Silly (29) cat:Thoughts (71) lang:en (253)

With an estimated average speed of 21.938 cm/h and 4 hours of breaks each day, my nose ran about 13 meters in the last three days. That means I'll probably be able to catch it once I'm out of quarantine and thus won't loose my sense of smell for very long.