I've been keeping an eye on my weight, which is not excessive, but over the years it has
been climbing. Lately it has been round 89 kg, up from 86 or 87 kg a couple of years ago
(BMI 22.9, 23.1, 23.6).
So for the last few days I have been eating less, and now I'm back to mid-87 again.
KL Hokkien Mee for breakfast today, the
usual quantities. I could hardly finish it! I need to reduce my quantities, but how? In
particular, many dishes use noodles that are pre-packed in weights round 60 g. How do I
reduce that? To be considered.
In the evening I ate less to compensate, fully expecting to be hungry later on. But I
wasn't. Is this maybe a matter of habit?
For some time I have noticed strangenesses in my standard X display. I can't copy marked text from one display to another. And sometimes the
cursor seems to go crazy, run away and reappear on a different display. It's certainly
possible that I'm doing something strange, but gradually I'm beginning to suspect a bug in
fvwm3.
And today my long-running main Emacs went crazy, reacting completely differently from what I expected.
Type c-xc-s should save the current buffer
(clear-trailing-junk-and-save), but it divided the screen. And when I
enter c-hc-k (describe key), I get:
help-fns-short-filename: Wrong type argument: stringp, 47
What's going on here? Stopped the Emacs instance and restarted it, and all was well.
But that was not the best choice in retrospect: first, the Emacs had been running for
months, and secondly I was no longer able to find what the problem was.
Somehow this upgrade from eureka to hydra was not what I expected.
We watch most TV programmes with subtitles, not because we're hard of hearing, but because
the dialogue is frequently vague or mumbled. Yesterday we were watching „Die Bergretter“ (specifically year 15, episode 5), and the subtitles
just stopped for no obvious reason.
That's not the first time I've had difficulties with subtitles. The issues are many and
varied, and some point to bugs in mpv: doesn't understand
some subtitle entries, or the subtitles are in a different file with no relationship to the
video file, or they're given a file name extension not related to the content type. But
this is the first time it just stopped in the middle of a film.
Took a look at the file again today. The problem is here:
sub699
00:42:38.320 --> 00:42:40.560
* Das Handy klingelt weiter. *
sub700
00:42:45.520 --> 00:42:47.000
Tobi, wo steckst du?
subd699 displayed normally. sub700 didn't. Nor did any further
subtitles.
There are a couple of things there: there's an empty line between the time and the text, the
text is indented, and there's a line consisting of only 8 spaces afterwards. Did one of
those do it?
Yes. Change to:
sub700
00:42:45.520 --> 00:42:47.000
Tobi, wo steckst du?
And yes, that works. But that's a bug, and I don't know which of the three anomalies
stopped it.
Yesterday's issues with the thermometers merited a photo, and I got it. But I also
got this (first image, (run the cursor over an image to compare it
with its neighbour):
What went wrong there? I've seen it before with the Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark I, but
it's the first time I have seen it with the OM System OM-1 Mark II.
With any luck it's an issue in the flash hardware, not the camera itself.
Following yesterday's surprise lack of hunger, experimented with breakfast today, in particular
using (once again) cabbage instead of gai lan and a smaller quantity of noodles. The result:
Looking back through my diary, found this article about Exif and
Makernotes. But the link to the
Makernotes was broken, and on searching the replacement, found
that it was self-referential and contained no information. There's not even much point in
searching for them: they'll be out of date too, and clearly the Exif data for the OM System OM-1 Mark II must
contain much more information, since it has overflowed the original storage area.
Fifteen years ago Olypedia contained a
lot of useful technical information. Others did too, but I can't find anything any more.
The best is here, but I
know that they're not complete. Why? Have people lost interest?
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