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https://www.waider.ie/hacks/diary/2026/may.html#16

I don't know how you characterise a movie like That They May Face The Rising Sun; there's no story arc, per se, it's more like a series of vignettes that are, as far as I understand it, loosely autobiographical (it's based on a book of the same name by John McGahern and seems to have more than a little of himself in it) and set in some goregous scenery out Connemara way. There are scenes in the movie that are litterally slow pans or even long shots of the countryside, sometimes with cast included, sometimes not. And yet it's strangely compelling for all that. I started watching it with half an eye on my laptop but after an hour the laptop was asleep and I was fully focused on the lack of happenings.

https://www.waider.ie/hacks/diary/2026/may.html#16

https://www.waider.ie/hacks/diary/2026/may.html#12

We have a Roberts "internet radio" here that's proven deeply unhappy with mesh networking for some reason and periodically decides that no network is good enough for it. I have just now dug out the old Airport to see if it'll be happy with that. Problem being, of course, that it can go for weeks at a stretch without a problem before deciding that nah, Wi-Fi isn't worth it.

https://www.waider.ie/hacks/diary/2026/may.html#12