Bloody mechanics . . .
Aug. 8th, 2006 01:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
zotzPessimistic buggers, the lot. "Oh . . . dunno. Could be next week."
[24 hours later] "It's done."
He did both of them in the end as the other one was pretty much as badly rotted. "They'll probably last longer than the rest of the car now." Almost certainly, I'd say.
ION . . . what's the best way to play real DVDs (ie encrypted ones) under Debian? Mplayer and gXine and things won't do it with any library or plugin I can find.
On Sunday I went to see Chanbara and then La Clique with L&therecoveringS. Chanbara's a Japanese show with drumming and swordplay/dance. I was mainly there for the drums (excellent - went a little way towards missing Lughnasa) and while the swordplay was sometimes just distracting, at other points it was very good. La Clique's a variety show with about ten acts some of which were merely good and others were stunning. Highlights included Paul Zenon appearing implausibly large things from within pads of paper, a pair of brothers from Sao Paolo (they said) with an impressively intricate and sometimes very funny tango, and a very strange Norwegian contortionist, Captain Frodo, doing things with tennis rackets that I can't bring myself to describe. I haven't been so close to laughing myself sick in years.
[24 hours later] "It's done."
He did both of them in the end as the other one was pretty much as badly rotted. "They'll probably last longer than the rest of the car now." Almost certainly, I'd say.
ION . . . what's the best way to play real DVDs (ie encrypted ones) under Debian? Mplayer and gXine and things won't do it with any library or plugin I can find.
On Sunday I went to see Chanbara and then La Clique with L&therecoveringS. Chanbara's a Japanese show with drumming and swordplay/dance. I was mainly there for the drums (excellent - went a little way towards missing Lughnasa) and while the swordplay was sometimes just distracting, at other points it was very good. La Clique's a variety show with about ten acts some of which were merely good and others were stunning. Highlights included Paul Zenon appearing implausibly large things from within pads of paper, a pair of brothers from Sao Paolo (they said) with an impressively intricate and sometimes very funny tango, and a very strange Norwegian contortionist, Captain Frodo, doing things with tennis rackets that I can't bring myself to describe. I haven't been so close to laughing myself sick in years.
