Saturday Night Asado

It was hot, it was messy, but somebody has to do it...
An amazing asado after the hellish heat we were having this afternoon.
A bife ancho steak, with side toppings of broiled carrots along with broiled potatoes.
The culmination of a terrifically hot, but amazingly good, last Saturday for 2017 with the GF.

The Hell Continues...

Fucking damn piece of shit summer!

What Was That Thing I...

...Keep saying all the time?
Oh, yeah!
Got it: fuck you summer!
And this piece of shit will not stop, in fact, it'll get worst until Saturday night.

(No) Movies During The Weekend

Well, actually it's been a while since we watched a movie.
The GF is away doing some errands, and the last weekend we have been terribly busy and had no time to watch anything.
During the holidays I got to see a couple of things, tho...

The Toys That Made Us
Fantastic documentary, the local Netflix released the first four episodes.
The episode dealing with Star Wars toys is fantastic, although it is recommended to also watch Plastic Galaxy.
He-Man's episode is fantastic, the thing looks like something Tom Wolfe might have written.

Lincoln
Most of all because, along with War Horse (which I saw a couple of week ago) this one was in the "to watch" list.
It was really good, interesting, but looooong.

Cosmos
A re-watch of course, these last couple of days I've been watching the (classic of course) Sagan's Cosmos before going to sleep.

The Great Timbuk2 Turkey Shoot

Actually more like the semi-mandatory annual wash of my bag, which was kinda gross, not on the outside, but on the insides.
Since it started to peel-off, its innards are full of small chips of grey plastic pieces.
What a hell, I have to take advantage of the insane amount of heat we'are having around here... The bag will be dry as a bone tomorrow.

Incidentally, the trusty bag is really starting to show its age.

Life Is Great

The last week of the year starts full steam ahead.
Hurrah for this mighty summer that is just starting.

Switch The Command with The Option Key

Damn! I've spent hours and hours researching how to fix this... And the answer is so damn simple!

Ever since I've started to use the little MacBook Pro, I was desperate with the placement of the Command (Super or Windows) key and the Option (Alt) key on it's lovely and sturdy keyboard, it turns out that on Apple is inverted compared to my Thinkpads and my Happy Hacking keyboard, so, muscle memory and all, and I was about to cut my fingers.

I've tried every trick, snippet and configuration option and recipe that both setxkbmp and xmodmap had in store, to no avail...

But the solution is as simple as executing this on a sudo su - Terminal:

echo "1" > /sys/module/hid_apple/parameters/swap_opt_cmd

That line changes everything and makes the little aluminum lappie completely and totally usable.

Sunday Night Pasta

Taken last Sunday.
Spaghetti, wide, with the mighty GF stew and grilled cheese.
Fucking hell that was good!

Summer

It's been a day, and, of course, I already hate it.
Gonna be a loooong summer

The Return of The Milanga

Taken last Saturday, and incredible oven cooked milanesa with mashed potatoes.
It was months since we had milanesas with the GF, we had a rainy Saturday, so no asado for us!

Updating The Monster

Showing some love for the W530 by installing a bunch of updates.
Its been a while since I've used the huge lappie that delivers.

169K and counting!

And another thousand up gone.
Already passed the 50K for the glorious year for the music that 2017 (is about to) was.

Nose Dive

Luckily Saturday night rained like Hell, and, as usual, after that temperature dropped -at least for local standards during December-.
May this weather Nirvana stays with us for the whole of the summer!

The current Linux Mint desktop

A lot of time since I've post a screenshot here on dear ole Oesediez...
This is the one I'm using on the new Macbook Pro, nothing fancy, a plain Adapta + Numix icons setup beauty.
Life is good.

Edibles During The (Past) Weekend

Saturday Night Asado followed by Sunday Night Pasta.
The meat with marvelous broiled potatoes and magnificent carrots pass thru the fire.
All glory to the GF's now mythic stew (on the pasta of course), on this case they were ravioli with a bit of dry pasta as a supplement. 

Fucking Scorching Weather

This shit is getting tough... Fuck summer in Bs. As.

Movies During The Weekend

Only one movie during the past weekend, we've been kinda busy, even tho it was a three day weekend.

American Made
What a fantastic movie, by Jeebus From The Underworld!
Both the GF and I enjoyed like monkeys while watching it.

168K and counting!

Yes, that's right.
Another thousand up.

Hellish Chore

By Jeebus I hate replacing this MFs...
Yesterday had another day of fixing stuff, horrible stuff, around the house.

FUBARed Spotify on Chrome

Started yesterday, accessing Spotify's webfront doesn't play/ reproduce anything at all.
Usually there was a rather similar problem, but a reload of the page used to fixed that.
No luck with the reloads for now, so, you know, maybe this is the end (for the time being) for Spotify... Hello Youtube.

Moday Night Movie(s)

Yesterday got to see some movies that I got sort of pilled up and waiting.

The Iron Giant
Had this one queued for more than a year... No time to watch it.
Nice, entertaining, it oblviuosly has a lot of E.T. on it.

Dunkirk
Damn if I know what the hell the people see in Nolan.

War Horse
Mostly because its a Spielberg film and I wasn't even aware of that until I saw the Spielberg doc.

167K and counting!

Yes, another thousand up.
It certainly looks like I'll hit the 50K scrobbles for this year.

Movies During The Weekend

That is, during our previous weekend, not this one.
A bit of a mix selection, I guess...

The Captains
Nice one, Shatner is The King, no questions asked.
Avery Brooks is nuts, and the Bakula rules, Patrick Stewart looks like he is always mucking you, with a smirk smile flourishing.

Logan Lucky
Cool one, the opposite of Soderbergh's Ocean Eleven.

Chaos on The Bridge
I've already saw this one, but we perused a bit of it with the GF.

Zoolander 2
We enjoyed this one.
We had on queue for over a year, and finally got to see it, we found it funny like the first one, don't know why the critics panned it.

Scorching Days Ahead

Simply put, we're gonna fry in Hell.
Today is expected around 34, and summer haven't even started yet.

My Spotify Year

Almost 30 thousand minutes...
Quite a lot, considering that I only listen to Spotify thru its webfront, and also stopped using it for quite a while when scrobbling to Last.fm went fubar.
That is, from around April to August 2017 I've stopped using Spotify to listen to music because scrobbling simply stopped working.
But, I've discovered Chrome's Last.fm Scrobbler extension, and then jumped back onto Spotify.

The Apple Glitch Is Fixed

Or so its seems at the moment...
Well the thing is working now, I mean Suspend on the "new" MacBook Pro.
Turns out you need to run:

echo LID0 > /proc/acpi/wakeup
echo XHC1 > /proc/acpi/wakeup

And, on top of that, I've discovered that the MacBook Pro can't Suspend with the lid open, it is mandatory to close it once you suspended the lappie.

Degunking The MacBook Pro

Taken a couple days ago, while cleaning a bit the interior, specially the fan, and changing the SDD and adding RAM decommissioned from the X140e.

Sunday Night Past

And if you don't like it, deal with it.
Four Mighty Sorrentinos with the now Universe famous GF's stew.
Due to health considerations, the grilled cheese was intentionally left out of the picture, so, once again, deal with it, rock'n roll... Er, pasta!

166K and counting!

Even tho I had a damn effing busy week...

You
Simply
Can't
Stop
Music

Another thousand up.

A Little Glitch with The Apple

Well, Houston we have a problem.
The "new" MacBook Pro refuses to Suspend (and Hibernate)... This is a major PITA.
I'm researching what the hell is the problem, pretty certain I'll have to install from scratch.