Brendan Furey

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The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler, book of a lifetime The Long Goodbye, if not the best or most technically accomplished of the Marlowe novels, is without question Benjamin Black's favourite

📚💙Read The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler
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which I liked more than the Robert Altman 1973 film
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The Age of Innocence's high drama unfolds in its characters' souls Edith Wharton makes her characters’ inner lives the scenes of turbulent psychic action that is barely visible to the world

📚💙Read The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
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then watched the Martin Scorsese 1993 film
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Train Dreams review – Joel Edgerton superb in Malickian story of trees, grief and railroads A logger clears a path for change in this sunset-hour-tastic adaptation by Clint Bentley – clearly a director of considerable power and feeling

📚💙Watched the new netflix film Train Dreams:
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...after reading the novella by Denis Johnson:
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Both very unusual and beautiful.

Me mid-run by Aussie's bar in Puerto del Carmen

Aussies 🪃

Vaim by Jon Fosse review – the Nobel laureate performs a strange miracle In the Norwegian master’s latest example of ‘mystical realism’, one man makes a dreamlike, hypnotic voyage through life

📚💙Finished Vaim by John Fosse - short novel based around a Norway village, with three characters' perspectives in engaging stream of consciousness; started The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
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Review: Postwar by Tony Judt Norman Davies applauds Tony Judt's Postwar, a personal view of our continent's recent history.

📚💙Finished Postwar by Tony Judt - history of post-war Europe: long, but worth the effort; started A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara Tuchman
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Satantango by László Krasznahorkai – review Theo Tait on a visionary Hungarian classic

📚💙Finished Satantango by László Krasznahorkai - somewhat baffling but very readable; started Vaim by Jon Fosse
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Just watched the new Netflix Frankenstein - wow! - amazing, loved it 👍😊

Watched The Ridge, NZ crime thriller, weird, entertaining, very strong cast esp. lead actress Lauren Lyle 📹

There's a lot going on in the novella A Month in the Country, despite its brevity - I loved it 😍 📚

Eggs Royal on Old Town Square

Finished My Brilliant Friend; started A Month in the Country 📚

Watched South Pacific on YouTube, 👌

Route map of 5k run with two street photos at start/end.

Prague run 🏃

Great podcast (with brilliant theme tune)

I completed the migration of articles from my Wordpress blog, to my GitHub Pages blog. It turned out to be easier than I had expected, thanks to an open source migration utility, and ChatGPT, which helped a lot with the blog structure changes.
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I have restructured this series with an index page:
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I'm migrating my Wordpress blog to GitHub Pages. Here's a link to the page for the articles migrated to date...
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brenpatf.github.io/migrated/

BBC One - The Shining The caretaker of a remote hotel finds that the place has a horrific history.

The Shining is on BBC4 again. Am definitely not going to waste 2 hours re-watching it 🤫

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New blog post 🤓
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GitHub - BrenPatF/trapit_python_tester: Trapit Python Tester Trapit Python Tester. Contribute to BrenPatF/trapit_python_tester development by creating an account on GitHub.

Updated my Python unit testing module 🤓
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Picture of Absolute Beginners by Colin MacInnes on my Kindle by a cup of coffee

📚💙 Absolute Beginners by Colin MacInnes, nice cover picture on my Kindle 😊

BBC One - imagine..., 2021, Bernardine Evaristo: Never Give Up Alan Yentob explores the life and work of Anglo-Nigerian author Bernardine Evaristo.

RIP Alan Yentob, who presented the brilliant Imagine arts programmes for the BBC

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Screenshot of Strava run showing route map and 3 photos, including a selfie

Ran the BHAA Dunboyne 5-miler 🏃‍♂️🙂

Started On the Calculation of Volume by Solvej Balle

#Eurovision2025 Switzerland only country even trying here?

BBC One - imagine..., Winter 2014, Colm Toibin: His Mother's Son Alan Yentob talks to acclaimed and curiously divided Irish writer Colm Toibin.

Many of these Imagine programmes are really good, like this one from 2014 on Colm Toibin, Anne Enright is funny 😊...
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Arsenal looking good so far? ⚽
#PSGARS

chatgpt: Oracle 23c does not introduce a DROP TABLE IF EXISTS statement (like in MySQL or PostgreSQL), .... Would you like a reusable stored procedure for this?
me: No, because in fact this works: DROP TABLE IF EXISTS tab
chatgpt: You're absolutely right — and thanks for pointing that out.

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Lamal = 11 ('el') 😲#BARINT