Fred and Loathing on The Internet

Jackie Treehorn Treats Objects Like Women

2023-Jun-18

In regards to the calendar stuff I reported in my previous blog post(s), don’t look too hard at the days of the week labels. I did not even consider ordering those things together. I have some ideas that could handle it without breaking the calendar template and URL year/month/day schema mapping I made. I’ll just have to spruce up the function I have at the top of my stats.views module. I’m eager to get a more solid grasp of this calendars module from the standard library. I thought datetime had everything I needed to do this sort of stuff in Python. My eyes are open now.

I fixed the streaks being shown on the stats page and the one on the main page. Well, in the meantime the front page shows the count of each time the current top tracks has ever been #1. Over on the /stats section shows the streaks. I’ll have to unify some stuff I have working between those views. Right now there are several vestiges of design patterns I tried but never committed all the way throughout the module.

That last James Bond movie starring Daniel Craig reminded me of another storyline that involved a shadowy organization that secretly controls society, like The Trust in 100 Bullets. In either the books, the old movies or this current series, I am not aware how strong Spectre’s grip is on the world’s affairs. As a kid, I imagined Spectre to be a guild of like-minded super villains that do not fit in any believable Cold War era geopolitical order. My only brush with the Ian Fleming novels (You Only Live Twice) did surprise me with actual real life espionage talk between Bond and the Japanese head of intelligence. I’m interested to see just how a former MI6 officer would try to frame Spectre as a third party between the West and the USSR.