Fred and Loathing on The Internet

I is for i, and D is for dentification

2023-Aug-21

As promised, I beefed up that static line plot I had been serving at /dash/succession into a hi-falootin’ interactive dashboard, with a seasoning of KPIs above the line plot indicating how heavy the swear word usage was per season. I cleaned the three actual manuscripts with parts assigned into some usable states. Before I go through with further analysis of those I’ll consider how I can add it to the website’s templating. Before I do that I would rather apply the scraping+transcript_parsing+plotting work I’ve done over to other series. The parts are there to get one for Deadwood or any other show that has less than fifty episodes. Fifty is the topic limit per page on the site I’m scraping. Yeah… I suppose I could expand my scraping functions to handle pagination on the bigger ones. I do have some questions about the vocabulary on The Wire and that has well over fifty episodes.

That Barbie movie was incredible. Perhaps I am reading too much into it but I think it addressed a lot of topics I remember Focault talked about. My most boisterous laugh came from Ken noting that horse’s are not men themselves, but men extenders! The ending did not exactly address all the concerns the movie raised, especially the male dominated ownership of Barbie’s enterprises and instead glazed it over with some schmaltz. I liked its closing message despite the schmaltz.

I picked up The Information by James Gleick again. This time the audiobook. This will be the third time around. The first time everything after the second act went right over my head. The next time I was able to absorb more of the mid-20th century stuff about digitizing information after having more experience with low-level computing. It was the most life changing non-fiction book I read in the last ten years so I figured it would be worth a third look to find even more I can decipher.