Week 304: Silent film

My parents were in London for an evening event, so we met for lunch. I went to see The Standard of Living at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, starring Rory Kinnear playing something other than a Prime Minister. (Until L— reminded me, I’d forgotten that he was the porcine-compromised PM in Black Mirror as well as playing one more recently in the Diplomat). It’s funnier than you’d expect from a film about economics, and maybe a bit propagandist towards the end (though I approve of the message). Keynes had a much more interesting private life than I was previously aware of. His Russian ballerina wife was played by a Russian ballerina (Natalia Osipova). Time needed for costume changes and set adjustments was appropriately filled with short ballet dances. I see that Zendesk have forked one of my repositories since I said I wasn’t going to maintain any Ruby gems any longer. That’s fine, it’s entirely within their rights, but I can’t help thinking that’s a bit of a dick move to have done it…

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