a minor hiccup this weekend: i messed up the wifi configuration on my laptop, and decided it would be easier to just reinstall the OS than figure out how to fix it. i made backups beforehand, but managed to forget to save my hugo folder. it wasn’t a huge deal: i’d already started committing my blog to github, but it hadn’t been including my theme files which were tweaked enough to make it a pain in the ass to reconfigure. that said, i think i’m back to where i was on friday evening at this point.

lazy weekend, though, the main event was my girlfriend and i watching a few movies with another friend on saturday:

• my friend rockefeller (2015), a movie about christian gerhartsreiter , a serial conman who impressively managed to fool, variously, rich LA suburbanites into thinking he was minor nobility, a japanese woman he had a relationship for seven years that he met at a job selling eurobonds, and the nyc art scene into thinking he was a rockefeller and art collector – all of this despite being a native german who managed to conceal his accent very convincingly. only busted when the cops got at him for killing a dude twenty five years later. there doesn’t seem to be much of a net presence for this docu, but it’s on netflix.

• lo and behold (2016), herzog jawn about the internet. very good film but only middling for herzog, i think. much more optimistic about the nature of the internet than i am.

• spoorloos aka the vanishing (1988) – an old favorite. dutch/french thriller about a man’s search for his missing girlfriend. no spoilers, but this is absolutely my top pick for the genre. No. This time there was another golden egg flying through space. And if we were to collide, it’d all be over.

pretty good selection for one afternoon, imo.

and on my gay computer shit tip: i’ve been playing around with using an i3wm desktop setup. it takes a little getting used to – mainly switching constantly between monitors – but i don’t think it takes long to see why it can be much faster than using the mouse to activate windows. there’s a much deeper hole to dive into as far as customization than i’ve gotten into so far, but i’ve already tweaked it a little – added a few startup programs, reduced borders between windows to 1px, and set up media buttons to work. my dotfile is on github as well, here. example desktop dedicated to terminals included in the screenshot next to this paragraph – the tool i used for sysinfo at the right is neofetch.

and, something i’m excited about: a new clark album next month. first single on soundcloud. clark and opn are the most exciting electronic acts currently active, imo, and this single sounds fantastic.