Sunday, December 25, 2016
Home all day recuperating from a cold. Chicken noodle soup. Began reading Arcadia by Iain Pears on my iPad Pro. Upgraded my iMac from OS 10.10.5 Yosemite to macOS 10.12.2 Sierra. I encountered random hangs for the first hour or so, but then everything started to work normally. Lunch: leftover chinese food. Upgraded Grav for Patrick's website. I encountered the usual problems with permissions and other problems that were harder to resolve because logs were empty. I had to manually delete the /user/plugins/jscomments folder and then selfupgrade and update worked as expected. Watched Dana Carvey: Squatting Monkeys Tell No Lies (2008) via downloaded Amazon Prime Video. Nap. Patrick and I played Obduction for 82 minutes. After reading a few forum threads and after my previous experience with it crashing upon launch, I was not expecting it to work at all, but it did—on a Late 2012 iMac with a 3.4 GHz Intel Core i7, 8 GB of RAM, and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX 2048 MB graphics. The latest Obduction update required macOS Sierra, which is why I did that upgrade earlier today. After I started playing with the default settings, I fully expected it to crash, but it did not. It's gorgeously produced. Worth the wait? No, but at least I can say I'm playing it. Nap. Dinner at home with Patrick: leftover chinese food. Watched part of The Lobster (2016) on Netflix DVD with Patrick.