Thursday 15 Oct

• 13:00–14:00 Lorenzo & Inna — coaching (Microsoft Teams)

Friday 16 Oct

• 11:00 Transfer dishwasher money to Renata + pay maintenance contractor
• 13:30–17:00 Pardubice Table Purchase — Pardubice (with Renata)

Saturday 17 Oct

• Nothing timed.

• Intimissimi orders 2003989511 and 2003989496: in store at Intimissimi Náměstí Republiky 1 (Palladium) since 13 Oct, about 10 days to collect (until about 23 Oct). Skip this if you grabbed them at yesterday's 13:30 pickup.
• Nothing else expected.

• Ukraine, 14 Oct: Russia fired 39 missiles + 128 drones (77 of them jet-powered), hitting energy sites in Kyiv, Kyiv Oblast and Kharkiv. At least 10 killed, 91 injured nationwide, and about 600,000 without power. It was the second night in a row with no early warning from partners (Kyiv Independent). A drone strike on a Lutsk warehouse killed 6 more (BBC). Overnight 14–15 Oct, an "intense" attack on Kropyvnytskyi killed 3 and injured 6 (Kyiv Independent). Moscow accuses Kyiv of hitting the Saratov and Ryazan refineries; Kyiv denies it (RFE/RL).
• Iran / Hormuz: The IRGC says a cargo ship carrying more than 2,500 containers sank after hitting a mine. A US official says Iran hit it, likely with a missile. UKMTO counts 20 attacks in the strait since 1 Oct (ABC News; AP). Oil through Hormuz fell to 2.9M barrels on 11 Oct, down from 20.8M on 8 Oct (Kpler via Al Jazeera). Oman says its own Hormuz talks with Iran are done, but a full reopening depends on the wider US–Iran talks (Tehran Times).

• Filing due 15–16 Oct: Sempio's lawyers will file the five counter-reports in Pavia, but he won't make any statement to prosecutors before the 18 Oct deadline (ANSA, 13 Oct). Defence geneticist Marina Baldi says the DNA under Chiara's nails is "vera ma parziale" and "non individualizzante". She also asks why only "Ignoto 2" gets written off as contamination (Il Giorno, 15 Oct).
• Shoe twist, 14 Oct in Pavia: lawyer Angela Taccia says the print could match a size 39–40 shoe, so the findings "might also help Stasi". The defence will hand prosecutors Frau shoes in sizes 40–43. On print 33, she isn't convinced it contains blood. On the same day, Giuseppe Colli, one of Stasi's early lawyers, walked into the Procura saying "Portiamo fuori questo ragazzo" (La Provincia Pavese).
• On X: the most-shared item is a Tg1 clip of a Sempio wiretap from the separate corruption strand: "Se parlo sulle indagini per corruzione, viene giù tutto" (about 65k views). Taccia calls it gossip. La Verità's "né Stasi né Sempio?" take on the shoe size is also doing the rounds. No substantive new YouTube video found.

• Bitwig: still 6.1.4 (13 Oct), nothing newer (previous releases). New video: rekordbox Integration in Bitwig Studio: How It Works, from the official Bitwig channel with AlphaTheta/Pioneer DJ. The channel page showed it as "1 day ago" on the morning of 15 Oct, so it went up 13–14 Oct.
• Traktor: still Pro 4.5.1 (9 Jul 2026) per NI's update-status thread. No dated Traktor tutorial from 13–15 Oct found.
• Ubuntu tip: lsblk -f lists every disk and partition with its filesystem type, label, UUID, free space and mount point. It's the quickest way to get the right UUID for /etc/fstab, or to spot which USB stick is /dev/sdb1.
• Package: sudo apt install nethogs, then sudo nethogs. It's a "net top" that shows bandwidth per process, so you can see which app is eating your connection (Ubuntu manpage).

Tip: Got an old bot you no longer use? You can remove it from the sidebar: right-click its row and choose Delete. It's permanent (the agent and its whole chat go), with a confirm step, and there's no archive, so only do it for bots you're truly done with. It isn't in Settings.

• 🐦 Himachal Pradesh: survival of captive-bred Cheer pheasants released into the wild has gone from 11% (2019–20) to 100% (2024–25). 12 more were released this Wildlife Week (Indian Express).
• 🦧 Borneo: 8 orangutans, including three mothers with infants, were rescued from wildfire zones and released into the protected Batu Nyambu forest (AP via Washington Post).
• 🫁 Lung fibrosis: BMS's oral pill admilparant slowed lung-function decline in the Phase 3 ALOFT-IPF trial (about 1,255 patients), with good tolerability (Pulmonary Fibrosis News).

Today is Thursday 15 October. On this date in 1582 the Gregorian calendar began: in Italy, Spain, Portugal and Poland–Lithuania, Thursday 4 October 1582 was followed directly by Friday 15 October, so ten days simply vanished. The weekdays kept running in order. Bohemia only made the jump in 1584 (Wikipedia).

Michelangelo, Tondo Doni (Holy Family), c. 1505–1507, Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence. The Holy Family is packed into a circle like a block of sculpture: Mary sits on the grass and twists round to take (or hand over) the Child from Joseph behind her, the young John the Baptist watches from behind a low wall, and a row of nude youths fills the background. Michelangelo painted it in tempera on a round panel 120 cm across for the rich Florentine banker Agnolo Doni, probably for his marriage to Maddalena Strozzi (1504) or the birth of their daughter Maria (1507), and it still sits in its original carved frame, probably designed by Michelangelo himself. It is the only certain, finished panel painting by Michelangelo, and its sculptural bodies and loud colours (Joseph's orange next to Mary's pink and blue) helped lay the groundwork for Mannerism. Vasari tells how Doni balked at the 70-ducat price and offered 40, so Michelangelo took the picture back and made him pay 140.

Philippe Daverio, writing on it for the Corriere della Sera series I capolavori dell'arte, called it a bet: «Dipingere per il ricco banchiere Agnolo Doni, sposato con una Strozzi, un’opera in grado di competere con quelle del concorrente Banco dei Medici, spazzati dalla scena finanziaria ed entrati in politica». And a second rivalry: «Quella con Sandro Botticelli, concorrente giovanile, eroe mondano della generazione precedente a quella di Michelangelo, suo opposto». — quoted by Mauro Suttora, "I segreti dei capolavori", Oggi, 27 Aug 2014 (reprinted on his blog)

quotidian (adj.) — ordinary, everyday; also, occurring daily.

1. The quotidian rhythm of coffee, inbox, and tram suits him fine.
2. She turns quotidian errands into little adventures.

• myčka (MICH-kah) — dishwasher. Myčka je plná, pustíš ji? (The dishwasher's full, will you run it?)
• stůl (STOOL, long "oo") — table. V Pardubicích kupujeme nový stůl. (We're buying a new table in Pardubice.)

Knut Hamsun — Hunger (Sult, 1890). A broke, proud young writer starves his way around Kristiania, and his mind goes funny and feverish with him. It's the forefather of every Bandini and Chinaski: comic, desperate, and modernist before modernism existed (Wikipedia). Go for the Lyngstad translation.

The Firemen's Ball (Hoří, má panenko, 1967, Miloš Forman). A small-town volunteer fire brigade's ball falls apart: the raffle prizes get stolen, the beauty contest is a fiasco, and a house burns down. Shot with real firemen in Vrchlabí, it's a 73-minute Czech New Wave satire that was banned after 1968 (Wikipedia). Pure Hrabal-country humour.