Friday 16 Oct

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

Saturday 17 Oct

• Nothing timed.

Sunday 18 Oct

• Nothing timed.

• Alza 1063088225, ready now: 3× Stérimar Nasal Hygiene 100 ml, in the AlzaBox P3 Žižkov – Fibichova (Žižkovská věž, Fibichova 1586/11). Code 289 567, already paid, collect by Sun 18 Oct 23:59.
• Alza 1063088224, delayed: Hylo-Dual eye drops 10 ml, going to an AlzaBox. Alza now says it will arrive by Sat 17 Oct 09:00 at the latest.
• Alza 1063088226: Nidelo Dynamic Grip socks (white, 37–41), going to an AlzaBox, expected Mon 19 Oct by 20:00.
• Intimissimi 2003989511 + 2003989496: in store at Intimissimi Náměstí Republiky 1 since 13 Oct, about 10 days to collect (until about 23 Oct). Skip this if you've already picked them up.
• Synlab order 2026058765: paid (2,436 Kč). You can go in for the blood draw at Praha 7, Jankovcova 1518/2 without booking, up to 30 minutes before closing. Bring the order code and your insurance card. It's valid for 2 months from the order date, and the e-shop product pages say whether you need to fast.

• Ukraine: Zelensky says Russia launched more than 850 drones from Wednesday into Thursday. Kirovohrad region took its biggest attack of the war, about 360 drones over 10 hours, and the Kyiv Independent's national count is now at least 17 killed and 67 injured (Kyiv Independent). Kyiv has ended its three-day pause on hitting Russian refineries ("We're done," Zelensky told the FT). A drone strike set a refinery in Ryazan on fire on Thursday, and Zelensky says he'll only pause again if the US sends more Patriot missiles (BBC; AP). Moscow says it hit Izmail port and two cargo ships headed for Odesa (Anadolu).
• Iran / Hormuz: Two ships have now sunk in 24 hours. The Singapore-flagged GFS Pride (2,824 TEU) went down after being hit and catching fire, and all 21 crew were rescued. Iran says it hit a mine, but Singapore says a projectile struck it, and the security firm Marisks found no evidence of a mine. The Cape Dao, struck on 23 Sep, also sank. They're only the 2nd and 3rd ships sunk since the war began on 28 Feb (Reuters via Investing.com; The National). Lloyd's List counts at least 26 attacks in the first half of October, already a monthly record (Lloyd's List). Iranian officials told Reuters the aim is to keep oil prices high ahead of the 3 Nov US midterms. One said ships "would be safe nowhere, even outside the Strait of Hormuz."

• Filing day: Sempio's lawyers are expected to file their five counter-reports (70–100 pages each) in Pavia today, ahead of the 18 Oct deadline. Angela Taccia said on Ore 11 that the aim is to show "Andrea Sempio non era lì il 13 agosto". The defence's forensic doctor, Sabino Pelosi, says: «Rimango fedele alle osservazioni poste nella precedente consulenza. Anzi, ancora di più». The main targets are the "a pallini" shoe print (they argue it doesn't match his foot) and palm print 33 (not attributable, and no blood) (Il Giorno, 16 Oct).
• Sempio speaks: «Secondo me l'impronta 33 non è attribuibile né a me né a nessuno». He also says he's worn size 44 since he was 17 or 18. Separately, il Giornale reports that a 13 Nov 2011 note signed by prosecutor Laura Barbaini has handwriting consistent with the post-its found on the leaked secret files that reached Gen. Garofano (Il Messaggero).
• On X: the most-discussed clip is LaPresse's Sempio quote from TV: “Vorrei abbracciare la famiglia Poggi” (about 4.8k views, 50+ replies). No substantive new YouTube video found.

• Bitwig: still 6.1.4 (13 Oct) (previous releases). The official channel's newest video is still the 13 Oct rekordbox one, so nothing new in the last two days.
• Traktor: still Pro 4.5.1 (9 Jul 2026) per NI's update-status thread. No new Traktor tutorial from the last 1–2 days found.
• Ubuntu tip: systemctl list-timers lists every scheduled systemd timer with when it last ran and when it runs next (apt updates, fstrim, logrotate, backups). It's the modern answer to "what cron-ish stuff is running on this box?" Add --all to include inactive ones (manpage).
• Package: sudo apt install fd-find. On Ubuntu the command is fdfind. It's a fast, friendly find: fdfind -e pdf fattura about /Documents finds every PDF with "fattura" in the name, with coloured output and hidden and ignored files skipped by default (manpage).

Tip: Want to see which of your own computers your bots can work on? Open Settings → Computer: it lists your registered machines, right above the recovery options for the bot's own computer. Jump straight there with Computers.

• 🪸 Coral rescue by touch: Stanford researchers found that a bleached coral fragment touching a healthy fragment from the same colony grows a tissue bridge, takes in its algae and fully recovers within weeks. By week two the algae were doubling every four days, while separated fragments died (Science Advances, via Nature).
• 🦌 Gazelles under solar panels: Saudi Arabia's Prince Mohammed bin Salman Royal Reserve moved 38 sand gazelles into a fenced 250 MW solar park after a seven-month trial. The ground under the panels is 5–10°C cooler, and the reserve's herd could grow from 109 to about 600 by 2031 (pv magazine).

Today is Ether Day. On 16 October 1846, in an operating theatre at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston (now called the Ether Dome), dentist William T. G. Morton gave the first successful public demonstration of ether anaesthesia. Surgery without pain began that morning, and 16 October is still marked worldwide as World Anaesthesia Day (Wikipedia).

Raffaello, Sposalizio della Vergine (The Marriage of the Virgin), 1504, Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan. In the foreground the high priest joins Mary and Joseph's hands as Joseph slips the ring onto her finger. Joseph holds the rod that flowered to mark him as the chosen husband, and one of the rejected suitors breaks his own rod over his knee in a fit of pique. Behind them a piazza leads up to a sixteen-sided temple with its door open to the sky. On the frieze of the temple Raphael signed and dated it, RAPHAEL URBINAS MDIIII, when he was 21. He painted it in oil on panel (170 × 118 cm) for the church of San Francesco in Città di Castello, using Perugino's version of the same subject (now in Caen) as his model. Brera explains that infrared images show a dense web of lines converging on the temple door, following the perspective rules of Piero della Francesca. Where Perugino simply placed the parts side by side, Raphael ties everything together in one geometric order, which is why it's seen as the moment the pupil overtook the master. In 1798 a Napoleonic general, Giuseppe Lechi, took it from Città di Castello, and it reached Brera in 1805–06 (Pinacoteca di Brera).

Vittorio Sgarbi, in his theatre lecture on Raphael, traced it back to the master: «Perugino predispone una spazialità che Raffaello porterà alle estreme conseguenze». — reported by Alessandra Bernocco, "Raffaello raccontato da Vittorio Sgarbi", Multiversi, 9 Nov 2019 (link)

And at the 2020–21 show "Raffaello giovane a Città di Castello", he called for it to go home: «a Città di Castello lui si è formato, ha fatto la sua prima opera, il suo primo grande capolavoro che è lo Sposalizio della Vergine, oggi a Brera». (UmbriaON)

insouciant (adj.): cheerfully unbothered; casually free of worry.

1. He gave an insouciant shrug as the tram pulled away without him.
2. Her insouciant tone hid how hard she'd worked on the pitch.

• mlha (MLHA, with the "ml" run together) means fog. Ráno je mlha, jeď do Pardubic opatrně. (It's foggy this morning, drive carefully to Pardubice.)
• kapky (KAP-kih) means drops; oční kapky are eye drops. Oční kapky přijdou zítra do AlzaBoxu. (The eye drops arrive at the AlzaBox tomorrow.)

Italo Svevo, La coscienza di Zeno (1923). Zeno Cosini writes his memoir for his psychoanalyst: the endless "ultima sigaretta", proposing to three sisters in one evening and marrying the one he didn't want, and a business partnership that goes gloriously wrong. It's Trieste irony in the Pirandello vein, a self-deceiving narrator you can't help liking, and Joyce championed it (Wikipedia).

Paris, Texas (1984, Wim Wenders). Harry Dean Stanton walks out of the Texas desert after four years missing and sets off to put his family back together. It has a Sam Shepard script, Ry Cooder's slide guitar and Robby Müller's colours, plus a peep-show confession with Nastassja Kinski that's one of the great scenes of the 80s. It won the Palme d'Or (Wikipedia).