2011 — 5 August: Friday
Having found the Lost Sleep1 last night, I now have breakfast and a packed lunch to prep ahead of a river walk that will, I suspect, be muddy in parts. I've had an interesting email from Brian recounting the rapidity with which the Core2Duo PC I donated (temporarily nicknamed mini-grey-beastette in homage to BlackBeast) can handle hi-def video processing compared to the Athlon 64 3500+ 1Gb system he was using. "Thank you", he says, "for opening my eyes to the fact that once you do really heavy lifting this stuff ain't linear".
In other news, the Tablet PC is scheduled to arrive tomorrow from a mercuric outfit called Hermes UK. Let's hope it's a morning delivery. What larks, Pip ol' chum.
It's 09:31 so I'd better get into gear, as it were...
This is just too...
... (Ging)rich to be a joke, surely? Source and snippet:
Gawker received a tip from a former staffer, saying that Gingrich had paid firms to create fake Twitter followers; search company PeekYou analysed his follower list, and found that 92% of them were dummy accounts. Adding insult to injury, PeekYou added that Gingrich's percentage of real followers was "the lowest we had ever seen".
Yep. It's definitely the silly season out there.
Didn't really need...
... the extra 0.6 miles made necessary by overflow train commuters parking where they shouldn't on the low-capacity Shawford Down carpark. It meant we had to drive back up to the carpark at the top. The 0.3 miles all downhill at the start wasn't the issue. It was the 0.3 miles all uphill at the end of an already hot and sticky 8 mile loop that was the killer. Still, I'm now back, freshly-showered, apparently (I haven't opened the package yet) the proud owner of a carrying case in which to pop the as-yet-undelivered Tablet PC.
It's 15:12, the washing machine is doing its thing, and I shall put my aching feet up for a few minutes to air the tick bite before toddling over to say "hi" to Roger & Eileen while investigating the contents of their biscuit tin.
Big Bro...
... took a nice photo of me and Christa back in the summer of 2000. It was one of the prints I found in dear Mama's collection at the care-home. He's offered to scan it for me (I assume, off the original negative rather than the print). That's something I've not yet tried, though I'm aware of the "Invert" facility [Filter => Adjustments => Invert] on my baby version of Photoshop, which is Elements 5. I found an interesting discussion of the orange colour cast 'problem' from which I may just have learned a small fraction of what Big Bro already knows about colour photography. (Link.)
I like to think I still know a little more about computing than he does! It's 20:50. How and when did that happen?
Meanwhile I've been keeping a gentle electronic eye on the progress of my little Tablet PC on its journey to Technology Towers. It set off from Nuneaton at 11:33 and is "in transit". The information lacks a certain granularity, I feel.