2012 — 18 May: Friday
For what seems to be the first time since the clocks surged forward I haven't woken up until a reasonable hour. Now, on with the show. Later today, for example, I hope to hear good news concerning a "FOAF"1 — he's having an aortic aneurysm fixed which, at age 80, doesn't strike me as my idea of fun.
I shall also be cruising for a cuppa and a biccy (or two) over with Roger & Eileen this afternoon, and I may yet take the new tyres down into Soton before then for another mooch around. Plus I have those three ERNIEs to pay in, and some weekend food to think about unless I wish to go hungry. At this rate, I'm in mild danger of having a full day ahead of me before I've even got dressed :-)
15 loose screws...
... later, and I've finally inspected the 1.5TB hard drive I managed to trash a few months ago. I've always had a mild hankering to see what goes on inside them, but never wanted to perform an autopsy on any drive that had the faintest spark of life left in it.
This one is as dead as that proverbial Norwegian Blue, trust me.
Meanwhile, a major data backup on to yesterday's acquisition is nearing the end. I'm also now on the hunt for the one external drive I have somewhere that has an eSATA port as I've also dug out an internal SATA connector lead that can be piped from the motherboard out to an expansion slot. (I was mildly disconcerted to realise, while fossicking around BlackBeast's backside yesterday, that though I have a Firewire port, I no longer have an eSATA one. Most unSATAsfying.)
It being already quite some time since lunch, I will defer any mention of Mr Postie's sack of goodies until my return from my tea expotition. Save to say that I seem to have gone up a documentary side-street this week.
Later...
... as I catch up with the Mayo and Kermode film programme podcast, I can also catch up with today's little haul:
- All the marbles — the last film made by Robert Aldrich. I caught it on a broadcast long ago; it's a bit raunchy but also very well-observed
- Corman's World — is a celebration of prolific film-maker Roger Corman. He wrote a wonderful book about making 100 movies in Hollywood without ever losing any money
- The greatest movie ever sold — shows Morgan Spurlock getting sponsorship for every frame, I gather
- Splendour in the Grass — Warren Beatty's first film. The BBFC "classification" warns me it "contains themes of sexual repression"
- Stage Door — based on a play by George Kaufman
- Tabloid — a documentary by Errol Morris about Joyce McKinney
From one of the distributors
Namely, 'dogwoof':
I did not know that Joyce McKinney had / has an IQ of 168 :-)