2012 — 26 May: Saturday
Why is it, do you suppose,1 that the lyrics of some of the enjoyable tosh played during Brian Matthew's "Sounds of the 60s" are so stupid? Case in point: the 1966 hit "Winchester Cathedral", which I heard 15 years before ever seeing the edifice in question.
It's shaping up to be another hot day, which has brought some duct tape into play, fixing a room fan grille temporarily in place while I refit the plastic edge strip that I'd removed to get at the blades and clean off the accumulated dust of previous years.
Having pushed...
... Len gently down the nursery slopes towards flatscreen TV, the least I can do is lend him a handful of hdmi leads and a switchbox. He must first assemble a stand, of course. His cats will doubtless help make that an interesting exercise.
I have a third, unused, digital video output socket on BlackBeast's graphics card — and Nature abhors a vacuum — so I've just ordered a DisplayPort-to-hdmi adapter. It will be interesting to see if I can run both 1920x1200 screens for my "enlarged" desktop and watch a full hi-def video picture on the 60" Kuro plasma all at the same time without anything going into meltdown.2 I shall leave the cooling fans in situ for the experiment, I think.
It's 13:23 and I'm enjoying a balmy 26.7C in the post-lunch living room. We've agreed on a local walk tomorrow, on condition that it's a bit cooler than today.
Playing the...
... music by Peter Gabriel that he wrote for Scorsese's film "The last temptation of Christ" I just cannot believe how fresh it still sounds... nearly quarter of a century later. I was less surprised, on browsing IMDB, to see that the recent season #4 finale of "Castle" racked up a score of 9.4 out of 10. I suspect it will be hard to top that.
Time for my next burst of calories? It's already 17:52 — when did that happen? [Pause] Another three episodes of the gloriously bonkers nonsense that is "True Blood" and I think it's time to think about some sleep. It's a balmy 25.7C and about 22:52. Let's see what the morrow brings.