2012 — 18 June: Monday
And so on to another week1 and a fresh set of adventures, perhaps? But not without at least one trusty cuppa inside me.
As I tackle half a grapefruit I have to wonder whether the few pence saved by not buying a 'pink' one is worth the layer of tooth enamel being removed by this 'white' one. It's certainly a wake-up call for the digestive bits and pieces.
I know several...
... people who may get a kick out of this. Mind you, they're probably way ahead of me already. 'Twas ever thus. Millisecond precision from GPS, heh? As he of that "sprightly lexicon", the New Hacker's Dictionary (Eric Raymond) says: "In effect, I became the lead designer on a new electronics product by email. Just me. No corporate-backing, no million-dollar development budget, one guy saying 'Hey, if you connect this to that, cool things will happen!' — negotiating directly with people on the other side of the planet who'll never meet me face to face."
Curious typography...
... on the Grauniad's front page:
Why do these things leap out at me? And are too few kids going missing, or too many?
The sound of breaking glass?
From deep within a blog emanating somewhere within Redmond, I assume:
So do I get a refund on the cost of my powerful graphics card? To get ahead of this curve I have naturally reverted to a basic desktop theme. It looks, to all intents and purposes, just like my old NT4 system in the Hursley Lab. What goes around...
Just grabbed a...
... free music track from the collaboration between David Byrne and Annie Clark (aka St. Vincent). (Link.)
I shall celebrate / cerebrate with a cuppa. Mind you, I'm now necessarily on their mailing lists.
A casual aside on the radio the other day was brought back to the top of my mind (not a long journey — trust me) when I reached subfolder "I" during my ongoing great MP3 files meta-data tag editing adventure. Thus, I've just downloaded the third album from "The Imagined Village", which was released just over a month ago. (I remember I bought the second one [from Amazon] after I'd spotted it within a stone's throw of the Spinnaker Tower while I was making my first-ever solo trip there to seek out the restaurant in which a colleague was due to hold his retirement lunch.) I need a better system than random neural jogging...
I live in hope...
... that today's A/V system diagram update will, tomorrow, be correct — I have to stay in to give Mr DPD his chance to deliver my newest toy: a FreeviewHD set top box. Not that I'll be parking it on top of my "set" (which, in my case, I 'ave not got). This will be the means of removing my final bit of analogue video kit, though I expect to use it just as a digital radio for most of the time. Well, that's the plan at the moment.
Another plan involves making a bite to eat. It's 18:02 already, and jolly sunny out there.