2013 — 19 May: Sunday
Now why should eight+ hours of sleep leave me sluggish?1 Was it my current choice of bedtime reading — Hoyle and Wickramasinghe's Our Place in the Cosmos? Seems unlikely, since that requires less processing than the average paragraph of Jane Austen. So here I am with my next crockpot to be stuffed, too. Tick tock, tick tock.
Blimey! It's already time for Cerys, too.
While I admit...
... Windows Vista was a disgraceful mis-step, I'm not quite sure I'd agree with this:
But all roads leads to Windows, and version 8 of the operating system is actually Microsoft's second major disaster in something it's supposed to be able to do with its eyes shut: its
second "New Coke moment", if you will. The first was Windows Vista, Microsoft's last big bet to reinvent the software industry with a brand new user interface, web communications layer
and storage subsystem.
What we got was a clunker that dined on processors and thrashed hard drives like a dominatrix who forgot the safe word.
Though it did make me smile. [Pause] Whereas this PDF file didn't, although I was pleased to see the page footer stating it was "not a statement of guvmint policy" — yet :-)
I was pleased...
... to learn of the existence of "deepities", a term coined by the daughter of Joseph Weizenbaum.2
Not all deepities are quite so easily analysed. Richard Dawkins recently alerted me to a fine deepity by Rowan Williams, the then archbishop of Canterbury, who described his faith as "a
silent waiting on the truth, pure sitting and breathing in the presence of the question mark".
I leave the analysis of this as an exercise for you.
I'm not going anywhere near that one!
Having just filed away CD #1829 — the Lenny Bruce Berkeley Concert (I first bought that on a double vinyl album in Englefield Green in 1974) — I was tickled to be reminded that one of its producers was Frank Zappa.
The urge to procreate
Big Bro let slip, yesterday, that niece #3 has now joined nieces #2 and #4 on the interesting journey that is parenthood. Which, if I remember correctly, entails (inter much alia) lifelong poverty, worry, and at least two decades of diminished sleep.
[Pause]
Having just filled 56.25% of the CaseLogic space currently allocated to my CDs (that is, folder #9 of 16) I'm going to call a halt for the time being. Not least because I'm running out of space in my black wheelie bin to hold all the now-surplus plastic jewel cases. Or making it too heavy for me to wheel out. Take your pick.
Nobody I know will actually ever admit to listening to the BBC 6Music digital radio channel. Which means nobody I know is currently listening to a one-hour C120 tape3 of a John Peel Sunday evening show made exactly 36 years ago. Their loss, not mine.
Nice to hear "Words and Music" puncturing some of Wagner's over-inflated balloon.