2013 — 4 June: Tuesday
Sunny? Again?1 Bodes well for the mandatory supplies shopping that lies in wait for me somewhere between me and my lunch date. Meanwhile, I'm once again hooked on NPR. What's that all about?
Colo(u)r Space choices
"New, Improved" since the last time I visited. Just as fascinating. I wonder what it will look like on Len's 27" desktop? Which reminds me... I suspect he still has my Spears and Munsil BD test disc which is, I admit, a tinkerer's delight. (Link.)
There was an amusing trivia question on last week's Kermode and Mayo film review programme that I didn't know the answer to:
What two films did Robin Williams and Glenn Close appear in together?
Using IMDB is, of course, not encouraged.
Penguin SF
I've not read all of these, though I admit I have owned and read many of them, and still have several :-)
It's been nearly 35 years...
... since I clipped a book review by Keith Oatley from New Scientist:
Professor Young's name quite naturally cropped up in this review of "On Being an Octopus", and now (I suspect) I'm going to have to go chasing after Thomas Nagel's paper before I go any battier. <Sigh> Or I could just make another cuppa — I have, after all, done the supplies shopping and even tucked it all neatly away.
I note, in passing, that my copy of Young's fascinating book (bought in Slough in October 1980) had by then increased to £7-50. It's called inflation. I resent it.
Having experimented...
... (not for the first time, though the previous time was on the Acorn RISC-OS desktop!) with a graduated linear fill as my desktop background I'm still going "back to black" as it were. Having not done the Lüscher colour test since finding a book about it in the Hatfield Polytechnic library2 I refuse to contemplate what3 (if anything) that says about me. Actually, I just find a black background visually soothing, and pleasingly neutral.
It's jolly useful having a couple of USB ports on my fancy new keyboard... saves grovelling around BlackBeast. My two new USB3 memory sticks finally arrived, too. I've reformatted them as NTFS and they will come in handy. The speed is a little less than with my USB3 hard drives but speed isn't everything, is it?