2014 — 13 July: Sunday
I really, really1 don't do well in sultry weather. Which is probably why I'm currently sitting downstairs with lights off and patio door open relatively shortly after 05:30 or so.
And I'm dressed. With a nice, hot cuppa close at hand. And something chorally polyphonic on the radio. Yesterday's walk having taken the place of today's (because the one of us with a weather station was worried about the greater risk2 of rain today) I can indulge in a nice, lazy Sunday at home. With just the odd, noisy winged tree-rat for company at the moment. No change there, then. My morning Sudoku just took me over six minutes so I'm clearly not yet fully awake.
I'm not sure...
... whether a suicide can ever be 'understood' or 'made sense of' even by a reporter on a preferred newspaper...
Still, it certainly seems to be a great shame. And the film is superb.
The two Rodriguez CDs were waiting for me on my doorstep yesterday, by the way:
A massive fail
Browsing the latest piece of HDCP sh1t reveals a paragraph containing a clearly-stated goal that has — so far — completely failed to be achieved:
It's buried on page 10. My experience, since being forced down the HDCP route in early 2009, is that "unnoticed" is the last thing that could be said to be an attribute of this horrible protocol.
Saints alive!
I've just heard a chap who calls himself an archbishop asserting that "theologically speaking" the church has been wrong for centuries in not ordaining chapesses as bishops. What value does that "theo" prefix add, I wonder? Another horrid protocol, perhaps.
Chain of...
... something or other. Not causation. In trying after yesterday's walk to remember what else I (as it happens, mistakenly) thought I remembered Vince Vaughn from — namely, the 'Edgar' character in Men in Black (who's actually played by Vincent D'Onofrio) — I also recalled Len telling me that the "Bob Howard" character in the Charles Stross Laundry Files saga (I'm now well into book #5) was a nod in the direction of Robert E Howard (the creator of "Conan") who is featured as a character in a 1996 film called "The Whole Wide World". The DVD of that is currently absent from my CaseLogic folder system because (I'm betting) it's on loan to Len. Still, at least there's now a bit of paper in the gap reminding me of this plausible possibility for its absence.
I was exercising the memory in the cause of the film "Delivery Man", which is the title Ken Scott gave to his original French-Canadian version "Starbuck" when he remade it without subtitles for Hollywood. I recently saw the trailer for it and thus remembered it from Mike's description of a film he'd just watched and liked. Indeed, it's the film Mike lent me yesterday. I thoroughly enjoyed it, too, by the way. Though the tagline on the Canadian original is cleverer.