2014 — 5 August: Tuesday
My next video dose1 is on hold until next February. Pah! The final series of "Californication" is out in just a couple of weeks, and then there's the next "Bones", the next "Mentalist", the next "Castle". Who knows? There may yet even be a third series of "The Bridge" to help me brush up my Swedish. Meanwhile, the deplorable state of Mother Hubbard's cupboard demands my (much) more immediate focus.
And it's delightfully cooler, too.
Even judges...
... can be caught "off the record", as it were, saying things in private that do not quite match up with public utterances. (Link.)
The story...
... of an appalling child- and family-friendly "open carry" picture book is bad, on very many levels. However, this comment attached to it is very, very good:
I wonder what an "off the record" UK judge would have to say. Perhaps something about biting the bullet or killing two birds with one stone?
Meanwhile, our...
... charm-free guvmint is proposing to give itself the power to do what the Data Protection Act won't let me do. I trust myself more than I trust the guvmint so I don't like this idea. Naturally, I personally have nothing to hide, so I personally have nothing to fear. Right? Yeah, yeah. (Link.)
For no very good reason...
... that I can come up with, I neglected to note the postal arrival of this Spanish DVD recently. I've always been a sucker for time travel and its paradoxes:
But this morning, having fixed the glaring holes in Mother Hubbard's cupboard, I found this little trio waiting patiently for me on the shelves of Asda:
By the way, the higher-pressure of the breathy stuff in the tyres has eliminated all traces of wheel-squeal while slo-mo racing weaving around the Waitrose carpark.
I can't say...
... I feel I've missed out on anything...
... except (obviously) a rewarding life of (unpunished) crime by not taking a job in one of the six largest UK banks.
Am I nuts?
Taking a break from all the psychopaths on (fictional) display in Game of Thrones, I've just finished reading Jon Ronson's "The Psychopath Test" and am baffled by how many of the publisher's blurbs stress its hilarity. I found it more than a tad sad. Fascinating, though.
Reading between...
... the lines, I appear to have dodged a NASty Synology bullet. Not that there are any files on my two NAS boxes that aren't backed up elsewhere, he hastens to add. Perishing malware writers. Of what possible use are they? (Link.)
"Composer of the week" is Stravinsky. His 'Firebird' suite (played, for once, in its rather ornamental [but original] 1910 version) reliably makes the hairs on my arm stand up. Pierre Boulez? Not so much.