2015 — 10 January: Saturday
Entropy's effects hereabouts are not just confined to the collection of seven-year-old polo shirts I finally replaced yesterday, of course.1 Hence a few minutes spent, this morning, refreshing all the gorp on my emergency-use-only Linux Laptop PC. I also briefly studied the release notes for "Rebecca" — the latest Mint 17.1 version — but quickly concluded the current potential pain of the various bugs, workarounds, and what seemed like fairly random gotchas, meant that (for my trivially-simple use case) I could safely remain on Mint 17. Discretion being the better part of Valerie, that's what I decided to do.
I also allowed myself just one game of the damnably addictive version of 'Reversi'. My word, it recovered devastatingly quickly from what I'd over-confidently thought was my impregnable lead, dagnabbit.
It looks...
... pretty dull and a bit drizzly out there this morning. How about another cuppa?
An excellent piece by Joe Sacco on the limits of satire. (Link.)
There are...
... limits to my cynicism. But that doesn't stop me agreeing with this response to Tim Lott's piece on the coming 'electronic apocalypse'...
As would Simone Weil have done, I suspect, in earlier times.
The chattering heads...
... on both NPR and BBC Radio 4 are equally unappealing. Let's see what Mr Postie's just handed over, instead:
I've seen only one of these, but I've learned (over many years) that it's generally pretty safe to trust Danny Peary's judgements on 'cult' films. Here's a crisper image of that book I was looking up from, years ago:
Well, it's 10 hours later...
... and I'm a bit puzzled how that can be. Better make another cuppa, I guess :-)