2016 — 8 February: Monday
Yesterday's blue sky is no more.1 It's a comparatively-late 09:00 or so as I finish munching a contemplative plain digestive and supping the cheery cup. I'd been watching a Robin Williams film made by Barry Levinson until about 02:00 last night / this morning. I'd found it on the BBC's iPlayer site, and only stopped ("gave up" is probably going to be more accurate) at the 46% mark when his TV comedy persona had just been elected President of the USA thanks to a voting computer "glitch".
I can grasp the concept of him as Prez, but strained at the concept of such a bug :-)
Although I've sneered...
... for a long time at the idea of watching films on a smallish (7" SHIELD Android Tablet PC, in my case) screen, I was actually pleasantly surprised. (Or too tired to bother, perhaps?) Given it's a Full HD screen, and given my hi-def myopia, the overall experience works surprisingly well. Which only slightly begs the awkward question "So why have a 60" plasma screen?"
Whatever next? 8K VR goggles, perhaps? We move asymptotically ever closer to the good Dr Asimov's "Caves of Steel" territory.
I'm moving...
... asymptotically ever closer to an inedibly-mouldy last few slices of my current loaf, too. It was "best before" yesterday, dagnabbit.
Sigh
The longer one leaves / puts off the tedious task of slotting in recently-acquired DVD and Blu-ray artwork into my set of plastic loose-leaf sleeves in a series of A4 folders, the more tedious it becomes. It took me just over an hour this afternoon to file away 51 titles. The landing carpet will take about a week to "spring back" from the impression of the four feet of the little stool I sat on (I only quite recently realised that sitting directly on the floor for an hour or so is no longer very conducive to being able to get up and walk away afterwards!)
Sigh, again
Once upon a time, I had an NTSC LaserDisc of Buñuel's "The Phantom of Liberty". I cherished it, kept it dust-free, inspected it regularly for signs of incipient laser rot. Even played it (when neither Peter nor Christa were around). Once upon a slightly-more recent time, about ten years ago, I transcribed it to a DVD-R2
It's also listed in the nice printed copy I made and bound...
... of my complete catalogue of such things a mere 21 years ago. Yes, I used different colour paper for books, music, videos, ... what? Well, if you must know, I printed the books section (the first 108 pages) on white paper, the non-classical music recordings (pages 109 to 144) on blue paper, the videos (pages 145 to 166 — see above!) on yellow, the spoken word recordings (page 167 to 174) on green, and the classical music (pages 175 to 190) on pink. Happy now? It matched the colours I used for many of my cassette cards.
But, right where the DVD-R should be in my CaseLogic folder, is a DVD of "Happy, Happy" which is not really making me very happy.
Now, it may well be that I decided to cull the wretched Phantom, but (if so) why didn't I tell myself, so I could (as it were) expunge it from the record? You just can't get the help these days, can you?