2016 — 12 November: Saturday

Each year1 seems just that bit marginally easier to contemplate once I've hurdled the horror-show anniversary of Christa's death. Crazy? Maybe, but that's the way it is. "It is what it is!"

Music continues to help

Indeed, speaking of which, I left the Humax PVR running last night to capture the 1972 BBC "Omnibus" documentary about Leonard Cohen, and a 1973 film by Tony Palmer: "Bird on a wire" about Cohen's 1972 European tour (long feared lost, I gather). I must admit I was not very keen on Cohen's "music to slit your wrists by" back in the day, but it's steadily grown on me (as it were) over the last 40+ years.

Mojo magazine free CD

Even cover versions of it. [Pause] And a tip of the hat to Elizabeth Alker, who played a lovely piece...

Hildegard von Bingen

... that resulted (after the usual flurry of online delving) in three album downloads from an ongoing recording project I'd been unaware of. Glorious stuff.

Six years ago...

... I had just finished building BlackBeast Mk I. This was the six-core AMD PC that still lives on — albeit with a newer motherboard and an Intel i7 2600K CPU transplant back in December 2011 — underneath Brian's desk these days.

Having started...

... from an El Reg piece on undisclosed software vulnerabilities leading to a rapid "takeover" of a Google Pixel device, and a large cash prize, I hopped from it to a further series of interesting reads, suggested by various comments being made.

Now, where's that job ad for a trainer of performing elephants? And — more importantly — what about some (late) lunch?

To my mild horror...

... I've realised that I'm a couple of seasons "behind" with my watching of "Bones". Since I've just ordered the latest set, I've got some catching-up to do. It's a hard life...


Footnote

1  Even on wet, grey mornings like today.