The last couple of days have been good for relaxing. Getting home that hour earlier has been nice and really adds a lot more to the evening than I would have expected. I’m quite tired tonight and I’m looking forward to sleeping in very late tomorrow.
I really need to have Flash here right now. I want to use some of this stuff. Not only do I want to learn it, I want to use it. I find that unless I use and build on stuff that I know it goes away. I use to use on particular technology in work all the time and I was good at it. I still am, but I’m rusty as all fuck. Last week I was helping two people with some stuff and in one case I just could not remember how to do it. I had to go and actually look it up in a physical manual. It has been a long time since I have had to do that. Bold on the had cause sometimes I use to read/browse the manuals for fun… I know I know. But the scary thing is back then it was fun. The second case wasn’t as bad. I was able to help out and give them the answer but it took me much longer than it should have and I actually had errors caught by the compile. Given that I use to not even USE the fucking compiler because I knew what I was doing….
Anyway I want to get flash and put it to use. I even thought about just saying fuck it and installing it on this POS I call a computer but I really don’t think that’s a goer. It’s a bitch to work in even at 1024 and the best I can do is 800. Not gonna happen, anyway I’m pretty sure I’m below spec. So lunchtime or after work next week (or on a quiet call maybe), I shall see what I can do to make up some stuff.
Reading some Cerebus now again whilst working my way through and thoroughly enjoying Hunter S. Thompson’s The Great Shark Hunt. Of all the stuff I have read so far for the sake of reading it, his books are easily the best and stuff which I would have read and enjoyed over the years had I known to read them. That sentence/thought might not make sense but the meaning behind it will I hope? I’m going to have to get some more books by him for when I finish this one. I wonder if I know anyone who ha read any of his stuff. I don’t know. I may thread it on the V or even hit a recently silent mailing list.
Nothing much musically going on over the past few days. Bjork went off the radar as expected and in possibly more evidence shortly after I started listening to selected Sigur Ros tracks, I got a request from a friend to try them out. Next up will be the haunting Viðrar vel til loftárása, although the haunting does go to painful and slightly nauseating for the last minute. I hate it when that happens with great songs. There is a Radiohead track which does the same…anyways back on track. I’ve listened to Starsailor love is here a couple of times but that was pretty much a case of it being the cd nearest to hand.
Oh I have been reminded. The Invisibles. Hmm I am a little surprised. Like Promethea I found this a lot more acessable with a little bit more concentration than usual when reading, the second time around. To the point of where I shall be picking up the third volume and doing some reading up about it online. Jesus fucking h christ, it is a god damn small fucking world. As it happens while googling for the guide I wanted, I get the result to find out that the person who runs it, well I’ve met him and we have a few mutual friends. There are millions of people on the internet. How can this happen??
Hmm that kinda leads to another topic; pseudonyms. A long time ago I gave up on calling myself anything other than my name online. As you can see from the domain name, its in my name, my email address daveATdavebusheDOTnet falls under the my name catagory aswell and indeed my AIM screen name is Dave Bushe. If you were expecting anything else for that last one there then plainly you are stupid. (Yes I know I have more than one but I don’t use any of them and work does not count). Anyway the subject has come up again except this time there is something else behind it. I’m not sure I want to go into it….well no scrap that I do know I don’t want to go into it. If I did want well there wouldn’t really be any need for the thoguhts now would there?
I need a movie marathon and I now want to go to see the Star Trek Exhibition. There is a connection there, it springs from a conversation at lunch time today. The course was basically a bunch of geeks and we talked about movies and computers and the internet and tv and stuff. Anyway I’m thinking the Dollars trilogy but I also kinda feeling like watching Clerks so that could lead into a Kevin Smith marathon but I don’t know if I’m in the mood for the latter movies. I guess I shall find out tomorrow or so. I do want to see Gangs of New York but maybe wait a while. I see FoTR is on in the PCC tomorrow night but more importantly Y Tu Mama Tambien is on Sunday night. I have heard many good things about this movie but I have not been able to see it yet. I might just do that.
Wow. I just stuck this post into MS Word to do a word count for curiousity sake. This line has pushed it through 1000. How can I struggle with doing 300? Fuck maybe I am putting too much thought into this. And ya know its time for some more thought. Email going out now. Email gone. So very tired, I’m fighting to keep my eyes open. Must be time to go and sleep now. Goodnight all.