Oh also. I was reading a PRD (Product Requirements Document) the other day and one of the features was actually described like this:
“allowing u to control”.
For FUCK sake!
Really pleased to hear The Shield returns for the second season on the 1st of July.
Finished off Chasm City, and I enjoyed it a hell of a lot. Started off Redemption Ark the sequel to Revelation Space and I’m looking forward to getting into it. Sat in the park for a while listening to Hail To the Thief and reading. It was good, it was calm. If the weather keeps going like this I could see myself doing a lot of that.
CSI isn’t holding my interest as much these days, they need to go back to the stories where the main characters are interesting and playing off each other. Without that, there isn’t really any compelling viewing. The forensic stuff may have been enough to get the show started well but it needs to be built on.
I need a bike. I really do. In weather like this watching people sail by in the park is really making me miss my bike. I had better space to ride it along the coast back in Dublin but the park is a good start here and the riverside does give quite a bit of a straight line.
As I was walking across the river this evening to get home, I saw someone who looked very like someone I use to know a few lifetimes ago. It got me to thinking about a few things from back then and one in particular stood out.
A few years ago, a relative of mine was getting married. This one is going to be kinda vague for what will I hope be obvious reasons. I was at the wedding (not the wedding proper, but the afters), as were my parents and quite a bit of my extended family. I didn’t really want to be there, I had originally but that all changed.
I found out something which I didn’t like (and still don’t like) and it well it annoyed and disappointed me. The two people getting married had been together for a long time, years and years as I recall. They had also just bought a house, or were in the process of buying a house.
Well, as it turns out there was a third person involved in the relationship and as it happens it’s a small world. So I knew all about the third person and indeed a lot more detail than I had ever wanted to know. One of the things which really got to me was that I knew it wasn’t over.
It all seemed so pointless. They have a kid now and I hope for their sake it’s all working out. I’ve not heard from anyone to the otherwise so I hope so.
I’m reminded of someone else. I only met her a few times, she was a friend of a friend. A close friend of a really close friend. She was young, smart, and really really cute. Last time I saw her was at a night out and she looked stunning, absolutely stunning. Heads turned, perhaps it helped that she was not wearing much, but heads turned.
Anyway she had a boyfriend. Well, actually she didn’t. She had someone else’s boyfriend (perhaps even husband I’m not sure but I think it could very well have been). They didn’t get to spend much time together and while he kept talking about leaving his other half for her, it was never going to home and I think she knew it. So this guy had whomever he had and this stunning girl who any number of people would have killed to just date for a while.
She really really liked him tho. It was a touchy subject for quite a while but I do remember somehow I was talking to her about it once and she was fairly upset, no-one could understand what she was doing with him and she got some grief about it. She knew what she was doing with him, she really really liked him
She deserves a hell of a lot better.
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I was also thinking today that I really need to get an address book up to date. I don’t have one. I have AOL and my old outlook address book for email and my phone for phone numbers and I’m completely useless at noting snail mail addresses so sitting down and putting the time into saving everything somewhere would be time well spent. I’m thinking PDA so I can sync it onto a few computers and aswell as that I want to export it onto AOL in someway so I can have all the details stored on the host. In theory then I should be able to get anyone’s details at anytime. I shall have to look into spending some time doing this.
I saw something the other day which I found a little scary to be honest. I saw some numbers for a personal ad site and well I was impressed too. How many people actually use these things? The numbers were quite specific in terms of country base and there were more than 3 people using them. I know Friendster is huge but they do a good job at not coming off as a personals site. Hmm I don’t really know where I’m going with this but I always thought there was a certain stigma associated with them. I guess that’s a lot less in this internet age which makes a hell of a lot of sense. Given that I’m talking to someone who I met online about this right now I guess there isn’t really any stigma I can throw against them without coming out as some sort of hypocrite.
The phrase perfect contradiction just popped into my head for some reason. I think it has some context with the word hypocrite. I did say that somewhat tongue in cheek as I’m sure I am a hypocrite in some ways. Anyway that was a random interruption to our regular programming.
Now a less random interruption as I think it is time to leave it for the night.