Which isn’t saying much. I’ve started writing the thank-you letters to people who emailed me condolences on my father’s passing. It’s even less fun than I imagined it would be, and I feel sheepish having taken so long just to say thanks. But I have been pretty damned busy. Ah well.
Month: March 2006
I would like some milk…
I can’t believe that I’ve had this Aphex Twin CD (Richard D. James Album, I think it’s called) for over four years — my friend Jack gave me a copy only a couple of days before I left Canada — and in all this time, during many listenings, I never made out exactly where Mr. Aphex was saying he would like some milk from. It’s quite perverse, and it’s only NOW that I understand why Jack commented about the album something along the lines that the artist was a rather twisted fellow. I just can’t believe I never noticed he …
Primer (2004)
Have you seen Primer? I watched it just before I moved, and I have to say, my initially bad feeling washed away as I suddenly got the movie, understood what it was about, and followed it happily to its conclusion. The thing is, it’s SF. It’s also deadly quiet, deadly calm, slow, and very geeky. Spooky and geeky. It’s spooky because it seems to me it’s realistic in a way that isn’t common in SF. It brings to mind the comments from Ritu’s LJ which I bookmarked on my other computer, where she linked to this essay by Pam Noles …
Back Online
As some of you might have imagined, I have finally attained net access at home. It’s ever so slightly embarrassing how relieving this actually is… I could feel it, palpably feel my disconnection from the net, from those whom I know online, and it was a little disconcerting. My schedule is such that it’s a little hard to call Canada, though I think tomorrow I shall try give my mother a shout. But tonight, I did a little catching up, and as anyone paying attention to the other posts from tonight can see, it was Ritu’s LJ I decided to …
For those with doubts about evolution…
Check out this pithy Doonesbury. Via Ritu’s LJ.