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Apr. 21st, 2004 09:22 pmI now have a nasty tatty looking old army bag again. And this one's black.
I was very upset when I lost my old one. It's hard to explain why. It lacks elegance. It's old. It looks tatty. However, it does its job of being a bag remarkably well. I can put lots of stuff in there, and know it will not break. It did have a cerain amount of sentimental value. My mum bought it for me when I was at school. It was the only bag I ever owned that lasted for over a year of carrying all my books.
Finally received my DVDs. Doubt I'll get round to watching them. I can't be bothered concentrating on a DVD after work these days. Have I developed a dislike of CRTs?
Also reading Watchmen again. There are some nice touches that I'd either forgotten about entirely, or didn't notice the first time. Things like "The end of the wrold... definitely today... You will keep my paper for me tomorrow won't you?" And the cover showing Fallout shelter, but obscuring enough letters to show "ALL HEL". Never been too sure about the Dr. Manhatten Character though. I just don't see how he fits in. He just seems to interfere with the realism.
I was reading "Growing up with Lucy". It was getting really good, then I left it on the train. The lost property department don't seem to have seen it. No idea why. I refuse to believe that anyone would be stupid enough to pick up a supicious looking bag, and I told them exactly which train it was on. Somehow they lost it. But, I digress. The point of the book was a programmer's plan to build a robot as an AI experiment. The idea being that it may not be possible to give a machine any concept of how a human understands the world, unless it can experience it like a human. It was interesting, not only because the writer came up with some intrigueing interesting ideas, but he also came up with some ideas that seem rather stupid.
I was very upset when I lost my old one. It's hard to explain why. It lacks elegance. It's old. It looks tatty. However, it does its job of being a bag remarkably well. I can put lots of stuff in there, and know it will not break. It did have a cerain amount of sentimental value. My mum bought it for me when I was at school. It was the only bag I ever owned that lasted for over a year of carrying all my books.
Finally received my DVDs. Doubt I'll get round to watching them. I can't be bothered concentrating on a DVD after work these days. Have I developed a dislike of CRTs?
Also reading Watchmen again. There are some nice touches that I'd either forgotten about entirely, or didn't notice the first time. Things like "The end of the wrold... definitely today... You will keep my paper for me tomorrow won't you?" And the cover showing Fallout shelter, but obscuring enough letters to show "ALL HEL". Never been too sure about the Dr. Manhatten Character though. I just don't see how he fits in. He just seems to interfere with the realism.
I was reading "Growing up with Lucy". It was getting really good, then I left it on the train. The lost property department don't seem to have seen it. No idea why. I refuse to believe that anyone would be stupid enough to pick up a supicious looking bag, and I told them exactly which train it was on. Somehow they lost it. But, I digress. The point of the book was a programmer's plan to build a robot as an AI experiment. The idea being that it may not be possible to give a machine any concept of how a human understands the world, unless it can experience it like a human. It was interesting, not only because the writer came up with some intrigueing interesting ideas, but he also came up with some ideas that seem rather stupid.
