It seems I’m a couple of decades behind the times here, but I’m presently very addicted to Tetris.
I never saw the appeal when I was younger, But in the last few days I’ve been playing it constantly. So there you have it, I don’t think I’m going anywhere with this. Just thought I’d share that.
I feel I’ve been neglecting this blog of late. It’s not that I can’t be bothered to update it, or that I can’t think of interesting things to rant about. Actually I’m not exactly sure why I haven’t been updating it. I think it may be because I have a tendancy to overthink things. The amount of times I can remember several speperate occasions when I’ve been writing a rather long post and then decided “no… nobody wants to read about that!”.
So I think I’m going to step up my game. I’m going to start blogging about all sorts of nonsense. My first thought was that this may detract from the quality of the content, but then I actually re-read some of my previous posts and decided I really haven’t produced enough quality yet for that to be possible! I’m ok with that though. I figure if I just start publishing all the nonsense that crosses my mind, then the higher quality stuff will come naturally. So from now on I will attempt to update the blog more regularly, but expect crap…
In other news I just acquired my copy of ‘Death From The Skies!’ and I can’t wait to give that a good ol’ reading! But I do need to finish ‘The Ancestors Tale’ first. It’s been a long read and I’m almost there. I’m very much a one book person you see, I find it very difficult not to get distracted by something else if I start reading so I have to restrain myself and stick to one book just so I see it through to the end. Not that ‘The Ancestors Tale’ is boring of course, far from it. It’s just that I find lots of things interesting and find it very hard not to get distracted when I spot something else interesting.
You see this is the kind of crap I was talking about. Well I’m posting it anyway, I think it’s for the best!
I was doing my regular reading of the bad astronomy blog when i came across a rather obscure post.
When i first heard of the internet, I was probably about 7-10 years old and i think in those days was still playing games on a 48k spectrum or something like that. Anyway, back then it would never have occurred to me the wonders of the computer age.
Consider the fact that I’m able to communicate this message to you (whoever you may be) without having to be in the same room, house, city or even the same country.
Now that idea on it’s own occasionally strikes me as being rather absurd. But consider this: I have just sat (and not for the first time i might add) watching a live web-cam feed of somebody’s pilot light. (click to see live video feed! I’m not sure how to embed things)
I had never even heard of this person previously and yet i was able to sit there (joined by 93 other people) watching a small blue flame half way around the world. Perhaps even more absurd is the fact that I’m sat here now not only watching more live video feed of the same thing, but also writing a blog post about it.
Yesterday, I never even imagined that such an odd thing could possibly be happening and yet here I am. Who knows what new and unusual thing i may stumble upon tomorrow?
My password is so good, even I don’t know what it is! And by that I mean it takes me effing ages to remember it.
In other news, I’ve been searching for footage of Usain Bolt’s already legendary 9.69 second 100m sprint and i have so far failed to find any! I’m absolutely stunned. Surely this was one of the most incredible moments of the 2008 olympics and i can’t find any footage anywhere! All i get is still pictures to music or videos of Rick Astley. Serisously what the heck is going on? Do any videos exist on the internet these days of real things actually happening? It seems to me as though it’s assumed that we’ve already seen it so all the videos on the subject are either parodies or tributes or completely unrelated.
So i challenge my readers* to find me actual real-time footage of the entire 100m sprint final from the 2008 Beijing olympics. The best I’ve managed to find so far is some sort of news report that shows it in slow motion; I’m sure I can find better than that.
*Perhaps it’s a bit ambitious of me to assume i have more than one reader… prove me wrong!
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