London 2012 continues
Well I’d suggest, a little tongue in cheek it’s true, that the BBC be renamed the BOBC because, since it began last week, they’ve broadcast nothing other than the Olympics and, if I’m being honest, their coverage has been and continues to be amazingly good. As the host nation we have to broadcast everything and the BBC has established an additional 21 channels on which to show everything (21 std and 21 hd). Sports I’ve never even heard of are being covered on either one channel or another and even I, Mr Hate Sports (your fault Dad) , am finding myself being, a little, swept along with it all … plus, for reasons unknown, Deb appears to have set Olympic TV coverage as our default viewing mode. We are 11 days in and the UK (pop 70 million) is third in the medal table behind USA (pop 300 million) and China (pop 1,500 million) so Team GB are punching well above their weight at present.
Di gets back from San Francisco:
My BFF in the States Dianne has returned, exhausted, from her san Francisco
Cannot believe, when I was explaining this to her, how much detail I went into about how I’d be kitted out. Clothes, hat rucksack covered in solar cells, spare batteries sawn into clothing so walking power source. Clothes would actually plug into any available electric outlets in order to recharge batteries while solar cells would endeavour to replenish cells whilst on the move. Loose baggy ventilated Kevlar trousers which seal to super comfortable but water proof fire proof bite proof boots so allowing no creepy crawlies to climb up my inside leg measurement. Waterproof sealed cargo pockets for Kindle and ePad. In fact might be one piece overall style outfit. Again built in batteries and solar cells and built in cell phone and GPS with attached irremovable emergency interfaces so that, in extremis, I’m always able to find out where I am and able to tell someone. A little like those emergency watches that cost about $20,000 and which you get fined for miss using. Basic premise always wearing what one can’t risk losing. Would also make clothes look scruffy in order to blend in and not attract the attention of predators. The one piece could be designed to look like a shirt and pants but a one piece construction, especially if made of protective materials would provide more protection in accidents or dangerous situations. Coat would also be stab/bullet proof and my umbrella (attached to rucksack like the map man) would be one of those special fighting ones () that cost about £200. Wide brimmed sun hat would contain inner lining of Ribcap protection. My very own Earl Dummarest (Dumarest looks like a human wolf. And he wears nondescript, gray clothes, a tunic and pants with steel mesh buried in the fabric of the tunic.) travelling outfit for the modern day.
I’ve just realised Nat went to France skiing in January of this year and he’s still to tell me what he did while he was away … anything to avoid writing, and his friend Brandon still hasn’t remembered to give me a copy of his photos because Nat took about 20 photos, in total, of which over half are blurred (given he was using the Nokia 700 with EDF camera … which should make blurred pictures impossible … how he managed that is anybody’s guess). Not told me anything about holiday at all; think he told Deb but when I was working so asleep during the day. I must ask him before he forgets all about it. Talking of forgetting we must get old vidios transferred off tapes and onto disc and uploaded before they degrade (if haven’t already) beyond saving. These have all the early films of Nat and Hannah and a even some footage of my Daddy shortly before he died.
The other day I was trawling through and trying to organise the thousands of ebooks I have on the PC to see what else I’d like to put on my Kindle when my eye was drawn to some scifi novels written by Orson Scott Card … specifically a series The Ender Saga … an author whom I’ve never read. For whatever reason I decided to give them a try and upon investigation discovered the original novel Enders Game is quiet notorious given that it’s subject matter concerns training young children to become generals and that it’s recommended reading for US marines. It is rather good, so far, and so I passed my Kindle to Nat to check out a page as I thought he’d find it interesting. Well Lo and Behold I didn’t get it back. Yes Nat, the kindle hater, suddenly decided that he really liked this story and that perhaps he wouldn’t mind having a Kindle after all. Maybe get to put all those Warhammer 40,000 books on a Kindle for him plus the thousands of other I have.
I also put the chrome browser on the iPhone for Deb, this being the browser she says she prefers to use, but whether she’ll bother to learn how to use it is moot. Certainly next morning she seemed to go out of her way to not under stand how to use the Orange Wednesday App. Anyway enough for this entry will continue tomorrow. Want to experiment with Dragon dictation and blogger app on the iPhone because I’m seriously tempted to go the iPhone route when I get my next phone. Nokia camera’s still kick arse and I’ll keep the N8 on PAYG SIM if I don’t upgrade to their new 808 PureView but if that happens then the iPhone will become my communication device and the N8 will be for Photography and Music.
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