Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Everything is Soylent Green

I was thinking about Hollywood, and all the projecting and typing of it. 'Hollywood is a ruthless town.' 'Hollywood looks like tinsel but if look underneath all the tinsel, there's more tinsel.'. What is Hollywood? I wondered.   'Hollywood... Is - PEOPLE!' (You have to imagine Charlton Heston's final despair in that exclamation.)

Actually, almost everything... Is PEOPLE!  Wars, corruption, current affairs shows, international tennis events, golf, testicles you can dangle from your car's tow ball - the great big pile of shit that is modern life... Is PEOPLE!

Thursday, January 9, 2014

Andrew's complete happiness

Time to check in on my complete happiness:
. I have a Raspberry Pi, courtesy of the cynical kringle
(probably my greatest innovation).
. I have all the support items it needs (a screen, a power supply, SD cards, a keyboard and mouse.)
. I have some new merrell road glove 2s - barefoot running shoes.
. a pair of 'yurbuds ironman focus' headphones, so running around here we come.
So that's all pretty good.

I will be working toward:
. a nice 27" screen. Probably 1920 x 1080 IPS (not wqhd - don't have the gpu, not TFT). Aoc d2757Ph might do it - $355 at MSY.
. a good heart rate monitoring solution (mio alpha was looking great, good price at kogan $189, but Intel put out some heart rate sensing earbuds at CES and all bets are off). Don't want a chest strap.
. screenplay reads and hosting at the black list (blcklst.com) $80 each, ideally want to do both screenplays together.
. getting a proper tamper for my coffee machine (special measure - $65-70)
. seeing Jupiter Ascending, Enders Game and more at the Sun theater in Yarraville.
. building a weight rack / heave beam.(almost free)
. building a car Sim for my son.

Thursday, January 2, 2014

Derivative blogging

After that last post I picked up 'Purity of Heart is to will one thing' by Kierkegaard, a slender volume that I was going to finish this holiday, after failing to give it its due lo these many years.

"Is not despair simply double- mindedness?  For what is despairing other than to have two wills?  For whether the weakling despairs o er not being able to wrench himself away from the bad, or the brazen despairs of never being able to tear himself completely away from the good: they are both double-minded - they have two wills."

My early attempts to read this book (and SK elsewhere) obviously left traces.