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atiphex Well. Things happen fast. - Weekend was great. It snowed; everyone was spellbound, then we had snowball fights. Argued with a friend about the ethics of pornography; awkwardness ensued. Returned to discover that problems had developed with my computer in my absence. This morning I called an employment agency; five minutes ago I more or less accepted a job over the phone, which I didn't really want and will probably regret taking, but, hey, it's the experience that counts, right? - I keep thinking of things I want to write but when it comes to writing them it hardly seems worth putting the words down anymore. For example, when I was trying to solve the computer problems that had developed in my absence, I spent quite a while staring at the little hourglass icon... and I was thinking, that little icon used to mean something. Once upon a time, it symbolised that the computer was processing something and that this could take some time, but if you were patient, it would finish what it was doing and you could begin on the next thing. "Please wait patiently", it was saying, and you'd wait patiently, and then something would happen. But no more; now that hourglass signifies the fact that your lifetime is a brief thing, fast slipping away like sands into the irretrievable depths, and if you wait patiently for the computer to become available to you again you will grow old and die before anything happens. - Oh, and another thing: I'm really pissed off about this new film of "I, Robot". I love Isaac Asimov. I went to see Bicentennial Man because, even though it had Robin Williams in it, I loved the book and hoped the film would do it justice. The film was a travesty which not merely failed to show respect to Asimov's legacy, but actively went out of its way to disgrace and defile it. I'd hoped that this new attempt to adapt from Asimov would show a little more respect for the great man. But no. - :( - :) - "You left the water running when you left me behind" - Otis Redding (I think) |
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