[NON BLOG] Recent Events
Sep. 29th, 2004 08:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rfmcdonaldI really should think up better titles for my posts, shouldn't I?
Regardless of my lack of creativity, little has been going on at my end. My pay came in Friday, allowing me to actually begin to pay off my debts. That's a nice feeling. Of course, at minimum wage my progress is going to be limited, but even so.
I've picked up a couple of books at discount at work, both at a substantial employees-only discount. David Hare's screenplay for The Hours ranks as a good adaptation of Cunningham's original novel. I can't help but remember the reviews of A Home at the End of the World, which mentioned both that the movie watched like a greatest-hits version of the original novel and that Cunningham adapted the book for the screen himself. Is this a case of Tom Clancy syndrome? One hopes not.
The other book is The Future is Wild by Dougal Dixon and John Adams. Dixon has a fascinating pastime of projecting evolutionary trends into the future, as a fascinating what-if. I still remember when I bought the hardcover edition of Man after Man on the last day of Grade 9, eagerly reading how Dixon projecting the speciation of homo sapiens sapiens after the destruction of human civilization, at least until post-human colonists from one of the interstellar colonies came and wrecked the surface and near-surface biospheres. The Future is Wild poses less of a challenge to the singularity of humantiy, contenting itself to study the evolution of fish into flying creatures and the development of land-dwelling cephalopods. It's a very fun, and illustrated, read.
Apart from these books, little is going on. I think I'll just stay in tonight, clean the communal kitchen, do my whites, and write. I think I really have to get out more, perhaps start volunteering. Since![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
roosterbear's visit, NaNoWrimo appears like a good idea. Perhaps something vaguely science-fiction on the principles I've enunciated, perhaps as jdhorner suggested back in July on a marginal garden world?
Oh. Googling idly, I've been cited twice in the blogosphere, once as the source for an article on Bulgaria (PDF format), once as an example of the hostile reaction to Ralph Klein's apparent plagiarism. That's nice.
Regardless of my lack of creativity, little has been going on at my end. My pay came in Friday, allowing me to actually begin to pay off my debts. That's a nice feeling. Of course, at minimum wage my progress is going to be limited, but even so.
I've picked up a couple of books at discount at work, both at a substantial employees-only discount. David Hare's screenplay for The Hours ranks as a good adaptation of Cunningham's original novel. I can't help but remember the reviews of A Home at the End of the World, which mentioned both that the movie watched like a greatest-hits version of the original novel and that Cunningham adapted the book for the screen himself. Is this a case of Tom Clancy syndrome? One hopes not.
The other book is The Future is Wild by Dougal Dixon and John Adams. Dixon has a fascinating pastime of projecting evolutionary trends into the future, as a fascinating what-if. I still remember when I bought the hardcover edition of Man after Man on the last day of Grade 9, eagerly reading how Dixon projecting the speciation of homo sapiens sapiens after the destruction of human civilization, at least until post-human colonists from one of the interstellar colonies came and wrecked the surface and near-surface biospheres. The Future is Wild poses less of a challenge to the singularity of humantiy, contenting itself to study the evolution of fish into flying creatures and the development of land-dwelling cephalopods. It's a very fun, and illustrated, read.
Apart from these books, little is going on. I think I'll just stay in tonight, clean the communal kitchen, do my whites, and write. I think I really have to get out more, perhaps start volunteering. Since
roosterbear's visit, NaNoWrimo appears like a good idea. Perhaps something vaguely science-fiction on the principles I've enunciated, perhaps as jdhorner suggested back in July on a marginal garden world?Oh. Googling idly, I've been cited twice in the blogosphere, once as the source for an article on Bulgaria (PDF format), once as an example of the hostile reaction to Ralph Klein's apparent plagiarism. That's nice.
