Saturday, August 27, 2005

Bank Holiday and its weekend

edit: check out GamesRant - it's the new and updated version of my old GamesRant website.

I headed home for this Bank Holliday weekend hoping to continue with my 'doing of nothingness' as I was as Brunel, and so far I think I'm progressing very well, thanks for asking. Early this morning, I was in a half-asleep state and there were these baby birds in a nest just outside my window, tweeting away (rather annoyingly though - was trying to stay asleep). The tweeting wasn't so much the 'tweeting' sound you are probably imagining right now, but more like 'clicking' sounds. And being in a state of semi-sleep, these clicking noises transferred themselves into my sleepy dream of someone (possibly me) clicking a PC mouse button. Incessantly clicking. And it was bloody annoying, I can tell you. I got up instead of trying to sleep - it was about 10am anyway.


Found this on BBCi: Squirrel helps with mobile calls. How cute is that?!? That's so awesome - I want one. Click on the link for the pictures of it in use (about 1/4 way down the page). Looks like you stuff the mobile into its tail (and not its arse like I first thought).

Now, you see, this sort of technology people should like - it's comfortable with human interaction. It does things subtly and doesn't distract you. I thought about it awhile back, I'm living in the generation of what is probably only just the birth of electronic technology. I mean, born 23-years ago and I can remember all the technology I've every used since I was young and growing up through teenage-hood and now to young adult - technology has been exponential in its improvements and growth. I must (or at least hope) have at least another 60-years left in me and I can't wait to see what's going to happen. Gadgets have been the main development in life I reckon - people are buying more and more gadgets and electronic toys like music players, consoles, PCs, boothtooth this and that, different types of recordable media. I kinda like to think that I'm lucky to experience this booming technology - ultimately, it's great fun.

I remember the games machines I used to play on: Spectrum, Commodre 64, Atari, Mega Drive, Amiga 1200, Saturn, PC, Dreamcast, Xbox. And soon Xbox360 (yep, that's the one I've going for).
I remember the playable and recordable media there were: cassette tapes, floppy disks, cartridges, cd-roms, cd-r/rw, dvd-r/rw and dual-layer. And now there's Blu-Ray and HD-DVDs.
Mobile phones are another thing. And that nicely ties things back.


Just finished watching 'The Butteryfly Effect' - an interesting and worthwhile film about the effects of chaos theory. It was in by about 30-45mins and I was wondering when the hell some 'butteryfly effect' was going to happen. And then it did. The protagonist goes through a few different scenarios and the consequences of his actions. It's quite an interesting proposition, but I think maybe a little extreme? I don't know. And the end was a little abrupt and sad. All in all, a good film.


Something for you people to dwell on until next time. I'm currently watching Alien and there are these huge space stations. You think that's ever likely to happen? I'd kinda like to know what happens in so-many-million-years from now; will the earth collapse into the black hole that the sun will finally become (that's what I think), will we build space stations to live on, will we colonise another planet (think Total Recall with Arnie). Until next time.


--steven

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