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妻が買ってきた今年のカレンダーですが、これは可愛すぎです。
他の月もなかなかレベルの高い写真が目白押しです。
破るのもったいないかも・・・。
I have never lost one of my nice pens, but I've had my share of close calls. Tonight was such a night.
As I noted earlier, I received a Lamy Vista for Christmas. I've been quite happy with it, and it's been in my pocket ever since I received it. I've been having more fun with it than a 38-year-old man should be having with invisible ink. The clear pen has been definitely something that enhances the experience.
When we went to the zoo tonight, it was in my pocket. I suppose I wanted to be ready in case I had to write a secret message to a cheetah. At one point, I carried my daughter on my shoulders. We were watching a puppet show, when I noticed the pen was missing!
I was upset--this was, as a coworker put it, my "Red Ryder BB gun." And, I had my streak of "never losing a pen." We retraced steps, searched, cried, and talked to lost and found. Quite frankly, it seemed like a hopeless case. A pen would be hard to find in general, much less in the dark. Add to that the fact it was clear, and, if someone tried to write with it, nothing would come out. My family was too good and tolerant of my quirk to put up with this on a cold evening.
We had given up and were walking back to the car, when I noticed it was on the ground just behind it. It must have slipped out of my pocket before we left.
A catalog called Levenger's used to have what they would call the "Volvo test" for particularly robust pens. The pen would be rolled over by the front wheel of an eighties vintage Volvo station wagon. The Lamy Safari, on which this pen is based, came through with just a scratch.
I suspect my pen went through an accidental Volvo test (or Toyota Test. Or Honda Test--you get the idea). It has a few scratches and scuffs, but is in good shape.
I'm quite happy to have it back, and my "never lost a fountain pen" record is intact. Even if the pen and I have a few scars from the ordeal.
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In 1999, the doomsayers predicted the end of the world as we know it - in the form of computers all over the world crashing because of the so-called millennium bug. It never made sense to me, I mean if it were a problem, couldn't you just change the date ?
I spent the New Year's eve in Vietnam, away from civilization. The next day, nothing changed. Not even an incident. All that scare were for thing. But it wasn't all for nothing, the Y2K bug inspired quite a few things - among them, music, televisions, and books.
WHO'S AFRAID OF Y2K?
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There was a period when I tracked down all the projects that were related to Belle & Sebastian, including The Gentle Waves/Isobel Campbell and Looper. Looper was was basically B&S's Stuart David and his wife, Karn, who actually met via penpalism (as told by their song, Impossible Things).
They did garner a bit of fame through "Mondo '77", a really great catchy "binary"-video gamey song (it's been featured in Vanilla Sky, video games, and anti-drugs commercials). But unfortunately, their third (and final?) album, The Snare did not have any really catchy songs. The ruder and darker themed album was due to David's book The Peacock Manifesto (whos character also appears on the cover and songs of The Snare).
Anyway, in 1999, Looper released a double A-Side called Who's Afraid of Y2K? and Up A Tree Again, which I picked up, among other singles, at a Flaming Lips show (Looper was opening up for the band).
Both are excellent songs, although there were two remixes of "Up A Tree Again". I normally don't like remixes, but these were pretty different from the original album (which actually sounds pretty stale compared to these upbeat mixes). The "singles mix" of "Up a Tree Again" was interesting to say the least, focusing mostly on the "la-na-na-na" section and DJ-scratches, while the Chocolate Layers remix was pretty much only the "la-na-na-na" section.
Looking back, I suppose "Who's Afraid of Y2K?" song was a bit of novelty. Ironically enough, the song was awashed in electronic quirks and beats - all the things that Y2K would've destroyed supposedly.
Currently, Looper's on hiatus. I haven't heard much in terms of a new David novel or Looper release. Most of the recent releases were made free on their website, geometrid.co.uk.
BRAVE OLD WORLD
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I thought the concept behind this William Messner-Loebs-written Vertigo mini-series was interesting enough: a group of computer hackers working on a solution to the Y2K bug at the end of 1999 - only to find themselves in 1900.
The series explored some interesting concept, like what would you do, if you had all this computer/understanding of technology, only to be trapped in a world that still operated via candlelight? The women in the comics had it worst, let's face it, women didn't exactly have freedom back then. And if you were doing something strange, you're a witch and killed, etc.
So what's the group to do to try and back to 2000? They had to build a computer, by "inventing" their own technology.
Like I said, a very interesting concept. It sort of got a bit boring towards the end (by the last issue, I didn't really care for the characters so much).
Vertigo comics has yet to collect this in a trade, I suppose after the Y2K fiasco, it probably wouldn't be worth reading. I mean, we all know as fantastic as going back in 1900 would be, it didn't happen - just like the Y2K didn't happen. Still, if you want to re-live what it was like, or what Messner-Loebs was thinking back in 1999.
PREPARE YOURSELF FOR Y10K
Chances are, I'll be dead, so I wouldn't care so much what would happen. Wikipedia thinks it's a problem, but I suspect by the year 10,000, that our computing technology would be so advance, it wouldn't amount to anything.
Until then, have a great New Year. Take care of each other. I'll see you in 2010.
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The zoo has an annual Festival of Lights. A subset of that was tonight--Happy Zoo Year. They had some special events for New Year's Eve, as well as a kid-friendly countdown.
これこれ！
JALみどりの尾翼！
and I will be in bed before it gets to midnight.
The first of the year will come around whether I am awake or not and I might as well face 2010 well rested.
I'm having my champagne and chocolate now and I'm going to spend the evening sorting through my Australian photos imagining myself back in the warmth of the southern hemisphere.
This is really an answer to the Question of The Day on: How will I be ringing in the New Year which I've seen others post .... but I never seem to find the QoTDs myself.
Anyway, to use an expression I heard a zillion times today, see you next year.....
- 21:38 Just cuz I've been on the couch for days... She thinks she can too... tweetphoto.com/7642830 #
- 13:24 @StephenHoltzman probably cricket.. Or virgin.. That way it can't be traced as easily lol... #
- 16:08 All packed! Ready to move up front next week!! tweetphoto.com/7710214 #
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