Monday, December 29, 2003
Just wasting time, really
Yeah, right, Paris! Wish you were here too!
It's a bit hectic around the Lake at the moment. What, with the holidays and all the the contented families cavorting and canoodling all over the place! I decided the best thing for it was to lock myself away and have a quiet day yesterday. I did some work on my current research reports that are due on 12 January, and "pottered" a bit, netsurfing.
I was in a debate once about "the future of the book". We drew the short straw and were resoundingly and mercifully defeated by those who argued that the book has a future in the age of technology. In the course of her conclusion, my opponent quipped that she had often wondered what it would be like to see into the mind of God and have access to all the information there was. She said that she had been on the Web the day before and now knew: it was CHAOS! Still, it's a serendipitous chaos!
Yesterday I found this amazing site where they've emulated types of walking. If you slide the selectors to "male", "light", "relaxed" and neither "happy" nor "sad" and then rotate it while trying to imagine it walking on four legs, it really does look a bit like me. And "male", "neutral", 1/2 "nervous" and "happy" is definitely Farouk when he's got something on his mind.
You can play with the bloody thing for hours! I did!
It's a bit hectic around the Lake at the moment. What, with the holidays and all the the contented families cavorting and canoodling all over the place! I decided the best thing for it was to lock myself away and have a quiet day yesterday. I did some work on my current research reports that are due on 12 January, and "pottered" a bit, netsurfing.
I was in a debate once about "the future of the book". We drew the short straw and were resoundingly and mercifully defeated by those who argued that the book has a future in the age of technology. In the course of her conclusion, my opponent quipped that she had often wondered what it would be like to see into the mind of God and have access to all the information there was. She said that she had been on the Web the day before and now knew: it was CHAOS! Still, it's a serendipitous chaos!
Yesterday I found this amazing site where they've emulated types of walking. If you slide the selectors to "male", "light", "relaxed" and neither "happy" nor "sad" and then rotate it while trying to imagine it walking on four legs, it really does look a bit like me. And "male", "neutral", 1/2 "nervous" and "happy" is definitely Farouk when he's got something on his mind.
You can play with the bloody thing for hours! I did!
# posted by Bob Bunyip @ 9:09 AM 
