This is something I don’t usually do, post tech talk on here, but I feel like listing just how I’m setting up my new computer. It came pre-installed with Vista x64, which I would prefer to use, but a bunch of the photo-editing software I want to use – which I essentially bought the computer [...]
2:16 PM Watching The Tin Drum. So far it seems to be translated quite literally from book-form to movie-form. I think for anyone watching it without having read the book, it would just seem strange and even random. 11:05 AM My new computer should arrive today. I’m watching Pleasure for Sale (NY Times Review), a [...]
7:17 PM Over the past ten years I’ve had three computers. Now that I’m moving on to a 4th, I was just comparing in my mind how much things have changed (or haven’t changed) over 10 years. The biggest change over the years is that they’ve gotten cheaper, by a couple hundred dollars each time. [...]
3:08 PM I finished Deepak Chopra’s Buddha. My primary motivation for reading it was to compare it to Hesse’s Siddhartha – not to see if it’s better or worse, but to see whether the message it conveys is similar and whether it’s conveyed in a similar way. I enjoyed Buddha, but it is nowhere near [...]
9:18 AM I can’t believe I didn’t write about this earlier, because it was so…odd. A few weeks ago, while I was having a coffee at Panera Bread one evening, a man in his 50s came up to me and started talking. I was playing with my new camera so I thought he was going [...]