My TV was burgled in 2001.
People watch TV 3 hours on average. As far as I remember, I was marginally below average.
The cumulated time I have NOT watched TV is now nine months.
If I am still alive when I am eighty, I will have spent close to seven years NOT watching TV.
I’ve been (implicitly) tagged in a synchronous crossfire by Litlove, Dorothy and Emily, so there we go: eight random things about me.
Apparently, my random selection looks biased. I wager there is correlation with my glycemia somehow. Never write on an empty stomach.
Bon appétit.
PS: I will post a picture for each of the above things before the end of 2007.
Some of you may know my absidea blog on absurd ideas. Some may even be regular readers. Then you must have noticed it’s been a while since my last post. Do not worry: I have not lost the faith. It’s just that I have been doing the exact same work at my day job (i.e. describing inventions, hopefully not absurd — with illustrations), and so was less inclined to spend more time on the writing side. However, the idea side is still very much alive, and entries are piling up.
To avoid the guilt and stress associated with too much distance between posts, I have decided to take an official break while I brood a new batch. And it gave me an idea: this first batch of articles is to be considered as absidea Season 1.
Season 2 will start July 1st, 2007, with an intended weekly publication frequency, until the end of December. That’s a deal. And hopefully again in 2008 and so forth until I run out of ideas (or death terminates my internet connection). Meanwhile, make sure you have read all of season 1 (that is, if you like the concept).
As an appetizer for those who do not know absidea, below is a selection of Season 1’s best episodes:
Sports in weightless environments
Vacuum-filled airships
A skyscraper with only one floor
The giant space beanstalk
Floating pop-corn
Shrinking mankind
See you around on Sunday July 1st, 2007, 00:00 UTC for the first Season 2 article, entitled … can’t tell you right now, but I’m sure there will be leaks before that date.
I said I had to do more reading, but I can still post pictures.
A small maths exercise: consider a world with p people, where people read and people write. On average, each person writes w pages and reads r pages a day. How many readers will each page have on average?
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I have decided to resort to pencasting for all my personal posts. Therefore, my blog will not show up in search results from personal details I wrote. I get to use taboo keywords without fearing hordes of trolls stampeding my way from indiscriminate search results. And it feels like I am writing a letter to my readers instead of writing a textbook, which is how personal posts should always feel.
Enjoy the next pencast, then.
A car is faster than a bike. At least, that’s what we all believe. But in fact, it is false. We already know that in congested downtown traffic a car is hardly faster than a bike, but I am saying that riding is faster than driving — always [more]
Emily was recently mentioning her passion for pens, and I confessed to being quite a pen lover myself, but whined about how seldom I now use one, as keyboards and screens gradually spoliate pen and paper.
And I had an idea: although I know I would not change keyboard for pen while editing, I also know that I still like writing down the final manuscript patiently, as a remembrance of when I wrote letters. Fellow bloggers have recently set a foot in the podcasting world. Maybe I won’t. But I can start a pencasting fad. It is quite suited to literate blogs, and much more bandwidth-sober than podcasting.
So here is my first pencast, the handwritten version of my latest post, entitled standing on the shoulders of giants.
