Friday, November 02, 2007

You loved me...then you left me

Well, its been a while.

We have a lot of important issues to discuss you and I.

As you will have gathered, I have been a slacker since finishing Uni, no blogging, no photographing, no writing. Its not so good (like Hedley).

But, times are a changing, times are a changing. First off, the blogging must recommense. Where would the world be without my pearls of wisdom? Slack alley thats where.

I have also made moves to increase the creativity production from 0 to at least 1 or maybe even 2. The process is three fold:

1) I bought a Moleskine notebook. Its a cunning plan where by you spend £8 on a note book so feel guilty if you do not use it. I have therefore penned a few thoughts since getting it and I am enjoying it very much thank you.
2) I have subscribed to a magazine called "The Week". Its tag line is "All you need to know about everything that matters". Essentialy its a weekly magazine that summarises the weeks news, by summarising what the other papers said and so on. Its a bit like the lazy mans newspaper, but thats good as I am both lazy and a man. Anyhow, the idea is it will help me keep abreast (snigger...breast) of whats happening and give me ideas for projects and such like.
3) I have (sort of) started a new photography project. Its super simple and not well thought out at this stage, mainly its an excuse to take a 35mm where every my feet travel to get back in the swing of things. It also involves writing...we shall see where it goes. I am calling it, as a working title "I Fucking Love Cranes". Yet it is not related to building sites! Puzzled...you should be.

In other news, I do fucking love cranes and I love building sites. I enjoy my minute long walk past the building of the new recycling plant in Hollingdean. I like to watch the progress. Sometimes I have to converse with the builders as I negotiate dangerous areas where machinary is in operation. Today I walked past a crane on a lorry. I prefer free standing cranes, but beggers cannot be choosers, unless they are a beggar who is presented with two things at once. The choice between a shiney pound and a cup of tea for example.

I also love diggers.

So...random selections in Itunes etc...how random are they? Not very and I think I have uncovered a consipiracy here. I often find my MP3 player chooses two songs from the same album in succession. In fact it almost always does. Thats not so random. Itunes often seems to select the same songs in a similar order too. What is more, Iphoto does the same. My screensaver is my photo library on random rotation...but its not random. It has favourates and repeats them more often than the other pictures. My conclusion? Computers are alive. ALIVE.

Well, that will do for now. We have discussed some important issues and now i must work.

Until next time.

1 Comments:

Blogger Dave said...

hurrah! he's back! Banging on about cranes again though.

You're right about the random tunes conspiracy, its something I noticed when i got my first CD player. The phenomenon has repeated itself in everything since, too - MD's, MP3's, er, thats probably it. Anyway, yeah, I used to know which tune was coming up next when an album was on random cos the CD/MD player always played the same 'random' variation each time. OR if not the same, one of a few different variations. Its weird.

I recon the 'random' algorithm (I dont know that its an algorithm, but it sounds good) isn't truly random. I recon it works by some kind of pattern. That would explain why albums on random often got played in the same order - cos one of a limited supplies of 'random' patterns had been applied to it.

I bet Maff knows!

7:20 pm

 

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