Many Tales

Gee, I think I forgot for a while that it's ok to blog about personal experiences - you know - "things that happen to me".

That line, btw, was taken from the first episode of "Sherlock", the series by BBC. Now, I'm a Holmes'o'phile and will generally consume any flavour of fiction, fanfic, movie, play or subtle reference to that universe (and I must say I thoroughly LOVED the new movies, especially Jude law) but this series tops them all. Cumberbatch rules the role and Freeman is the ultimate Watson, not a clumsy halfwit and neither quite as suave as Jude Law's version (let me reiterate that Jude Law's Watson is candy in every sense, but back to that later) but a very real one. The series is set in today's time and tech-savvy Sherlock sends texts instead of telegrams. He still has a homeless network albeit one that specializes in spray-painting graffiti. Watson is an Afghan veteran (same name, different war ~130 years apart). Holmes no longer smokes a pipe but uses nicotine patches, plays the violin, shoots into the wall, spears dead pigs and so on. I love how everything of essence is retained and enough details are modified to blend the setting into a world today that we are all so familiar with. So cleverly done, many tongue-in-cheek references to the original.. a lovely Holmage.

Me posing as Kurt Vonnegut.

I got the new nook simple touch. It's just like my old nook, in that it is still b/w and e-ink, except it's smaller, faster (heavy users of the iPhone may disagree, but I argue that it takes just as much time to turn a page on this as it does with a real book.), and lacks a fullstop button in its virtual keyboard. You also can't browse the internet, which is fine since web browsing on an e-ink device would be frustrating in many ways, but this doesn't let me log into wireless networks that redirect you to a webpage before you can access the net through them. I love the new 'homepage' and the fullscreen touch screen, and I especially love their default screensaver - a series of woodcut caricatures of famous authors (see image).
Oh, and if you turn in your old nook, you get a new one of any kind at half-off. Why I didn't get the nook colour, resell it and use that money to buy a new nook simple-touch and make 30 or so bucks - I will never know.

I have also signed up for Pinterest, which is forever distracting but a wonderful source of new creative ideas and so many yummy food pictures that I get hungry just looking thorough everything. Which is good, because then I remember to eat. And, because one night the colours were swimming around in my head from looking at all the exciting DIY projects on Pinterest, I painted this.

I love rainy weather, don't you?

So long, folks, and thanks for all the fish.