Ruin
March 24th, 2012Wild World
March 16th, 2012I can’t sleep. For some reason, I have Cat Steven’s Wild World playing on a loop in my head.
Retro Gaming
March 8th, 2012Ahh, retro games on the iPad. Love it! I wonder if Nintendo will ever bring something to the App Store.
Arkanoid (Arkanold App Store)/Space Invaders (Space Inversion App Store)
Is that a SNES controller I see?
Hours of entertainment
Cerebral Re-runs
March 6th, 2012Another night of sleeplessness. I don’t know why though, I woke up at a reasonable time having had four hours of sleep last night and did some exercise in the early evening. For some reason, my mind keeps replaying recent conversations I’ve had, over and over, it’s as if it were on a mental loop. None of the conversations are particularly troubling so I don’t know why it’s happening. Maybe I’m just going insane, next I’ll be crouched in a corner, rocking back and forth, reciting those same conversations over and over again. Over and over again.
¡Oh, qué cielo azul!
March 5th, 2012Sunny days and blue skies makes everything better. I’d be out in the English countryside again if it weren’t for my shoulder. I have no idea what or how I’ve injured my rotator cuff. Pain killers do not seem to be working. For someone who’s healthy 99% of the time, the 1% seems to have all descended on me in one fell swoop in recent weeks.
iNSOMNIA
March 5th, 2012I was sleepy at around 11:30pm and so retired to bed a little before midnight with my iPad in tow. Thought I’d do a little bedtime reading as one does. Tried to sleep at about 1:00am but no avail, been trying to sleep intermittently since and now I don’t even feel tired at all. My mistake, as always, was bathing in the glow of my iDevice during sleepy time.
It’s been a while since I’ve had a bout of insomnia so I guess it was due.
Edit: Well, well, how apt that I should come across this article.
The Chilterns
March 3rd, 2012Spring is indeed in the air.
Aston Rowant
Leap Year
February 29th, 2012All that malarkey about leap years and changing seasons may well become redundant. Our seasons don’t really match up anyway what with global climate change and all.
Chinchilla Clicker Training
February 28th, 2012On the whole, Cuzco is a fairly well behaved chinchilla but could do with some training. She’s reasonably friendly, will take food from my hand and let me pet her when she feels like it, however, she doesn’t listen to commands which is something I’d quite like her to do.
So I’ve decided to try clicker training her like people do with dogs. There have been reports of success with chins on the web so we’ll see how she fares. Rather than buy an actual clicker, I’ve opted to use a clicker training app. I’ve spent the last two nights loading the clicker with oats – clicking and then giving her a treat, which she’s responded to quite well. So far so good. Next, to get her to come to me when I call her name.
Half-Life…Almost
February 27th, 2012I downloaded EOSInfo to check the shutter count of my vintage 40D. With a rated shutter life of 100,000, it hasn’t even hit half-way yet.
Must shoot more.
No excuse for a new camera just yet