Bits 'n' Bobs.

So I was just thinking about Wesley Crusher.

No, not like that.

But it’s interesting - surely I’m not the only one who went through this process:

[As a young teen, watching TNG] I wanna be Wesley - living on a Star Ship, learning how it operates.
[When he gets assigned to active duty] How awesome would that be?
[When he leaves the Federation] Ungrateful lil shit.
[Watching TNG again, as an Adult]: Christ alive Wesley is annoying.

Then you find out that Wil Wheaton is like the coolest dude on the internets [Sorry lawyer cat!] and it gets soo confusing.

I still say Wesley is a bit of a tool - though that’s due to how the character was written, and through no fault of WWs acting. I mean, as others have said - here’s a kid who fails the Academy entry exam, yet seems to come up with solutions that save Enterprise every other episode.

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LendleBlog: The death of the serious reader

lendle:

Jonathan Franzen, author of The Corrections and Freedom:

For serious readers, Franzen said, “a sense of permanence has always been part of the experience”. “Everything else in your life is fluid, but here is this text that doesn’t change,” he continued. “Will there still be readers 50…

Someone should set him up on a date with James Daunt [Waterstone’s MD]. He’s always moaning about “Serious readers” every five minutes.

Perhaps at the end of the evening, they can pop back to a branch of Daunt Books - a serious bookstore, for serious booklovers, and fawn over the over-priced Hardcovers, resplendent in their leather bound covers¹

¹Which one must buy with leather bound notes. Held in a leather wallet. To go with the leather sofa. God I need to re-watch Black Books…

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February:

Or as I’ve now christened it:

Fruity Frugal February.

This month, I’ve spent a grand total of £36.51 on good, healthy, food.

But I think I can do better next month, due to the simple fact I stumbled upon the biggest box of Weetabix you’ve ever seen, for £1.50 the other day.

Which combined with a bag of Oats I’ll pick up either Wednesday / Thursday, should take care of my Breakfasts for February.

We shall see…

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Tonight… Three Wise men return to the Tele.

Their aim… Piss off everyone who reads the Daily Mail, and cause diplomatic incidents.

BBC2, 8PM.

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Top Gear,

Not sure what to do this evening…

Watch a film / documentary / more episodes of Spooks, via Netflix, or go to bed early, finish this David Baldacci book off, and start something with a bit of substance.

Decisions, decisions…

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Ooh what an exciting life I lead,

I know it’s not quite the end of the month…

But I can now comprehensively tell the next obese so-and-so, that tells me they can’t afford to eat healthily, to kindly bugger off!¹

My food bill for this month? Less than £40 / $62² AND I can guarantee it was a damn sight healthier than most peoples.

It wasn’t perfect - there are additional items I can remove, and substitute with healthier options, but it wasn’t all that bad.

I also think - If I plan ahead, that I can get it below £35 / $55.

That’s probably what most people spend a WEEK, where as for me, that’s one month.

So there - I’m now off to go watch some more stuff on Netflix, before listening to Ralph Garman call Chelsea Handler a rude word.

¹Offline, obviously - I don’t know anything about food costs outside my neck of the woods.

²I’m also aware that every student in the history of history, can probably survive for less than that. But I’m ignoring them because of reasons - mostly, if you’re smart enough to goto college / university, you’re smarter than me, so it’s not a fair comparison.

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thisistheverge:

Book Review: William Gibson’s ‘Distrust That Particular Flavor’ | The Verge

And don’t miss our interview with William Gibson.

Yet despite the author’s own caveats, much is worthwhile here. As an introduction to Gibson it would probably underwhelm new readers — it simply doesn’t have the coherence or sentence-level precision of his novels. The sustained enthrallment of Neuromancer or Pattern Recognition simply can’t occur in a decade-old Wired article. Instead, the collection reveals other facets of Gibson’s mind. For longtime readers of his novels, this feels like coming one step closer to The Source, or getting a peek behind the curtain, at the cogwork that makes his fiction move. His introduction concludes that as much as it discomfits him to do this work, “later, back in the place of writing fiction, I often discover that I have been trying to tell myself something.” In Distrust That Particular Flavor, the reader gets to eavesdrop on William Gibson trying to tell himself something.

God Damn it, this needs to hurry up and become available in the land of tea and crumpets [it’s released over here a week tomorrow]

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