Some stuff I done since last time
As usual work busy. ‘Nuff said.
Finished a few things off. On the high brow side was Guns, Germs and Steel. Like most popular science books it has a handful of ideas that are proved through copious examples. Thus to get the point across it probably need be only 100 pages long – probably for scientific illiterate me a Dummies Guide… would suffice to understand it. But it is highly recommended. There’ll be a break before attempting his book Collapse as I’ve got some light reading to get out of the way.
Reading also saw Blood Fever, the 2nd book in the Young Bond series, finished off. While enjoyable, I liked SilverFin more as boy’s-own entertainment. Blood Fever alludes to Bond’s future years in WWII. It has more depth to it, building the character of the young boy who’ll eventually go to fight in that war. But this bigger canvas provides less action that Bond can take part in directly. Bond learns that in war survival is more a matter of chance than skill, and so much of the time he is avoiding or running from the epic battles. I’m not complaining – Higson’s intention is to explore the character of the boy behind Fleming’s Bond – but am pointing out that it is a slightly different animal to the first book. And really that’s got to be good.
In gaming finished From Russia with Love for the 2nd time. This time it was on “Agent” level (medium difficulty). Next comes “Double O” level. Sorry Kong, your rescue will have to wait.
And the TV series Friends was finally finished. I guess it’s taken me close to five years to watch the whole series in my on-again-off-again fashion. I’ve enjoyed the ride, but am glad there’s no more forthcoming. While mostly it has been fun the last season did have a marked drop in laughs. The characters were so well understood by long time viewers that jokes could be predicted. Still, belated congrats to them for 10 seasons of fun.
Golden Week was 5 super days in Shuzenji. I did so much – bicycled into the mountains, went to a batting center, went tenpin bowling, did a walking tour of Mishima City, went to Banana Wani Koen (a banana and crocodile park), read books, played games, ate sushi, ate tempura, ate… - you get the idea. Roll on summer holidays.
posted by winstoninabox @ 12:14 PM
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Bananas and crocodiles in the same park? That would make an interesting decorating theme, to tell the absolute truth.
Tempura is lovely.
bananas and crocodiles, together at last.
were they going for some sort of theme "a park filled with things that are pointy at both ends and thick in the middle, that grow on trees-" er. never mind.
Or maybe the measure word (what is the Engrish word for them? The chinese is 量词.）for crocs and nanas is the same?
I'm reaching here, huh.
aw man, you went to banana wani koen? i saw a pamphlet for that, but we couldn't get there. personally, i'm holding out for inoshishimura, which is apparently some kind of drive-in (that's what the brochure says) wild pig theme park... visit the inoshishi museum! see the inoshishi races! watch the inoshishi show! (teehee! that wild pig jumped through a hoop!) pat the baby inoshishi! eat the inoshishi ramen! mmmm, inoshishi ramen...
Sorry emma, I can't read those kanji. And I don't know what "measure word" is, so I'm less than helpful for you. But I think you might be onto something with that "pointy-at-both-ends" theory. For the park boasts prodigious collections of not just crocodiles and banana plants, but also lesser pandas and orchids. If you've ever wondered why you've never seen a lesser panda in the wild, it's because all the little critters have packed up stumps and migrated to Banana Wani Koen. There are heaps of them there.
Inoshishi Koen has inoshishi races! baddogbot, we are so there!! And I've eaten inoshihi ramen, and it was pretty fine with me. Actually I'm yet to find a ramen that ain't pretty fine. There are just different degrees of good with ramen.
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