I’m a sucker, especially for the intersection of technology and shopping. Last night, while catching up on my feeds on my iPhone, I caught io9’s article about The Call of the Cthulhu movie which was released on DVD last year. Now it is bad enough that I am reading the feed of a Sci-Fi blog on my iPhone and doubly worse about an indie H.P. Lovecraft film but the icing on the cake is that I purchased it right then and there from Amazon whose iPhone formated store plus one-click shopping makes it way to easy to purchase the things you think you need when you really ought to be sleeping because you know the baby will be getting up in the middle of the night because she’s teething but you cannot resist the simplicity of it tap-tap-ka-ching.
Archive for January, 2008
The past week has been a maelstrom. At work I labored through my birthday to re-build our stack with a new security model at the cost of a lingering cold that has left my nose tingling and my eyes with a sandy itch that I cannot seem to rub out. Certainly looking forward to this weekend to lay my head down and not exercise any mental facilities beyond what is necessary.
My avoidance of news with political content proves to be a challenging endeavor. When I do encounter it those raw feelings of bitter disappointment, barely constrained anger, and hopelessness are difficult to tamp out. It is a sad time when your elderly parents hold more hope for the future than you can muster on your best day with your life spread out before you. There was a time when I was invigorated and filled with optimism and energy for the direction of this nation and the planet but the last ten years have worn me down to the barest stump. My new political philosophy boils down to this: trust no public officer, do what it is necessary to ensure the health and safety of your family, to hell with the rest. Sad.
Back to work.
Taken with the iPhone, decent camera albeit a tad slow…
