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Just wanted to test this out, can now send an MMS directly to here, thanks to a bit of intervention from Flickr.
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Archive for August, 2007
Well, I survived the go-karting. Actually enjoyed it a lot, although I still ache from it. I managed 35 laps out of 50 before my arms fell off, or as good as. What I was happy with was that I was in control throughout, and was able on occasion to get up a good rate of speed. My cornering sucked though, just seemed to struggle with gettting the line right. It did make me feel more positive about the concept of driving, as that sense of being in control is important. And on real roads you don’t really have a racing line.
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I don’t seem to be able to think straight tonight. I’ve got too much junk, too many ideas and little geek tasks floating around my head. I’ve thrown myself into them, written a list, knocked them off as best I can. I have actually made quite a dent, but I just can’t get this lack of focus out of my head. It’s not a problem, I’d just like to be a bit clearer. I suspect playing some games in a bit will help me to slow down. Space Giraffe in fact. So hectic and strange, I’ll have to concentrate. Nice game.
EDIT: Playing Space Giraffe was exactly what I needed, far less hazy now. Good old Jeff Minter
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Moving in blog terms that is, to flotsky.org . Kind of feels like I haven’t unpacked yet. I’ll have a tidy up over the next few days I reckon. Add some links back in, neaten up the sidebar and suchlike. Then I’ll start thinking about themes. For reasons that aren’t entirely clear to me, I’m doing the same on several blogs at once. Still, it’s easier now they’re all in one place.
News about this weekend, I’m driving for the first time in about, ohhhhh, two decades. I’m going go-karting at the Oxford Stadium (where greyhound racing and speedway are held). It should be a good laugh, I’m just hoping that my vague skills in console-based racing at least mean I don’t crash too much. I’m certainly not holding out any hope of winning, just to enjoy it and get a good bit of driving in. Slightly nervous about it, but also looking forwards to it.
I’m a bit averse to the driving thing. Strange as I love watching motor-racing, just funny about driving. Part of me doesn’t see the need, I can get about on the bus just fine in town, and I don’t have to shell out for all the things that go with car owning, but part of it is just being scared of driving. Need to get over it, if we have kids in the next few years, I reckon I’m going to need a car at long last.
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Last night ended up as a Larry Sanders marathon. I’ve been taping them on my Sky+ box, and decided to watch a couple, and just couldn’t stop. Brilliant stuff, some of the best comedy writing there is. It got me wondering why there aren’t more shows on this level. I got to thinking about Garry Shandling’s take on Extras (when he was interviewed by Ricky Gervais, he suggested that the way in which Gervais handled race and disability was pretty lazy and obvious, and that there are more sophisticated ways to handle such topics). I feel that Shandling has a right to be smug in Gervais’ direction, as in Larry Sanders he wrote a far superior office comedy to The Office. It’s meant to be about a talk show, but most of it is based around the office relationships, universal stuff. You’ve got his producer, Artie, who is one of the most incredible characters in all of sitcom, evil and thorougly likeable all at once. In face, most of the characters shift positions, are good and bad in many different ways. Larry can be funny and superior, or weak and needy, sometimes from scene to scene. The one constant is that Hank will always lose, no matter what happens.
I think it’s that depth that is key, you get an overall sketch of what a character will behave like, but you can’t always depend on that, sometimes they let you down, or act beyond themselves, but without being someone that doesn’t fit within that overall sketch. Perhaps the problem with a lot of sitcoms is that the overall sketch is all you ever see of all bar one or two characters, they have to sit within that all the time, and it is a rare moment they will change. That could also be down to the difference between English and American sitcoms, in that the latter have a lot more episodes to play with.
I guess I’m trying to think of a situation or location where I could mimic that depth more fully, not copy it, but somewhere where characters could have room to grow.
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it is that “quickly running updates on your computer before you nip off to bed” never ends up being quick.
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