I’m going to talk to you about it this once and never again in the same way. There’s some things no six-year-old boy in the world should have to be told, but the way things should be and the way things are hardly ever get together. The world’s a hard place, Danny. It don’t care. It don’t hate you and me, but it don’t love us, either. Terrible things happen in the world, and they’re things no one can explain. Good people die in bad, painful ways and leave the folks that love them all alone. Sometimes it seems like it’s only the bad people who stay healthy and prosper. [...] But see that you get on. That’s your job in this hard world, to keep your love alive and see that you get on, no matter what. Pull your act together and just go on. — Dick Hallorann in Stephen King’s The Shining
Currently Reading: The Tommyknockers by Stephen King
2009
Our lesson for today, boys and girls, is the more things change, the more things change.
— Stephen King, It
You can’t always get what you want.
But if you try sometimes…
Happy new year, everyone.
As a technology, the book is like a hammer. That is to say, it is perfect: a tool ideally suited to its task. Hammers can be tweaked and varied but will never go obsolete. Even when builders pound nails by the thousand with pneumatic nail guns, every household needs a hammer. Likewise, the bicycle is alive and well. It was invented in a world without automobiles, and for speed and range it was quickly surpassed by motorcycles and all kinds of powered scooters. But there is nothing quaint about bicycles. They outsell cars. — James Gleick for the New York Times
Oxite (alpha) is a new open-source content management system from Microsoft. Built using “ASP.NET MVC”.
Currently Reading: The Shining by Stephen King
Currently Reading: The Eyes of the Dragon by Stephen King
Currently Reading: Misery by Stephen King
No slower human movement has ever been officially recorded than that of two umpires sludging towards each other to confer over the light, like a pair of amorous teenage tortoises unsure of whether to make the first move, or two unhappy commuters trying to miss the same train. — Andy Zaltzman at The Confectionery Stall on Cricinfo
TV on the Radio
Right, so I’ve stopped receiving any TV channels that broadcast cricket. No STAR Cricket, no Neo Sports. I don’t even get Ten Sports any more. ESPN and STAR Sports have stopped showing cricket matches. Every time I turn on ESPN, they have some figure skating crap going on. Or golf. STAR Sports broadcasts Formula One or old football matches throughout the day. And, of course, golf.
England’s tour of India starts today. Seven ODIs, two test matches. I’m extremely grateful for BBC Radio’s Five Live. I won’t get to see any of the matches, but at least I’ll have much better commentary than what’s on TV.
Should be an interesting series, actually. Both teams are pretty evenly matched.
Update: Looks like Five Live isn’t available for users outside of the UK for this series. Great. Hold on. Match is live on DD National. Nice.
Update #2: Commenting is now enabled, so you can go ahead and comment on things, if you like.