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wooo HOOOO the guy who did memento and insomnia is doing the next batman project. Short article at film.guardian.co.uk.

Panorama of where I was at new year. This was taken on 2nd january, which was really the first day that it wasn’t all blue skies Crappy disposable camera doesn’t help.

Gollum: [singing] Fishing in the pool is nice, and cool.

Continually pointing people at the typesafe enum pattern written up in Substitutes for Missing C Constructs, and in the excellent book effective java programming, by Josh Bloch.

Woo, snowing, and lying, all over the place. Winchester, London, don’t know about Glasgow.

“The snow, and its silence. […] it produced what seemed like a subtraction of noise, because one was used to sound accompanying weather; wind sighed or roared, rain drummed or hissed or - if it was mist and too light to produce noise directly - at least created drips and glugs. But snow falling with no wind to accompany it seemed to defy nature; it was like watching a screen with the sound off, it was like being deaf.” - Excerpted from Look to Windward, by Iain M. Banks. (Ch. 1: “The light of ancient mistakes”)

Think I will cut myself a break and go find a careful quiet walk. The last time I felt this was walking home from the music dept at 4am to flat in hyndland. There was already an inch of untouched snow the whole way home to make fun tracks through, making everything previously gaudy now the same colour. And there was a sky full of silent falling big snowflakes that, when you looked straight upwards into them, seemed to be generating just in the distance. Big anechoic chamber.

“An entire industry has been built upon the denial of ecological constraints. […] The survival of humanity has been displaced in the newspapers by the quarterly results of companies selling tableware and knickers.” - George Monbiot, “Deliver us from finity”

Woo, i’m back! Happy New Year to all. More later.