Dark future, 2020, dystopia, roads empty due to green-taxes - yuppies using it as dueling ground to decide who gets promotion (only ones with too much money to use cars).
Altered Carbon - last novel, optioned for movie, just extended, new screenwriter.
[filling my head with the beats of: Dragon Page C2C Show 157 - Michael & Evo ]
Firefly - and the upcoming Serenity movie... dvd for us?
[filling my head with: CI-2005-04-05 - Father Roderick Vonhögen ]
April 5th - his birthday, 'casting from the "aftemath" of the Popes passing. This one from his visit to St Pete, getting up in the middle of the night, bike through almost empty Rome, stand in line and pay his respect. Rather special experience. Sort of feels like being there, in a removed way. That makes sense...
You are not yourself
Talking about the issues that might appear if we are able to make a "digital" copy of ourselves - ie save our memories and opinions in order to either make a cybernetic copy, or to "re-insert" into a more typical clone... when are we ourselves? What makes one version better or more right than the other? Is the original right and the copy wrong?
[Robert J. Sawyer - Michael & Evo ]
Interesting - the end of march WinginIt they said that they had doubled their listeners - to 5000 - but just a few of the using the rss feed... which brings me back to the key point here: the key point is about listening in on someone talking and/or playing music (as a multitask to reading/writing/surfing/getting to work) - not about one app or one device!
And it looks like CNet has started a 'cast - "buzz out loud". Sound like a good supplement to CIO podcast (.com)
...and the sun is making a nice yellow tint to the clouds as it goes down
[ King Alfred and the battle of Edington - BBC Radio 4 ]
Talking about the time of the danes/vikings ruling most of England, and the "unlikely" King - as he was the fifth son! (BBC info)
...and the sun is shining brightly behind a soft grey cover - while the rain is hurtling down in front - wonderful springtime
