Apple Juice

[jack]

So I had a lovely and lazy weekend. On Saturday I successfully meandered about along the river, and over the Coton where I got my apple juice and a couple of other things from the Coton Orchard farm shop/garden centre. And then back, via sitting on Trinity backs. The apple juice is indeed expensive-ish, but also very nice.

On Sunday, I also dragged myself out, mainly to just read The Secret Country by the river. I met a group of teenagers throwing each other in the river; one girl asked if I enjoyed reading "because I don't read, it's hard" (but not in a criticising way, in an almost embarrassed way).

I met a boy asking for the time, who stood in puzzling awe of my white phone. I met Gaute, and exchanged brief suggestions of films and books. And Nick L from work. And saw some rowing races. And met an old-ish gentleman campaigning the council to get some better bins on Jesus green. (I suggested some more basic dustbins chained to lamp-posts. Real bins would be better, but any bins would be an awful lot better than rubbish falling out and blowing about.)

I watched to the end of season three of Angel, and saw Ratatouille, and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. And played Chronotron (Seriously, play it! Ingenious. So cute :) Did I mention that it's a platform game where you play a robot with a time-machine?).

However, I totally failed to respond to any of the interesting and controversial emails and lj comments in my inbox to give philosophical opinions or arrange meetings or reply to chat. A number of those basically consumed my today. So, um, new exciting work from tomorrow.

Comments

[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

livredor has lent you the Secret Country books, or you came across them yourself ? I love those with a great and powerful passion.

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Yes, she lent me the first one. I wondered for a moment if it might have been a recommendation that didn't stem from you, but apparently not :)

[d37373.livejournal.com]

Chronotron is pretty good fun. I like making the first guy wander around pointlessly, then gradually helping him to do something useful. Being able to leave him in a paradox (as long as you get back home before he realises) was a disappointment, but I guess it's a side-effect of restarting as soon as you get in, which does make sense from a follow-the-latest POV. I also found myself overthinking a couple of levels, and preparing things that didn't need to be done.

It also reminds me of cursor*10.

Disappointment

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

There's a couple of things that weren't quite right. Some philosophically, and some glitches, but some of the philosophical problems seemed better to leave in an easily-predictable deterministic state rather than try to make them accord perfectly with the idea of time travel.

It also reminds me of cursor*10.

Ooh, shiny. I can't be bothered to try to get it right, but it's a great idea.