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bugsybanana, and I caught the 8 PM showing, and I’m floored. Wow. Three hours of sweeping vistas, shattered buildings, howling music, gunfights, and non-stop treachery and betrayals. I should have seen this years ago, but I’m glad I didn’t, that my first viewing was on the big screen.
In book news, I’m reading Milton’s Paradise Lost. It’s a bit of a slog; it takes enough effort to parse the poetry that I can’t immerse myself in the text as easily as I usually do, so it’s easier to get distracted. But it’s good poetry, and the theology’s more sophisticated than I expected. I’m wondering whose side Milton’s sympathies are really on, what with him having been a Puritan, and it being written during the Restoration.
And in widget news, I got an iPod yesterday. I’m currently doing the second recharge in the cycle usually recommended for gadgets with rechargeable batteries — fully charge, then fully drain, then fully charge again. It took this damn thing almost 24 hours to fully drain its battery! Probably would have been faster if I’d plugged in the speakers, or figured out earlier how to keep the backlight on. (It’s under “Settings”.) It’s the 40 gig iPod Photo — an obsolete model, but it came with a cradle and FireWire cable, which the new ones don’t. I think I’ve got enough spare capacity to carry around a backup of my full laptop user directory, which probably isn’t a wise thing to actually do.
bugsybanana, and I caught the 8 PM showing, and I’m floored. Wow. Three hours of sweeping vistas, shattered buildings, howling music, gunfights, and non-stop treachery and betrayals. I should have seen this years ago, but I’m glad I didn’t, that my first viewing was on the big screen. In book news, I’m reading Milton’s Paradise Lost. It’s a bit of a slog; it takes enough effort to parse the poetry that I can’t immerse myself in the text as easily as I usually do, so it’s easier to get distracted. But it’s good poetry, and the theology’s more sophisticated than I expected. I’m wondering whose side Milton’s sympathies are really on, what with him having been a Puritan, and it being written during the Restoration.
And in widget news, I got an iPod yesterday. I’m currently doing the second recharge in the cycle usually recommended for gadgets with rechargeable batteries — fully charge, then fully drain, then fully charge again. It took this damn thing almost 24 hours to fully drain its battery! Probably would have been faster if I’d plugged in the speakers, or figured out earlier how to keep the backlight on. (It’s under “Settings”.) It’s the 40 gig iPod Photo — an obsolete model, but it came with a cradle and FireWire cable, which the new ones don’t. I think I’ve got enough spare capacity to carry around a backup of my full laptop user directory, which probably isn’t a wise thing to actually do.
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Date: 2005-05-23 03:00 pm (UTC)My two favorite writers about Paradies Lost are Stanley Fish (Surprised by Sin) and C. S. Lewis.
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Date: 2005-05-23 06:14 pm (UTC)Looks to me like doing the drain-then-recharge thing might recalibrate your battery, but probably won't. Here:
iPod battery FAQ
How to prolong lithium-based batteries