Tonight I had the pleasure of watching Kung Fury with a mate of mine. It was bloody brilliant.
Month: June 2015
Thoughts on The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin
Thoughts on the second book of my Beatrix Potter-thon, The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin.
In the tale of Squirrel Nutkin, the titular character is a young boy squirrel who keeps getting up to mischief. The other squirrels are all busy collecting nuts whilst Squirrel Nutkin tries to wind up old Brown – an old owl whose home is close to where they are collecting nuts. By the end of the short tail, old Brown gets fed up of Nutkin and physically deforms him – I won’t spoil it as to how.
I wonder if nowadays Squirrel Nutkin would be recognised as having some form of ADHD or similar? And would be handled accordingly – instead of old brown maiming him. Even in just the first two books by Beatrix Potter I’ve read, I’m noticing a theme of “If you play up or misbehave, you get punished”.
Nevertheless a good read.
ownCloud – first thoughts
I have just installed ownCloud on my laptop as a testing ground. I am soon to be buying a new computer off a friend and will be using my current one as a personal server.I decided to go with owncloud because it seems to do everything I need it to right out of the box. Cross device file syncing with as much storage as I have on my computer. All I had to do was install owncloud via the ubuntu terminal following these steps.I am starting using it on version 8.1 and first impressions are that it is very nice. It has a clean UI and straight forward settings controls. This is going to be a big step in me taking control of my own data and moving away from services like Google and Dropbox.The big job now will be to import all of my photos out of Google as well as re-downloading all of my music from google play music.
Trying to get ownCloud installed tonight. Firstly having to install a fresh copy of Ubuntu.
Thoughts on The Tale of Peter Rabbit
My thoughts about the Beatrix Potter book, The Tale of Peter Rabbit.
The Tale of Peter Rabbit was an enjoyable little read. One thing that did stand out to me was the fact that out of the four rabbit siblings, the three girls were the well-behaved ones and Peter, the only boy, was the naughty little one who snuck on to Mr McGregor’s land. Was Beatrix Potter biased or am I reading too much into it? Nonetheless an enjoyable read.
Beatrix Potter Challenge
Although not a challenge in the typical sense, my girlfriend has said that I should read all of Beatrix Potter’s books. I’ve only ever read one, which was ‘The Tale of Jeremy Fisher’ – and that was recently.
So I accepted the challenge.
With each one I read I’ll add my thoughts.
A great finale to American Horror Story Coven. Tomorrow begins the Freak Show. Looking forward to Jessica Lange’s performance of Gods and Monsters.
Not since Twin Peaks have I been so blown away by the use of music in TV. Until I saw American Horror Story.
Starting to learn VIM
The pounding feet; the ongoing procession of commuters. Welcome to Tuesday.
Rolling out live changes at 12:20am – never a good idea.
I am the one – the only one; I am the god of kingdom come; Gimme the Prize! just gimme the Prize!
Great weather for ducks.
I don’t like how Android Twitter app loads linked websites within its own window. It should open in a browser not through twitter.
Just had an email from a recruiter about some job somewhere. It noted the skills required and said also: “perhaps most importantly, you will have dropped support for IE7”. Like that’s a skill to have.
Old building amongst the construction
Something about this old building amidst the construction stood out to me.