I have 50GB left on my TV recorder's hard drive out of a possible 500. How in the world am I going to find time to watch all that stuff? It's not going to happen, is it? There's just not enough time to see, read and smell everything I want to - measuring out my life in Afternoons and Coffeespoons (ho, that sounds like the cue for a song. Ladies and Gentlemen: The Crash Test Dummies!)
To put it another way: I have become completely disconnected from the flow of time. Unstuck like Henry the time traveller in The Time Traveler's Wife (read the book, haven't seen the film - is it any good? Oh blimey, there's something else I have to get around to watching). It's a tricky business. My pocket watch has stopped. Every time I pick up a timetable the ink is erased and the pages go blank - a bit inconvenient in my line of work. Worst of all, things that I have recorded on my DVR get shown on TV again before I've actually watched them the first time round. Or they become no longer relevant.
Back in October I recorded a programme off of BBC2 that looked into the claims of the scientists who claimed they had measured neutrinos travelling faster than the speed of light.
It has sat there so long on my telly that those claims have now been disproved before I even got around to watching it. Whether those neutrinos were actually warping the fabric of time or not something has clearly happened to cause events to overtake my viewing of this programme. It's not like I'm a serial procrastinator or anything.
All of which perfectly explains why there hasn't been a blog entry for ages. Doesn't it? It now makes sense why I still haven't finished that novel-type thing either, I think. I'm glad we managed to clear all this up.
Hopefully there won't be any more relativistic side effects in the near future...
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You think you've got it bad? I have two seasons of House on DVD, I have seen two episodes. Skyrim came out and I haven't finished it's predecessor Elder Scrolls - Oblivion, which is probably over 7 years old. I've 1/4 finished MGS 4 on the PS3, last played over 2 years ago. My PVR has a load of 'Scrubs' I have yet watch. Older PVR's (yes I never got around to selling the old ones) have Lost and Prison Break (seen half of an episode of Lost and NO Prison Break). Oh and I've not completed ANY Halo game to date.
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Things I DID complete over the last few years, Dragon Age 1, 1.5 and 2. Starcraft Wings of Liberty, about 11 Dune novels, and most of Ian Bank's 'Culture' novels.
Oh and the wife and I loved Stargate Universe, having seen all SG1's and Atlantis too, but that was cancelled.
Currently watching Big Bang Theory, geeks doing doctoral research, now why would that appeal to me?
Final heresy for you sir, Dr. Who, tried to keep up, and then, well lost. Then got annoyed with Beeb over Gaza Appeal thing, and never picked it up again.
I think a journalist summed it up best by stating that he had bought a book, and found that he already had it, and it was unread. So now he had book that he hadn't read twice!
Now I'll just go back to studying some ancient dead people...