Ishango bone
The evolution of ideas..
The Ishango bone, various theories surrounding it's purpose the most persuasive of which imply that the people who created it had some knowledge or understanding of prime numbers.
Read more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishango_bone or read up on prime numbers here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_number. More interesting links from the Wiki.
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8 days and counting...
The boy, he's been feeling that I'm neglected, he's every weekend away with his mom in Fernie and so he called me last night to make a date for my day off.
That's good. If it weren't for the abundance of "Urgently" flagged emails in my inbox, that is.
He drops around this morning at 7:15 AM. So begins the day off...
And so I haul my weary ass out of bed and we hang in the living room for a couple of hours, I have to wait for the roomate to get out of the bathroom before I can shower and get ready for the day.
The lack of chairs makes the "Hang" around the living room a little challenging, to say the least, but time passes, the roomate goes to her job and I can get ready. After which the boy takes his time to get ready, and eventually, together we're ready.
"Ready for what?", you might reasonably ask, but this is something we need not concern ourselves with. Ready for the day.
And so we hop on a bus and go downtown. 1st stop - the IODE thrift shop, slim pickings and so we kill a bit of time in the *Atomic Cafe next door, drinking bubble tea. Always try something new, and I can taste the attraction, something about the flavour of milkshake with the chewy goodness of Tapioca makes for refreshment.
From there back downtown, then onto search for an Indian Buffet, we try the "Raj", I've been curious, large buffet, reasonable prices, the food isn't so hot but it's worth it for the desserts alone.
Now the day is shaping up to be a scorcher, and I've a vague plan to see the new movie "Inception", so we walk down to Princes Island and kill some time sleeping off our fullness on the lawn, there's hours to kill, it's not terrible private and there are loads and loads of people jogging by, swishing by on their inline skates, fit attractive people, reminder that it's summer and I've really, really got to get into shape. But it's nice, warm, lying in the sun and were there a more private spot I'd strip off my shirt and begin my tan...too public, however, and the glare from my ivory skin might well blind passers by...
Eventually it's time for the movie, 2 1/2 hours long (!!), out again into the deserted streets, bus home, he's missed his ride with his mom and so has to catch a cab home, time now for me to nap (briefly - I have yet to sleep) and to get to work. 8 days and counting...
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Inception
With the boy to the new "Psychological Thriller" Inception, starring Leonardo De Caprio, Peter Postlewaite, Michael Caine.
Which was interesting and "original", as far as Hollywood films go, which is to say not very but marginally better than average.
Criticisms might include an overabundance of CGI effects (every film seems to rely rather too heavily on those, I think), a rather overly-dense plot and not-very convincing premise or world, a predictable ending (although not as predictable as, say, a James Cameron ending would have been, which I should be grateful for...), and, for me, most importantly it didn't capture the "Unreality" of dreams.
By which I mean I don't have dreams filled with firearms. And the detail, remembered detail at least, is hardly to the same depth as portrayed in the film, rather it's the isolated that stand out and mean something. Perhaps someone else's dreams, or, as is too common with Hollywood, the dream of making a large amount of money off a largely overblown CGI driven film....
I'd give it 1/5 bananas. (**Note: So far other reviews have been in the main very largely favorable. Is it just me, or are most movies just that bad?)
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A few quick revisions...
A long day at work, home, onto the computer and my email box is full.
"A few quick revisions". Web stuff, which I've been trying to leave somewhat behind, put on a back burner while I'm doing the restaurant gig, but I'm not having any luck. There's always "more work" coming down the pipe.
Never enough that I could leave off the restaurant completely, but enough to ensure that I never, ever have a free moment to gather my thoughts.
Never.
These people, they don't know what quick is, they hope it's quick and it's all quick when your not doing it yourself, I've a mind to send them my own list of quick revisions, "World Peace", "Stop World Hunger", "Clean up the Gulf of Mexico"... I mean, it's easy enough to ask for, it SHOULD therefore be easy enough to do...
And as email after email slowly downloads into my inbox I wonder how I was unclear when I said I didn't want to do this anymore, how being "a sport" somehow got me embroiled in this....There are the "Urgent" emails, those flagged with the little "!" exclamation mark to say "Do me right away", and you do and you forward the client the notes and wait for the response. A week, maybe 2 later, another email marked "Urgent" will appear.
"A few quick revisions.." it will begin.
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