I ain’t gonna work….on Maggie’s Farm….no more! 🙂

woo hoo!

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So every year about this time (or late Feb) I typically have a serious cold or similar that puts me down for a day or two, and it happened again last night into today. I was already dealing with a seriously runny nose as of Monday and then last night it just hit hard, this morning was horrible.

It’s weird because while it’s happening, I think it’s never going to get better and whatever plans I have later that week, later that month or etc. are nixed as a result. But then many hours go by (in this case sick at home in bed until late am, then sitting on the couch watching DVDs because you really can’t do much else and can’t sleep anymore either) and you start to pull out of it by late afternoon/early evening in most cases. Still not 100% but feeling with a foot back in the land of the living at any rate. It just makes you think (at least a bit) about how much you take your health for granted – until you stop being healthy.

Another example is tearing my ACL in my right knee while skiing a couple weeks ago. While the injury is serious, mine doesn’t seem near as bad as others i’ve talked to who have had the same thing. While I’m going to get it fixed in another week or so (and endure the longer rehab after – doh!) the knee feels ok in most cases, unless you really try a deep knee bend – OWWW! Not quite there yet on that one. But going back to the earlier comment – you just take for granted your ability to walk where you want to, go and do the activities you want, etc. – you never consider that might change fundamentally, or that if it does it will happen in old age when you would expect it to – and of course that’s many decades away anyway, so why worry about that? Interesting thing to ponder though, your health….

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So I got around to starting the Sprawl Trilogy from William Gibson again. I’m pretty sure it was at least 10-20 years ago when I last read them – and I was likely 10 years late then (I can remember people in high school talking about the books but I was still reading very old-school sci fi at the time, Heinlein, Clarke, some PKD, etc.)

What’s interesting in reading Neuromancer again is of course seeing where the predictions went (yes, no or TBD) as well as how well it holds up generally. On the one hand, there are some things in there that sort of came true – the rise of the Internet and computer networks being completely pervasive in our society is certainly true, even if the execution is less Lawnmower Man and more Amazon.com (sadly). But the widespread use of body modification is still far from as frequent as described here, The Sprawl is still yet to happen (although I’m sure there are plenty of pockets already formed) and the world isn’t run surreptitiously by AI’s – yet. Nor are there ‘orbital nations’ either run by fringe ethnic groups or covert/eccentric large family corporations (again – yet). Certainly between these books, movies like TRON and shows like Max Headroom – there were a number of entertaining, predictive thinkers back then. And to some degree, there’s still fear out there of AI’s taking over (see The Matrix series, The Teriminator series – there are others) – but at present the bigger risk seems to be from our own species, a la Orwell. It will be interesting to see how it all shakes out for better or worse in the coming years.

For me, however – back to the second book, Count Zero. Stay tuned!

candybowl

new promo video for the show. Also, the site has been updated – the excitement begins!!!!!

http://nwpinballshow.com/

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