Thoughts and Theories From Roger Andre
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Wednesday 17 December 2008, 1:01 AM
Off Line And Into The Wilds Of Cornwall
Just a quick note to say goodbye fellow bloggers and readers. My wife and I are off to Cornwall until the weekend, and we've decided not to bring any computers with us. At first I was planning to bring the net book and found myself fretting about wi-fi availability etc. Now we've made the decision to focus on the outdoors and ourselves, the stress has lifted.
I was hoping for some extreme weather like the sea freezing over but according to live it's 7 degrees here in Glastonbury and yahoo says it's 10! That's enough to be building up a sweat and as it's a clear moonlit night at five past midnight that means tommorow could almost be like a summers day!
It's been a while since myself and my wife have been away from a our computers so it's going to be interesting. We get to stay right by the tea I mean sea (someones asking for tea) and it's an exciting prospect. Now I ask myself do we drive up the atlantic highway (A39)
or just go flying of the end of the M5 ?
The tech part, yes....all we'll be taking is an older fuji finepix f30 you know, the one with only 6 mega pixels but with extraordinarily good image processing and full manual control. Not bad for a little silver box. Also bringing along a sony MZR mp3 walkman and an FM transmitter. Apart from music this will be stacked up with mysterious universe podcasts, slackerpedia astronomy, and bits and pieces from BBC and Leo Laportes TWiT.TV podcasts. On the video side just some bits and pieces from youtube (converted thanks to DVD videosofts great freeware conversion tools).
A practical joke that still works on a surprising amout of people is to make up a story about some radio station and transmit the audio your talking about to their FM radio from your MP3 player and then enjoy the puzzled looks!
Anyway, all this for just four days? anyone would think I was going away for weeks. That's what it feels like comming off line, I wonder what will have changed by the time I'm back on. In the real world of roads, streets and the people I see around everyday four days is of course nothing at all really....Hmmm strange. Anyone remember the beast of Bodmin moor?
See you all on/after the weekend!
P.S. So I choose hide DOB on facebook and facebook says happy b'day anyway! Glad I put in the wrong details!
I was hoping for some extreme weather like the sea freezing over but according to live it's 7 degrees here in Glastonbury and yahoo says it's 10! That's enough to be building up a sweat and as it's a clear moonlit night at five past midnight that means tommorow could almost be like a summers day!
It's been a while since myself and my wife have been away from a our computers so it's going to be interesting. We get to stay right by the tea I mean sea (someones asking for tea) and it's an exciting prospect. Now I ask myself do we drive up the atlantic highway (A39)
or just go flying of the end of the M5 ?
The tech part, yes....all we'll be taking is an older fuji finepix f30 you know, the one with only 6 mega pixels but with extraordinarily good image processing and full manual control. Not bad for a little silver box. Also bringing along a sony MZR mp3 walkman and an FM transmitter. Apart from music this will be stacked up with mysterious universe podcasts, slackerpedia astronomy, and bits and pieces from BBC and Leo Laportes TWiT.TV podcasts. On the video side just some bits and pieces from youtube (converted thanks to DVD videosofts great freeware conversion tools).
A practical joke that still works on a surprising amout of people is to make up a story about some radio station and transmit the audio your talking about to their FM radio from your MP3 player and then enjoy the puzzled looks!
Anyway, all this for just four days? anyone would think I was going away for weeks. That's what it feels like comming off line, I wonder what will have changed by the time I'm back on. In the real world of roads, streets and the people I see around everyday four days is of course nothing at all really....Hmmm strange. Anyone remember the beast of Bodmin moor?
See you all on/after the weekend!
P.S. So I choose hide DOB on facebook and facebook says happy b'day anyway! Glad I put in the wrong details!
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