a telly followed me home today... it belonged to a colleague whom i've never met...
<< meet telly...
(notice also how much of my sunlight is blocked by the infestation of the climbing ivy all over the windows in the background?)
i am not quite sure if i like telly... i've lived without one for the last 11 years! and radio is just fine... if i remember to turn it on or listen to my radio alarm in the mornings...
but catching documentaries from pbs.org on the string-theory -- the 2nd of the series of 3 related programmes, which i'd seen as a taped version in the uk -- and bbc world news at 10pm daily can be quite a treat...
[it was particularly amusing to hear the views of the reporter summarizing Bush's veto-decision on stem-cell research in the lines of "for those who support Bush, it is a matter of Faith, but for the majority who support the research, it is a matter of common sense." -- i think it is amazing that such free-speech is embraced because even in developed nations elsewhere, words need to be constantly restrained.]
hmm... telly does make my living room less like a art-gallery though... crap. i'll have to make a huge colorful thing or two for the two remaining bare walls... hmmm.
i am still ambivalent.
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update: i think telly is quite evil... i need more self-restraint!
posted by ~overacuppa~ on Thursday, 20 July, 2006 at 00:10 hrshey sis...it's' no use, should have just kept the telly away. Once the evil box is switched on....hehe, you'll just want to have it on all the time.......mine's beckoning me right now......
Posted by: Gor on Monday, 24 July, 2006 at 11:43 hrsoh! i learnt a wee bit about boeing and twa / donald douglas (probably the first university-graduate in aviation engineering; he was waived an examination because there wasn't anyone better than him to examine his skills!) and the aviation industry on sunday... didn't get to finish the documentary before having to go to the science museum!
the americans did the first around the world flight! 3 out of 5 planes came back to the usa... quite amazing. but the germans were equally good too... their air-assaults left their neighbours no-where to hide...
telly is nice when there's interesting documentaries/bbc news... otherwise, it spews a lot of rubbish...
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