old SF stories

It's interesting that most of the fifties SF stories are based on invasion.
The Soviets must have scared them witless....

On the train again

It is Friday.

On the train already. I hope it won't be very very crowded but we shall see.

It is rainy and humid and much warmer than last couple of days.

I am gong to turn my mp3 player off and try to read some Asimov's instead. We'll see how successful I will be.

I am already hungry and sleepy, one small mug of coffee this morning wasn't enough.

China

Listening to Global Business on the player, Peter Day talking about China, it's quite interesting. What a culture shock it must be for the Chinese, new factories and everything. Although there are quite bad aspects of the global trade, I believe overall Chinese are now richer and have a better quaoity of life. Slowly they will learn to act against the Communist party - it's quite harrowing to listen to memories of China after the Cutural Revolution - how much of Chinese lifestyle was destroyed, I wonder. You would have thought that it would be the towns really got affected, not the countryside since it is harder to control widely distribured villages and farmers - on the other hand, forced relocation, moving towards towns and cities might have destroyed that.

I believe still sections of China are owned and ruled by Warlords and Chieftains, things don't change that quickly.

Blogs

The mailed ones are all coming out of order, oh well....

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I'm mildly bored...

on the train again

Compilation failed at the last hour so it's all more and more work for tonight. The train is too crowded for me to fire up the work lapto and check the logs and the errors. I'll do that at home. Got a sandwich on the go, these trips are costing me an arm and a leg but I was hungry. It's going to ruin the diet. Tomorrow morning I'll have something and that's it.

I couldn't write anything nor read today but I'm listening o some IOT. King Lear, much fun.

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In Oxford, Starbucks on the high street again.
Ate a nice mushroom and cheese pannini and drowned a large cup of coffee. I feel much better now.

I have the A590 on the table, it's a beautiful piece of kit, I love the LCD and it has all of the defaults and the manual control and the manual control is quite usable.

A nice indian chick is sitting across me with a huge HP laptop, I wonder what is she working on. I brought some C nd Java books with the Eee so I hope to look at a couple of chapters of the stuff, I hope I can.

Recently I find writing quite hard work, the things don't come easy. The plots are not going anywhere and I seem to be stuck with lots of ideas about mil-SF with disastrous endings. I can't find anything that's cheerful. I normally hate mil-SF but a lot of my imaginations are about it which is a strange thing, I really dislike reading apart from a couple of very good books like Starship Troopers and Sheakley's Armour (I hope I remembered his name OK, I can't get a WiFi connecton so I can't check for it at the moment grrr - there is a wifi cloud but I can't get any DHCP addresses.

It must be colder than I thought, people are wearing quite heavy clothings. Since the laptop didn't connect to the network, I couldn't check it and only have a T-Shirt and a fleece, it will be OK. I hope.

I need to work.

On the train rantings

On the train again, to London.
I woke up too early and got out too early, caught the bus earlier, got onto the train w/o any breakfast too early.

Now I'll head off to London, grab something over there and meet the people at 10, then work work work we will see when I will be able to come back.
I am listening to Geologic Podcast right now, as usual, much fun.

I will try to write something on the train today, at least try to have a new start on the blog and etc.