Potpourri
A collection of various and sundry bits of info:
- According to my work PC’s idle process, the system has been on for 4824 hours, or almost exactly 201 days. I guess I should reboot the thing, but at this point I’m sticking it out as long as I can just to see if I can surpass a year. I’m not sure why, but this waxes my ego quite a bit.
- I’ve been tasked with running some mock interviews for Davis College graduates in the Computer Networking program there. That’ll be fun.
- I read my first James Bond novel last Friday. It was The Man With The Golden Gun, which I chose because it was perhaps my favorite Bond flick. It turned out to be almost nothing like the movie, but I guess I should have expected that. I decided to read the reviews of it on Amazon after I began reading it (the natural order of things as I see it), only to discover that it is widely considered one of the worst Bond novels in the series. I still managed to enjoy it regardless.
Incidentally, this was the last Bond book by the original author, as Ian Fleming died while the book was just about finished. I’ve since read the first Bond novel, Casino Royale, so I’ve accidentally started at the end and then started over at the beginning of the series.
So far, I’m quite pleased with the books. They read very quickly and keep interest the entire time. I intend to read through the whole series, which at this rate should give me something to do until May.
It’s also inspired me to go back and re-investigate my long dormant fascination with the Bond franchise. The last film I saw was The World Is Not Enough, and I finally broke about a decades worth of disinterest in the films by watching Casino Royale (the new, Daniel Craig one) this past weekend. I was pleased with it, though not ecstatic; 7/10. I’ll definitely be checking out some of the old classics like Goldfinger and Live and Let Die soon.
Out of curiosity, anyone here a Bond fan?
