Reasons why the Domestic Goblin has resisted jumping on the Apple bandwagon:
Technical reason:
Apple computers (iMac etc) cannot seem to handle multi tasking and will either crash or freeze.
Publicity reason:
Over hyped.
Spoiling the young:
It is now considered a necessity rather than a luxury. Children are requesting iPads and other apple products for Xmas... what happened to jigsaw puzzles or clothes? It really makes my blood boil to see families with three or four children and they all have their own iPads! No sharing!
Social reasons:
People over rely on iPads etc to entertain themselves now when travelling on a train or hanging out with family/friends. They seem to have forgotten how to have a conversation or play real games. For example, many years ago, my cousin played "the game of life" with me on her iphone... takes all the fun out of it - I prefer the real thing...
Really dislike the implication that if you "aren't plugged in, you simply don't exist". "If it doesn't happen on your Apple iPad, it probably hasn't happened at all".
"Technology was supposed to enhance our lives, not control them."
"But Apple doesn't just want to assist you in running your life, it wants to define your life."
Friday 1 November 2019
Remember Remember
Significant holidays and activities
2001 - Ely
2003 - Lake District (Grasmere and Windermere)
2004 - New York (Skyline Hotel)
2005 - Rome (Hotel Celio)
2006 - Paris (Hotel Le Senat)
2009 - Bath
2010 - Edinburgh
2012 - Cardiff
2014 - Brussels (Hotel Bloom)
2015 - Plymouth
26 February 2000 - Royal Academy of Arts
31 March 2002 - London Eye
19 February 2005 - Mortlock Tsunami Appeal at the Fine Line, Canary Wharf
6 September 2005 - The Winter's Tale at Shakespeare's Globe
11 February 2006 - Les Miserable at the Queens Theatre
10 June 2008 - Wicked at the Apollo Victoria Theatre
22 November 2008 - Monkey Journey to the West at O2
2 October 2011 - Cirque du Ciel Shanghai at the Cambridge Corn Exchange
3 March 2012 - Windsor Castle
9 June 2012 - The Tempest at the Roundhouse
15 February 2014 - Jeeves and Wooster at the Duke of York Theatre
7 November 2015 - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Musical at the Theatre Royal Drury's Lane
Cambridge Shakespeare Festival:
2011 A Midsummer Night's Dream
2012 King Lear
2013 Richard III
2014 Twelfth Night
2015 Macbeth
2001 - Ely
2003 - Lake District (Grasmere and Windermere)
2004 - New York (Skyline Hotel)
2005 - Rome (Hotel Celio)
2006 - Paris (Hotel Le Senat)
2009 - Bath
2010 - Edinburgh
2012 - Cardiff
2014 - Brussels (Hotel Bloom)
2015 - Plymouth
26 February 2000 - Royal Academy of Arts
31 March 2002 - London Eye
19 February 2005 - Mortlock Tsunami Appeal at the Fine Line, Canary Wharf
6 September 2005 - The Winter's Tale at Shakespeare's Globe
11 February 2006 - Les Miserable at the Queens Theatre
10 June 2008 - Wicked at the Apollo Victoria Theatre
22 November 2008 - Monkey Journey to the West at O2
2 October 2011 - Cirque du Ciel Shanghai at the Cambridge Corn Exchange
3 March 2012 - Windsor Castle
9 June 2012 - The Tempest at the Roundhouse
15 February 2014 - Jeeves and Wooster at the Duke of York Theatre
7 November 2015 - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Musical at the Theatre Royal Drury's Lane
Cambridge Shakespeare Festival:
2011 A Midsummer Night's Dream
2012 King Lear
2013 Richard III
2014 Twelfth Night
2015 Macbeth
Excerpts from the Notebooks of Lazarus Long
"If it can't be expressed in figures, it is not science; it is opinion."
"If you don't like yourself, you can't like other people."
"Money is a powerful aphrodisiac. But flowers work almost as well."
"An elephant: A mouse built to government specifications."
"A woman is not property, and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld."
"Democracy is based on the assumption that a million men are wiser than one man."
"Autocracy is based on the assumption that one man is wiser than a million men."
"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyse a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."
"Love is something that still goes on when you are not sexually excited. There can be sex without love, and love without sex. Love can be defined, however, the trouble with defining in words anything as basic as love is that the definition can't be understood by anyone who has not experienced it."
"[…] Marriage is much more than an economic contract to provide for children and to take care of mothers while they bear kids and bring them up. Homo sapiens have evolved quite unconsciously to performing this indispensable function and be happy while doing so. All forms of marriage have endless customs, rules and arrangements. It is a 'marriage' if the arrangement provides for children and/or compensates the adults. For human beings, the only acceptable compensation for the drawbacks of marriage lies in what men and women can give each other. Sex is not marriage, nor is it reason enough to stay married. Why buy a cow when milk is cheap? Companionship, partnership, mutual reassurance, someone to laugh with and grieve with, loyalty that accepts foibles, someone to touch, someone to hold your hand - these things are 'marriage' and sex is but the icing on the cake. Oh, that icing can be wonderfully tasty - but it is not the cake. A marriage can lose that tasty 'icing' - say, through accident - and still go on and on and on, giving deep happiness to those who share it."
— Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love
"If you don't like yourself, you can't like other people."
"Money is a powerful aphrodisiac. But flowers work almost as well."
"An elephant: A mouse built to government specifications."
"A woman is not property, and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld."
"Democracy is based on the assumption that a million men are wiser than one man."
"Autocracy is based on the assumption that one man is wiser than a million men."
"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyse a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."
"Love is something that still goes on when you are not sexually excited. There can be sex without love, and love without sex. Love can be defined, however, the trouble with defining in words anything as basic as love is that the definition can't be understood by anyone who has not experienced it."
"[…] Marriage is much more than an economic contract to provide for children and to take care of mothers while they bear kids and bring them up. Homo sapiens have evolved quite unconsciously to performing this indispensable function and be happy while doing so. All forms of marriage have endless customs, rules and arrangements. It is a 'marriage' if the arrangement provides for children and/or compensates the adults. For human beings, the only acceptable compensation for the drawbacks of marriage lies in what men and women can give each other. Sex is not marriage, nor is it reason enough to stay married. Why buy a cow when milk is cheap? Companionship, partnership, mutual reassurance, someone to laugh with and grieve with, loyalty that accepts foibles, someone to touch, someone to hold your hand - these things are 'marriage' and sex is but the icing on the cake. Oh, that icing can be wonderfully tasty - but it is not the cake. A marriage can lose that tasty 'icing' - say, through accident - and still go on and on and on, giving deep happiness to those who share it."
— Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love
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