(and a fast internet connection) has meant that I have foregone travel and exploration in the real world for surfing in the virtual one.
Youtube is an absolute miracle; I have spent a lot of time on Jeeves/Wooster and Stephen Fry, SNL clips etc (and have kept away from porn,which Ytube manages to screen out, thankfully!).
I got stupidly sentimental over Beatles, especially watching some documentary about them. I have long realized that I have always had a fascination for all things British and what with Wodehouse, Fry and his movie "Tom Brown's Schooldays" (which mixes my fascination of things British with the other- boarding school environ fantasy; so much so that I have read the book twice-abridged + unabridged- and found the latter almost too much to handle with its Biblical references), a little of Monty Python and I am lost in an archaic, funny world where gals are 'little things' and romance is in the air.
The other thing I realize is that I read too little- I will now have to force myself to read, for pleasure.
Going back to the beginning, the Beatles thingy came from iphone and Steve Jobs. The iphone looks spectacular; but I would wait, for it can only improve with time (look at the shuffle now!!!). Though the various keynote speeches by Steve Jobs have been fun to watch. He is a great showman, backed by an amazing design team.
His speech at Stanford was quite awesome and revelatory, particularly his close shave with pancreatic cancer and the harnessing of death as a driving force to achievement is quite interesting.
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On a totally different note, I love watching the Oscars shows, particularly because of the starting videos they put together. Though nothing will ever come close to these 2 Billy Crystal specials
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