It's
my habit to play "Draw Something" on my phone just
before I go to sleep every night. The game needs an active internet
connection. Last night I forgot to turn that connection off on my
phone. I was woken at 3am by my phone shouting "Oh my God -
You've got Mail!" because someone had sent me an email about
penis extensions. Oh how I laughed.
After
a swift Babylon 5 DVD I set off to work. The morning's news had
something noteworthy for a change. There is to be a manned
mission to Mars in five years time. Well, not so much "to
Mars" as "swinging past Mars". It's going
to be funded by the American billionaire who was the first space
tourist. He plans to send a manned capsule to Mars, and use Martian
gravity to slingshot the ship back home again. There won't be a
landing, but it's nevertheless a bold venture. I'm looking forward to
seeing it.
The
organisers are looking for a married pair to volunteer for the
journey. I'm game. I wonder if my beloved would be up for it?
I
rarely blog about work, but for once I will make an exception. A
colleague retired today. We had a little party in honour of the
occasion. And something of a cake-a-thon. So much for the diet.
A
few years ago I would have looked on in envy as the chap retired.
Now... I'm not so sure. If all goes to plan (and it rarely does)
I shall be retiring in just under eleven years. But then what will I
do? There was an article on the radio a couple of days ago claiming
that life expectancy is increasing by five hours every day. This got
me thinking so I had a play with a life
expectancy calculator
According
to that I still have thirty seven years left. That's not bad - I only
have to work for thirty percent of the rest of my life.
So
after (planned) retirement I will have twenty six years. I
wonder what I might do with them?
I
did my bit at work and came home again where I spent some time
messing about with Facebook maps. The thing seems to be rather
hopelessly flawed. From what I can work out the software randomly
adds places on to the map based on what it thinks is the name of the
location. It guesses this from what you actually write when you are
at that location. And sometimes it randomly positions you anywhere on
the globe for no reason other than that it can. For example according
to Facebook maps I have been to forty two places in Australia, fifty
four places in South Africa and thirty nine places in Merseyside.
I've never been to any of those places. Furthermore the same mapping
facility puts my mothers house somewhere in the west Midlands (She
lives on the Sussex coast), and it puts Folkestone Beach in
central London.
I
wonder how I can turn the maps off...
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