Vicki's begonias on the carport still surviving despite the sea wind.
Tangle below the verandah. First Iphone photo...
Rachel's flat. Table set for Saturday lunch.I gave myself an iphone as a present for having submitted the thesis. So, I have been starting to play with it. I love its connectivity with my contacts. If there is an address then clicking on it takes me to a map showing just where they are and in another click I have the route mapped out from whereever I am. (Provided of course there is some public wireless point available.) Another click takes me to an image of that address. If I am hunting for a hairdresser on the net up pop the ones nearest to my phone plus maps the lot...
At the moment, I do not have any of the photographs of my contacts so that a glance at the phone tells me who is ringing. Collecting those photos will be a slow process, particularly since I rarely photograph people so I cannot download any photos from my computer..
Rachel's lunch was interesting. And I blotted my copybook. I have become somewhat obsessional about the increasing influence of Christianity on our politics. The sad thing is that the dominant English-speaking culture is American. I love it for its intellectual richness, but Oh God, as a society I think it stinks. That huge divide between the rich and the poor, between the educated and the completely ineducated. So the influence of fundamental Christians is being felt in this country and in particular, I believe, in the behaviour of the climate change deniers. It seems to me, that there is a significant and influential mob who, believing in God, cannot believe that his favourite species might be wiped back to the stone-age, if we are lucky, or become completely extinct.
The two guests, Catholics, immediately changed the subject. But then, unlike me, who has so recently attended University, they have not seen the Christians at the start of the year manning the entrances of UQ and handing out thousands and thousands of copies of Darwin's Origin of Species, of which the most important part was the introduction purporting to be scholarly and arguing for Intelligent Design. Their children will be subject to this anti-intellectual bullshit, I have no doubt, and we and our government and our intellectual elite, having destroyed our state schools, will be increasingly subject to such nonsense.
A final comment about the iphone, a large number of its books come from project Gutenberg, but sadly, most of these project Gutenberg books are full of typos.
