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Alex ([personal profile] alexsarll) wrote2008-04-12 11:07 am

Don't you wish you could go back to when you hadn't lost anything?

As if The Wire weren't emotional drain enough (two episodes left now), last night I finally watched last week's Skins. I think it was when they played LCD Soundsystem's 'New York I Love You, But You're Bringing Me Down' that I really fell apart. That had come on my MP3 player in the morning, and then been with me again in the evening as I wandered along and around the South Bank in much-missed company and was reminded that, for all my occasional daydreams of New Zealand or Canadian wilderness, for all that the city's in a precarious place at the moment on a knife-edge between developers and decay...I'm not done with it yet.

Woken up by road resurfacing again this morning. They only do it on weekends, because obviously the regular transport of drones during the week is more important than the rest of the temporarily free at weekends. You might say that I shouldn't complain so vociferously, given I have the week off - but the 21st century was supposed to be the future. Every week was supposed to be pretty much a week off. I suppose the self-replicating 3D printer is one small sign that we might still be on the way there.

Complaining that if you search suicide-related terms, you're more likely to find pro-sites rather than anti-...well, so what? It's an argument with two valid positions. Inevitably, in any such argument one side has to rank highest, unless you want every results page to be split into For and Against halves. Which is not necessarily a bad idea, but I imagine that most cities (for instance) would then whinge if when you searched them, you were with equal prominence offered a list of reasons why they're rubbish. My Gmail ads keep trying to sell me on Ken because they've obviously picked up on the various anti-Ken links I've got saved in Drafts; I find this mildly amusing, but I'm not going to complain about it.

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