It's always faintly alarming when blogger announces 'scheduled maintenance' - and all the blogs disappear...
They're back this morning, so obviously nothing too dire happened. Though I haven't noticed any obvious changes. Perhaps it was real maintenance rather than playing around with the software.
Winter is definitely on the way - it's really quite cool here now, though not cold enough for me to switch from T-shirt to something with sleeves, not
quite yet... We finally put the winter downie (duvet) on the bed last night (you remember, the one that buggered Ken's back when he tried to lift it, soaking wet after being washed back in the spring?) [happy sigh] There can be few things more sensually satisfying after a long, scalding hot shower than sliding into clean bedding, soft fresh Egyptian cotton sheet and crisp, faintly jasmine scented cover on a thick, marshmallowy downie that feels like lying under drifts of warm snow...
And Kai wonders why I
insist on being the first to sleep in the bed after the bedding's been changed... Eh well, he'll learn!
There's a four-part documentary series on Channel 4 at the moment,
Sexology. Tuesday's was called
Obscene Machines, and I watched it - had it on in the background, rather - out of curiosity.
Lutra, you'd have hated it. They showed a 'robot' that looked something like a cross between
Hector, Johnny Five and Proteus IV - with a metal piston stuck on the front, sporting a large, wobbly, rubber penis on the end.
Robotic erotic? It had me in stitches, especially the model supposedly enjoying its attentions, gasping and groaning like a porn star... Actually, she probably was a porn star... And I have to wonder how many women - or men for that matter - would really
enjoy something shoving mechanically in and out of their body several times per second. [wince] Dildo-burn, anyone? (Yes, OK, the stroke and depth are adjustable, but all the same...)
Off at a tangent: anyone caught the fabulous new Guinness ad yet, the
Devolution one? Funny, extremely clever and wonderfully stylish, and I love the music (
The Rhythm of Life - turn your speakers up loud.). Then again, all Guinness adverts are classic - remember that fantastic series with Rutger Hauer? And the surfboard/white horses ad, which still gives me a shiver up my back even now.
I'm taking Kai to the open evening at Brislington Enterprise College tonight, just to get a look at the place. But for now, back to Dreams...
The robots in
Saturn 3,
Short Circuit and
Demon Seed respectively, for anyone who can't remember...
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Joules *Dances with Haddock* Taylor
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