On Saturday 15 Nov 2008 10:41:57 am Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > >That reminds me of all of the various things that I will do When I have > >The Time (small unrepresentative sample follows) > > > >* Finish off my TBR pile (~200 books at last count)
Actually most of the things in the "When I have time" list will never get done. I missed so many movies for a decade and a half that I told myself that I would (this was some technological years ago) set up a room with a VCR and watch all the movies I had missed. But then time moved on - tech improved - and many of the movies that I missed turned out to be bad. When I was in the UK I recorded hours and hours of wildlife video and cartoons, imagining that my daughter would never get to see such stuff when I returned to India. Luckily, I have now found a taker who will accept for recycling 45 Kilos of junk videotapes. I deliberately keep my "to be read" books list to 6 and refuse to acknowledge that there are others. They may be there - but knowing that is of no use to me. I always keep reading material in the craphouse - not to be crapped on - but to be read. What have I done when I have had time? Converted videotapes to Mpeg I format and redone the same stuff to make Mpeg 2 in some cases. because technology moved the goalpost. I have converted 1000 odd transparencies to digital images time and time again using different techniques - each giving a slightly higher resoultion. My current project is digitizing hours of gramophone and tape music so I can throw away kilograms of cassette tapes. I have backed up all this on CDs initially, later DVDs and now on almost-terabyte size external drives. In short I am packaging all my experiences into a format that is going to be as unreadable as my brain when I am dead. What a waste of time. When you have time, the best thing to do is play golf. shiv
