After two weeks of above average temperatures here in Champaign, Illinois, the weather is back to its seasonable cool, damp, overcast, and rainy norm for April. I have not had a very effective week at work. I’ve not posted much in my blog. After having gone to the gym practically every day for the last two months, I’ve pretty much taken this week off. Tonight I could have gone out, but I decided just to do a little TV watching and lounging around. Hopefully my motivation to get things done will return tomorrow.

On the update front, I almost have "MEME Watch" finished (so I haven’t been a complete schlub). I had expected this to be a much bigger project than it is turning out to be, but I am cheating by using a PEARL Module called bget-1.2 that can download a webpage outside of a browser. For years I have been writing pretty much all my PEARL code from scratch, but a friend has recently turned me onto www.cpan.org which has hundreds of good PERL utilities and modules.

Zen Image Of The Day will also get a few minor enhancements soon.

I am watching “Real Time with Bill Maher” right now. I don’t agree with Bill on everything, but what is weirding me out a little tonight is Bill’s talk with Jane Fonda. Jane is in her late 60s and dresses like someone in their 20s or 30s. Her blue blouse is open in front and the line of exposed skin goes off screen. It’s not the Jane is ugly, and I hope I don’t offend any women reading this entry, but she has obviously had work done, that while it probably kept her looks intact well into her fifties, the modifications are now giving her a strange unevenly aged look. I’m guessing she is not letting go of her perception of herself as a sex image easily. Perhaps I am overly sensitive to this issue, having noticed the crow's-feet at the edges of my own eyes are much more pronounced than I had realized. Hopefully as a male I will be considered “distinguished looking.”

Not to obsess on the issue of aging, but I don’t think the mirror always reflects your true age. The reason I say this and why I am fixating on my crow's-feet is that some recent pictures showed them standing out quite visibly, while when I look in the mirror they are hardly there at all. I suspect the flash of a camera or the bright light of direct sunlight creates shadows that accentuate them. While looking straight on into a mirror with soft ambient indoor lighting they tend to look smooth. The phrase “The Mirror Doesn’t Lie” may not really be true.

BTW the picture is me last weekend leaning out of my Sebring with the top down. Damn last weekend was nice.

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1 Comments:

nice pic Larry :)

By blasianlotus, at April 30, 2005  

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