A Series Of Shots
I forgot to mention that May 30th was my LJ anniversary. I've been here for 8 years. As is customary, here's the link to my debut post. We all know that LJ is not what it was 8 years ago; in fact it would probably make Newsweek's "Top 10 Dying Social Networking Sites" (if such a list existed), right between Myspace and Friendster. The Golden Globe-winning Facebook movie even used LJ as an example of the old, un-hip world of complete sentences and full-sized computer screens. Show of comments; who was here in 2003? Where are you now? Should we all get together and film a massive lip-sync video that proves nothing and will probably ironically accelerate the death spiral? No? Well, do you have a better idea?
As I was on May 30, 2003, I'm still into Sherlock Holmes, and I highly recommend the 2010 BBC programme Sherlock, which is available in the US on Netflix and other various video sites. It's the Sherlock Holmes stories, but set in modern day London rather than Victorian times. Sherlock has a website, uses an iPhone (cleverly concealed as a "Me-phone") & GPS & stuff, wears a nicotine patch instead of smoking a pipe, is obviously ambiguously gay. Sounds like it could be disastrously extreme-o-ized and cringe inducing, but it's done very respectfully. The best part is that Watson is played by Martin Freeman, whom you'll recognize as Tim from "The Office". And they didn't even have to change the fact that the character was wounded in the Afghanistan war.
Back to where I left off with the photo galleries:
Part 5: Oxford & Liverpool
Part 6: Cambridge & London
Bonus video:
Bonus podcast.
As I was on May 30, 2003, I'm still into Sherlock Holmes, and I highly recommend the 2010 BBC programme Sherlock, which is available in the US on Netflix and other various video sites. It's the Sherlock Holmes stories, but set in modern day London rather than Victorian times. Sherlock has a website, uses an iPhone (cleverly concealed as a "Me-phone") & GPS & stuff, wears a nicotine patch instead of smoking a pipe, is obviously ambiguously gay. Sounds like it could be disastrously extreme-o-ized and cringe inducing, but it's done very respectfully. The best part is that Watson is played by Martin Freeman, whom you'll recognize as Tim from "The Office". And they didn't even have to change the fact that the character was wounded in the Afghanistan war.
Back to where I left off with the photo galleries:
Part 5: Oxford & Liverpool
Part 6: Cambridge & London
Bonus video:
Click to viewBonus podcast.