Random questions...

[susie_flo]

I have three unrelated things on my mind...

1.  Bob Bob Ricard...  des dinner location or load of nonsense?  I was thinking about going, but am becoming confused by a) lots of slobberingly rave reviews by people who have fallen in love with the quirky 'bowl of frosties' menu and champagne-summoning-buttons and b) the fact that AA Gill gave it zero stars in The Times for being the stupidest restaurant idea ever...    has anyone actually been?

2. Signed TV programmes for the deaf.   Do deaf people really like to watch TV where the main picture has been squished into a wonky rhombus in the top left-hand corner of the screen, in order to make room for some gurning nutter?  Do they actually prefer this over subtitles?  (Yes I am being churlish and un-PC, but hell hath no grumbly witterings like me finding out that my precious late night recording of episode one of 'The Genius of Phtography' has been subjected to this irritating treatment.  Tsk.)

3. Is our generation going to be the last one to love books...  as in, real physical books with paper pages?  I am quite sure I will get myself an electronic reader of some kind once they have been perfected and reduced in price...   seems ideal for traveling and definitely better for students than carting hefty text books around, not to mention full text-searchability.  But for general sofa lounging, reading in bed and flicking through books with lots of beautiful pictures, I can't imagine them replacing the loveliness of paper.  Imagine a house with no bookshelves...  (am I being a Luddite? )

Hmmm...

Comments

[kissmeforlonger.livejournal.com]

I was thinking just last night how much I love books as physical objects and how sad it would be if they fell out of use.

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

I suppose they will always be around as 'vintage' objects... but I can't imagine people in our generation ever being able to let go of them as functional objects. They're just so *nice*!

G was musing this morning that if paper books are fully phased out, our dependence on technology will reach a whole new level of scariness. (e.g. imagine if the internet broke and all of our collective knowledge for the last X number of years was only accessible online?)

(ew! I just edited this because I inadvertently used an icky word as a vowel and made myself cringe)

[kissmeforlonger.livejournal.com]

Hmm, on the other hand, children being able to read when the light's out *grin*

Although, like you say, the down side is not having lots of individual objects but one which stores all of them, so if you lose that one, everything else goes. Big lesson coming about backups I reckon!

[sushidog.livejournal.com]

They can take my books from me when they pry them from my cold dead hands, frankly.

I think BBR sounds rather marvellous; I only wish I could afford to try it out! :-)

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

"They can take my books from me when they pry them from my cold dead hands, frankly."
You and me both... (I'm sure a little 'essence of old ladies corpses' infused into the musty paper smell won't do much lasting harm)

"I think BBR sounds rather marvellous; I only wish I could afford to try it out!"
See, that's another thing - I can't work out whether or not it would be really expensive. (Offering bowls of frosties alongside champagne gives somewhat mixed messages...)

[ms-siobhan.livejournal.com]

Me too, I love books - their weight, smell, texture as well as their contents. I just got a copy of Return To Peyton Place from the bookshop in the old railway station in Alnwick whose name escapes me - the purple edged dust jacket is slightly torn and the pages are a bit mottled and it has that lovely old well loved book smell.

Bob Bob Ricard

[(Anonymous)]

Sue, why don't you go, see for yourself and tell us?

Re: Bob Bob Ricard

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

Hey, who dat?

As for BBR.... I might well do, if I can afford it!