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Museum day 2, postlude
2010-08-13 01:30My legs hurt. I hope I lose some weight/fat on this tourism exercise plan. Walking Bloomington for exercise: boring and dangerous in recent heat. Walking new cities and museums: fun, until one's legs fall off.
Posting from the eee now, so in theory I could have image links, but we'll see.
...post writing interrupted so I could read my webcomics. Being 5 hours ahead of the US means they don't reliably update until the evening, vs. the morning. My routine is all off.
Into the museum! They have some special but free exhibit on money, so I thought to check that, especially as it was right there when I wandered up some stairs. Some of it is stuff I knew, but it was nice seeing coins and shells and more details. I don't think I knew that early China used cowry shell money; the character from treasure even comes from it. China, Africans, Native Americans...
( Lots of art photo links )
At 4:50 I switched modes, to something my father used to say: try to eyeball the whole museum at high speed, and pick stuff to come back to later. Note I'd already seen much of Far and Near East Asia. Lykia, Americas, half of the African room, part of Europe... and I ran out of time, galleries were closing at 5:30. That's how big the place is. Though it's not helped by lots of the lower rooms not actually connecting, so you have to backtrack.
Texted RPG.net:Proteus about meeting in a pub, walked to Holborn Tube, and found I'd switched off my phone by accident -- that or it's really getting sick -- and, guess what, wouldn't boot. Again. I thought that backup didn't have experimental applications, but I dunno. Tonight I've gone through by hand, making sure I'm only getting approved apps, and testing re-boot ability, making backups of the list as I go. That SD card: totally worth it.
The pub was interesting. I'm not going to try to be interesting about it, but I had pork belly, and bacon and something mash (potatoes), and sauteed leeks, and it was good. Oh! But the lemonade was sprite or tonic water with lemon in it. Not... what I was expecting.
As mentioned in previous post comments, there's not many homeless people around. I haven't seen any, but Proteus says they're out there. Nothing like Reagan's America, I guess.
Posting from the eee now, so in theory I could have image links, but we'll see.
...post writing interrupted so I could read my webcomics. Being 5 hours ahead of the US means they don't reliably update until the evening, vs. the morning. My routine is all off.
Into the museum! They have some special but free exhibit on money, so I thought to check that, especially as it was right there when I wandered up some stairs. Some of it is stuff I knew, but it was nice seeing coins and shells and more details. I don't think I knew that early China used cowry shell money; the character from treasure even comes from it. China, Africans, Native Americans...
( Lots of art photo links )
At 4:50 I switched modes, to something my father used to say: try to eyeball the whole museum at high speed, and pick stuff to come back to later. Note I'd already seen much of Far and Near East Asia. Lykia, Americas, half of the African room, part of Europe... and I ran out of time, galleries were closing at 5:30. That's how big the place is. Though it's not helped by lots of the lower rooms not actually connecting, so you have to backtrack.
Texted RPG.net:Proteus about meeting in a pub, walked to Holborn Tube, and found I'd switched off my phone by accident -- that or it's really getting sick -- and, guess what, wouldn't boot. Again. I thought that backup didn't have experimental applications, but I dunno. Tonight I've gone through by hand, making sure I'm only getting approved apps, and testing re-boot ability, making backups of the list as I go. That SD card: totally worth it.
The pub was interesting. I'm not going to try to be interesting about it, but I had pork belly, and bacon and something mash (potatoes), and sauteed leeks, and it was good. Oh! But the lemonade was sprite or tonic water with lemon in it. Not... what I was expecting.
As mentioned in previous post comments, there's not many homeless people around. I haven't seen any, but Proteus says they're out there. Nothing like Reagan's America, I guess.