Hi, I've just gone downstairs to watch my prog and discovered in my eagerness to save energy, I turned off my Sky box last night before I went to bed and so nothing recorded of the prog as it started at midnight...oh, I'm so pissed off...and it's not on again as it was repeated twice during the early hours of this morning...now I'll have to wait to see next weeks as it's a series of three...I hate it when I do something stupid like that...
Nothing on now until ten o.clock...so it's filling in the time until then with nothing to do other than surf the net or watch boring progs...fortunately I do know a bit about the discovery of the atom but it would have been good to hear it from the scientists with their current knowledge added...Professor Jacob Bronowski covered it in the Ascent of Man, which went a very long way to rousing my interest in all things scientific - great series - my mother wouldn't watch because...wait for it, Bronowski was such an ugly little man...aahhh..pain.
I'm taking deep breaths...there's so little on the television now that is educational in the old meaning of the word...like the Ascent of Man...it's doubly annoying to have to miss my prog because of this...the last one was on Light and that was very good, but slightly arty...that's what I found so refreshing about Bronowski's series, he described discoveries without all the trick graphics and reenactments and you understood what he meant, and could go off and extend your own studies afterwards...now a lot of science programmes have a health warning about flashing lights before they begin...for goodness sake...leave out the trickery and let the scientists explain their discoveries just like Professor Richard Feynman did in his brilliant lectures...
That's it for now...nothing more to say...needed to let off steam and get rid of my frustration...so have a good evening again and big hugs to one and all...