As I browse through the CES 2012 highlights, I found my way through the tree hugger maze and found this product, Solar Lighted Cover for Kindle manufactured by SolarFocus. Not only it harness the sun light to power up the Kindle, it also comes with a little slide-out LED light for you to read in the dark.
Cool eh?
So this gizzmo is on my wishlist!
And I also want a Kindle to go with that. Am I asking for too much?
Thursday, January 12, 2012
Wednesday, January 4, 2012
I bid farewell to 2011 with...
... Daddy Long-Legs.
I mean, before Project Gutenberg I didn't even know it was a book - no thanks to Fred Astaire's marvellous footwork that left me wanting for more since the first time I saw it on telly.
I believe I was nine or ten when I saw the movie, shown on one of the RTM channels via the Golden something slot. Late night. I'm the only one awake (if Mom or Dad knows I'm dead). Very slow volume, but enough for me to make out what the actors were singing.
My "England" at that time was not that fantastic (nor it is now) but the wonderful dancing and the bits and pieces I caught gave me enough understanding of the movie to fall in love with it.
I remember one song, in which one of the lyrics go something like "Don't marry me" - I wasn't too sure if it was Fred's or Leslie's line, but it was enough to inform me that while the two is in love, their age difference made it quite clear that society at that time would not tolerate Hugh Hefner-Playboy Bunny kinda relationship.
Now that I've discovered Jean Webster's 1912 novel, Daddy-Long-Legs, I learnt that the film had over-dramatised some of the facts.
For example, the heroine's original name is Jerusha, but she prefers Judy. In the movie, it was Julie. I bet a nice solo song and dance routine of Jerusha musing over some other nice name she could've ended up with if it was not chosen off a phone book and a grave stone.
The age difference between Jervis Pendleton III and Jerusha Abbott is less than 10 years. Hardly matters, in this day and age. In the movie, Astaire is made to look ancient and Julie very childish. But then Astaire had always looked old, even in his youth. This bit I forgive.
All in all, if I have to decide between the book and the movie, I'd choose both.
The book is HILARIOUS! If you have not had a chance to read it, please, find it at www.projectgutenberg.org and search using the book's name (don't forget the hyphens) or under author name, Webster. It is free! I love the letter writing format - it gave me ancess into Jerusha Abbott's inner feelings and experiences, though when the book ended I wished it had given me more details in between, such as the "fine conversations" Jerusha and Jervis had while he visited her in college.
The movie is a great watch. Though some of the songs are way too long, but it is (never forget this) a Fred Astaire masterpiece. You'll love Caron's funny facial expressions as well - in fact now that I've read the book, I bet Caron had read it too to inject that new-to-the-world looks as she goes through higher education.
So yes, my 2011 ended well, and I'm going to dig in more into Gutenberg's well in 2012. See you there.
p/s: pix of the movie's poster borrowed from Wikipedia.
I mean, before Project Gutenberg I didn't even know it was a book - no thanks to Fred Astaire's marvellous footwork that left me wanting for more since the first time I saw it on telly.
I believe I was nine or ten when I saw the movie, shown on one of the RTM channels via the Golden something slot. Late night. I'm the only one awake (if Mom or Dad knows I'm dead). Very slow volume, but enough for me to make out what the actors were singing.
My "England" at that time was not that fantastic (nor it is now) but the wonderful dancing and the bits and pieces I caught gave me enough understanding of the movie to fall in love with it.
I remember one song, in which one of the lyrics go something like "Don't marry me" - I wasn't too sure if it was Fred's or Leslie's line, but it was enough to inform me that while the two is in love, their age difference made it quite clear that society at that time would not tolerate Hugh Hefner-Playboy Bunny kinda relationship.
Now that I've discovered Jean Webster's 1912 novel, Daddy-Long-Legs, I learnt that the film had over-dramatised some of the facts.
For example, the heroine's original name is Jerusha, but she prefers Judy. In the movie, it was Julie. I bet a nice solo song and dance routine of Jerusha musing over some other nice name she could've ended up with if it was not chosen off a phone book and a grave stone.
The age difference between Jervis Pendleton III and Jerusha Abbott is less than 10 years. Hardly matters, in this day and age. In the movie, Astaire is made to look ancient and Julie very childish. But then Astaire had always looked old, even in his youth. This bit I forgive.
All in all, if I have to decide between the book and the movie, I'd choose both.
The book is HILARIOUS! If you have not had a chance to read it, please, find it at www.projectgutenberg.org and search using the book's name (don't forget the hyphens) or under author name, Webster. It is free! I love the letter writing format - it gave me ancess into Jerusha Abbott's inner feelings and experiences, though when the book ended I wished it had given me more details in between, such as the "fine conversations" Jerusha and Jervis had while he visited her in college.
So yes, my 2011 ended well, and I'm going to dig in more into Gutenberg's well in 2012. See you there.
p/s: pix of the movie's poster borrowed from Wikipedia.
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