bluegreen17 | mars steampunk techno

i watched the first five episodes of 'life on mars',the usa version,which i really liked. i didn't start watching it until later on,so i hadn't seen the earlier episodes. i love the music...so many seventies tunes that bring back memories that i haven't heard in years. i just really liked this show. i wish it had lasted longer. anyway,my vcr/dvd player remote hadn't been working so i decided to put in some new batteries. opened up the little compartment and there was corrosion. i thought i'd be able to clean it off...this has happened with my answering machine several times,though i don't know why,because i thought it was caused by water getting in there,and it didn't as far as i know. anyway,it looks like one battery just exploded and i can't really get that one removed. it looks like i'll have to throw out the entire remote because i'm not gonna mess too much with battery acid corrosion. i do have buttons on the machine,but i don't know how to move from one thing to another to see the special features. my player doesn't have a manual. it was the store display copy and i got it cheap at radio shack a few years back. i meant to write to samsung to see if i could get a manual,but i never did. though i just did think MAYBE i could watch the special features on my computer. MAYBE. i haven't been able to play sims or install my new sims but my machine has played video recently. i don't want to spend money on repairs if i can figure out a way to fix it myself. as for the remote,i know you can buy universal remotes but i just don't know if i can get one to work with my machine,which is almost ten years old. oh,well.

i started reading thomas pynchon's 'against the day'. i don't expect to understand it,but i love the prose! someone has suggested pynchon to me because i like neal stephenson's prose (i've been in the process of reading 'cryptonomicon' for years and had all three volumes of the baroque trilogy which were gorgeous books but i'm pretty sure i traded them in at the used book store,which was probably dumb. oh,well,can't keep everything,and i may never get to reading them.)

i'm getting into steampunk a little. i got 'howl's moving castle' and 'league of extraordinary gentlemen' dvds from the library. i'm really more into the neovictorian aspect. i like the aesthetic because of the quality of the materials things were made of and the craftmanship. things made of good wood (though i think of the trees...} and shiny metals. copper! yeah! i have a love/hate relationship with technology just as i do with the world in general. i found a steampunk version of a laptop which i thought was gorgeous.

source:http://steampunkscholar.blogspot.com/p/steampunk-101.html