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You know me and my links.
Link the first : http://lifehacker.com/398961/get-your-computer-online-using-your-iphones-data-connection .. very nifty!
Link the second: http://www.esquire.com/features/heath-ledger-last-days .. a first-person narrative of Heath Ledger's last days and thoughts on the afterlife and how he ended up there. I find this sort of thing interesting to read/hear (like in American Beauty), but reading it about Heath does really snap the old sentimental heart strings a bit. I know his death touched a lot of people, including people reading my LJ, but to the vast majority of you, he was, after all, a ghost on a screen, just one who did his job really well.
It gets to us from Perth because we are really just a big country town. It is hard for people outside of Perth to understand just how small Perth is. Sure, it has about 1.2 million people, but they all know each other (ok, not literally, but surprisingly close). To put it in perspective, if he had not been a star, if he had just been a regular joe like me, and had died the way he did, it would have still gotten in front few pages of the local newspaper. Needless to say, Dark Knight sessions have been sold out in most of the cinemas here for days and days running.
He and I weren't friends, but we'd met once, when I spent 5 hours sitting behind him during a TV show shoot in his early career, I have some friends who had friends who dated him and I had a BBQ with some of his school friends earlier this year. This town is _small_. Reading these narratives of his life written by some writer in New York who may not have ever met him is odd. Not bad, just odd. To many of us, he wasn't the international superstar many people lauded him as, he was just a Perth boy who'd done well, and we miss him representing us.
Link the first : http://lifehacker.com/398961/get-your-computer-online-using-your-iphones-data-connection .. very nifty!
Link the second: http://www.esquire.com/features/heath-ledger-last-days .. a first-person narrative of Heath Ledger's last days and thoughts on the afterlife and how he ended up there. I find this sort of thing interesting to read/hear (like in American Beauty), but reading it about Heath does really snap the old sentimental heart strings a bit. I know his death touched a lot of people, including people reading my LJ, but to the vast majority of you, he was, after all, a ghost on a screen, just one who did his job really well.
It gets to us from Perth because we are really just a big country town. It is hard for people outside of Perth to understand just how small Perth is. Sure, it has about 1.2 million people, but they all know each other (ok, not literally, but surprisingly close). To put it in perspective, if he had not been a star, if he had just been a regular joe like me, and had died the way he did, it would have still gotten in front few pages of the local newspaper. Needless to say, Dark Knight sessions have been sold out in most of the cinemas here for days and days running.
He and I weren't friends, but we'd met once, when I spent 5 hours sitting behind him during a TV show shoot in his early career, I have some friends who had friends who dated him and I had a BBQ with some of his school friends earlier this year. This town is _small_. Reading these narratives of his life written by some writer in New York who may not have ever met him is odd. Not bad, just odd. To many of us, he wasn't the international superstar many people lauded him as, he was just a Perth boy who'd done well, and we miss him representing us.
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