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technology overload
April and May are busy months for Public holidays this
year, both in Thailand and England.
As you poor souls out there face another alcohol free
Holy Day on Tuesday 13th, here in the UK our Early
Spring bank holiday on May 5th, coming as it did only two
weeks after Easter, provided yet another opportunity to
get those paintbrushes out, or, weather permitting, to
fire up the barbecues and crack open the tinnies.
But with only another three weeks to our next (proper)
Spring Bank Holiday on May 26th, many of us spent our
early Spring break weekend glued to the World Snooker
Championship, which of course always takes place in
Gods’ Own County of Yorkshire.
And without giving away any secrets (by the time you
read this you will know who won anyway) what a final
it was. But am I the only one who finds the ever more
sophisticated computer aided viewing of this event just
a little annoying now?
We know that technology is expanding our vocabulary
almost daily, but it is also being increasingly used to
supposedly enhance our enjoyment of some televised
sports events.
To be fair some of it can help. That computer enhanced
cue ball - shown half in black and half in yellow really does illustrate well the spin on the white. The
superimposed white line showing the likely route of the
cue ball before it even sets off is just about bearable,
(although uncannily accurate - how do the ‘experts’ do
that? Oh yes of course, they have been World Champions
themselves.)
What really bugs me is those constant slow motion
repeats of shots. Good or bad, there it goes again.
The white ball meandering slowly towards the corner
pocket and hovering tantalisingly on the edge before
disappearing. The black rattling around before deciding
to stay in play. All preceded and followed by a visual
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effect resembling a cross between a fan and a venetian
blind sweeping across the screen. Admittedly all very
clever stuff, but I can’t be the only viewer who finds
those interruptions to the flow of the matches just a tad
disconcerting. No sooner had a repeat ended than we
were back in real time, often only just in time to see a
hand on the table and a cue hitting the white ball, and
so confused by then that the body attached to the hand
could have belonged to either of the players.
Does the BBC really think that we all get bored by
watching a player consider his next shot? That we can’t
bear to wait until the next short break to see repeats of
the most important play? It seems to me that it is now
more important for them to demonstrate the newest
whizz kid technology, simply because they can.
And so to our word of the week. ‘Uxorious’ refers to a
man who is excessively fond of his wife. Now there’s a
word which could only have been invented by a man!
KEEP
CALM
AND
FIND
PARADISE
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