Yesterday I dug up an old tape of The Cult's 1994 nameless album. I can't believe I didn't miss them for all this time! How could I have forgotten Ian Astbury's voice?! Just beautiful. Songs like Real Grrrl, Sacred Life, and Universal You... wow. Browsing the net, I read about The Doors of the 21st Century, a revival of The Doors with original members Robby Krieger and Ray Manzarek, and Astbury as replacement for Jim Morrison. Hopefully they're still performing and will come to The Netherlands some day!

I'm working at home right now, trying to come up with a semi-formal specification of my research. I think I've made quite some progress, although I'll have to wait for the Day of the Proms (coming Tuesday) for feedback. One thing I'm quite happy with, is my personal mindswitch from mental state abduction to mental state inference. Thinking only in terms of (logical) abduction felt rather limiting, since other processes can be used as well (deduction, induction, default reasoning). The way I'm describing it now just feels better, let's hope the proms think the same.

A final point of interest is that I'm currently awaiting the arrival of an Epson Perfection V350 flatbed scanner. It's got rather nice specifications (4,800 DPI optical resolution, to name one thing), and the scan quality is approaching professional work, from what I've read. A nice feature is that it has an automatic film loader, capable of processing of 2 to 6 positives or negatives. I'm still using my analog Canon EOS 30V, and don't have plans to go digital yet. Digital SLR still is too expensive for me... given the stuff I'd like to buy (like an EOS 5D with 24-105 F4.0L IS USM ). But seeing all those beautiful images on the web, I must say I was kind of jealous of all them digicam owners. Hopefully the V350 will prove a satisfactory solution: cheap and reliable 35mm slide/B&W photography with a relatively easy way to also have good quality digital images. See here and here for reviews of the scanner.