Fast but not Furious

Not eaten now for over 24 hours. Probably should start again. Not feeling particularly hungry though. Perhaps 1 day is just not long enough.
What's the difference between fasting and dieting? Fasting is for spiritual benefit, dieting for physical? Can you have one without the other? There is no word for "spiritual" in Hebrew, so I'm told. Fasting must be wholistic. I suppose motive is important. Didn't seem to do much praying – maybe the preponderance of mirrors in the flat had more to do with my motivation than I thought.

Went to see a film with Lynn this week: it was called "Fasting and Furious" or something. Disappointingly, no one seemed to be fasting. Though they were going to say grace at one point. It seemed to be more about driving around in fast cars, sometimes dragging a tethered heavy object. It used a branch of physics called "Movie Physics" which is not as strange and unexpected as Quantum Physics, but is even more entertaining. It occurred to me that I learned some practical physics from an old video game. It involved dragging things around with a spaceship that had momentum, inertia, gravity, thrust, and things like that. I think it was called "Classical Physics". Or possibly "Thrust". You can do the math, but there's no substitute for seeing it all worked out visually, and kinaesthetically.

Fast5 is a silly but enjoyable film if you like that kind of thing. It has many flaws, not least morally, and yet I will be telling IMDB that since it was a prequel to Tokyo Drift from 2006 then it was a goof to have a 2007 GTR in it.

Not that I know much about that kind of thing. I know cars are bad for the environment but I can't help liking them in a boy-racer kind of way. I was a boy racer some years ago, until a nice policeman pulled me up for driving at about 118 mph. Which I now know was wrong. Lynn tells me I'm a different person when I get behind a steering wheel. I think it's everyone else that turns into either a dodderer or a boy racer. And I know what they're like.


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