oh, and here is the picture I did for that coloring contest. (pic opens in new window) I kinda like it, and that was lots of fun!
and, wow, it even has
and, wow, it even has my first attempt at a character generator! y’know, if I went back into my notebooks, I might find the exact vintage of this site.
old web sites never die.
old web sites never die. this is me, sometime in 1999 – y’know, that house picture was really pretty cool.
“He worked in a small
“He worked in a small shed, at the far edge of the compound, in order, he said, to ‘avoid the conversations’ of the other machines. The whole I time I was in the crater, he was the only person who talked like that about the machines, that recognized their voices as more than an interface. I spent a whole day with him once; I never touched the little machines, only watched as he stroked their sides and muttered at them, in a soft pattering language that I didn’t know.
“And once he’d started his work, he completely ignored me, but I entertained myself trying to understand the structure of this language, the pattern-sounds of the words. I’d become almost hypnotized, and nearly conviced myself that I’d learned it entire as well. Then he tapped on my shoulder, and I startled.
“‘Come, get a drink and have a stretch,’ he said with a sore and trembling voice. We walked all the way around the compound, stopping by the house he shared with Joan and the children for a drink of water. Now I knew why he looked so tired when I saw him on his little walks. For a ‘non-scientist’ (and I knew some there who thought of it that way) his work seemed quite challenging. As he began talking about his work with the machines, and a little bit of how he’d come into working with the communications modules, I began to understand that he loved his work, as well.
Miguel goes off about writing
Miguel goes off about writing – as a person who writes, knowing that he is a published (& apparently well-known, at least in Portugal) writing, was quite illuminating, and reassuring.
gratuitous halloween post: haunted mansion
gratuitous halloween post: haunted mansion fan site
see, blogging makes me feel
I AM 39% GEEK. «I
«I probably work in computers, or a history department at a college. I never really fit in with the “normal” crowd. But I have friends, and this is a good thing.»
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a story about the city
this is a test. [re:
[re: metatalk thread. thought I’d try it here before breaking meTa.]