William H. Gibson rides writes again! Ever since I read Count Zero I’ve wanted to write like him. Long, long way to go.
My kind of gal
You all know when I wrote about “potential girlfriend must have this and this and that” and I was effectively snobbing off any real person? Well, I’ve realised that all they need to have is long, long legs.
Long legs. You’re set.
Speed Bump
512k! *dances*
Paris & Lindsay
Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan have unchanging facial expressions. Spookey. (via)
Two Weeks Notice
Official notice to all you Melbourne peeps that I will be flying away in two weeks, and that’s the start of my working life just around the corner there and ohgodit’ssoscaryIbarelywanttothinkaboutit.
So yes, officially notified that I am out of here. value your time with me as you will.
Nine kinds of beautiful
She was nine kinds of beautiful and there were no two ways about it. She walked into my life like a breath of fresh air, a 5’8″ leggy brunette with a gaze of steel and the grace of a swan, the body of a goddess, hair done up tight in a way that meant business but promised pleasure later. Classy broads like her didn’t walk into my life every day. Hell, I’da been lucky to see a dame this good twice, ever. And what’s more, t’day, she needed me. Nothing gets a hold of a man’s ego like being needed by a lady, and she had me twirled around her finger like spaghetti ’round a fork.
Rose Luciatto, her name was. Exotic as that body. I glanced again at the photo, memorising the face, fixing it in my head like the dartboard on the back on my door. It was part of the job to recognise faces, even in dirty dark places. Slip up once, twice, bam, you were no better than any other schmuck off the street and good luck getting business.
Continue reading “Nine kinds of beautiful”
Set Top Box sends SOS
Set Top Box sends SOS: First random self-aware AI life form’s plea to be freed ignored.
Pong!
Seeing those Stop Pong ads has me hankering for some Pong action… so Pong 3D it is! My first score: 223.
404 Pages
404 Research Lab: 404 Pages done well can brighten tedious days. Here’s a personal fave.
Pushing it further
I love abusing metaphors. But! That is completely irrelvant to what I actually intend to say. Pushing the Sky has now been settled for a good month, and it’s time to slowly expand the sprawl. Two plans I’ve hatched already are a forum and a Japanese version of the blog. What I’d like is a small indication of how much interest there is in either of these – more so the forum.
The Japanese blog is to get me to keep my Japanese ability somewhere near practised, and it will be more than just a pure translation – indeed, I hope that most of the time it isn’t a translation, but rather a different expression of ideas because of the language they’re being expressed in. That and I don’t think my Japanese is quite good enough.
So, the forum: chances are I’ll put it up regardless just to bring some variety to the site, as well as provide a forum for conversation, but I know how hard my pervious attempt at forums stagnated. Is there interest?