Created Metaphors

Gum Ground

Walking in this morning, past the local college, I looked down.

The ground was splattered, white like paint, with the ghosts of a million discarded chewing-gum souls, slowly fading away.

Left in the Night

After a day left working without the internet (followed by a coffee-in-laptop incident I would prefer to forget), I started wondering about the general internet addiction we all suffer from.  (Don't deny it)

Imagine you woke up in the morning and the internet had left in the night like a wayward lover.  If you could not see videos, emails, websites.  If it had left you without even a note to hold.

How weird would that be?   

Halloween

(Ooops, forgot to put this live!)

So, after finally getting to experiment with pumpkin carving after all these years, I've decided that next year I'll be going for the dried shrunken heads instead.  It looks like less work and gives me a use for some of the cooking apples we end up with at this time of year as well.

Secret Bookcase

We were running out of shelf space in our back room, so I thought it'd be a fun project to build a shelf unit...

This Bookshelf Hidden Door has me wishing I had enough room so I could mimic this.  Want. (via MAKE)

I know I have enough books, I just need to magically find a room of my own...

Car Re-Bang

So, newly fixed just two months ago it was. 

And then this morning, while it was parked, I got to watch it reversed into.

Ho hum.

It does seem to be a lot of trouble owning a car sometimes...

Laptop Re-death (mk 2)

Today they took away the beast that is my twice-died Dell laptop.

May this renewal breathe some permanent life into the machine.

I can hope.

Either way, I shall move the rock collection on its return.

(And, this time, I mean it).

Rabbit Birthday

    Happy Nabaztag Day!  We all love wifi bunnies.

Light

If tomorrow dawns without humans, even from orbit the change will be evident almost immediately, as the blaze of artificial light that brightens the night begins to wink out. Indeed, there are few better ways to grasp just how utterly we dominate the surface of the Earth than to look at the distribution of artificial illumination. By some estimates, 85 per cent of the night sky above the European Union is light-polluted; in the US it is 62 per cent and in Japan 98.5 per cent. In some countries, including Germany, Austria, Belgium and the Netherlands, there is no longer any night sky untainted by light pollution.
(New Scientist article)

If humans vanished overnight at least it would only take 24-48 hours for the light pollution to clear up.  That's the important one right?

Hair's Curl

So today I did a potentially stupid thing.

I experimented.

I got a perm.  A full spiral perm on previously bleached hair.

The fears regarding hair-perming horror stories and 80's throwback frizz did not come to pass.

No 'fro Joh.

I think I quite like it.

Hair's Breath

It seems that a poem I wrote has had an eleventh-hour reprieve and made it into the forthcoming issue of Succour. 

I am probably very happy about this, but it is strange to have something so close to me be rendered real.