Author: Arch Copy

• January 26, 2016

  Lonely Sound

    It rained for days. I sat out on the wet porch; Wet rattan, wet canvas, wet timber; And watched the mist moving across the sound. When you’d been gone four – five – days I began to think the rain would never stop. Food ran out. Fuel ran out. Spores settled in my lungs.…
• January 20, 2016

  Disco Glister

  A glistering cold morning. I saw the sun rise in a polka dot of neon pink, turning frost-sparkled trees to disco. It took me a good 10 minutes to scrape down the crystalised glass so I could see my way. Ferns of ice still adorned me as I moused along the silky roads and I…
• January 18, 2016

  Non-verbal Communication in UI

  The UI is part of [a] user’s digital body language. Very interesting. WHAT we say can only go so far in relaying our intended message. When there’s a lack of body language (in digital, most particularly), we look for other non-verbal signs. Depending on the UI (user interface – how things look) this can be…
• January 14, 2016

  Always

  It’s a complicated thing, mourning someone you didn’t know. But I mourned Severus Snape, a man I did know. I now mourn the man who embodied him, whose face I see when I listen to the stories. Every night for nearly 20 years, those stories. I stood by the river in the snow, and it…
• January 13, 2016

  Warning: You Will Buy Books

  People think Reddit is for lonely, fat trolls. It is. But it’s also home to some of the funniest, cleverest and most melancholy people I’ve ever come across. Yesterday I stumbled upon a thread about book pairings. It had never occurred to me to turn to Reddit for literary criticism, but these guys had me buying…