Category: Wonderings

• January 26, 2016

  My Unhappy Place

  Lonely Sound is an imaginary body of water that lives in the recesses of my mind. It’s a desolate place. The sun never quite breaks through the cloud cover and it’s only ever warm and damp or damp and chill. Looking out over the sound is a sad old cabin with a half-collapsed porch. It’s…
• 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…