Category: Wonderings

• 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…
• January 13, 2016

  Minutiae

  It occurred to me yesterday, in a little thrill of dismay, that an outside person can make me do whatever they want. They have the power of imagination, the utility of visual memory – I am a puppet with as much free will as a Sim left alone with a bored little brother. But then…