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Sampling rate in The irresistible urge to rant, riff and ramble
At the Chinese new year's performance today: CS: looking at my camera at the end of the performance I guess you have about two hundred pictures in there? Me: Three hundred and forty. CS: Wha--...
Self centred in The irresistible urge to rant, riff and ramble
I wrote, quite a long while back, that one of the top pieces of advice I tend to give is Never run from, always run to, because if you spend all your life trying avoid your fate, you never have t...
Flash fiction: Floe in The Irresistible Urge to Write
For Jacelyn, who asked: "It's cold." "That's why it's called the Arctic, darling." I dart a sidelong glance at you, fabulous in mink, cheeks artfully reddened by the cold of deep winter. No...
Ah, I knew it felt familiar. in The irresistible urge to rant, riff and ramble
Remember I mentioned that it wasn't so much like stepping off onto a lifeboat as onto another ship? I remember why it looks familiar now. (Start the video at 1m 5 s) http://youtu.be/R7m5Int1hAA...
From nanowrimo: Bee doo bee doo in The irresistible urge to rant, riff and ramble
Original poster: Is there such a thing as a male siren? Me: I imagine he would sound... horny.
And so it ends. in The irresistible urge to rant, riff and ramble
Eleven years of Open Diary, gone down the drain. I'm not as bothered as I might be, mostly because this place isn't so much a lifeboat as a cruise ship of its own. So here I am. No doubt I'll ...
Flash fiction: Aftermath in The Irresistible Urge to Write
For Sylvia, who asked. ______________ We carry the faint miasma of alcohol and tobacco sidestream into the compartment with us, and you crack the window open to keep the air circulating as I sl...
Flash fiction: Stargazing in The Irresistible Urge to Write
For Greg Stachowski, who asked. ________ She does her initial sketches in blue grease pencil; always has. She picked up the habit, she tells you, from an old friend who used nothing else, altho...
Flash Friday: Handbrake in The Irresistible Urge to Write
Prompts: Beading, bucket seat, gather The raindrops on the roof were definitely slackening. Not that they had been hard drumming to begin with; more soft, splattering impacts that carry with the...
Shiliing (But I do need the votes) in The Irresistible Urge to Write
The Centre for Quantum Technologies in Singapore ran a short story competition recently; I don't know how recently, but I picked up the notification in the mail: Short story. 1000 words. On th...
Since the last time, I've broken my handphone made my own light reflector for photography: drove six hours on the highway to Kuala Lumpur: and found Caffeine in the papers: (link here...
License 2 Play, 7th and 8th December in The irresistible Urge To Play with Light
This weekend was the free-to-enter License 2 Play convention, so we hit it over two of the three days. By now, we're getting to know quite a lot of people in the cosplay community, which has res...
Anime Fest Asia, day 2 and 3 in The irresistible Urge To Play with Light
Friday, Saturday and Sunday were Anime Fest Asia. This is a very bad time for it, just when I'm trying to build up speed for Nano. So naturally I went in Saturday and Sunday... Day 2; full alb...
Nanowrimo, milestone 1 in The Irresistible Urge to Write
I'm up to 10,000 words and 4000 behind my personal quota. I'm actually having fun, but there is just so much work going on. Next week should go faster. From today: "When someone gives you an o...
Hard work and rewards in The irresistible Urge To Play with Light
Sometimes, just sometimes, I take a photo that lets me look at myself and go: Ok, that's not bad. Currently, the goal is to get these photos more often than once a month. (Yes, the same gun...
Flash Friday: Five years after the break in The Irresistible Urge to Write
Prompt: A flash about a broken bone. Time: 1000h to 1020h "I still can't believe you thought you could just walk on in." Curzo slid the bottle across the tabletop to Tor. "There's a reason it ...
Caffeine: Some pseudo-street photography in The irresistible Urge To Play with Light
Caffeine, my wife. She's my favourite photo subject and normally fairly happy to play along when we're out together: Shadows can give the same layered effect as the lines I normally like to ru...
From Nanowrimo: Start with one sentence in The Irresistible Urge to Write
Trigger phrase: The wooden bench was... The wooden bench was not the best projectile. For a start, it had been bolted to the floor; for another, there wasn't much in the way of grip to get a ...
Some analysis in The irresistible Urge To Play with Light
A friend of a photographer friend sent me a random message saying that she loved my texture photography. This led to an awkward moment while I tried to figure out how to ask her what she meant wi...
Branching out-- photographs in The irresistible Urge To Play with Light
I've cut back on sky shots (apart from astronomy ones, which require fifty shots for a single image or so), but this one's too good to pass up: Sun diffracting off moisture in the air to creat...
Flash Friday: Fever Dreams in The Irresistible Urge to Write
Prompt: Liturgical, Cadence, Burnt Start time: 10:25 pm End time: 10.45 pm The chants never stop in this land, with its sparse white clouds streaking overhead in a soundless gale, the barren g...
Forza del destino in The Irresistible Urge to Write
The whole question of is fiction realistic/ authentic? is, to my mind, misguided. The thing about fiction is that it does not need to be realistic. What it needs to be... is subtler. Fiction i...
Flash Friday: On the Pier in The Irresistible Urge to Write
Prompt: Fairground Attraction Start time: 10.29pm Finish time: 1100pm The roller coaster shot overhead in the eveining skyglow, greased wheels clattering against expansion joints, the solid h...
More astrophotos in The irresistible Urge To Play with Light
I've been shooting the sky every Friday night, regardless of how good or bad the sky's been, with the following results: Sagittarius and Scorpius, much dimmer than in Bintan (naturally) But. ...
Sample in The Irresistible Urge to Write
"What the hell do you think you're doing?" "Your people tried to get me to leave. I took exception." "So what do you want, tough guy?" "I would like, very much, to speak with your daughter. Fi...
