This is the song you listen to when you know that it’s all over. Whether the result is good or bad, it’s all over and now you’re sitting alone on the sidewalk and waiting for the sunrise in a cold morning with burning sensations inside…
– a comment on the following video:
Many years ago, our boss (in another place) bought us 256GB hard drives. These days you can get a USB with that much memory. Back then it meant a spinning platter, roughly 10x20cm long and weighing over a kilogram. We all gave them names of the opposite sex to ourselves; this of course led to a certain amount of “mount/unmount” jokes going round the group (mostly from the girl I shared my office with, who initially did have problems mounting “Paul”, her unit). I named mine Maria, with a picture of Mary Magdelene on.
Recently, after over 10 years of service, Maria has given up the ghost. I shall have to take her to the computer shop near our work and ask about data retrieval services, although to be honest there’s probably very little data that I’d seriously miss on there. Scans of old art and old Final Fantasy VII save files…
EDIT: This post has finally prompted the Significant Other to say “your mum was right, that’s autistic. Why would anyone draw that? It has no artistic value.”
For a Work-in-Progress.
We went to the Significant Other’s ancestral home the other week, mostly for gardening-related purposes, and I did some sketches. A cabinet:
and a rather old hoover:
Other arty stuff is underway, but may alas be some time in the preparing.
The sky grew black as coal in the middle of the day
My great-grand-daddy watched
As his house was blown away
– Winds of Change, Geoff Moore and the Distance
Inspired by… well, recent events – which I have not been hit particularly hard by, and there are people whose lives have been ruined; spare a thought, and a prayer, for them – and the text from the Gospels which the Pope preached on a few weeks back:
On that day, when evening had come, he said to them, “Let us go across to the other side.” 36 And leaving the crowd, they took him with them, just as he was, in the boat. And other boats were with him. 37 And a great storm of wind arose, and the waves beat into the boat, so that the boat was already filling. 38 But he was in the stern, asleep on the cushion; and they woke him and said to him, “Teacher, do you not care if we perish?” 39 And he awoke and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, “Peace! Be still!” And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm. 40 He said to them, “Why are you afraid? Have you no faith?” 41 And they were filled with awe, and said to one another, “Who then is this, that even wind and sea obey him?”
Mark 4:35-41, RSV(CE)
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