Monday, July 30, 2007
Sunday, July 29, 2007
Saturday, July 21, 2007
Wednesday, July 18, 2007
Which Ancient Language are You?
Your Score: Hieroglyphics
You scored
You are Egyptian Hieroglyphics! Monumental, ornate and even in technicolour! Your users contributed virtually all ancient knowledge on inks, dyes and writing surfaces - to the point where the popular reed of Papyrus became the universal name for organic, manufactured writing surfaces in the western hemisphere for thousands of years. Proud, upstanding and dignified.
Link: The Which Ancient Language Are You Test written by imipak on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the The Dating Persona Test |
Saturday, July 07, 2007
Music
Are you a CD player?
No, I'm not trying to be absurdist here. Are you the sort of person who buys a CD, listens to it a five dozen times over the next week and then doesn't listen to it again for a year?
I am. I've been getting into 80's music lately. Not sure how long that will last. I have A-Ha, Talking Heads, Europe, Go West and Vangelis to name a few.
I've also been overplaying Cat Stevens. Did Karaoke with Trace, Kate G and Cecily at good 'ol Monty's (on Macquarie St), and I really, really wanted to perform "The First Cut is the Deepest" because maybe that's how I feel (sniff). Alas, it wasn't on the list.
So I settled with "The Final Countdown", which I only know the chorus to. Actually, I just sung it so I could do the GOB dance. It was awesome. Angus, I wish you had been there.
No, I'm not trying to be absurdist here. Are you the sort of person who buys a CD, listens to it a five dozen times over the next week and then doesn't listen to it again for a year?
I am. I've been getting into 80's music lately. Not sure how long that will last. I have A-Ha, Talking Heads, Europe, Go West and Vangelis to name a few.
I've also been overplaying Cat Stevens. Did Karaoke with Trace, Kate G and Cecily at good 'ol Monty's (on Macquarie St), and I really, really wanted to perform "The First Cut is the Deepest" because maybe that's how I feel (sniff). Alas, it wasn't on the list.
So I settled with "The Final Countdown", which I only know the chorus to. Actually, I just sung it so I could do the GOB dance. It was awesome. Angus, I wish you had been there.
Thursday, July 05, 2007
Maybe there are more colours in Heaven.
There needs to be more colours. Specifically, more bright colours. I'm colouring in one of my own pictures right now, and I'm looking at my texta box and thinking "this palette is limited. I've used that one, and that one, and that one doesn't contrast with that one, I need another one. Another one that doesn't yet exist in the visible light spectrum. Maybe it's the colour of microwaves. Or X-Rays." I would love to be able to see the rest of the electromagnetic spectrum. That would be soo cool.
See how these two colours "vibrate" when juxtaposed? I think there need to be more pairings like this. Neither purple/yellow or green/red (the other two secondary/primary contrasting pairs) vibrate with the same intensity. So there seems to be room in logical (?) space (or at least in my imagination) for more colours. Or at least I can describe these hypothetical colours, or at least give them a function. The function being to vibrate with same intensity of orange and blue, but not orange or blue. I don't know what these colours look like, but maybe we'll see them in Heaven.
Post Script
Other "yet to be seen colours" might be "hot green", "hot blue" and "hot brown". You add white to red to get pink, and you can have "hot pink". Well, you add white to green and you don't get a pastel, but a "hot green". You might need to add another imaginary colour to this green +white to get "hot green". And I don't mean "bright green". "Hot green" is different to "bright green".
See how these two colours "vibrate" when juxtaposed? I think there need to be more pairings like this. Neither purple/yellow or green/red (the other two secondary/primary contrasting pairs) vibrate with the same intensity. So there seems to be room in logical (?) space (or at least in my imagination) for more colours. Or at least I can describe these hypothetical colours, or at least give them a function. The function being to vibrate with same intensity of orange and blue, but not orange or blue. I don't know what these colours look like, but maybe we'll see them in Heaven.
Post Script
Other "yet to be seen colours" might be "hot green", "hot blue" and "hot brown". You add white to red to get pink, and you can have "hot pink". Well, you add white to green and you don't get a pastel, but a "hot green". You might need to add another imaginary colour to this green +white to get "hot green". And I don't mean "bright green". "Hot green" is different to "bright green".