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miriam_e ([personal profile] miriam_e) wrote2007-07-12 08:57 pm
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upside down

Huh!

While programming a virtual world I just noticed that up is dn turned upside down. :)

Some oldies I like are:
now + here = nowhere
and
live is evil reversed.

Meaningless fun.
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[identity profile] faemortel.livejournal.com 2007-07-15 06:41 pm (UTC)(link)
I miss you! how have you been? i like the up is dn thing : )

[identity profile] miriam-e.livejournal.com 2007-07-16 12:30 am (UTC)(link)
Yay!!! Great to hear from you. I miss you too and often think of you. Glad to see you on LJ. Myspace sucks big-time. I rarely check my friendlist so hadn't noticed you'd been posting lately. I'll have to watch more closely.

I've been doing well. Building a couple of virtual worlds at the moment -- one for a TV company and another to help publicise Science Week. Neither of them very exciting, but still nice.

I still live out in the bush. Haven't seen so many wallabies around here lately, but that might be because I have a second little dog who is blind but loves to go outside and just sit in the sun and bark... no particular reason as far as I can see. (The little rat!) My other dog almost died recently when she got a paralysis tick. She recovered fully though. She is a real sweetie.

Haven't been doing much artwork lately. A little bit of writing. I have a few really cool stories bubbling around in my head that I want to set down soon. Found out about Ren'ai recently (Japanese for "romance" but also called visual novels) and began turning one of my stories into a short ren'ai piece. Haven't finished it yet. This work came along and put it on hold.

For an example of re'ai have a look at the story "Abigail":
http://www.renai.us/name/A/
Unfortunately "Abigail" is Windows only, but most of the stories at renai.us are Windows/Linux/Mac. Here is the big list:
http://www.renai.us/special/all/
and GxG (girl attracted to girl) ones:
http://www.renai.us/tag/romance/GxG/
"Cell Phone Love Letter" is nice too -- primitive graphics but neat story.

Tell me what you're doing, Possum. Do you have a girlfriend? (You should -- gorgeous, vibrant person you are!) Where are you living now? Enjoying life? Plans? Reading any interesting books? (I've been re-reading my Karin Kallmaker books. Luscious GxG romance.)

[identity profile] revbobbob.livejournal.com 2007-07-17 07:17 am (UTC)(link)
My fave is ELVIS LIVES, VEILS EVILS.

And do pick up Godel, Escher, Bach again. There's a fellow I recall named Scott Kim who does some amazing things with typography, and Hoffstedter (sp?) includes a lot of his work.

[identity profile] miriam-e.livejournal.com 2007-07-17 09:03 am (UTC)(link)
I have Godel, Escher, Bach. I've forgotten about Scott Kim. I must read it again. For that matter I must read "Mind's Eye" again too (Douglas Hofstadter & Daniel Dennett). Lots of lovely mental gymnastics in that one, mostly centered around the topics of consciousness, the mind, emotion, etc.

Did you ever read Hofstadter's guest columns in Scientific American some decades ago? I used to love them. If I remember right he shuffled the letters of "Mathematical Games" (Martin Gardner's superb old column) to make it "Metamagical Themas". Lots of fun and games. I particularly enjoyed his stuff on self-referential sentences and words.
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