Mutterings - Aug 31

This week's free word associations from Unconscious mutterings are:

1. Hell :: Handbasket
2. Time :: Tide
3. Birth :: Trauma
4. Dock :: Criminal
5. Column :: Nelson's
6. Distance :: Runner
7. Text :: Editor
8. Pop up :: Toaster
9. Fear :: Truth
10. Alert :: Police

Terragen scene

I'm trying again with Terragen 2 - I know that version 3 is out so getting my head around the version 2 features is taking a little time...I used the tutorial from here and then fiddled with it a little to get this:

I'm not sure I'm convinced by the foreground but otherwise I'm showing signs of improvement! I ran this on my Vista installation, running on my kubuntu desktop (using Wine to run the windows .exe) is rather slower I don't know whether that is due to the 'emulation' being slower in this case or whether I'm just using the desktop for more things at the same time!

Teaser Tuesday - Aug 26

Teaser Tuesday
The rules are:

• Grab your current read.
• Let the book fall open to a random page.
• Share with us two (2) 'teaser' sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12.
• You also need to share the title and author of the book that you’re getting your 'teaser' from .. that way people can have some great book recommendations if they like the teaser you've given!

In 2068, thirteen soldiers were killed when a prototype excavating robot malfunctioned, and drove its unit over a checkpoint. This led to a new program where Philosopher William's model of socialised development rose to prominence.

From Bernard Beckett's Genesis. This is our BATS book of the month - a lateral interpretation of the 'a book with a famous first line' choice. Described as young adult reading - reviews are tightlipped about some of the plot developments and I think I'm just getting to the interesting bit...

Mutterings - Aug 24

This week's free word associations from Unconscious mutterings are:

1. Sniffle :: Snuffle
2. Live :: Bait
3. Finally! :: Exception! (a reference to the computer language python)
4. Honor :: Maid (of) - a tart, not eaten one since childhood, must give a recipe a try. I see Delia Smith has curd cheese in the filling which isn't in the first recipe and I don't remember!
5. New :: Broom
6. Cumbersome :: Load
7. Thumbs :: Up
8. Facebook :: Status
9. Cheat :: 5 Queens (must be the card game of that name)
10. Decisive :: Thrust (fencing?)

Mutterings - Aug 17

This week's free word associations from Unconscious mutterings are:

1. Failure :: Hardware (never a software one!!)
2. Extinguish :: Hope
3. Probability :: Dice
4. Lurid :: Tale
5. Hope :: springs eternal (a good counterbalance to no 2!)
6. Supposedly :: Rumour
7. Putrid :: Smell
8. Remarkable :: Story
9. Bunny :: Hop
10. Expectations :: Great

Mutterings - Aug 10

This week's free word associations from Unconscious mutterings are:

1. Games :: Olympic
2. Postage :: Stamp
3. Germs :: Microscope
4. Pump :: Vacuum
5. Mirror :: Wing
6. Slogan :: Election
7. Wagon :: Fall (off the)
8. Treatment :: Emergency
9. Bloody :: Wound
10. Spray :: Nasal

There's a lot of medical conditions in that!

Teaser Tuesday - Aug 4

Teaser Tuesday
The rules are:

• Grab your current read.
• Let the book fall open to a random page.
• Share with us two (2) 'teaser' sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12.
• You also need to share the title and author of the book that you’re getting your 'teaser' from .. that way people can have some great book recommendations if they like the teaser you've given!

He wondered sometimes if she'd ever done anything wild in her life ansd then he remembered what Jennifer had told hi the doctor had said about the Cadillac in the pond. And maybe the conspiracy around the baby, too, was a piece of wildness.

Another teaser from Anna Quindlen, I found this a difficult book to like, too allusive, nothing happening (but maybe I missed it in those interminable sentences) until you get to the last 80 pages. I see that the back cover blurb has had the language cleaned up in later editions (see my previous teaser) so that the baby's box is no longer so crowded. Some hints in the above but I don't think they amount to a spoiler.

Mutterings - Aug 4

This week's free word associations from Unconscious mutterings are:

1. Survey :: Ordnance
2. Groups :: Abelian (back to the Maths undergrad course! I had to look them up but my approximation was more or less correct)
3. Notes :: Lecture
4. Orientation :: Sexual
5. Interviews :: Second (let's hope)
6. Building :: Site
7. Star Wars :: Film
8. Youth :: Club
9. Details :: Drawing
10. Italics :: Script