Mutterings - Mar 4

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

1. Awesome :: Experience
2. Race :: (not always to the ) Swift
3. Pear :: Sorbet
4. Unintentional :: Accident
5. Cough :: Wheeze
6. Repeat :: Mark (in music)
7. Aching :: Void
8. Vibrate :: Sympathetic
9. Tooth :: Ache
10. Insult :: Rage

Mutterings - Feb 25

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

1. Blood :: Libel
2. Tip :: a Wink
3. Sign :: Road
4. Necklace :: Pearl
5. Freaking :: Out
6. Jelly :: Donut
7. Rubber band :: Snap!
8. Coast :: West (train line...)
9. Wait :: Stand (those who stand and wait..)
10. Pressure :: Point

Mutterings - Feb 18

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

1. Foundation :: Church's (one)
2. Clues :: Trail
3. Jump :: Ski
4. Matter :: Anti-
5. Happening :: 60's
6. Addiction :: Cocaine
7. Acronym :: TLA
8. Falter :: Horse
9. Concussion :: Fall
10. Historic :: (Sexual) Abuse

FOSDEM

Last weekend I was at the FOSDEM (the Free and Open Source Software Developers European Meeting - the FOSDEM website appears not to explain the acronym?) conference in Brussels with rather a lot (42!) of work colleagues.

I went to lots of talks, enjoyed the atmosphere, ate waffles, beer and had good meals in various Brussels eateries. I hope a report will appear here as an expansion of the summary I wrote on the company wiki!

I was there last year as well but a report doesn't appear to have reached this blog, maybe if I do that other entry that'll make up for the omission?

Mutterings - Feb 11

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

1. Tradition :: History
2. Download :: Cache (avoids history again!)
3. Heroic :: Sacrifice (I'm sure I didn't see the next line!)
4. Sacrifice :: Fire
5. Forever :: Young
6. Backtrack :: Search
7. Release :: Beta
8. Pay :: Pal
9. Fear :: Outstare
10. Jingle :: Bells

Mutterings - Jan 30

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

1. Adopt :: Kitten
2. Summary :: Execution
3. Intuition :: Feminine
4. Tears :: Drop (slow-ly) - I see it's a Gibbons' madrigal
5. Folly :: Castle
6. Advanced :: Course
7. Debt :: Prison
8. Sorrow :: Loss
9. Early :: One Morning
10. Flaw :: Diamond

Water surface and terragen

A recent terragen render - this took a couple of days to complete. I'm still on terragen 3 and intending an upgrade when I can get around to adding some extra memory to the desktop! Maybe it needs a few more textures that rock is a little too uniform?
Terragen is a Windows application but it runs happily under Wine.

Mutterings - Jan 28

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

1. Transparency :: 35mm
2. Dream :: Live (the)
3. Delayed :: Train
4. Spit :: Polish
5. 1984 :: (Winston) Smith
6. Suitcases :: Wheeled
7. Polish :: Mazurka (resists Spit!)
8. Medical :: Emergency
9. Martial :: Arts
10. Parents :: Memories

Mutterings - 17 Jan

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

1. Train :: of thought
2. Anxiety :: High
3. Wasted :: Starved
4. Bread :: Olives
5. Open face :: sandwich
6. Cheese :: Straws
7. Booth :: Supermarket (oh ok Booth's)
8. Line :: Hold
9. Weird :: Sister
10. Mattress :: Sleep

I see that with the increase in tweet size, this complete list could be tweeted!

Mutterings - Jan 14

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

1. Prompt :: Payment
2. Thanks :: a million
3. Play :: School
4. Long lasting :: Relief (was it from cold germs?)
5. Enter :: Friend (actually 'Speak Friend and Enter')
6. Contract :: Arctic (Ice)
7. Substantial :: Downpayment
8. Alert :: Flashing
9. Swipe :: Left
10. Resist :: Yes!

Mutterings - Jan 2

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

1. Stubborn :: Argument
2. Resolve :: Firm
3. Pain :: Back
4. Winnings :: Claim
5. House :: Ownership
6. Joints :: Embrocation
7. Slide :: Trombone
8. Phone :: Flip-top
9. Dream :: Perchance (to)
10. Tip :: per-cent

Mutterings - Dec 26

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

1. Cheap :: ..at half the price
2. Brace :: Pheasants
3. Delicate :: Flower
4. Era :: Classical
5. Naked :: Embrace
6. Bad TV :: Cliche
7. Gift :: Tree
8. Forgive :: Letting go
9. Staple :: Diet
10. Last :: some film ( was thinking of something other than Jedi and failing to remember but the web is not helpful)

Mutterings - Dec 26 - part 1

This week's (well last week's actually!) free word associations from Unconscious mutterings are:

1. Giving :: Loving
2. Incredible :: Twosome (not sure, but it's not a good combination to websearch!)
3. Backing :: Group
4. Verb :: Passive
5. Turning :: World (at the still point of the ... (Eliot))
6. Escalator :: Up
7. Itchy :: Feet
8. Glass :: Hydrometer
9. Hydrate :: (umm see previous) Emergency
10. Solution :: Alkali

Mutterings - Dec 17

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

1. Timing :: Bomb
2. Anxiety :: High
3. Experience :: Insight
4. Polka :: Dots
5. Wax :: Ruby
6. Wired :: Sound
7. Broke :: Fracture
8. Salt :: Wound
9. Crocodile :: Tears
10. Navigator :: Henry

Discovery Day

Last weekend I made the trip down to Cheltenham for Inntravel's discovery day. I wanted to see a wider range of what they had to offer - readers of this blog will know we've used them for holidays quite a few times in the past 10 years. Also they were offering discounts for holidays booked on the day!

I saw this which looked very much like somewhere we stayed when on La Palma - though maybe lots of houses on that island are similar. I've since also discovered that my ex project manager's sister knows the person responsible for tourism on La Palma..

Mutterings - Dec 10

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

1. Waning :: Moon
2. Constant :: Craving (kd lang)
3. Beginning :: Genesis
4. Boyfriend :: Young love!
5. Gain :: Loss (and St Paul..)
6. Unsure :: Danger
7. Fly :: Fishing
8. Remove :: Bunter!
9. Cancelled :: Cheque
10. Interest :: Bank

Mutterings - Dec 3

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

1. Run out :: Cricket
2. Whisperer :: Horse
3. Collide :: Dynamics (remembering O level courses!)
4. Worth :: Jobs
5. Fuck :: Hell
6. Mild :: Bitter
7. Chapped :: Lips
8. Hope :: Centre (a local Christian initiative)
9. Itch :: 7 year (never seen it!)
10. Face :: Emacs font

Mutterings - Nov 26

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

1. Sprain :: Ankle
2. Hesitation :: Deviation (the Just a Minute programme)
3. Navigator :: Compass
4. Supplied :: Generosity
5. Wow! :: Open-mouthed
6. Breaking :: the Silence
7. sigh :: IRC (I seem to attract these)
8. Justice :: Integrity
9. Everything :: Belongs (a Richard Rohr book)
10. Chapped :: Lips

Mutterings - Nov19

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

1. Prayer :: Lord's
2. Rerun :: Peanuts (a character in the cartoon)
3. Blue :: Joni (Mitchell!) - not that song but another from the album in an early version with interestingly different words!
4. Chat :: Chad
5. Boycott :: Geoff
6. Design :: Broken (by)
7. Paste :: Cut (and)
8. Backspace :: Key
9. Connections :: Long term (I met someone this week I'd been in contact with for 40 years but had never -as far as I remember - met)
10. Reality :: Light

Mutterings - Nov 12

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

1. Deleted :: Expletive (that's going back a bit!!)
2. Fire! :: Works!
3. Sirens :: Blest pair (not sure I know the Parry work!)
4. Review :: Peer
5. Stutter :: Fault (machinery does this too!)
6. Prevention :: Cure
7. Omit :: Details
8. Building :: Land
9. Formatted :: Email
10. Undisclosed :: Truth