Mutterings - Apr 29

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

1. Kitchen :: Sink
2. Luck :: Beginner's (Rabbit?)
3. Ball :: Cock (sorry - but I'm sure mine is linked to sinks and plumbing!)
4. Master :: Draughtsman (or in IT git master - version control..)
5. Chocolate :: Bunny
6. Avoid :: Skid
7. Tired :: and emotional (George Brown I think?)
8. Sleepy :: Dopey (we're considering meeting room names in the new work offices and there's 7 rooms so one submitted suggestion was..)
9. Diet :: Calorie
10. Top :: MOnitor system (top is a Linux command for displaying machine hogs)

Mutterings - Apr 18

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

1. Frustration :: Bang (the table)
2. Mistaken :: Identity
3. Twirl :: Give us a ...
4. Constipation :: Bloat
5. Purple :: Haze
6. Phone :: Message
7. Frizz :: Hair
8. Sequel :: Suspense
9. Ache :: Tooth (muttered with feeling)
10. Fat :: Subcutaneous

Mutterings - Apr 3

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

1. Error :: Message
2. Kitty :: Malone (web searches...)
3. Delay :: Timing
4. Scale :: Model
5. Calculation :: Geometric
6. System :: Failure
7. Innovation :: Brilliant
8. April :: Shower
9. Comforter :: Spirit (Holy)
10. Frustrating :: Lost

Glacial Firefox

Recently my firefox installation here on the desktop has started behaving very oddle. It's running very slowly and even going to one tab and then returning to the previous one at that point refreshing the webpage happens (apparently) very slowly - this occurs even for the 'blank' tab. I'm running the beta and am on 60.0b8. The menus are fine it's just displaying content. I've restarted several times and the beta has also upgraded - also involving a restart. This is with Ubuntu 17.10 and I see I'm not the only one with this problem seeing a discussion on the mozilla.support.firefox newsgroup - and in the other case the problem is with a Windows installation. It takes over 10 seconds to display the 'blank' page- weird, about to try a restart without addons. Even posting this blog firefox sits down for a rest every few words.
PostScript..I've restarted without addons which makes a little difference but still c 10 sec to display an already opened 'New Tab' tab.

Mutterings - Apr 2

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

1. Food :: Hall
2. Storm :: Warning
3. Install :: Screen
4. Report :: School
5. Dream :: Wet
6. Analysis :: Structural
7. Redirect :: Browser
8. 78 :: No idea (oh
9. Weather :: Balloon
10. Protect :: Trade

Mutterings - Mar 26

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

1. Impose :: Mountain
2. Surreal :: Fish
3. March :: 4:4
4. Optimism :: Blind
5. Conference :: Call
6. Matter :: Mind
7. Believing :: Faith
8. I :: am.
9. Brace :: Teeth (impending trips to the dentist but not for one of these!)
10. Fortune :: Cookie

(catching up!)

Teaser Tuesday - Mar 18

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!

I've not done one of these for a bit, but am enjoying this book!

She changed tack. "This watch is for Anna's own good, to disentangle her from her web of deceit

From The Wonder Emma's Donoghue's novel of moral complexity in 19th century Ireland.

Mutterings - Mar 18

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

1. Prestigious :: tateur (completing the magician word in french!)
2. Guilt :: Shame
3. Booth :: Peanuts (the psychiatrist is IN)
4. Ambiance :: Soothing
5. Import :: Package (python language idiom)
6. Crisp :: Quentin
7. Show :: Light
8. Warm :: Fuzzies (I see it's in various web dictionaries)
9. Flapping :: Tent
10. Surge :: Tidal

Dawn on the way to the station

I'm still doing some early mornings, usually catching the 7:30 train into work and sometimes the dawn is worth a picture!

I seem to have missed out on pictures during the cold spell!

Mutterings - Mar 6

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

1. Favorite book :: Well thumbed (evading challenge - though for me an impossible request)
2. Every day :: Prayers
3. Believe it :: See it
4. Up :: Down
5. Life :: Lesson
6. Exercise :: 108 steps
7. Week 1 :: January!
8. Country :: Walking
9. Quality :: Street (sorry!)
10. Favorite movie :: Classic (these words sound like a means of extracting password recovery questions :-))

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!