I was looking at Flickr, and I have an account there I don't use too much. Flickr appeals to a lot of people but I find the interface confusing and has too many controls. I just wanna see… PICTURES. But one great thing about Flickr is the Photostream?great tutorial on this. Just an idea: I wish I could have a photostream with Snapzilla, have the newest piccies automatically delivered into the sidebar on my left. I've increasingly thot about copying caption text and pasting it in here, but in a way that seems lazy, yet at the same time, it'd be a more integrated way to frame my feelings at the time. Writing about something after the fact is different than doing it during the moment. And yet, looking at pictures triggers memories, awakens something that may have slumbered on for a bit.

My ideas are like paint cans. I have them all stacked up in my mind. Some of the cans are leaky and crosscontaminate each other, but that leads to new ideas. Like what pink+green combine to get, which is… — Sometimes when I meditate, I see myself going through this big room of cans, sorting them out and stacking one atop another in certain geometric patterns, almost like a Fluxus wave. When I get tired and need a drink, I start sipping from a cup, only to discover it too, contains a type of "paint".

Just like certain music videos, the pictures I'm presenting have no seeming relation to what I'm writing, but as you know me by now, it's all quite interconnected. These shots come from Leyla Firefly's (almost spelled that "Fireflies", eeeps) builds in E City, and infact take up a good chunk of the simulator. I noticed something immediately special: the use of lights & shadows, baked in via alpha textures but warm nonetheless. A lot of very careful texturing in this furniture store. Some surfaces looked jarring as they weren't similarly textured and looked flat, which goes to show if you have ten people in a room and one doesn't have a shadow, you may very well be suitably freaked out. This specific technique of "shadow-on-a-prim-stacked-atop-another-to-give-it-both-literal-and-figurative-depth" is becoming increasingly popular, altho being wielded well is rare as certain kinds of steaks.

I pause as I hear the cyclish ruuumble of the washing machine. For the classic computer program After Dark, when screensavers were all the rage, there was a bonus module called Major Metaphysical Appliances which was included with a book called Art of Darkness as mentioned in this FAQ.

I sat down and thot for a moment.

The alien invasion began decades ago, highlighted en masse in the 50s when television advertisements for these household machines compelled every family living in a suburban neighborhood to pick up sets. Including toasters, also of After Dark fame via the Flying Toasters (and will they ever make a comeback?). In my house, we had a ricecooker, and it was awful in hindsight because the sides got all the hard, calcified rice stuck to them. It was only matter years later we got a nostick one that cost approximately 10 bucks. I wonder if old, junked appliances have souls. Maybe they do and are just looking for a loving home. I wonder if they feel resentment, or rage because of what's happened to them. Maybe they're too tired to care…

Following a nod from Pol Tabla on the SLOG, I came over to visit Octal Khan's house @ Shamrock (124, 178). He didn't come home until later, but we eventually IMed. Continuing along this thotline, as I wrote as my Snapzilla caption:

The bedroom is very cozy too. Looking outside the window. Maybe when we have more advanced weather, rain will trickle down the sides and cloth simulation will help you hide under the covers when lightning strikes. I don't know what the precise names for this predominant color scheme is, but it comes off to me as being olive & seafoam. And that's appropriate, bringing us back to the very beginning of this entry, where I was sitting, gazing at both the seashore and swimming pool, but with no olive-spiked drink in hand.

Next time I come through, I'll have a beverage.