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Welcome to dead.garden
Kuoleman puutarha (The Garden of Death) by Hugo Simberg, 1896.
Last Login: 12 Nov 20:40 UTC
What's on my mind?
the SSD in my laptop (main PC) is a machine that turns important files that aren't backed up anywhere into input/output error.
About the website
This is
- a personal website
- a passion project focused on fun and self-expression
- comparable to a personal social media account
This isn't
- commercial in any way
- a personal marketing strategy meant to enhance visibility and professional success
- interested in looking or acting like a website the former two points would apply to
Babies cry because they are born with all the knowledge in the world.
"Campaign" (originally: Burning Artemis) is the title of an unproduced Doctor Who novel, originally meant to feature in the BBC's Past Doctor Adventures range. The author, Jim Mortimore, self-published the story in 2000, with the proceeds going to charity. A revised PDF version of the book can be found here and read for free! The story features the first Doctor, Susan, Ian and Barbara.
I've been getting into film photography lately.
I was at one of the local museums last weekend, because it was the last day of their exhibit on "clouds in art", that I'd been wanting to check out since March.
At the museum, I took pictures using a kids camera that instantly prints on thermal paper. I got this because Max had one at IWC Nürnberg and I thought it was cool — he also has a cool post about a thermal printer camera project, you should check that out.
It turned off before I got through the whole exhibit because it was out of batteries, so for the other exhibit they had going on I have pics I took on the phone. In the end I had a really long spool of badly rendered monochrome representations of the art.
On my 22nd birthday, two years ago, I had a pretty pleasant day. I don't really remember what about it was good, I probably had an enjoyable task at work and a good time with collegues; and in my good mood, I also went down to the book shop right outside my workplace and picked up War and Peace. The cashier made a little comment as he scanned the book, apparently impressed or surprised.
Why'd I pick it up? Well, why would anyone want to read the book? Because it's a classic and everyone says it's good. Was it? Yes! But not in the sort of way I expected it to be.
I don't know much about dithering. But when I visit other people's sites and they dither their images in cool ways I always wonder how they do it. So in case anyone is wondering, here's my current method for dithering these pink images.
Edit: Almost like I know myself too well — the pictures now look like this instead:
Which is covered in the post.
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A World without the Pain of Death
i woke from dream, cried, short of breath: what nightmare in my own desire - a world without the pain of death where no man fears he will expire. The earth was dry as blocks of sand, a lifeless heap we couldn't know and not one leaf would grace this land without the kiss of nature's flow; Where death did not exist in theory life as we know it was not found and every body that stood near me seemed to be yearning for the ground; Where none had ever died before no worm could feast on sustenance, no seeds could spring out of the floor, no thing could start, where no thing ends. The earth was such a dreary place - no laughter came from people's lips walking forever through the maze and dreaming of apocalypse. Despite it all they cherished living and I suppose we'd never see the ailments that can be forgiven; no matter what, man wants to be. They couldn't know for what they're yearning and hungry in the inner eye are things of which they're never learning: What privilege it is to die.