Still alive, just elsewhere. The number of elsewheres has increased since I last posted about them, so here is a list:

Listing to Port, My writing blog. It has daily posts and is about making lists and spouting bollocks, mostly.

Gnimmel's House of Maps, my art blog. Only sporadically updated at the moment.

Othergnimmel, an only very occasionally ( Read more... )

So, I seem to remember back in the day when I buggered off from the LJ, I said I'd make one last post if I started posting art stuff anywhere else. Somewhat later, I lost the notebook in which I'd been writing down ideas for said art stuff. So I decided I would take all the ideas and part-finished things from it that I could remember and actually ( Read more... )

A few things it may be useful to know wrt this livejournal at the moment ( Read more... )

( In here )

Thank you for all your comments on the previous post. It was an interesting exercise; much more in the way of nature and music and travelling, and perhaps less about relationships that I was expecting. Sunlight and the lonely sea, the sound of birds and the scent of pine trees. I don't know if that's a selection effect (the sort of people who still ( Read more... )

I'm interested in happiness.
I mean, everyone is, I guess[1]. But I've been reading discussions like this, and this, and this. And I was thinking about the cheese and pickled onion sandwich.

The thing about the cheese and pickled onion sandwich is this: provided it is the right cheese and pickled onion sandwich (that is to say one with crispy ( Read more... )

I'm reading the Decameron at the moment. It's bizarrely hard going ( Read more... )

So it turned into a long weekend of pandas, hummingbirds, margaritas, sealions, curious beans, rainswept neon and red carpets, sunburn, peruvian tea, pelicans, Mexican maximalist decor, manga shops, blisters, the pacific, enormous fibreglass elephants &c. Which is all well and good. However, none of these things were the best thing about Southern ( Read more... )

As people of a more twittery or facebooky nature may be aware, I'm currently at a conference in San Diego. Now, I have a little time for tourism at the end of the conference, and San Diego is right on the Mexican border, and on the other side of the Mexican border is Tijuana. Tijuana is, at least in popular myth, a seedy, decadent place, home to ( Read more... )

I'm carrying out a slow clearout of old vector images for projects that are now so far down the todo list that they will clearly never be finished. To wit:


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