Six degrees of Richard Baker

[hirez]

Oh. Wow. I think I want to play at this.

I think it's pretty obvious to anyone with sense in their heads (A phrase I found in the description of some mythological Greek robot women, obviously) that one's moods are cyclical somehow. I don't want to dignify my 'cheerful' and 'mithering' states with terms from the, um, more clinical end of something like the DSM, so I shall call them 'more enthusiastic' and 'less enthusiastic', which brings to mind Reg Prescott, but there we are.

Anyway. The idea of wanting to play at pass-the-art-book is definitely something from the 'more enthusiastic' end of the cycle.

I'd also like to babble at length about work, since it's being A Rather Interesting Time, but I can't. Oh well. However, if you're trying to get FreeBSD to work well on a nc6220, cvsup to 6-latest.

Comments

[jarkman.livejournal.com]

Is that 'can't' as in 'which this margin is too small to contain' or as in 'Duck! Lawers at twelve o'clock!' ?

I remember Joanna telling me about the world of mail art, some very long time ago. Let's see what Google has to offer:
http://www.panmodern.com/one/history.html

Today, my recreations have mostly involved coughing and failing to get Black Salt to do what it should. And a walk in the park to enjoy the scenery, thus:

http://jarkman.com/album/random/park.jpg

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Destination Venus? Pontypool invaded by Astro-Men?

Can't as in mumble mumble infrastructure mumble and the people who don't do TCP/IP won't understand the Fear and Loathing involved.

Is Black Salt like Red Mercury?

[jarkman.livejournal.com]

Snow, snow, snow. Lots of snow. And a great big snow-coloured sky.

It's only slightly more savoury. It's an unrefined rock salt, used as a flavouring in some Indian cookery. It smells - strongly - of rotten eggs - so I don't propose to try it out as a flavouring.

But it's also rumoured to be effective in patinating silver. But it's not.

[quercus.livejournal.com]

Garlic patinates (or at least blackens) silver quite effectively.

Why you'd _want_ to is another question.

[jarkman.livejournal.com]

Is that the foundation of the Anti-Patination League that I hear in your voice ? :-)

[quercus.livejournal.com]

Is all your Gradwellwebbage as busted as mine is ?

Where did you find the black salt ? I was looking yesterday, but had no luck.

[jarkman.livejournal.com]

No, it seems to be OK, on the basis of a five-second survey. What's amiss with yours ?

Masala Bazaar, in Newport. They appear to stock every spice on the planet. Mostly in pound bags. They had three different kinds of Black Salt.

So far I've only tried the one that was supplied in the not-quite-heatsealed-right packet, because that's the one that smells the most. It managed to make patches of one side of the testpiece look a little bit manky, but it didn't really generate what you'd call a patina. Must try the other packets.

[inulro.livejournal.com]

Fantastic concept, but I'd probably get in trouble for being talentless and boring.

You, OTOH, are not. Go for it.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Pshaw. On both counts.

[alasdair.livejournal.com]

Beltatedly: have you run across http://www.1000journals.com ? I got my paws on one a few years back, and scribbled some appropriate mentalism in the object.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

No I hadn't.

Hm.

You know the difference between running a 'blog' and keeping a(n) LJ? Like that.