forgetful

Forgetful is when you get home after work to realize you've left your Macbook Pro on your table. This leaves you without access to the 'net, the wider world, and that part of yourself (the blog, the photos,your World of Warcraft character) which is not located within the confines of your skull and 3 feet of personal space. (forgetful is also somehow misplacing the money you drew from the ATM, only realizing when the waitress comes with the bill, in a restaurant that does take credit cards)

The few times in recent years I've had to live a few days without Internet access have underscored how important the Web is now. Ten years ago I couldn't have dreamt of this, now I can't dream of living without it. Our distributed selves are less anchored in locality, and spread instead over a social network magnified by technology.

Thank god for my iPod Touch and it's wifi access. Touch typing on this is a chore, but at least I can still surf the web :)

Helvetica, it is not ...

... but it is my very own font =)

Fontstruct lets you design your own font, publish it, download it, and use it. The drawing tools are somewhat limited - but some people have managed some pretty amazing fonts with them (such as this one and this one, or how about this one).

I can already think of several people who would jump at the opportunity to design their own font, so a word of warning: it takes a long time to design all the letters - upper case, lower case, numerals, punctuation marks, and special characters - for an entire font, so expect to spend an entire evening doing it. =)

flightless

flightless, originally uploaded by Wahj.

Found this bird squashed on the pavement. The action of countless cars driving over it had mummified it so only yellow bone and a few feathers remained. It's funny that the feathers are monochrome and the bones are yellow - for some reason, you'd expect it the other way around, bone-white on the bones and vibrant on the plumage, but that's the way it is.

Morning scene with cats

Morning scene with cats, originally uploaded by Wahj.

This is what a holiday morning is like.

On days when my wife and I don't have to get to work before sunrise, we sleep in, and the cats sleep in with us. All is generally peaceful until they get hungry, at which point the cat which was formerly a warm purring bundle of fur on your lap becomes a nagging yowling presence who insists that you get out of bed and feed him.

Pictured here are Patch (on the TV), Twinkle (lurking at my feet) and Mac (asleep on my hand). Iffy is somewhere hiding to the left.

Victory

Victory, originally uploaded by Wahj.

From the Army History Museum, Singapore.

Shopping Centre Defibrillator

I don't know whether to be reassured or concerned.

Shopping Centre Defibrillator, originally uploaded by Wahj.

Is the presence of a de-fibrillator in a shopping centre cause for reassurance ("What's that? A heart attack you say? Why, there just happens to be a de-fibrillator right here ...") or concern (are heart attacks that common during shopping? perhaps during the Great Singapore Sale?).

Shriveled cherry

shriveled cherry, originally uploaded by Wahj.

I found this sculpture outside the back entrance of the National Museum of Singapore. A gigantic, shriveled, cherry.

Am I the only one who finds this disturbing?