Palfrey's life

Going to TNO tommorrow (the nice ppl who sponsor my PhD). They have a lovely little copyright notice on their website "No rights can be derived from the content of the TNO-FEL website" - not sure whether this is a bad translation from the dutch, or just the military/govermental paranoia of the place. Gonna be going there every Tuesday from now on - doing work with the Eyes nodes and some Berkley Mica nodes as well - lets try and get the buggers to talk. In other news, bike is well and truly buggered. Bastard thing has a punctured back tyre, and my attempts to fix it are failing madly. The half-disassembled rusting piece of shit is gonna be sitting near my door for bloody ever at this rate.

K, something a bit more cheery. While randomly wandering around LJ (via metaquotes) spotted something done by caramiaculpa, namely a story based on your default icon. I figured "what the heck. mine's weird enough". so here goes. I have *no* literary talent, but I'm gonna try. (big version may help understanding)

"What do you mean your eyes are 'glowing like a pair of fusion lances'? What are you on?"
"Look, just come over here and I'll show you. Bring sunglasses, or welding goggles if you've got them"
"You're lucky I'm bored today, or I wouldn't be indulging you in this. k, cya in 5 mins"
"Thanks. I'm getting a bit worried".

<interlude>

"Woah. You really weren't kidding".
"Yeah. The whole world looks like it's wobbling. Everything changes drastically every time I turn my head"
"What I don't understand is the guinness hat and miscellaneous wires you've got sticking out of you. That and your being here in this square."
"Er, yeah. That *might* be partially explained by how I think I got like this. Remember I said about that new club opening down on Ohra street? The one with the Irish Cyberpunk opening night?"
"Yup. They actually managed to pull that off?"
"Think so. My memories of last night are understandably somewhat fuzzy"
"Is that before or after the eyeball distortion?"
"Quit joking. WTF am I meant to do about this?"
"Do? Well given as I went past there on the way here, and the club isn't there any more, I guess you're a bit in the shit"
"*It's* *not* *there*??"
"Yep. Not even a sign it ever was there even. Looks a lot like that old place did look before they started building the club"
"Crap. So, the one place that might have had someone that knows what happened here is gone?"
"Vamoosed, vanished, gone the way of the dodo... Hey I should try and take a photo of this!"
"Got another pair of goggles for the camera?"
"Nah, but I guess I can live without mine for a bit" <takes goggles off> "That's one hell of a retina burn"
"The state of my eyeballs is kinda up there under my top priorities right now, so yeah, I know that's not good. Just take the damn thing"


Hmm.... feels like a play. Guess dialogue is just a style I like.