The Blog of a Bald Head

Well, the staircase is up at the shop - I suppose that has to be good news, because now it’s going to be a lot easier to get building materials in and rubbish out! The front of the shop still looks a mess, but the customers seem to understand. Wait and see whether it does any good.

On the hobby front, a photo I’ve been trying to get for 2 years has finally turned up in my slide box. It’s a reprise of a pic I took on print film 2 years ago, of a leafless tree against the sky. The tree is lit by floodlights from the nearby garage, the sky is bright orange from cloud-reflected sodium lights. Everyone keeps asking how I Photoshopped it, and don’t believe me when told it’s not mucked about with!

I really must post some pics when I work out how to do it.

ttfn, more later.

Well, I haven’t had much time for this blog or anything else, with three time-consuming projects on the go at once - major alterations to my shop’s building, a sales website for said shop, and the new project with my friend Karl. Not enough hours in the day! I am having problems with the MMORPG I have been playing for 2 1/2 years now, because of no time! All sorts of stuff I’d like in game, but the progress now is limited to people who play 23/7, because the skills and equipment just cost too much . Oh well…

Got some good photos recently, at a studio night at the club. A young lady who moonlights as a bellydancer modelled for us; good luck for me, because the first time she was there I took about 50 photos and none of them was usable - technical hitches.

Well, I know it’s been a while since my last post, but pressure of work and all that…

A few things have happened. Pontiki.tv is now up and running, and some of the stuff is available too! This new product looks pretty exciting. Karl is cursing me because I was the one to spot this stuff, and it’s caused him lots of work.

Projects for the next week or two; start learning Photoshop (installing it would be a good start!) and find out how to post pictures here, so I can show my pics to my readers. I promise they are not just holiday snaps!

Talking of photographs, I am supposed to be going to a camera club tonight but am not bothering. It’s supposed to be a night of showing our photos, and I have no new material, and I am too tired anyway. If there were any unattached women there under 60, I might make a different decision.

Enough for now - more news later.

As the dome closed over his head, Pon panicked a bit, because of course it was completely dark. He didn’t have long to wait though; soon enough there was a humming and crackiling noise, getting louder and louder, and flashes of blue light were coming in through the little cracks between the pieces of the dome. The floor split into sections, and a big magnet suddenly suspended him in the air, and the bits of the floor started spinning around him.

After a bit of this, when the spinning sections had turned into a blur, Pon started feeling very peculiar, as if being stretched in a direction that wasn’t supposed to exist. Suddenly, he was falling down a pit with multicoloured flashing walls, with sparks crawling along it, and he couldn’t see the bottom. He began to get worried, thinking “What happens if I hit solid ground at this speed? Has something gone wrong?” and a few other things you might expect.

Just as he was beginning to think he wouldn’t survive the trip…

To Be Continued

Pon was one of a new class of explorer robot with the ability to separate into many parts and reform into new configurations, some of which were made out of more than one of the basic robots, and had more capabilities than a basic one. There was also Chavika Pon, which had wheels and therefore more mobility on smooth surfaces. Pon had had it explained to him that not having wheels made him more versatile. but, unusually for a supposedly emotionless robot, he was envious…

Be that as it may, he was quite excited today. His newest mission was to be thrown back in time, and a long way away in space, to somewhere where there were organic beings - the type made out of slightly impure water, very rare in his galaxy. The powers-that-be wanted to find out about the psychology of these strange beings, which were much bigger than Pon’s race of robots, by sending back large numbers of Pontiki for the beings to dismantle and reassemble into new shapes. The idea of this was to find out what they would do, and incidentally to find out if there were new configurations not thought of.

He got his final instructions, and went to the time-machine chamber, very impressively filled with all sorts of coloured flashing lights, bands of colour playing over the controls, huge sparks and all the appurtenances of a laboratory, and stood in the centre circle. A sectional dome closed over his head, and…

To Be Continued

Well, Tuesday was pretty interesting, if a bit tiring. My friend Karl and I (we are running a games and memorabilia site at the moment, opened a month ago) went to the Spring Fair to find new toys. I did more walking than I’ve done in months!

Apart from finding the kid in me, we found some great new stuff, including some little toys that could become the latest new kid’s craze…

We got back safely despite Karl’s mad driving.

More later, especially as those things have not been released yet. In the meantime, have a look at Pontiki.tv for more info, and ENJOY!

(Yes, I am advertising. But hey, it’s my site!

Well, who? I am an Englishman (and proud of it), running among other things a health food shop in Blackpool (for non-British readers that’s near Manchester and Liverpool). Young? Not really. Free and single? Yes.

Interests include photography and computers (the second is pretty obvious!) I’ll post some photos when I have some time. I would describe myself as a reasonably competent amateur in both fields.

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