October 04, 2003
Salome
For no very good reason, except that I know I have several Mac OS X users among what I laughingly think of as my readership and I'd like them to try out a screensaver I wrote a while back, I'm dropping one of the many veils behind which I hide.
This is my oldest still-standing net identity. I must be coming up on my 10th anniversary with Demon, which is a rather scary thought. Given the number of changes of ownership they've had, I've been with them longer than they've been with themselves. Of course, nowadays that account is basically a spam bucket, but I keep it around for sentimental reasons, and also because it provides the email address I've had the longest, and which all manner of people I've forgotten I ever knew still have. Every now and then something comes in on that antiquated channel that I would be very sorry to have missed. Less and less with each passing year, of course, but perhaps more and more significant when it happens.
In some ways this really does leave me exposed, since the CV page includes all manner of direct contact details, but hey, who's going to stalk little old me? And anyway, I can take care of myself. (Yo! Don't fuck with me sunshine, I'll kick your ass!)
In any case, if you happen to be an OS X person, give Pollen a go. I wrote it to be the screensaver I always wanted, and two years on it remains so. I can't promise it'll suit you, but I can tell you it suits me.
Posted by matt at October 4, 2003 02:20 AM
That was very pleasing an effect, especially when you know what to expect given the explanation in the Readme; chaos, chaos, chaos, and sudden disorder in that chaos as the particles start to stream together; apparent acquisition of language skills.
Nicely done.
Very cute. I wish I'd nurtured my inner geek instead of suppressing it like some phase I hoped I was going through.
I don't understand, though -- have you just added the link to the demon site to your 'where' page, or had you forgotten it was there all along?
... and even if it wasn't, Googling your name within the .uk domain brings up that site first ...
I just added it. All headline entries are subject to change without notice :)
It's true it wasn't exactly a secret before, but an explicit link is a different thing. Anyone *could* have found that site if they wanted to; but I've no reason to suppose anyone ever did.
I've been activating my hot-corner every now and again during the slow moments while working this afternoon; one tends to forget that all the plush savers you see are written by regular folk - or Matt - so it's nice to have one that I can ascribe to a face and personality. I do dwell on the trivial, sometimes, but only when it's healthy.
Oh that's so funny, my boyfriend used to run Pollen on his iBook when he first got OS X. Didn't know that was your doing.
I'm feeling very left out. I've started pondering the idea of driving down to PC City to buy a Mac :-)
It's a hard sell, isn't it? ;)
I was thinking of going down to PC City to buy a boyfriend.
Ooooh. Do they sell them there? I'll have half a dozen.
Get one with a self-timer, Max, so he'll start making coffee automatically in the morning before you wake up. Trust me, it's worth the extra expense.
Brian, I understand yours runs OS X. Does he consume a lot of resources?
Well, he has a really big hard dri... oh yeesh, I'll just stop now and pretend I never started that sentence.
I have neither OS X nor a boyfriend. I do have a Mac, though, and a really cute dog. And I'd be happy to be sold to the highest bidder.
Do you make a good tiramisu?
