I just took a relaxing stretch in the living room, with all the lights off and only the monitor of my trusty laptop blinking at intermittent intervals in the study while crunching numbers with Mathematica and running some minimal cellular automata written in python.
Of course, I had the obligatory glass of alcohol in my hand. A cheap, mild merlot. What is a night without a decent drink?
As I lay myself on the sofa in the dark, my eyes adjusted to the darkness, with remarkable haste, I should add, since I've been staring at a full-brightness LED screen for past five hours straight.
For a moment I thought I was standing on the edge of a skyscraper in Tokyo. A trick of the tired vision.
You see, my living room, for all its tidy appearence (I like to keep things organized), is filled to the brims with electronic gadgets ranging from draft-N wireless router to media center laptop I have cabled to external HD and a HDTV. I didn't notice it before with the light on, but the whole room is apparently dotted with constantly blinking LED diodes embedded into the electronics.
Distantly blinking lights of green, red, and blue, all around the dark rectangular and squarish masses.
It seems that I've been unwittingly creating a skyline within my own living room.
P.S. I found another web-augmentation to play around with. The good thing about this particular service? I don't have to do anything to it. I'm just syndicating all the existing input-services to a central location, so that bits and pieces of myself can permeate the web further. Have you ever searched for Bookhling on the Google?
http://bookhling.swurl.com/ -DEAD. Leads to some advertising website.
EDIT:
Like all things on the net, the service died away soon after. Such a shame too. It was pretty cool.
Now most of my web activities are aggregated in friendfeed site, which is about the same thing as the swurl service.
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