My Favourite Plates in The Old Curiosity Shop (So Far)

I'm reading this book and it has illustrations. I'm only about 150 pages in but here are my favourite ones so far.

'Now, Mrs Quilp,' he said; 'I feel in a smoking humour, and shall probably blaze away all night. But sit where you are, if you please, in case I want you.'

'Ah!' said the dwarf, smacking his lips, 'what a nice kiss that was - just upon the rosy part. What a capital kiss!'

'This is the way to keep off fever,' said Quilp, 'this is the way to keep off every calamity of life. We'll never leave off all the time we stop here - smoke away, you dog, or you shall swallow the pipe.'

We call this a state of childishness, but it is the same poor hollow mockery of it, that death is of sleep. Where, in the dull eyes of doating men, are the laughing light and life of childhood, the gaiety that has known no check, the frankness that has felt no chill, the hope that has never withered, the joys that fade in blossoming? Where, in the sharp lineaments of rigid and unsightly death, is the calm beauty of slumber, telling of rest for the waking hours that are past, and gentle hopes and loves for those which are to come? Lay death and sleep down, side by side, and say who shall find the two akin. Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.

I'll probably post more as I read.

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Renn Fayre

I went to Portland to visit Sara at the end of April and here are some of the pics I took when I was down there.

Sara is my girlfriend and I like her a whole lot

Me and Sara go for walks in cool places. I like that because I like walks and Sara.

When we go places we see nice things like ducks. Look at these mallards, quack quck 

This is a board walk in the Reed Canyon. An ironic name considering how fun it is to walk on!!

These were all taken in the Crystal Springs Rhodecadohedenderon Garden
which is one of my fav places in Portland I think

Sara kept making weird faces and I really wanted to take pics of all of them!!!

I had to go home in the end but that's OK

A Wave Making App

I was bored so I made a simple application to render a sine wave into a console window. It was a pretty simple idea so it didn't take very long to do and I soon had this:

While I was making it though I found out a cool artifact of choosing to output into a console window. The screen space that I was using to create the output is defined like this:

        Dim drawLength As Integer = 78
        Dim drawHeight As Integer = amplitude * 2

The granular output of the graph results in some neat looking images when you change the wavelength that I will now share with you.

The last of these being my favourite because it looks similar to the anticline/syncline form of folding rock strata. The last thing that I did was add user input and made a video of scrolling quickly through wavelengths. I thought it was kind of neat how some points seemed to be animated as they slid up and down the screen and were rather predictable relative to their surroundings.