#socs #flashback Pacman Returns! (Image by Inky) Flooding back lovingly recomposed a compilation of childhood favourites software (Games) of yesteryear, once held on twenty to thirty floppy discs becomes easily accessible through the aid of silicon chips and takes you back to happier days chasing ghosts around a power pill maze king of the video …
Tag Archives: Computer
What’s behind the door?
#writeclub Stuff….. Stuff you stored away for a rainy day Stuff with its own character Stuff that’s lived a life That thinggummy-bob that you spent an arm and a leg for that oh-so crucial job now resting by a desk a desk laiden with boxes and tins holding chips and sprockets, nuts and bolts an …
The Dry Tide
a piece by b.f.kirkham Chaos! – The post it Sea…… It started with a post-it note a simple square post-it note coloured bright blue so the recipient could read it the sender popped it on the corner of the screen so the recipient could read it A second blue post it note was placed alongside …
Back to school again
#school September a time announcing – the summer is over. No more creating sandcastles on the beach or hearing the breakers hitting the shore exercise books and pencils at the ready learning has begun again Unless they’ve sent you to “Big School”, your New kit will be much like your old one It identifies you …
Making the pieces fit
#fowc #modular I To keep the prices down The chair and desk you are sitting at Take a different form from the one in the showroom They all fit flat to fit in the back of the car and There’s a handy little hexagonal key – to help you fix The pieces together II Technology …
A draw of odds and ends
#Napowrimo 11th April 2021 so easy to access, and then so hard to close recepticle for things you say you need the things you say you’ll use one day and things you can’t throw away Notepad’s and pencils that have been well chewed share space with computer drives that’s been acrued manuals for tech that …
Happy thoughts
Salford, 20th December #Writeclub A piece from write club (it may be the third of Jan – but thats when i wrote it) The clockwork machine stopped working Its stylus stopped writing on the paper As ideas rose in the air like a hot air balloon The engine wheels moving by minature mice The cogs …
Can you hear the sleigh bells yet ?
Salford, 28th November 2020 I’m not feeling particularly festive at present. Its Dark and cold outside, as the last of November’s nights draw in and yes, that means, the run to the festive season has already started Tomorrow – is “Advent Sunday”, and i’m guessing the advent calendars will be on the walls of every …
Click
#Octpowrimo #Photography #Digital I remember when photos were stored away on rolls of brown film and getting the picture required alchemy Magic paper bringing scenes of colour to life onto white backgrounds with square borders Trips to the chemist a necessity for those precious memories of a warm summers day to be brought to life …
Talented
#Writeclub #Prompt #Object #Writing #Acrostic The finely crafted fountain pen from France, and his wood-turned friend from Ireland, looked on in ultimate envy, for even as they sat there, they could never out-perform this mechanised workhorse tripping out material from its masters mind eventually, they’d be used – to sign a cheque or write a …
The Inkwell 