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Barry is a 51 year old guy from England, UK

"Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be" ~ Kurt Vonnegut

I used to be known as Cloudhopper - I was pretending, of course. For reasons too convoluted even for me to understand I scheduled this account for deletion. And then I ran away to sea. As it turned out, this account hadn't been deleted after all, but hidden in a shoe-box in the attic. There's another cloudhopper round here these days, but that's not me.

∞ Random me ∞

  • Compendium of Lost Words

    Rated Aug 08 2006 • 20 reviews • linguistics • phrontistery.info

    A Compendium of Lost Words? How delightful.

    One wonders, if lost, how they came by them. Perhaps they weren't lost at all, perhaps they were taken. Then, years later, when no-one is using them (and how could they use them, since they were taken?), up pops the Compendium to show what we have lost. Brilliant ruse. Shame they didn't open a small building society account with a couple of groats at the same time - imagine what that would be with interest.

    Anyway, I took a look, and rapidly realised why these words are lost. They weren't taken, they weren't lost, they were thrown away because they were all bloody hard. And because they rolled off the tongue like a piece of blotting paper.

    For example: crocitation (1623 -1656)
      croaking; cawing
      The crocitation of the gulls meant that I got no sleep last night.
    See what I mean? Blotting paper. Damn, they should have been lost at sea.

  • Poetry.com rhyming dictionary and thesaurus

    Rated Aug 08 2006 • 6 reviews • poetry • poetry.com

    From the page: "Words and phrases that rhyme with elephant: (0 results)"
      No words that rhyme with elephant?
      You can't be trying hard enough, those
      rude words rhyme as well, you ....

    No words at all? What about punt? You could do a lovely little rhyme about an elephant in a punt. And front? The elephant at the front of the punt? He'd be a Cambridge elephant then, the cambridge chaps punt from the front

    No rhymes for elephants? Pshaw!

    Hmm. Perhaps this is how those rhyming dictionaries really work: they present you with such ridiculous suggestions, that your intellect takes umbrage and kicks into gear.

  • LightChasers blog - StumbleUpon

    Rated Aug 06 2006 • 358 reviews • stumblers • stumbleupon.com

    .bump

    Look. If I bump into this dude in the street, and he *doesn't* look like Cap'n Jack Sparrow, then I'm not going to recognise him. I swear it.


    A constant.

    And that's not paint on his fingers.

  • Stephen Eastwood | Photography Beauty and Fashion...

    Rated Aug 06 2006 • 264 reviews • fashion, photography • photographersportfolio.com

    Pow! Stunning fashion photography by Stephen Eastwood

    via zg

  • http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/619.html

    Rated Aug 05 2006 • 8 reviews • poetry, ee cummings • rice.edu

    somewhere i have never travelled ~ ee cummings
      somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond
      any experience, your eyes have their silence:
      in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me,
      or which i cannot touch because they are too near

      your slightest look easily will unclose me
      though i have closed myself as fingers,
      you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens
      (touching skilfully, mysteriously) her first rose

      or if your wish be to close me, i and
      my life will shut very beautifully, suddenly,
      as when the heart of this flower imagines
      the snow carefully everywhere descending;

      nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals
      the power of your intense fragility: whose texture
      compels me with the colour of its countries,
      rendering death and forever with each breathing

      (i do not know what it is about you that closes
      and opens; only something in me understands
      the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)
      nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands

    A stumble, via tikky. I love cummings more by the day.

  • http://www.ganas.com/popup_declaration.html

    Rated Aug 05 2006 • 4 reviews • self improvement, inspirational • ganas.com

    Inspirational. I picked up the link at moleskinerie, and followed the trail to this little 3-minute flash movie. Take three minutes off, and watch it. It might be just what you needed.

  • Its Dark in Here by Shel Silverstein

    Rated Aug 05 2006 • 1 review • poetry, silverstein • poemhunter.com

    Shel Silverstein ~ It's Dark in Here
      I am writing these poems
      From inside a lion,
      And it's rather dark in here.
      So please excuse the handwriting
      Which may not be too clear.
      But this afternoon by the lion's cage
      I'm afraid I got too near.
      And I'm writing these lines
      From inside a lion,
      And it's rather dark in here.
    I like Silverstein. Most of all I like that he made money out of the sort of nonsense (not a criticism) that I can, on a good day, prattle off for my kids. Respect.

    I like that slishity-slosh one, best of all.

    Oh. I know this site has pop-ups and stuff, which is kind of bad, but it is a genuinely good reason for you to be using Firefox ;o)

  • Graffiti art on trains | haha.nu - the lifestyle blogzine

    Rated Aug 05 2006 • 27 reviews • painting, graffiti • haha.nu

    Graffiti on trains?

    I'd call that something of an understatement. How awesome is this?

    hit tracker

  • http://www.edouardmartinet.com/cafard.html

    Rated Aug 05 2006 • 2 reviews • sculpting • edouardmartinet.com

    How fabulous! Animal and insect sculptures by Edouard Martinet - this one entitled Cafard. Look, look! Garlic crushers for legs :o)

    I thought this looked like a cricket, but the french girl told me what a cafard really is. Still spectacular, though.

  • Sean Kernan - &Among Trees&

    Rated Aug 05 2006 • 8 reviews • photography, trees • thescreamonline.com

    Beautiful photographic tree studies. I like all of them, but for me, the two stand-outs are the one below and the other a view of Carmel Valley, California. I went back and forth between the two, and chose this simply because it compells me to start walking forward. Gorgeous.