Fake animals, lies and Boring

[squirmelia]

I milked a fake cow at a farm in Vauxhall on Saturday. Later that day, in Kingston-upon-Thames, a robotic arachnid beast scuttered towards me, under my control.

I watched a film that night, about a world where people could not lie.

Sunday, I went to Boring 2012, and listened to talks on self-service check-outs, the shipping forecast, shop fronts, ASMR (Auto Sensory Meridian Response) videos, IBM tills, and a variety of other "boring" things, which perhaps are not really very boring. I might photograph the inside of my fridge (with the door closed), and now I imagine double yellow lines made of instruments and turning green. (Diamond Geezer's Notes from Boring 2012 give a more comprehensive list of talks.)

Comments

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

"I might photograph the inside of my fridge (with the door closed)"

DON'T DO IT
You don't know what you'll find or what forces you might unleash!
HEEBIE JEEBIES.

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

Would it be safer to photograph the inside of one of the fridges at work?

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

Not with the doors closed! geez like why don't you just draw a pentagram round it and summon a balrog out of the many cartons of expired milk!!

ARGH!

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

That sounds totally cool! I can imagine a balrog on the golf course.

[dizze.livejournal.com]

That conference looks fascinating. You don't happen to know if it was filmed at all?