foxtongue: (my confession)
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It's possible to encode an entire image’s worth of data into a single photon, slow the image down for storage, and then retrieve the image intact.

While cleaning out a jewellery box today, I came across a flat jade heart from my childhood. It's Asiatic, about an inch wide, and doesn't fit with anything else here. I've never worn it, though it has a hole for a slim chain. It's from Grade three.

It was lying dusty in the gravel of the school field at recess and I felt clever for having found it, such a small thing in that wide place. I held it in my pocket all morning, an odd treasure, I didn't even like it, and wondered where it came from. I don't remember the girl who accused me of stealing it, only that she had black hair.

When she claimed it was from her father, I immediately decided she had to have it back. Fathers were large chaotic things to me then, disastrous and violent, to be wary of, not to be ignored. People at school didn't know what my home life was like, they only saw a very small, awkward girl who read too much and never knew what was cool, (you try talking about Boney M or the Talking Heads to New Kids on the Block worshippers). She didn't understand my sudden distress. She took it for denial and began to hurl insults at me, accusing me of stealing it from envy. Her words were like bile. I'd never been falsely charged with fault before. She reversed my decision immediately, which is why I still have it, though I don't care for it and never have.
Into the Free Box little thing. Into the Free Box and away.

A pulse of light can be stopped, transported, and restarted again using a cloud of super-cold atoms.

Date: 2007-02-16 07:46 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] issapriest.livejournal.com
"last night my lover's brother stripped for me. it broke my internet"

Step 1) Lover's brother stripped
Step 2) Internet broke

Surely there's a missing step here!

Again, nice bra. Freddy glove looks like it might be uncomfortable to wear.

Date: 2007-02-17 04:09 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] porphyre.livejournal.com
I think it might have broken in self defence.

The gloves are unexpectedly comfortable.

Date: 2007-02-16 08:56 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] meoka2368.livejournal.com
I love that pic.
*drool*

Date: 2007-02-17 04:10 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] porphyre.livejournal.com
You would. Nyah.

Where you living now that you'r enot my neighbor?

Date: 2007-02-17 06:13 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] meoka2368.livejournal.com
About a ten minute walk from Lougheed mall.
Moving again in the summer, though :P

Date: 2007-02-16 09:17 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] drave117.livejournal.com
Sometimes, you are so beautiful that it almost hurts to look at you.

Date: 2007-02-17 04:10 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] porphyre.livejournal.com
It's an entirely different thing in person, really.

Date: 2007-02-17 06:57 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] drave117.livejournal.com
I'll believe that when I see it. *grin* Planning on being in the San Francisco area anytime soon?

Date: 2007-09-16 11:03 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] porphyre.livejournal.com
Strange things are afoot. Ask me half way through November.

Date: 2007-09-18 09:24 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] drave117.livejournal.com
*gasp* Exciting! Not sure where I'll be living, but I'm sure I can find time for adventures with you, should you appear in the neck of my woods!

Date: 2007-02-16 04:50 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] remey.livejournal.com
the jewelry thing happened to me once.

i found a bracelet, and a girl in my class claimed it was her's, and it couldn't have been cause it was waaay back under a cabinent,
i don't exactly recall her saying i stole it, but i was usualy good at telling if someone was lying, and i really didn't belive her.


heh. ah, grade school flashbacks.

Date: 2007-02-17 04:11 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] porphyre.livejournal.com
I think it was hers, actually, but her spitefulness was too nasty for me. There was no call to call me those things, all she had to do was claim it.

Date: 2007-02-17 05:13 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] remey.livejournal.com
yeah. for someone to get so.. rude about something- there is no place for it. such a turn off.

Where are you moving to?

Date: 2007-02-16 05:15 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] monkeypudding.livejournal.com
Outta town or just down the block? eh?

Date: 2007-02-17 04:11 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] porphyre.livejournal.com
Somewhere I can live with my cats. Need a roommate?

Date: 2007-02-16 08:22 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hadlock.livejournal.com
unrelated, but you had a post the other day about changing the spelling of your name (legally). there's a movie comming out in the next 2-3 months called 'the namesake'. i thought of your post when i saw the trailer last night.

Date: 2007-02-17 04:13 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] porphyre.livejournal.com
I've been considering going to see that. There seems to be just enough actual history mixed with the Drama that it could be worthwhile.

never let that happen again

Date: 2007-02-17 01:05 am (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
you have my promise, lovely

Date: 2007-02-17 04:12 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] porphyre.livejournal.com
you have my polite relief.

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