Author Archives: NomadWarMachine

Kangaroo

Posted on 25th January 2016 by NomadWarMachine

Last week as I walked past our university library I spotted a kangaroo lurking. This week I remembered to snap a pic. Unfortunately there has been a lot of rain and it has a big puddle of water around it. Poor … Continue reading →

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Snow

Posted on 17th January 2016 by NomadWarMachine

Yesterday it snowed. By lunchtime the view from my bedroom window was this: snow houses flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license One thing that surprised me was how the houses, which usually look white, look … Continue reading →

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Pic n Mix Philosophy

Posted on 10th January 2016 by NomadWarMachine

There’s a theory in the Philosophy of Religion called religious pluralism, which has many variations, one of which is the belief that no one religion has got it right, but that parts of different religions can be combined to find … Continue reading →

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All join hands

Posted on 13th December 2015 by NomadWarMachine

This weekend we’ve been making music again. First Kevin invited some of us to collaborate in Soundtrap over a song that he’d written with some of us and Ron jumped in and started to add sounds. On Saturday I used Audacity to record … Continue reading →

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An autumn leaf

Posted on 29th November 2015 by NomadWarMachine

This postcard arrived through my door a couple of weeks ago. I’d seen Anna making them while participating in a Google Hangout and I was thrilled to see that one had made it all the way from the states. I … Continue reading →

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Twitter Favouriting

Posted on 25th November 2015 by NomadWarMachine

How do you use the Twitter star or heart function? Maha recently published a post mentioning some of the responses to the recent change by Twitter from a star to a heart. I’m pondering doing an analysis of some Twitter hashtags … Continue reading →

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Playing pictures

Posted on 18th November 2015 by NomadWarMachine

What does your favourite picture sound like? Want to find out? Here’s what I did: I took a screenshot of the DigiWriMo TAGS Explorer with MS Paint and ran it through Audiopaint which I had downloaded (free) a while back. I generated the … Continue reading →

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Elfje: My Little 11 poem

Posted on 17th November 2015 by NomadWarMachine

This elfje poem is inspired by @ronald_2008s blog post for part of Digital Writing Month Look   A frog Under that stone Jumping in the water SPLASH flickr photo by public.resource.org http://flickr.com/photos/publicresourceorg/493790768 shared under a Creative Commons (PD) license

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A Treasure

Posted on 14th November 2015 by NomadWarMachine

I came home on a wet and windy evening earlier this week to find a card through my door telling me that the postie had tried to deliver a “brown box”. I wasn’t expecting any deliveries, so I wondered what … Continue reading →

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My First Comic

Posted on 11th November 2015 by NomadWarMachine

This week’s Annotation/Conversation activity from Tellio the Pirate is all about comix making. I realised when I made this that my problem was not so much with making the pix part of that, Witty Comics did that easily – it … Continue reading →

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