Work and Play

I’m working extra days this week and next, which is tiring. But I’m still finding a little time to play. Spent most of the evening concocting this picture.

The main part of the background was a partly-rendered fractal I made several months earlier, I added the sea (or is it a sky seen from above?) this morning before work. Then I made the spaceship tonight, and joined up all the bits. Rather pleased with the final result, so I’m showing it off here. You can look at it full size, on Flickr, if you click on the picture and go to All Sizes.

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Viral Replicators

As my (fortunately mild) dose of swine flu gets into it’s third day, I have been alternating my time between sleeping and re-reading Charlie Stross novels. The weirdness level of Singularity Sky  and Iron Sunrise  seem just about spot on, while my system mounts its counter-attack to the alien invasion. So far, I think the good guys are winning….