I really like GIFs. As cute little weird things people send to one another, and as an at-the-time-of-writing 34 year old file format. So I thought I'd make a few.

The one that's counting above in an ambery colour is in the font Alarm Clock. You can find it here: dafont.com/alarm-clock.

I wanted to make a long gif. A sillily long gif. Something so long that I seriously doubt anyone will let it play through entirely. Below is a set of five gif that count to different powers of ten with a second between numbers. They're black and white and are in the Instruction font (dafont).

too much walking
made these feet real sore.
but the stillness was mocking
so i did a little more.

just now a dull ache
as 've worn away the pain
we now all understand
in stillness, there's no gain

i went for a walk tonight but
	i walked too fast;
i jogged down the middle of the street and
	took a stride too big;
i ran with arms pumping much too hard; i sprinted and
i lost
my legs.
my breath
left me.
i hovered—
i flew.

in which she drank two monster
(and ten ounces coffee)
in which she looks for her w-2.
(well, is supposed to be).
in which she's lost track of time
(and her place therein).
in which she types to you from her car.

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I took this short video to send to a friend one day and accidentally made a 106 frame masterpiece. Well, that's hyperbolic, but there's a lot I enjoy about it.

The contrast between my orange painted nails and the surprisingly green grass is pretty pleasing. I think the gentle brown of the brick in the bottom-left corner helps keep from an overwhelming greenery. Thanks bricks :)

The accidental camera movement is nice, too. I like the angle the camera is at and the way it wobbles. It's clearly hand-held. At 1.3-ish-seconds you can see I gently sway forward, but seem to be less wobbly. I'm braced; I'm stable! I have-three-points-of-contact-with-the-ground! Then, at roughly 2 seconds when the grass finally yields, I get rocked back and wobbles resume.

The sound! And the sound. The ripping of the grass. That planty matter finally giving way. The fibrous tearing. I just like it; I enjoy it! I greatly appreciate it.

I found this walking through an under-construction bike path. It was mysteriously lying in a mound of dirt along the path.

The metal feels lighter than steel and it's not magnetic; it might be made of aluminum? The writing feels rough. I think it's an etching or engraving.

The little colour test chart is very interesting. Along the top it's labelled A through D and the side 1 through 6. Only sixteen of the positions appear to have a colour. Most are shades of yellow or grey. A-2 is a very nice blue, C-5 a pleasing pink. They get darker as the rows go down, the sixth being too dark to make out much hue.

This little guy I found next to a brick, industrial building in Bensenville, Illinois. I was very excited to find it! It's a belt buckle! That's so weird! How was it separated from it's lengthy leather companion?

The body of the buckle seems to be some kind of stainless steel, but I can't be sure. It has "Aéropostale" written on the frame where you might thread the belt material through. The branding appears to be cast into it. The bar is very rusty and I would guess is a kind of mild steel.

look at my wrench! I found it in a crack! Where a parking-lot-blacktop met the concrete transition from the road. I'm quite surprised I saw it; It was very well hidden. While I was walking over it I noticed a glimmer, kept walking, and then double-took with a sort of "what was that?" And there it was!

It's of the half-inch variety, a crescent on one end and a box-head the other. Oh, it's just so good! A proper spanner! This find elates me so.