I can has tattoo!
Nov. 15th, 2008 07:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
andygatesLast year I realised that I've been cycling for a quarter century. I wanted a tattoo to mark that... but what to get, when every bike would exclude some other sort of bike (even a "cogs 'n' chains" design would kybosh the penny farthing!)? Eventually I settled on a bit of Science, the power formula for bikes, which describes how hard you have to work to overcome the various resistances I've resisted every week since I was eleven.
Getting it done:
The finished article:
Although it's hard to tell from those shots, it's in non-outlined deep brown - the colour of birthmarks and moles, Jadzia Dax's spots - I dig the idea that it might look almost as if the physics has expressed itself in my skin. Though, on reflection, the leg itself is pretty much an emergent property of a quarter-century of bike riding anyway.
And now I don't have to wake up from a typesetter's nightmare every night to grip the lapels of my minion's labcoat and rave, "Oh God, Carruthers, the kerning -- that damnable inhuman kerning!"
Getting it done:
The finished article:
Although it's hard to tell from those shots, it's in non-outlined deep brown - the colour of birthmarks and moles, Jadzia Dax's spots - I dig the idea that it might look almost as if the physics has expressed itself in my skin. Though, on reflection, the leg itself is pretty much an emergent property of a quarter-century of bike riding anyway.
And now I don't have to wake up from a typesetter's nightmare every night to grip the lapels of my minion's labcoat and rave, "Oh God, Carruthers, the kerning -- that damnable inhuman kerning!"
