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Triumphant Return

 By uber

September 22nd

We have successfully returned to our cold, wet, cloudy, foggy island. I am jet-lagged, so a more detailed entry will come eventually. Since most of the ‘Coven were actually in LA last week, I am hopeful that I will not have to build this Ark on my own.
In the interim, I have one super-important thing [...]

That’s a lotta days

 By dixie

September 12th

It’s fun to think about age in terms of recreational mathematics. One friend turned 31 recently, and while he was musing on age and birthdays I nearly fell over myself realising (and telling him) “But 31 is a happy prime! You don’t get to be that again for another 48 years!”
Today I listened to “Wings [...]

Nah it’s Crap

 By uber

July 11th

I have a number of things I should be doing, almost all of them are important and interesting or fun. However, I recently got a Nokia N95, and I am trying to decide what ringtones to apply. I started out with Fire by The Crazy World of Arthur Brown, but now I have I Ke [...]

Traveller *deep breath*

 By uber

June 8th

How could I have missed this? For someone who is permanently connected to the Internet, I missed the fact that there is a 30th Anniversary edition of Traveller coming out: T5! back to the hexadecimal marvel!
I am really excited about this - it’s sad to say since I think I might be the only person [...]

Every decade or so

 By dixie

June 7th

…I go into an opera phase. Usually there’s a trigger; this time it was doing an entire concert of opera choruses and realising the ones I enjoyed the most were all by Verdi. Last time it was while I was in (high) school, triggered by the availability of free tickets to dress rehearsals at the [...]

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