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 [...]
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That’s a lotta days
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
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*
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
…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 [...]