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Bristolcon and street art
Last weekend I was in Bristol for Bristolcon. Bristolcon is a great one-day convention, and I'd say the best one day con currently running. It's greatest strength is it's programme, Bristolcon runs two full programme streams, and you are quite often having to chose between to excellent items. For this reason, and despite it theoretically being in ( Read more... ) -
Having a binge of DW friending
Since LJ seems to have had/is having another of its all too frequent periods of access problems. At some point I must look into adding some bling to this user, it looks quite desperately plain. -
"He is, perhaps, the worst tenant in all of London."
Household Management, a marvellous little story by Ellen Klages on Strange Horizons.
Only 2 days left on the Strange Horizons fund drive (see http://strangehorizons.com/fund_drives/2012/main.shtml), a site well worth supporting. They publish quality SF and Fantasy, available on-line for free, but paying their authors pro rates. They are not far ( Read more... ) -
Looking for a less evil Kindle alternative
I really like my Kindle, it is robust, simple, a good basic dedicated e-reader, but I'm getting fed up of feeling like I'm dealing with a sleazy black-marketeer rather than a responsible retailer every time I buy an ebook from Amazon. What with the proprietary formats, tax avoidance, charging 20%/paying 3% VAT scam, squeezing the publishers, remote ( Read more... ) -
Delayed action con lurgy has struck
Despite feeling perfectly fine on Sunday I now feel achey, headachey, have a forehead I could fry eggs on, and generally feel crap. Spent today working from home, though I have so few functioning brain cells my main contribution to productivity has been not going into the office and so not passing the lurgy on to my colleagues ( Read more... ) -
Space Age Hair Fashions in 1962
Looks like Wokingham was a lot more Sci-Fi in 1962 than when I moved here a few years ago. This Pathe newsreel clip from 1962 visits a Space Age Hairdressers in Wokingham, Berkshire. The surprising thing is that the place shown is still a hairdressers, though with a different name and owner, see it here on Google Street View Read more... ) -
Happy Birthdays
To peteyoung and purplecthulhu. Have a great day! -
Khyber Pass, great Indian food on Chicon's doorstep.
Just a couple of minutes walk from the Chicon 7 hotel there is a great Indian restaurant just perfect to be filled up with hungry fans. We ate there last night, having had their Khyber Snacks platter of a selection of their various appetisers, for entrees Saag Gosht and Chicken Tikka, with their bread selection, also for two, but easily enough for ( Read more... ) -
RIP Mary Tamm (Romana I)
Sad news.