After a disastrous morning. Overslept, and got to work after they had run out of bacon in the canteen (and they were doing a special offer on bacon sandwich & tea this week, now I may never win a knitted monkey!). My quiet morning of pointless bureaucracy was overtaken by actual work, and I didn't get away until after 1 instead of midday. Got home ( Read more... )

After reading this review by Jonathan McCalmont of the new Transformers film, I'm actually minded to go see it, which I wasn't before. I was particularly amused by his description of the CGI effects,
"Transformers’ sensory onslaught is brutal and unforgiving. It’s the cinematic equivalent of playing an XBox game whilst listening to the first four ( Read more... )

Just got an apologetic phone call from the friend I was going to crash with next weekend for Recombination saying I can't stay there after all. This would of course happen after the cons accommodation booking closes. Anyone got any helpful suggestions for places to stay in Cambridge not too far from New Hall before I start hitting the internets?

via lil_shepherd, pics safely hidden behind the cut.
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Battlestar Galactica has picked up a few Emmy Award nominations, one for Outstanding Writing For A Drama Series for the episodes
"Occupation"/"Precipice" (written by Ronald D.Moore), plus a directing nomination for
"Exodus, Part 2". There were a couple of nominations for it in the technical categories too.

Heroes did very well, 8 nominations ( Read more... )

San Francisco-based Night Shade Books (http://www.nightshadebooks.com/) are having a half-price sale on their web site until July 29th. Lots of good stuff, they do very good quality hardbacks, trade paperbacks and special editions of SF, Fantasy and Horror. Unfortunately, while their selection is very good and these are very good prices, having ( Read more... )

There, that snappy title got your attention. I've been looking for ages for a 6 or 8 socket, individually switched power strip so I can have more items switched fully off when when not in use. At the moment I have a couple of things still drawing standby power because they don't have true off switches, and they share a large non-switched strip with ( Read more... )

I was looking at the del.icio.us FAQ (something eated my del.icio.us buttons) and noticed the last question on their FAQ was Why did you cancel Stargate SG-1?.

via lonemagpie
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Courtesy of MSNBC News, Could you pass the U.S. citizenship test?
The questions are taken from the set of sample questions on the official United States Immigration and Naturalization Services Web site.
My result is here (with first answer just to help).