Looks interesting. Geoff Ryman, Gwyneth Jones, Ken MacLeod, Adam Roberts, et al.

http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=5170http://www.stfc.ac.uk/PMC/PRel/STFC/SciFacts.

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We were becoming quite worried. For two days, the only signs of Kzin were occasional rustle, occasionally eaten food, and used litter tray.

Then this evening, while we were watching Weeds, emily_shore noticed him sitting on his bed watching us. We kept still as he wandered around the room. He became very interested by both our slippers (not on feet) and then ( Read more... )

In other news... when I haven't been obsessing about cats, I've been obsessing about smart phones - in this I am aided and abetted by Manny (who can't abide cats). My Trēo 650 (and even Manny's 680) is getting rather long in the tooth and Palm have moved from PalmOS, so I have to jump ship.

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After jackfirecat heroically agreed to attempt to acclimatise to cat allergens, after helpful advice from many people, and after positive vetting by Cats Protection (by phone and then by a home visit, which will be followed up by a further check-up later), we now have a kitten! emily_shore and I went with Arshad, our cat advisor, to see the kitten we were offered, ( Read more... )

I'm sorry. I had such high hopes for it, but that was worse than all the worst bits of every odd-numbered Star Trek movie combined. It had a sillier premise than the one about God, a less believable baddie than Nemesis, more gratuitous emo plotfuckery than every Nelix episode ever. And even the cool red blob was nicked from the Shakespearian one ( ( Read more... )

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My sister says:The Planning Committee unanimously voted to grant our planning permission this morning! Many thanks to the Councillors and all of you who have supported us. Mention was made of the numerous letters of support & comments on this web site - so you really did help & we are very grateful! We are obviously hugely relieved and are now able ( Read more... )

Looks like my brother-in-law is causing controversy. Good for him, boo hiss for the Council!

The web comments all seem to be supportive (hopefully good for his case), even if some do read like they were written by Daily Mail readers.


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Oliver gave an excellent presentation (our first PowerPoint OUSFG discussion meeting?) today on Dark Lords. So it is kind of appropriate that Toby's paper has just made Slashdot (and earlier the New Scientist and The Guardian), even if many of the summaries and conclusions presented there misrepresent the argument presented in the paper ( Read more... )