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Bookpost
I’m stuck at home with the world’s most boring dose of the flu, I’ve a slight fever, a slight stuffy nose, and slight sore throat, a slight headache, and leaving the house makes everything worse - so, not going to work, not taking the dog out much, not exercising, but not sick enough to be tired at night. This is my second night with insomnia, I ( Read more... ) -
In the land of the sweeter smelling
I’ve been finding it hard lately to not smoke, tempted to bum a cigarette or even go out to buy my own. When I quit last year, I found a lot of the so-called benefits to be untrue (unsurprisingly, given how anti-smoking society is) - my skin got much drier, the world smelt a worse (I’ve always had a really sensitive sense of smell), and I was sick ( Read more... ) -
Books 2009 (again)
In which I abandon all pretence of reviewing all the books I read, and just pick some interesting ones to talk about.
46) The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, by Stieg Larsson
audiobook read by Simon Vance
49) The Girl Who Played With Fire, by Steig Larsson
audiobook read by Simon Vance
The funny thing about joining audible.com is ( Read more... ) -
Books 2009
My book blog stopped back in January on book 5, instead of filling you all in on everything I have read since then, I'll blithely pretend that there has been no break at all.
43) The Inferior, by Peadar Ó GuilínWhatever I say here actually won't do justice to this book, so I won't try very hard. This felt fresh the way a lot of SF doesn't any more ( Read more... ) -
On translations and the metric system
I am reading (yet another) Swedish detective novel translated into English at the moment, and I find that I'm thrown by some of the translation.
As you might guess, it's to do with the translation of the units of measurement from metric (I assume, but I'll get back to that) to imperial ( Read more... ) -
Recommend to me...
... TV series to watch on DVD ( Read more... ) -
Sprung
I'm going to be optimistic and say that the precipitation earlier was whitish rain, not sleet, and that the sparse white things I saw drifting on the wind this morning were due to a bird fight overhead. Not snow. Oh no ( Read more... ) -
Rowing update
MarchDistance: 91.3 km (cumulative 161.7 km ( Read more... ) -
(Untitled)
I need to save this for posterity.
TeamPlayedWonDrawLostForAgainstPts1Ireland550012173102England53021247063France530212410164Wales53021008165Scotland51047910226Italy5005491700
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Pissed off by bad reporting (again)
Poll It's not fat it's fluff
And while I'm bitching, is it so difficult for reporters to remember that being overweight (BMI > 25) is not the same as being obese (BMI > 30)?