Magpie
I started online life using a multi-user "talker" that someone at the University of Warwick had written. Not sure how I found it, other than I knew a couple of people at Kingston (not a polytechnic, honest) University used it too. I’d become fascinated with magpies since my 2nd year (when I was 13) at secondary school, when in English class ( Read more... )

A couple of weekends ago I attended Rainfurrest, the furry convention in Seattle that pretty much filled the void that Conifur left. For the most part, it was a reasonable con, but a few isolated incidents created a black mark that might be very hard to recover from ( Read more... )

• ... I'd never found the furry fandom?
• ... I'd never moved away from the UK to California?
• ... the company that I'd worked for first had actually put in my US permanent residency application in a more timely manner?
• ... I wasn't let go by that company in 2001?
• ... I hadn't been cheated on by someone I loved while we were at a convention?

For a while, Otter (aka AngryCat) has been complaining quite a bit when he was drinking from his water bowl. It was only when I took him into the vet to get him looked at for some litter-box related issues that I found out that he had some dental issues that needed fixing. So, last Sunday afternoon I took him into the vet to be overnighted (as he ( Read more... )

The last couple of months have been... crap ( Read more... )

This past weekend was VancouFur, a local furry convention ( Read more... )

Kickstarter (or similar crowdfunding campaigns) have become a 'thing' of late. So far, I've contributed to two of them.
The first was the 'Gothtropolis Ravens' 'action figures', which I did because they were action figures of anthropomorphised birds. The second was for the third book (A Shard of Sun) in the 'Summer King Chronicles' series by J.E. ( Read more... )

Cut for potential spoilers
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Well, let the veil of secrecy fly off since there's pretty much no point hiding it now ( Read more... )

A few days ago, on the day of the US midterm elections, someone said "If you don't vote, you have no license to complain ( Read more... )