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Round-up of things
I’ve not really got anything else this week.
- The Curious Case of Island-Dwelling Goats
- The Secret World Inside Tiny Fog Droplets
- Some fairy tales may be 6000 years old
- Sharing experiences of pregnancy and trauma through science fiction
Mirrored from half girl, half robot.
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102
Today my Granddad would have been 102 years old, had he not died 14 years ago. He missed his birthday that year by a few days. We went out to the local carvery and had roast dinner in his honour. Inevitably we will always go out to eat roast dinner, because the right variety of bits for a roast dinner is tricky when you’ve only got two people to ( Read more... ) -
Reading old newsletters
I’m subscribed to a few newsletters and tend to read them either immediately or months after I received them.
So now I know what an omelette thing stemmed from, that made the rounds on the twitters and other newsletters that I did read when I got them. Months after the fact.
Some things from newsletters:
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On the train
On Saturday, I got on the Northern Line to return home from hearing the Space Spectacular at the Royal Albert Hall (which was great). Anyway, I spot an empty seat between some dude and some lady, whose bag is on the seat.
I stand in front of the seat. The lady moves her bag and I sit.
Now back to the dude, who had been sitting knees akimbo and is ( Read more... ) -
Shape of Water at the BAFTAs
Saw this last night on TV and still can’t get over how great it is.
Mirrored from half girl, half robot.
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Very endless implications
Lately I find myself subscribing to more newsletters. Partly I blame Warren Ellis, mostly I think I just miss the stream of longer form wittering that I used to get from my Livejournal friends page. I never stopped being annoyed when a website failed to furnish me with a RSS feed (or get slightly angry when they removed it).
Oh you don’t have RSS, ( Read more... ) -
Yes, I would like to subscribe to this feeling
In this week's edition of Sarah Jaffe's newletter she says:
"I keep those things closer to the vest these days; once upon a time I was as much a feelsblogger as anyone but, well, some combination of adulthood, professionalism, and Literally Everyone Being On The Internet now marked a shift there."
And isn't that a great term? Feelsblogger. I've never ( Read more... ) -
Films in 2017 and stuff
I figure it's time for my annual round up of the new films I saw this year as it's getting towards the end of the year and, having taken a look at what's on offer for the next couple of weeks at my local cinema, I don't think I'll be adding to the list. You never know though, so maybe I'll reserve the right to revise this review closer to the end ( Read more... ) -
Chinese Food etc
So I’m reading about a place I’ve been to eat at a few times and the article has the following:
Until roughly a decade ago, when the Chinese began travelling more freely, bringing with them thrillingly punchy cooking from its various provinces, Chinese food in Britain was dying. It was dominated by over-sweetened iterations of clumsy Cantonese ( Read more... )
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