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Beren: "You know what happens to my projects."
Finrod: "-- Expansion of scope far beyond any reasonable assessment, followed by utter chaos, culminating in divine intervention? -- I'm counting on it."
~The Leithian Script, Act IV, Scene III.ii
I suffer from this. I once drew a faux papyrus which expanded into a project to create fake artefacts from ( Read more... ) -
Oh hey, I see this place is still here.
Doing better than Facebook then. XD -
The Origin of Science Fiction
A week or so ago, I chanced across someone responding to a claim that Mary Shelley's Frankenstein was the first science fiction novel with the comment that "I appreciate what you're doing, but try to do it without erasing Margaret Cavendish ( Read more... ) -
A walk on the Barrow-Downs
On the southern limits of the Shire (Oxfordshire, specifically) lie the Berkshire Downs, part of the greater North Wessex Downs. It is stated in various sources that J.R.R. Tolkien visited this area - once on a hiking trip in 1912, and later with his family while working on either The Hobbit or The Lord of the Rings - and that it inspired the ( Read more... ) -
My Favourite Book(s)
By any reasonable measure, The Lord of the Rings is my all-time favourite book. I can talk about it for hours, know details about even the most minor characters, have a whole website about trivia from it, and generally love it to bits. I even run around under a name inspired by it ( Read more... ) -
Making Murder Mysteries
Murder mysteries are rubbish ( Read more... ) -
Dava Sobel's 'Longitude' & John Harrison's sea clocks
I don't often talk about non-fiction the way I do fiction, but I have my share of beloved non-fiction books. One of the first I remember reading, and the best-loved, is Longitude, by the incomparable Dava Sobel. I'm on my second copy, and this one is falling apart.
Longitude is the story of John Harrison, the 18th century carpenter's son who ( Read more... ) -
Safety Data Stupid
There is a certain irony in the fact that one of the last major things I did before moving jobs was to argue vehemently against moving away from using Safety Data Sheet management software... but in my new job, I'm spending much of my time crafting Safety Data Sheets in MS Word ( Read more... )
