Elsewhere there was a request for people to write some poly diaries, which appeals to me in the form that I ever write journals, as a series of events to hang my thoughts about them on.

( So, a few weeks in the Twilight Zone )

( Quirky, Unrepresentative, Forgotten and Libellous )

Sunday

( Here be Rantings )

It's Spring time, when young SF fans' fancies turn to spending 4 days in panels vaguely related to their topics, if not to SF, and so this year we came again to the Radisson Non-Euclidean Hotel, just off Heathrow Starport. Its topology remains as bewildering as ever, with non-contiguous floor numbering and parts of the fourth floor not path- ( Read more... )

Here's a game you can play at home: keep your actual date of birth but project your life from there backwards instead of forwards, thinking how you'd have been affected by the different background. It's surprising how close history is to your life, at least if you're old.

( here's mine )

I feel like I retired again tonight, letting go of the two things that have plagued me for six months like work, but more self-inflictedly - online gaming and academia.

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This year the hotel was more topologically conventional than last year, compact and simply-connected, though with the first and second floors curiously only three feet apart vertically. It was also far too cold (except in the too hot bits), to the extent that I got Cold Illness that could only be cured by putting my jumper back on, though I've now ( Read more... )

Rather than learn to write poetry the old-fashioned way, with rhythm and metre and things, I thought I'd just use javascript timing and dynamic web pages. Here is the result, which may only work in Firefox.

Don't have nightmares.

Just the highlights, and no spoilers for anyone who hasn't tried non-monogamy yet.

( well, just a few )

I fell off the not-programming wagon and produced a web page for browsing networks of LJ friends, which you can play with here (as long as you enable javascript and use Firefox, Internet Explorer doesn't work - hooray!) for the bargain price of suggesting improvements.

( more detail than you want )