silverblue, lederhosen: if you wanna meet up, send me an SMS (hotel internet is hilariously expensive) at the "private" phone no in the infopost, yes? We'll be out and about most of the day (for values of "day" that maps to "Tuesday to Saturday" and "after 10:00 or so") and are heading on to Sydney on Sunday afternoon.

Also, it's pretty nice here.

In Hong Kong with Ms. Terious right now. We've been here since Monday, flying to Melbourne on Sunday, staying there Monday-Sunday, then Sydney Sunday-Sunday, and then back to HK for almost a week (flying back midnight between Saturday and Sunday). I still like it here.

In Melbourne, plans include trying to meet silverblue and lederhosen, if possible, and in Sydney we ( Read more... )

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(Link in case LJ nukes the embed: Carolina Wallin Pérez - Utan Dina Andetag.)

Previously, previouslyHe's a bit older than we thought - from the tartar the vet said possibly two years old - and a friend who's trained in animal care said he looks a bit more like a Maine Coon than a Norwegian Forest cat ( Read more... )

WHY YOU WANT RAIL FOR KALASHNIKOV? IS NOT GOOD ENOUGH AS PROCURED FROM ISHEVSK MECHANICAL WORKS? YOU THINK NEEDS IMPROVEMENT? THEN MAYBE YOU FIND JOB WITH ARMY OF RUSSIA! YOU HAVE DRINKS WITH MIKHAIL KALASHNIKOV, TRADE STORY OF MANY WEAPONS DESIGNED AND DETAILS OF SCHOOL FOR ENGINEERING!

(NSFW due to language, but hella funny.)

"Husband, McCool, Anderson, Brown, Chawla, Clark, Ramon.
Komarov, Grissom, White, Chaffee, Dobrovolsky, Volkov, Patsayev,
Resnick, Scobee, Smith, McNair, McAuliffe, Jarvis, Onizuka.
These names will be written under other skies."
-- Ken MacLeod

(just after the Columbia disaster in 2003, but still relevant)

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Well, one cat. Some kind of Norwegian Forest Cat cross, probably (he has the fur for it), that the Baroness found outside when it was -15C and took in. Unchipped and no ear tattoo so far as she can tell, he's pretty dang skinny, and has some habits that makes her think he might have been very young when he escaped (or got abandoned ( Read more... )

Well, outside of Sweden anyway.

I've been in Berlin the last five days, mostly at 27C3. Man, I am NEVER buying a HDD again ( Read more... )

What would YOU recommend seeing in Melbourne and Sydney if one were to visit those two fair cities at the beginning of April next year? For a general schedule-like thing, assume about a week per city: 1st to 8th and 9th to 16th or so. (Plotting on taking the night train between them ( Read more... )