Craig would have liked this. 

I'm planning to go to next year's world science fiction con, Nippon2007 in Yokohoma, & since I'm not sure if I'll ever get to Japan again I'm planning to do some pre- or post-con touring, even though it's not very conveniently timed for me (i.e., in the middle of teaching). Still, I'd be an idiot to dash to Japan & back!

I'd really like to travel ( Read more... )

Apologies if you've seen this already, but if not... 

Of course, Sir Arthur C. Clarke refused to trim his.

I imagine most of you who knew him would already know, but if not, here's a post about it from Padraig O Mealoid's LJ, along with a wonderful photo of the man being brain-gobbled by fluffcthulhu . I'll so miss him.

It's really humiliating when you live in a supposedly 'civilised' country and start getting requests from human rights organisations to act to support your own countrypeople from abuse... Send an email of protest to the Australian Workplace Relations Minister Kevin Andrews, and an email of support to the 107 workers who face personal fines of $28, ( Read more... )

Just read that DW won the Hugo - hooray! And it was Steven (Press Gang, Coupling) Moffat's two-parter, 'The Empty Child'/'The Doctor Dances' ("Are you my mummy?".... goosebumps!), which were definitely the best eps in the new series' first season. He also was responsible for this year's episode 'The Girl in the Fireplace', which has left me ( Read more... )

I've been procrastinating about this, probably because I'm aware of how little I've got to say about the last 8 months. Still, here goes...

Moved back to Australia just before Christmas, to culture shock (the accents! no BBC!) and thermoshock (the 30oC heat!). Rapidly realised that I had to move out from my parents' as soon as possible - much as I ( Read more... )

Ah, Joss Whedon is the son of a Great Woman - that explains a lot. But he's also a pretty special man in his own right, as shown by this video... 

I joined Hal Spacejock's Support Crew
I didn't pay anything,
I didn't sign anything,
and I didn't read the fine print.
Just like Hal!

No space pilot can exist in a vacuum (hah!), and behind every successful pilot there's a talented and dedicated support crew.
Hal Spacejock is one of the least successful space pilots in the ( Read more... )