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Slight matter of scale
ExMemSec and I have been training ourselves to climb the Volcano on Tristan. Yesterday we started at 208m, and reached 704m at Great Whernside. OK, I did sit down once and say I wasn't going on, and at the lunch break ate two bites of a sandwich and then stared at the middle distance for ten minutes. But bgs started at 5, ended at 5.6, and ( Read more... ) -
Well, I called that wrong ...
I believe I said before the coalition was formed (but cannot be asterisked to look up): this will be the death of whichever party forms the coalition ( Read more... ) -
Clothespegs+
I have remembered that alitalf (maybe) at one point was working on a kind of digital clothespeg (se my earlier post, or Eastercon for details of analogue clothespegs). These digital oojimaflips werelittle tags which you could programme to indicate your gender, the gender(s) you were interested in meeting, and level of intimacy you were interested in. ( Read more... ) -
Check, staff, and other words
I used to think that check was the best word in the dictionary. Really. Here it is: http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/31085#eid9650961
What a fabulous word. Starting with the Persian shāh ‘king’, it turns up in checkmate (the king is dead), chequerboard, cheques (or ( Read more... ) -
Penelope Farmer
Penelope Farmer in conversation with Vulpes Libris (a blog I should read more often ( Read more... ) -
A system of clothespegs
There was a system of clothespegs operating at Eastercon. They allowed people who are shy, and won't initiate conversations, but who are happy if someone starts a conversation, those who are having bad days and don't want a conversation with anyone, and those who are having middling days, and can cope with the folk they already know, but don't ( Read more... ) -
Arundel
Returning north from Arundel (via Littlehampton), I found that my parents, sister and nephew had visited a decade ago. Nephew (then 10) had been asked some questions by a Tourism bod ( Read more... ) -
A bonus Thursday
I thought that we were going to be heading south at around 10 tomorrow, and find it isn't til late afternoon.
This is a cause for elation, because I have too much to do (tm).
In the tradition, I give you: the list
BUY EASTER CHOCOLATE FOR EMEMSEC (aaggh! how I am still married, I can't fathom)
Pack for Eastercon
Do 50 mins work for the Heritage ( Read more... ) -
What is the longest name of a Royal Naval Vessel
Prompted by watching a TV programme about the Dame Rhona something (Australian customs vessel), and studying for my VHS certificate at the same time, I wondered about the length of the name - and the bore of having to spell it out and problem of including it in a call where one is required to repeat it three times - or six, in the case of a Mayday ( Read more... )
