Best birthday wishes to the Doctor of Mystery and Pulp Goodness. Hope you have a good day.

We played a game of Ra last night, courtesy of alaimacerc lugging the box over from his place. It was a little odd, in that the epochs, due to the luck of the draw, were quite different in length. I deliberately avoided going for monuments early on in the game, as I've done that a lot in previous games, but despite myself I ended up with a solid monuments ( Read more... )

Best birthday wishes to drcpunk. I hope you have a great day's celebrations.

Best birthday wishes, sleepyscholar. I hope you have an especially good day.

Took a half day yesterday to cover for Sam who had an appointment with the Ear, Nose & Throat clinic in the South Infirmary. I dropped her down and was driving back to the house when I got a phone call from Sam. I pulled in and rang her back. The appointment was for May 2012, a year from now. Sigh. Good old public health system. I turned round and ( Read more... )

Been pretty quiet round here lately, haven't I? I've been lured away to the brief snippet-filled lands of Twitter, I suppose. Also the general tenor of life has of late been grey and depressing, as well as financially straitened, so I haven't been moved to moan on LJ for fear of repetition and dullness ( Read more... )

Carl Sagan may have been a weed fiend and pissed people off at JPL but he sure had a way with words.

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Saw this over on http://www.eononline.net/ and rather enjoyed it. It's a short film about teenaged super-powered slackers.

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Happy birthday pocketnaomi. Hope it's a good one.

I was 42 years old yesterday. I'm not sure I'm any closer to the answer to life, the universe and everything, but as I said to a friend, I'm pretty sure it involves marzipan and a good single malt ( Read more... )