A little Holly Cole, a little Kate Bush, a few from The The, and some occasional Style Council for that jazzy upbeat commie pinko sound.

Just talk to me baby, soft and low
Then if you decide it's really so
Swear you'll be mine forever
Otherwise...just talk to me
And tell me lies, lies, lies
Great...big...lies

Craig of no LJ has produced a new game, one which I've playtested with him some, over here at thegamecrafter.com.

The game is, as you might guess from its name (Lunar Markets), a game of economic competition on the moon. It has some similarities in mechanics to Power Grid, which I know several of you adore. I even had a small contribution to the ( Read more... )

It seems that a number of you don't have lj_maintenance on your lists, or don't read news, but yes, LJ is having a problem getting e-mail notifications mailed out right now.

Geneviève Bergeron (b. 1968), civil engineering student ( Read more... )

David and Robin and Joey and Benoit and Goran and Maria Jose.

I miss you all still.

A friend has tickets to see Bruce Springsteen in New Jersey on October 3. For various reasons, she can't make it, and would like to sell the tickets to someone who could get some use/enjoyment from them.

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Springsteen & the E Street Band close out Giants stadium.

So, I'm now looking to sell the pair of tickets. I'd like to recover the cost of ( Read more... )

Happy Caitie is happy.

Oh, and it turns out they're Sikh - it's a big Sikh festival of some nature. I'm looking forward to it! :)

Inspired by the amusement that I'd been considering making an icon about how the Smiths are my schadenfreude band, only to have greene_man comment with exactly that same concept...sounds like kismet to me.

This is SO COOL.

NASA has released the audio for the moon mission of 1969 - Apollo 11, the one where they landed on it, Neil Armstrong and all that - as streaming audio, with the landing timed to occur on the tape 40 years exactly after the original.

You can listen to it here. I was not quite three years old when this happened ( Read more... )

...to have a flamboyantly gay male friend named William.

Just so I could call him Three-Dollar Bill.