One of the huge problems I have with vegetarianism (which, on a spiritual level, I obviously aspire to) is that meat is, well, rather nice to eat. That's less of a problem with the extruded junk pushed through most supermarket outlets, but soon as Ann and I started spending our summer breaks in North Yorkshire and began sampling the locally- ( Read more... )

Thanks to LA's own Marty Cantor for letting me know about yet another way to wile away the gaps between doing something constructive. Or instead of. Your choice.

Well, I've had better mornings. Gas engineers landed outside the house and got me out of bed to ask if I could move my car. Oh, and you'll notice both your wing mirrors have been smashed off and are now just hanging by the electric cables. Your neighbours' cars have been attacked, too, and the metal fencing around the disused garage on the corner ( Read more... )

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Following on from the first batch of photographs I took at this year's Caption and the shots taken during jerrykaufman and stompkins's post-worldcon visit to Birmingham, I've just scanned in the first of many more depicting assorted personalities from sf, comics and horror fandom ( Read more... )

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Been out of the loop most of the past week, down in Merthyr Tydfil with fingers crossed that Ann's brother would pull through emergency surgery after an aortic aneurism (he did, as detailed here).

Meanwhile...

More Scientific

You have:
62% SCIENTIFIC INTUITION and
55% EMOTIONAL INTUITION

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