I post an extract from the latest Dogbert's New Ruling Class Newsletter, on Scott Adams' new book (Stick To Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!), because I can:

"Most of the book is irreverent humor, but my niche is what I call the 'dancing monkey' style of writing. I ask humorously provocative questions that are designed to make your dogmatic friends go ( Read more... )

So
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(I'm sure
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...and they said I'd passed and did I want to start working on the 15th?

I said yes, unsurprisingly. Unemployment is boring, and I need monies. After all, I am the Worst Jew Ever, and am skirting the shores of Only-A-Tenner-In-All-The-World.

The job seems like more of the same at the old place; although this time, it's a proper company, with proper ( Read more... )

DIRECTIONS: Leave me a comment saying anything random, like your favourite lyric from your current favourite song. Or your favourite kind of sandwich. Something random. Whatever you like. I respond by asking you five personal questions so I can get to know you better. Update your LiveJournal with the answers to the questions. Include this ( Read more... )

...because my long-standing friend ( Read more... )

...to my User Profile page. About time too. Did away with that daft "Your Birthday Is..." thing. Although it was apt, it was also twee - and I dislike twee. It's a stupid number, anyway.

So, instead, you get a huge panel of wordelage. I took my cue from the Profiles of
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Because I haven't posted anything recently, and found that this thingie is teh awesomes. Sort of like a self-righteous tirade against dozy and useless pen-and-paper roleplayers. I shall repeat it (edited slightly for coherence and my own inestimable pedantry)...

Forget all the dross you read about 'styles of play', and how there are multiple ways ( Read more... )

So Simon and Margaret and I went up to Parent's house again today, to tidy up some more.
I uncovered a huge quantity of Parent's old photos, dating back to when she lived in Paris with her first husband. It was really odd. I also unearthed her old secondary school report card. So bizarre. "Susan is inattentive and uncooperative at the best of times ( Read more... )

...And I am the proud owner of a fully functioning varnished pine bookcase.

It's completely full, and that's only half of the books I own. Heh, I love being a scholar of the Classics.