If my experiments fail, I have been wondering what I might do next.  New idea of the day: apprentice to Gabriele Amorth.  An interview of his is inspirational:

30 Days: Does this mean then that, for you, the New Rite is unusable in the struggle against the demon?

Fr. Amorth: Yes. They were looking to give us a blunt weapon. Efficacious prayers, ( Read more... )

I survived Snakes on a Plane!


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This week has been busy, so I am late cross posting this here.

This past weekend I dropped by Edinburgh, but not as I knew it. The Fringe Festival is ongoing this month: hundreds of venues running comedy/dance/plays/shows/etc all day and night. I saw

1. Chanbara : "This extraordinary new show, from the creators of the Yamato Drummers and the sword ( Read more... )

Python's Camelot interlude, by Kirk and crew

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour.
Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S relativity.
--Albert Einstein

Continuum last weekend was excellent fun.  I got to be a siberian shaman in Rising Tsar and go around with a drum performing rituals and fixing many of the problems characters had in game.  Then Shady Pines, where I got to pretend I was back in Texas, but as a rock star who does a fake goth vampire act on stage, but is secrectly a real vampire.  ( Read more... )

Future business: This weekend I will try and reach Continuum to participate in some games.  I know have found Leicester on a map, and I have checked the train schedules of GNER and Virgin.  Welcome to my life at the last minute....

Carpenter ants in the dresser Flies in the screen It will be too late by the time we learn What these cryptic symbols ( Read more... )

George Harrison, pirate: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSIjlUMV6Is

When I was back in the USA...Boston was getting overrun by the stampede. Since I have not paid LJ, I will point to cow parade, instead of uploading my own photo.

Today is the 4th of July, the big Independence Day national holiday for the USA. Celebrated with cooking outside, crowds of friends and family, and fireworks. In St Andrews...I went to work in the lab as usual.

This weekend should be more social, as there will be another Edinburgh trip.