This evening, while watching Highlander* on TV, Mara handed me a military dog-tag that she had come upon whilst going through some random stuff that needed packing. She said she didn't remember where it came from ( Read more... )

Tomorrow night the low temperature is 49 degrees! Best. summer. ever.

I have a sudden urge to play ping-pong. It's been a long time, and I'm rather out of practice, but I used to be rather good. We had a table at home, and my brother and I used to play all the time. It's rather convenient, actually, having a brother about the same age to be competitive with. You get generally the same opportunities, so you tend ( Read more... )

This afternoon I spent about an hour researching printer/scanner combos. I'll need one eventually, and it'd be nice to find one that is fairly cheap. I don't need color printing, and I really want to avoid the inkjets with the "smart chips" that have cost me many dollars in "incompatible" and "empty" cartridges, which cause the entire machine to ( Read more... )

Banksy (a famous/infamous graffiti artist from Bristol [wikipedia]) recently debuted a huge exhibit of his work in a Bristol Museum [bbc], a move no one except a couple of museum management knew about until it opened ( Read more... )

Dealing with computers is a lot like that book "If you give a mouse a cookie ( Read more... )

Ever had one of those situations where you're walking up the stairs with a lage heavy object in one hand and you don't realize that your entire balance and weight distribution relies on your other hand holding on to the railing, until that hand accidentally misses a grab on the rail and you're left for that split second knowing that if your second ( Read more... )

OoTS just won the record for longest joke setup Evar. Holy crap.

Just finished re-reading LFG. Picked up a couple things I missed the first time. It's a lot more cohesive when you read it all together, instead of one page at a time. Mara's talking in her sleep occasionally, it's very cute.

On the new Doctor Who companion:

He described her as "funny, and clever, and gorgeous, and sexy. Or Scottish, which is the quick way of saying it".

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8073734.stm