I put my back out late last week and spent most of this week on an exciting cocktail of painkillers and muscle relaxants, so if you had any strange comments from me or didn't get any strange comments when you were expecting some, that is probably why.

By yesterday I'd recovered enough to visit the Greatest Steampunk Exhibition at the Kew Bridge ( Read more... )

Canterbury University library reports that millions of books were shaken off the shelves and are now in complete disarray.

I found this late last night on Calapine's journal when I was too zombified to do anything productive, and thought "Hey! That's quite neat. I think I'll do that." The longer I worked on it the slower I got till I was almost gave myself qwerty face. You can tell because my answers get shorter as the night wore on...

( Book meme )

When you see this, post some Douglas Adams in your LJ.

'Ford!' he said, 'there's an infinite number of monkeys outside who want to talk to us about this script for Hamlet they've worked out.'

New Hitchhiker's book announced