I'm up far too late for a work night and I have to go to bed, which I should have decided BEFORE checking my friendslist, because now I have a bunch of tabs left open to read tomorrow or something.

Today we went to a fundraiser day at an animal sanctuary. Not much to do there, and no doggies to go and look at, but visitors brought dogs and so I ( Read more... )

Wow! A capella I can listen to without wanting to curl up and cry in pain!

Van Canto - Take To The Sky

There's something so fitting about power metal being accompanied by people singing "11111!!1111!1!!1111!!1". ♥

And this cover of Wishmaster is hilarious in all the right ways. (She could have got Annette's job, frankly.)

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So, public gaming announcement: The BSG board game is ace, neat and awesome, I need not have doubted this, and now I really need to watch the series, because it was a tiny bit distracting having to mute my hearing while the others were chuckling over stuff that was presumably spoilery and sounded amusing. (I have so far avoided BSG precisely ( Read more... )

Certain brain areas could be linked to sociability, or so a study suggests.

I don't see how a study on just 41 people could possibly be valuable.

Go ahead, speculate that autistics' brains are underdeveloped, that's fiiiiiiiine. Just don't impugn our taste for chocolate, please.

edit: Good dog.

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I spent a short while at the Backstage/Manchester FSF Ubuntu launch party, although I wasn't feeling very Jaunty and had to leave because of all the humans. Anyhow, I did manage to chat to a couple of people, including one metalhead (I spotted a rolled-up Sonata Arctica shirt he had tied around his waist - saaad!) who said he's played Bloodstock.

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I gave blood this evening. They looked askance at me afterwards because I'm so tired-looking and kept me for a while for observation. When I didn't keel over (although one other patient looked alarmed and said I was going pale!1) they let me meander on home, which is only a short walk in any case.

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An autistic lad is rescued by Spider-Man.

And now more idiots trying to make the world fit into their little boxes, to the detriment of all...

Despite the stupid stories you may have heard about windmills slicing birds up, the RSPB is in no doubt: we need more wind farms, and we need them soon.

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Nice to be back at work.

Sad, I know! But when I'm off for extended periods I always seem to do nothing but sleep and don't get much creative work done. I need the routine.

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Sometimes I think you're actually a 'Help' programme built into all BBC computers.

I mean that in a good way.

- a colleague in London who has never met me

This is not the first time someone has asked if I'm a virtual construct. Seriously. Welcome to my world Mister Anderson.

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I think I've got Weft's face (in profile) pretty much cracked now, thanks to help from my parent. I'll plaster it up later tonight and invite feedback.

It's ridiculous how much easier it is to represent people visually if one a visual thinker and able to look at the things. Neither of those describes me, which is basically why I am not an artist.
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