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Three of the bastards. Like buses. If indeed buses came with flying kaleidoscope visuals and made a chap feel worthless and disconnected.

Although there was a brief period between nrs two and three where I could see medium-distance words w/o glasses and I wanted to create some RESTful Sinatra webapp to read the gas meter.

(Or indeed yo dawg, etc)

Has anyone done the "Trendy gothic steampunk barbie doll in black brown" T-shirts yet?

(It were all Usenet in-jokes round here when I were a lass.)

I'm sure there's a medium-format joke somewhere that would involve me banging on about how all Americans bear collective responsibility for the crazed actions of a small number of so-called 'science fiction' authors, some of whom I'm sure can write as well as their literary peers. It would probably also include a section on the irresponsibility of ( Read more... )

So the thing that gave me pause when I announced that one could go out and buy a book with words that I'd written in it, was the subset of people who went 'Jolly good, I'll buy one from you at Whitby.' As if I were some no-mark bedroom g*th band with a bag of CD-Rs and/or an 'internet fetish model', and this was just an epic vanity project that I ( Read more... )

Experts-exchange == utter wankers.

Oh, and those tossrags who want to charge you for the download of free-from-the-manufacturer drivers. Haddaway an' shite, y'friggers.

I was steaming along the bikepath earlier when through the rain I spotted something-or-other spread across the tarmac.

Bramblepr0n.

It's nice to see the yout' upholding traditional behaviour.

But on less-than-sober reflection, perhaps explaining Joey Deacon (with actions) to the Nice Americans was perhaps not terribly clever.

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(This is probably not a con report, because I have no idea what one of those is and I'm of a mood to actively avoid finding out.)

Anyway. Eastercon.

Interesting.

It's obviously going to make no sense at all to you lot, largely because it made no sense at all to me, but after the first couple of days of panels it had been made very plain that ( Read more... )