You may or may not (remember/care/pause for a truncheon) that the other month the North Bristol Writing Group conducted a thing via Fundsurfer (Kickstarter to you, pal) in order to emit an anthology.

Those of you who subscribed to same will be in receipt of copies (in one form or another) RSN.

The rest can bag one from Tangent (the publisher) or ( Read more... )

http://youtu.be/M--kIi3NorE

Seems to come with a spare engine, too.

Fuuuuucking hell.

SonVer + Bath Ales + The Cube + 40s surrealist films = a really quite spectacularly good Friday evening.

Y'all really should make the effort to go and see them.

I don't generally read the Daily Fascist 'speak you're brains' section because, well, I've got a fine set of sharp sticks with which to poke myself in the eye already ( Read more... )

They're building a vast new shopping thingy in Bath, which will no doubt remain half-empty for a couple of years. It's made of steel and concrete and big low-loaders trundle up with great flat plates of Bathness that they bolt to the outside so it looks like the rest of the pretend buildings there. They could be making the same thing in a different ( Read more... )

I'd been a bit worried of late that I'd not been putting enough miles, and brightly telling people I was going to have a crack at the Dunwich Dynamo was my mouth writing cheques that my body would refuse to cash ( Read more... )

http://ha.ckers.org/deathby1000cutts/

(Precis: how to do stalking properly. Contains techniques thankfully beyond the wit of amateurs.)

Oh. And:

Dear webloggers. Please stop reimplementing the mistakes of Usenet. It's rather tiresome(Precis: No, you don't have the right to act ( Read more... )

A quiet week or so there. I'm not sure why.

Anyway. Months ago, I gibbered randomly about the various bits of DCL (Locomotive) / The Cravats / The Very Things cluttering up MySpac and how very good the upcoming Cravats/Paul Hartnoll single might be. It was finally released at the tail end of last month, and it is very good indeed. Available from ( Read more... )

A couple of years ago, an enterprising set of soldering-wallahs in the US cut the guts out of an old Bell rotary phone and fitted it with a lashed-up cellular rig. The GSM module was the 'easy' bit, the LD-to-binary was a one-cigarette problem solved with a PIC. I have this vague idea that it would have been simpler to do it with some CMOS logic, ( Read more... )

You know, there's enough bright people hereabouts to knock together some stand-up...

In fact - LJ would be much more fun if instead of 'talk like a pirate day' (Oh do piss off) there was 'post as if possessed by the uneasy spirit of Bill Hicks day'.

(February 26)