( Stuff! And things! )

This is another of those bits-and-pieces updates ( Read more... )

Just to get rid of open FF tabs again...

• Sexism at Newsweek: in 1970 and now; also a comment piece over at Racialicious drawing attention to the very-white-focussed nature of the Newsweek article.
• The Economist on the demise of cap-and-trade in the US. Unfortunately this appears to be largely down to public denial in the face of climate change, ( Read more... )

I have spent the week in Spain with dogrando, which has been very nice. If quite chilly & often damp. The sleeper train to Barcelona from Paris is terribly civilised, with a restaurant (albeit not vegan-friendly) & a bar. Barcelona itself has awesome Modernist stuff (all Gaudi all the time!) and a market where you can get exciting mushrooms for very ( Read more... )

Totally failed to go to either of the parties I wanted to go to last weekend, due to my knee being out of action YET A-BLOODY-GAIN. It's a little better this week, and I am back doing the physio exercises from last time again, because they did actually *work* last time, albeit over a period of about a year. On the upside, geared bike is once ( Read more... )

08:03 Leave house for schools course in Muswell Hill ( Read more... )

I learnt to ride a penny farthing yesterday! (It belongs to my friend Charlotte, who rode it to Dunwich earlier this month, and it's a *lovely* machine ( Read more... )

Oh yes, and: I am starting on the process of looking for a job in Sydney. I'm going to be there from January to mid-May, and ideally I'd like to do something sysadmin-ish if I can sort it out. So if anyone reading this has any suggestions/contacts/whatever, they would be very greatly appreciated. My CV is online(I'm also going to be picking the ( Read more... )

Made roasted sweet potato and leek pasta last night, which was v tasty ( Read more... )

Illustrated BMI Categories - set of photos of lots of people with their BMI category attached. V interesting. (from http://kateharding.netRead more... )