So, I'm rereading Solo Command for the umptybillionth time at the moment, right, and I got to a point where Zsinj asks how long it took the engineers to fix something, and before I could turn the page, my brain filled in "thirty-eight minutes". And it was. And that triggered a vague feeling that Allston uses thirty-eight as his arbitrary number a ( Read more... )

So, the_antichris and I did the fireworks display thing over in Waitakere last weekend with some of our friends from uni, and it was really fun (ginormous fireworks exploding to Beautiful Day = very very win) and also good to catch up with them since we hadn't for months, except... no one actually told me my shirt was being kind of indecent. I got vetted by my ( Read more... )