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This makes me feel all giggly. As soon as we get better fine control of magnetic fields, ideally making them directionally projectable, and room-temperature superconductors are available at every warehouse, this technology will come into its own in a massive way.

One of the problems with a workplace which has long suffered from a lack of leadership, lack of funding, lack of intelligence, and lack of attractiveness for a wide range of potential employees is that a significant proportion of the people who remain there for any length of time are - how should I put this - not necessarily the most brilliant ( Read more... )

But work and travel and sleeping and paperwork are taking up most of my hours. And days ( Read more... )

The Beard is gone again, for the moment. Mainly, this is because The Hair has reached a length where it looks slightly less like it was cut by a blind Parkinson's patient and slightly more like an actual hairstyle. Just as well, given that I have more meetings and whatnot coming up in the next couple of days. Le sigh. Not really my scene ( Read more... )

Right, heading off to the Monday night Devisors and Gadgeteers club.

Printed up some new business cards, in a kind of denim blue rather than the plain white I had before ( Read more... )

Discovered a new source of fanfic. Sturgeon's Law applies, as ever, but there's one author in the particular continuum who not only seems to be able to avoid practically every spelling and grammatic mistake which plagues the rest of the site, and not only can write brilliantly realised characters and gripping prose, but who regularly tosses in ( Read more... )

Finally, there is some time to sit down ( Read more... )

The Complete Handbook of Novel Writing was the focus of my eyeballs today, mainly because it was sitting on my scanner with a bookmark in and I needed to clear stuff off my desk ( Read more... )

One advantage of having signed up for one-on-one music lessons at a tiny place with part-time teachers and very thin post-relocation finances is that they go the extra mile when it comes to service. Part of that is that if I phone up and say "I can't make today's lesson, I'm not well", they will arrange a replacement lesson gratis ( Read more... )